Keeping Meerkats As Pets: Pros and Cons
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
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Meerkats are cute animals of the mongoose family. Their usual habitat is South Africa, the Kalahari Desert, but people from all over the globe breed them as an exotic pets. However, it is worth understanding that keeping unusual animals always involves some difficulties.
What kind of animals are meerkats?
As already mentioned, meerkats are rodents that belong to the mongoose family. Their body length is 30 cm, but they also have a tail of comparable length (about 20 cm); they usually weigh about 700-750 grams; a noticeable visual feature is the black stripes over the orange-brown fur; animals live in captivity up to 13 years. In the wild, they are true predators, starting to hunt at one month of age and living in families of 20 to 60 individuals. Their diet corresponds to their habitat: mostly all sorts of insects, but meerkats can also eat scorpions, snakes, lizards, in case of extreme need, bird eggs, and plant food.
Life in captivity, however, is not a big trouble for meerkats: they live a few years longer in captivity than in the wild. The meerkat, which has lived with humans since childhood, partially adapts to the conditions around it and is easy to tame. Because of this, the popularity of the meerkat as a pet is constantly growing. However, its potential owners should be clearly aware of the features, pros, and cons of living with them.
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If meerkats were legal to own in the US, I'd have a couple.
Move to Texas. You can have anything for a pet here lol. Literally anything with the correct permit.
Can you own one in California? Thanks. Also , how many miles is healthy for a Meerkat?
You can have them here.
@@stevewindbigler3513yeah,but sadly not many people seem to be raising them,so they’re hard to come by.
Same here
Meerkats are far from being rodents, they are more closely related to Hyenas and REAL cats than rodents, get your facts right.
Meerkats are related to mongooses, both have nothing to do with Felines, get you facts right.
@@spoodad3850 I guess I have to spoon feed you because I said they're more CLOSELY related to cats and hyenas, more so hyenas which are related to mongooses. All of them belong in the carnivora family that consists of both cats, dogs and cat-like and dog-like animals. Get YOUR facts right.
@@RingtailtheRaccoonEd1tzsome people just want to disagree for the sake of it
Meerkats look so sensible ❤🎉
Meekats are not rodents
These are not pets. Leave them in the wild, this is their home.
I want to talk about the Orangutan. They are soo smart.
I love these animals ❤
Why aren't us humans not humbled by the intelligence that exists on this planet.
Also...Why do humans want to keep wild animals as ''pets''... They are probably much happier in the wild living amongst other meerkats.
>Meerkats are rodents...
Uh. What. Dude, way, way, way off. They're Felines. As in cats.
Si señor
Dude, way, way, way off. They have nothing to do with felines of any. They are related to mongooses. Have you ever seen a cat eating scorpions, grubs, etc, or a lion eating a head of lettuce.
Pertenecen a la familia Herpestidae y a la subfamilia de los feliformes, que incluyen. a felinos y todo tipo de mangostas,así que si están emparentados con los felinos. Su dieta es un noventa y dos por cien carnívora,insectos,lagartos,pájaros y los huevos de estos. Así que sí están muy cerca de los gatos como usted bien dice. 👍😄
@@spoodad3850 ...Mongooses are felines, hombre.
Meerkats are not rodents, they are members of the order animals Carnivora. Mongoose also are not rodents.
"Meerkats are Rodents"😂
You shut your face😂
@@Skeletortrailers Hey Maybe YOU SHOULD! Because Meerkats are more closely related to cats ad hyenas than rats, they are NOT rodents, you kid.
At 0:24 needs to be corrected, meerkats are NOT rodents. Neither are mongooses.They belong to the order of carnivora.
Yes I want I want to know about their bite
I’m getting one
I hope you haven't got one yet, you need at least two. They re highly social animals amongst themselves, not always with humans.
Meercats are not rodents get your facts right way way off
I dont know how I never knew they were rodents for some reason I thought they were sole kind of primate.
0:27 That's a contradiction in terms, dude.
LOL rodents hahahha am from south africa and in the karoo i see them alot had also as a pet but for one thing he is right about is that they have to be 2
I want one
Can I have one but with a vegan diet?
Please do not buy a animal that is not vegan but you want to turn the animal into a vegan its very selfish ,cruel and its animal abuse . Do you understand the damage you can cause to the health of that poor animal or don't you care ? All animals have their own unique and specific diets and when you adopt a pet. We expect you to be a responsible pet owner providing your pet with a safe and healthy environment and providing your pet with the proper nutritions that your pet will need to stay healthy and happy and to make sure your pet gets lots of exercise enrichment and love and proper grooming it needs to maintain its health.. don't ever get a pet that requires meat in its diet to maintain its health and think that you can turn your pet vegan that is absolutely unacceptable . I just pray to God that if you chose to ignore my advice then i hope you have friends or family who will intervene and remove the animal from your care because no pet deserves to be abused. You will discover how innocent, loyal and loving your pet will be to you that hopefully you will love your pet enough to make sure you take good care of your pet and never cause your pet any harm .
@@annaverano5843 so why are there parents raising vegan children?
Stay away from them!
They need their crowd. Their gang. . They are not cats. .. They are ööööööööööööööööööö.
First, I would not recommend this video to anyone, much less someone interested in having a Meerkat. Meerkats is one the most restrictive animal to own here in the US, and around the world. Why people don't do research and learn before making fools of themselves. Including the author of the video.
Agreed! I had a bunch of ferrets, they weren't legal in my state for a long time, when they became legal, I got a pair, then ended up rescuing a bunch. I did tons of research on them before I even thought about buying a pair. Do your research people. This isn't a very good video 😢 not all factual
Meerkats
A member of the mongoose family, meerkats (also known as suricates) have grizzled gray and brown colored coats of fur with dark patches around their eyes, which help protect their eyes from the glare of the sun. They also have a dark tip on the tail.
Are meerkats rodents? Meerkats are not rodents. They are members of the animal order Carnivora.
It is interesting to note that while meerkats are more closely related to hyenas (30 MY to common ancestor) than to cats (40 MY to common ancestor), karyotypically they seem to resemble cats much more than they do hyenas (compare the whole-genome alignments between the meerkat and the hyena and the meerkat and the cat.
Hyenas may look like dogs or large cats, but they are so unique that they have a family all their own: Hyaenidae. The mongoose and the meerkat are their closest relatives. The spotted or laughing hyena is thought to be the strongest, most capable hunter of any predator of its size.
Bot lol
@@Knittin1 nah I just really like meerkats