You catch more monkeys with honey than with vinegar.

Pretty Boy Floyd — the swift, snack-loving, Black-capped Capuchin monkey who for one week lived a freewheeling life in the trees of North Knoxville — was finally captured around noon on Sunday.

As the 14-year-old daughter of owner Bill King stood alone between two houses off Adair Avenue, the monkey emerged from the underbrush and into her arms.

"She just got down there and talked to him," King said. "She lured him in with some honey, and he come up to her and she reached out and got ahold of him. ... I knew once I could keep those other people from scaring him, I knew we could catch him."

Pretty Boy was promptly thrown behind bars and transported to Crossville, where King lives. "He looks fine, he's acting fine, he seems fine," King said, adding that he's taking the monkey to the vet on Monday.

Martin Maner, who for three days helped King in his search, said the 57-year-old Army veteran's eyes were "filled with tears of joy" at the return of a pet King describes as a therapy animal that helps him cope with post-traumatic stress disorder and various other health problems.

"I didn't cry but I come real close," King said, laughing.

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The legend of Pretty Boy Floyd

They spoke of him in hushed tones in back alleys, fondly on front porches, raucously in bars. "Have you heard...? There's a monkey on the loose."

The absurd tale of Pretty Boy Floyd was a source of amusement for many and consternation for some in the week following his Aug. 20 escape.

King was in town visiting friends on Forestdale Avenue when a dog rushed at Pretty Boy, who was out of his cage. Pretty Boy leaped away, into the trees and into the world, initiating a journey the likes of which the 3-year-old monkey had never seen.

The first monkey sighting came Monday morning, when the critter appeared on the deck of Ron Merritt's home in the 2600 block of Washington Pike.

Merritt called the cops on Pretty Boy while his girlfriend gifted him some bananas and other delectables.

Animal control officers responded, but their nets were no match for Pretty Boy's agility, and their traditional dog traps — wire cages with doors triggered by pressure-sensitive pads — proved ineffective.

"We are no longer looking for it," Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Tuesday, a day after he admitted apprehending a monkey is "beyond our experience."

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'HOT-N-READY'

Sightings of the monkey were reported almost daily, typically on Washington Pike, near Teeple Street or on Adair Avenue. Each time, attempts to ensnare him were futile — he was too fast, too smart, too pretty.

Small groups of people wandered the monkey radius armed with nets, marshmallows and other treats, some motivated by a concern for the animal's safety, others by the desire to keep the creature for themselves, and still others by the unspecified reward offered by King.

Rhonda Shipley told police she saw Pretty Boy on Thursday night at an apartment complex in the 2200 block of Washington Pike, sitting on a wood pallet by a fence near a line of trees.

His prize? A bag that once contained "Crazy Bread" from Little Caesars.

The pizza chain's slogan, "HOT-N-READY," could also describe Pretty Boy.

The next day, Alexis Donaldson snapped a photo of Pretty Boy perched atop a truck parked at a recently vacated home on Adair Avenue.

She quickly posted the picture on Knoxville Crime — a Facebook group with more than 76,000 members — with the caption, "I'm with the monkey right now."

Almost immediately, she said, "People started running out of their houses with monkey nets."

"He was super smart," Donaldson gushed. "He jetted away from them."

Donaldson, whose boyfriend lives near Adair, encountered the monkey there again on Saturday.

She recorded a video of Pretty Boy, sitting in a tree and chattering away, the gears in his monkey brain turning, calculating his next move as he lay just out of reach.

Reporter Travis Dorman can be reached at 865-342-6315 or at travis.dorman@knoxnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travdorman.