Justin Bieber Has Four Weeks To Rescue His Pet Monkey

If Justin Bieber really wants his pet monkey Mally, he only has a four weeks to rescue the 14-week-old capuchin monkey. 

The baby monkey was seized by customs agents last week at a German airport after the singer failed to produce necessary documentation in order to board a plane with the pet.   Since then, Mally has been stuck in quarantine in a Munich animal sanctuary while Bieber tours across Europe.

The 19-year-old Canadian singer has until the end of the month to reclaim Mally by submitting health papers that would allow his release.  However, it's not clear if Bieber will priotize getting his pet back being that he has since left the city to play gigs in Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg.  He hasn't commented on the monkey, which will be placed into permanent care should the singer fail to meet the four-week deadline,the Associated Press reported.

"The monkey is cheerful and is eating well and has his replacement mummy [a toy cat] with it all the time," Karl-Heinz Joachim, from Munich's main animal sanctuary, said in an interview with Spiegel Online.

Yet Mally is "clearly traumatised", Joachim told Central European News. "[The monkey was] apparently taken away from its mother when it was between nine and 10 weeks old. This is much too early ... Those who were looking after it should have known."

Officials say neither Bieber nor his representatives have contacted the animal sanctuary.  If he does not fill out the paperwork, he faces fines up to $17,000, excluding the cost of quarantine.