Not only can you name a cockroach after your ex at the El Paso Zoo, but on Valentine’s Day the zoo will be feeding those cockroaches to the meerkats for their “Quit Bugging Me” event at 2:15 This zoo will name a cockroach after your ex, then feed it to a meerkat on Valentine's Day 00:39. Looking to get yourself a present this Valentine's Day?The El Paso Zoo has you covered. For every $1,000 donated, El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens Director Joe Montisano will eat a cockroach before an audience. The feeding of the roaches will take place at 2 p.m. on Valentine's Day Then you can load up the February 14 livestream on the zoo's website and cackle with vindicated glee as that miscreant is shredded by tiny sharp meerkat teeth. (El Paso Zoo) "This is a fun way to get the community involved in our daily enrichment activities," Sarah Borrego of El Paso Zoo told CBS News. The El Paso Zoo is offering visitors a unique form of Valentine’s Day satisfaction: Pick a cockroach, name it after your ex, and watch the poor little bugger get fed to the meerkats. Watch the feeding of the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches Wednesday, February 14, at 2:15 p.m. at the Meerkats exhibit! Can't make it? Watch live on the Zoo's social media pages. Donations of $5 are encouraged and everything collected will support the El Paso Zoo Fund's mission. The El Paso Zoo Fund was established to support the fundraising The feature feeding of the Madagascar hissing cockroaches will take place at 2:15 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, Friday, Feb. 14 at the meerkats exhibit. The event will also be live-streamed on El Paso Zoo’s Facebook and Instagram pages. The El Paso Zoo is bringing back the annual “Quit Bugging Me” Valentine’s Day event with even more of its animals involved in the fun. Starting February 1 through February 12 The El Paso Zoo will hold the second annual of the Quit Bugging Me this Valentines Day! Last year, the El Paso Zoo let you submit the names of your former significant other. The zoo then named The Zoo purchases 1.5 million insects annually to feed to zoo animals. Due to the pandemic, the feedings will be streamed online on the El Paso Zoo Facebook page and at the Zoo’s amphitheater with limited capacity on Saturday, February 13, and on Valentine’s Day, Sunday, February 14. The El Paso Zoo is inviting its Facebook fans to name a cockroach after an ex, then watch live as the roaches are fed to meerkats on Valentine's Day. Other zoos have similarly quirky Valentine's to the El Paso Zoo & Botanical Gardens Keep Your Ex From Crawling Back Into Your Life EL PASO, Texas – One of the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens most popular events is back for Valentine’s Day – the global phenomenon “Quit Bugging Me” returns. From now until Valentine’s Day (Wednesday, February 14), fans are encouraged to submit The GLOBAL phenomenon is back! The El Paso Zoo & Botanical Gardens is ready to take those names for its annual Quit Bugging Me promotion! Submit a name of anyone who has been bugging you! An ex, boss, mother-in-law, we’ll take them all! This year we are encouraging folks to donate through the Paso Del Norte Community Foundation. EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The meerkats at the El Paso Zoo certainly enjoyed their Valentine's Day meal while thousands watched. It was a fest for the small animals at the meerkat exhibit A horrible ex is pretty much like a cockroach — hard to get rid of and always trying to crawl back in through any space. Which is why the El Paso Zoo is offering the perfect tribute to bad exes The El Paso Zoo announced its special Valentine’s Day event, aptly titled “Quit Bugging Me,” on Facebook on Monday, inviting the public to name a cockroach after their exes. The bugs will How to name a cockroach at the El Paso Zoo for Valentines Day Name submissions will be open Feb. 1-15 at elpasozoo.org . Only names submitted through the website will be used for the promotion. A Zoo in Texas is offering the ultimate in feel-good Valentine’s Day.El Paso Zoo is not only giving men and women the chance to name their ex’s after cockroaches, they’ll even feed them to Meerkats on the special day.(The cockroach, not the ex).So if you had a particularly horrid ex, or a boy who gh The El Paso Zoo's famous event, 'Quit Bugging Me,' is back and better than ever. With a kind donation to the El Paso Zoo, people can submit the name of the person who's been bugging them and the zoo will name a cockroach after them. These little critters will then become a scrumptious snack for the meerkats at 2 p.m. on February 14, 2024. EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The 'Quit Bugging Me' Valentine's event is returning to the El Paso Zoo this year. To keep your ex from crawling back into your life, you can name a cockroach
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