Our hearts melted when the “IKEA Monkey,” later identified as Darwin, was spotted strutting through the aisles of an IKEA in Toronto this weekend — but now, our hearts are breaking. The trendsetter has been placed in the custody of Toronto Animal Services, and officials are working tirelessly to find a more suitable home for the overnight celebrity.

The Toronto Zoo will not be taking the rhesus macaque — that particular species is apparently banned in Toronto due to the diseases it often carries, and not just because it steals attention from hard-working Canadian celebrities — but it’s working with TAS to find a permanent home for Darwin at an animal sanctuary.

Darwin’s owners were fined $240, according to the Toronto Star, as they had been keeping Montreal-born Darwin as a pet for more than five months in Toronto.

He’s “not very happy right now,” according to Mary Lou Leiher, the program manager for partnerships and marketing at TAS. “He’s a baby, so he’s a little bit sensitive.”

Darwin has also been eating peanuts and grapes, which may be common, but is also adorable nonetheless.

Everyone at HollywoodLife.com wishes the best for Darwin; and no matter where he eventually settles, we only hope he’s allowed to bring along the extravagant, floor-length shearling coat that made him this generation’s Coco Chanel.

— Andy Swift

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