This zoo will name a cockroach after your ex and then feed it to an adorable meerkat
Treat yourself this Valentine’s day! Employees at the El Paso Zoo will help you with your self care during this year’s most romantic holiday by naming a cockroach after your ex. Then, they will feed the cockroach to a meerkat live on camera.
Sweet, sweet revenge in the form of a cockroach is simple. You can message the zoo on its Facebook page with your ex’s name (deadline is Feb. 10), and then tune in at 2:15 p.m. CT on Feb. 14 to watch the feeding extravaganza.
The event, aptly dubbed “Quit Bugging Me,” will be live-streamed on both Facebook and the zoo’s website.
Names of people’s exes will also decorate the meerkat exhibit starting on Feb. 11, just to get the meerkats superpumped to eat a cockroach named after someone who broke your heart.
“This is a fun way to get the community involved in our daily enrichment activities,” El Paso Zoo event coordinator Sarah Borrego told CBS News. “The meerkats love to get cockroaches as a snack, and what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by feeding them a cockroach named after your ex!”
The “Quit Bugging Me” event proved to be so popular that the zoo is now including other animals on the ex-inspired snack. A cotton-top tamarin, a golden tamarin and a white-headed marmoset may be the lucky animal to eat your “ex.”
“If you find one that keeps going in circles and coming back to the same place kind of like a stalker roach I want my ex on that one,” one person commented. Another shared: “I messaged my ex’s name and hope to see him eaten online.”
As one person commented on Facebook: “Whoever is doing your marketing deserves a raise.”
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