they killed the meerkats!

Arrrrggggh!

That's SO sad.

And what shitty parents: "The girl had to work to get her hand inside the enclosure. Zoo officials said she must have crawled over a driftwood barrier, climbed up more than 3 feet of artificial rock and reached over 4 feet of Plexiglas to get her arm into the exhibit."

First of all, if I had a kid, they wouldn't be climbing over any fucking enclosures at the zoo. Secondly, let's say my kid managed somehow to do such a thing without me seeing, say, on a school trip or something... well, my 9-year-old child should bloody well know better. My kid would SO be getting the rabies shots to teach some fucking personal responsibiltiy. I cannot BELIEVE the parents had the meerkat family put down. They had the meerkat BABIES put to sleep.

Okay, I know I'm a little nuts on the meerkat thing. I'm slightly, well, obsessed with them. And it predates the Lion King (which, apparently, is the only thing people know about meerkats and I couldn't even tell the damn character was supposed to BE a meerkat) and Meerkat Manor, OKAY? But... how could you kill this?



People suck.

(ETA: total inadvertent juxtaposition with the Plate o' Meat.)