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[Kalahari_Angel]

I just love watching the meerkat cam...I come to visit every day!! These little creatures are among the smartest and cutest animals in the whole world!!

I love these meerkats!!

Peace Love & Meerkats
Angel

[A Meerkat Keeper]

The meerkats are fun ! We are in the exhibit a few times a day, around 8:00 am to about 8:40 am feeding and cleaning the getting it ready for the zoo to open, we also are in the exhibit at 12:30 pm feeding live meal worms and crickets. I often feed them in a cardboard tube and let them pull out their own to eat. It keeps them occupied for some time anyway.

[Friends in Coral Springs]

Watching these little animals run around and play all day make me smile. Especially enjoy when they interact with the Meerkat keeper I can see he enjoys them too.

[Mom of keeper]

I love to watch my sone play with them almost every da, since I live in NC, it's like spending some time with him!!

[Mom of keeper]

It's very educational to see what their diet is.

[Angie]

I think that this is awesome to have a camera so that we can watch them throughtout the day.

[Mary]

this is so awesome!

[mary]

Meerkats are so cute especially the babys!!!!!!

[KARIN]

I only saw one - i hope you have more than one and i wish i had sound here on this computer. great view! i try to visit the ones at Ntl Zoo in Wash.DC once a month - they are so silly.

[KARIN]

Mom of keeper wrote:

It's very educational to see what their diet is.

They feed them earth worms and meal worms at the Ntl Zoo in Wash.DC.

[Mom of keeper]

KARIN wrote:

<quoted text> They feed them earth worms and meal worms at the Ntl Zoo in Wash.DC.

They do at metro also at 12:30 feeding. They get vegetables, fruit and dog chow in the mornings. At the afternoon feeding crickets are on the menu too!!

[Jenn]

I love watching these very cute creatures. They are just sooo cute.

[florida native]

Kalahari_Angel wrote:

I just love watching the meerkat cam...I come to visit every day!! These little creatures are among the smartest and cutest animals in the whole world!!
I love these meerkats!!
Peace Love & Meerkats
Angel

i am so glad the zoo and ron mcgail have the wisdom to provide people with computers like myself who are unable to drive and visit the zoo. and i also appreciate again **** mr. msgil has the ability to bring to our zoo all of the animals for us to see and to learn from them. kudos to him and the way he runs and takes care of all of the animals in the zoo, he has done a wonderful joboverseeing the animals and the care they receive i remember his frustation after hurrican andrew hit and severly damaged the zoo. in fact i cryed after i saw in person how damaged the zoo was and again kudos to him and his devotion to the zoo. and he was very gracious to let me introduce him so my daughter could meet him at a fla. marlins game one night.all my best to him and all of the animals in hi zoo. they are certainly a special gift to watch on the video cam and we are very prividlged to be able to watch them.ki love it.

[Friends in Coral Springs]

I belive that Ron McGill is an amazing person and thanks to him we can see these beautiful creatures right on our computer. He is an amazing man with lots of enthusiasm and great love for all animals.

[Erin mi_sh_mo_to]

wow! that looks an interesting diet or what looked like meal worms some kind of meat and corn. Thanks for showing us! this cam is great!

[Kalahari_Angel]

Friday 2/22/08.

I'm very sad that the camera is down today. I miss my little meerkats terribly. Are they okay??

Peace Love & Meerkats
Angel

[Loves the Meerkats]

Dear Zookeeper/IT staff,

Please check the meerkat enclosure camera, it hasn't worked since thursday. The image is dark like nighttime, I can see some lighter pixels, but it's mostly black. I'm going through major withdrawals, I love to watch your meerkats running and playing, every day, all day, when I have the chance!!

I hope that the meerkats are all well, as well as the zoo staff.

Peace Love & Meerkats
Kalahari Angel

[Missing the Meerkats]

Dear Zookeeper

Please check the camera it doesn't appear to be working. This is the 3rd day that I've come to the site and there is no picture only a black screen.
I'm really missing the meerkats which have been a part of my day now for quite some time. I keep your site on most of the day so I can watch them running and playing.

I sure hope that the meerkats are ok and that it's not bad weather there that caused the problem.

Missing the Meerkats,
Chicago, IL.

[Chef to the Animals]

In answer to the person who wanted to know about their diet...in the morning they get dry dog food, fruits and vegetables and meatballs made of bird of prey diet (Horsemeat (USDA Inspected and Passed), meat by-products, ground corn soy bean meal, rolled milo, brewers dried yeast, calcium carbonate, dried egg, Nebraska Brand vitamin premix, salt, Nebraska Brand bird trace element premix) mixed with taurine powder. Most of the meerkats go straight for the meatballs, but one prefers fruit first.
Chef to the Animals (every other Saturday)

[Karen]

Please fix the camera which I hope is the problem. I'm having major Meerkat withdrawls.... I love them soooooooooooooooooo they always make my day better