Meerkats should be left in the wild. What do you think youre doing?
Whilst we appreciate that viewpoint, our meerkats were born in the midlands to meerkat-owning families. We didn’t pluck them from their troup in the desert, this life is all they have known. Whilst the species itself is native to the Kalahari, it doesnt *necessarily* mean they arent happier in the comfort of my home (after all, if someone pulled me out of my native environment of cold and wet and being chased around by sabretooth tigers and so forth, and plonked me in Barbados with a cocktail, I wouldnt be complaining). We feed our meerkats plenty of insects, provide sandy places for them to dig for insect prey, they have heat lamps in winter and windowsills in the sun for summer and they are protected from the threat of ever-scary birds of prey and passing aeroplanes. They have a lovely life. We were well-informed when we took them on, with plenty of professional backup, and our meerkats are happy and healthy as they could ever be.
