amberdreams | Meerkats and Mealworms... (Reply)

Yesterday hubby and I had a treat -my cousin had bought us both tickets for a meerkat encounter at a little local raptor centre that has branched out into a few other creatures. This was actually for hubby's birthday early this year. but because of his studying and dissertation writing, we've only just got round to doing it.
So we turned up knowing the bare essentials - that we would go inside the meerkat enclosure and get to feed the little darlings, but not much else. Fortunately, I'd decided on jeans rather than leggings, because the boy who was in charge of us decided we needed to sit on a log and have live mealworms thrown into our laps so the meerkats could jump up on us and eat them. Which was simultaneously wonderful and horrifying. I really, really really hate maggotty things and these are thin brown maggots, basicially. And ALIVE. And I had short fur lined boots on, and the little wriggly fuckers were getting caught in the tops of my boots. Which you know, the meerkats loved, espeically as they also got to chew on my boots and dig around in the fur. But it also meant we spent the rest of the morning's wander round the place looking at the raptors wondering if that itch round our ankles or inside our shoes was a bloody mealworm!

So anyhow, wriggly horrors aside, the meerkats were enormously cute. They made the most adorable little noises and were very well behaved, not much squabbling at all. I didn't get many photos while we were inside the pen because a) mealworm distractions and b) they were on top of use so it was hard to take pictures.
However, for those of you interested and not on FB, here is Paul doing his meerkat impression.