The couple realised the intruder must have escaped from nearby Woburn Safari Park, Bucks., and trekked two miles to their cottage in Aspley Guise. The park confirmed Shadow and her partner in crime, another marmoset called Kite, had escaped from the park a week ago.
It is believed the pair scaled the 8ft high park wall, crossed a busy A-road, and scampered across a field and down a steep hill into the village. Shadow then crept in to the Peck family's back garden, shimmied up a drainpipe and snuck into the empty house through an open window in Gemma's mother Jean's bedroom.
The marmoset was finally busted when staff from Woburn Safari Park arrived to escort her home, but Kite is still on the loose. Part-time gardener Jean described the whole experience as ''surreal'' and said she thought Colin was joking when he said there was a monkey in the lounge.
Jean, 56, said: ''I got home two minutes after they found it. It was a tiny little thing just a bit bigger than a squirrel with white fluffy ears and bright eyes. It was used to people and quite happy up there. Every time someone spoke it would turn its head to look and listen.
''I was almost tempted to keep it but there is a time and a place for pets." ''The safari park people arrived about half an hour later and took about ten minutes to entice him back into a plastic cage.
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