One of the first television shows I can remember seeing was “The Hathaways,” an early ’60s sitcom, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston, about a suburban couple and their three chimpanzees. Back in the 1950s, a chimp named J. Fred Muggs was a regular on “Today,” whose ratings he’s credited with boosting. And the last series I reviewed here is called “Bad Monkey” — and there’s a monkey in it. Trained wild animals have been a regular presence on TV and in the movies forever, and I confess for a long time I gave them no thought — certainly not to where they went after the show wrapped, or how they…