My best friend: Meerkats as pets

You would not expect these two meerkats to have this much personality.

Transcript

00:00All surikats have known their role in a flock since childhood.

00:05Dakar is our guard. What does it mean?

00:08It means that he is ready to stand at the window for hours, watch the situation.

00:21Hi, my name is Anastasia Chekh.

00:24On the Internet, people know me as the mother of Asya, the mother of Dakar and Laki surikats.

00:30They constantly ask questions, and the very first one is, oh, who is this?

00:35Surikats are African animals. They live in the Kalahari Desert.

00:39But both Dakar and Laki, they were already born in Russia.

00:43Each surikat is a personality.

00:46These are very curious animals.

00:50For them, of course, you need to change your apartment.

00:54You need to change your lifestyle.

00:57And you need to get used to the fact that this is a pet that is like a child.

01:03You won't be able to live the way you used to live.

01:06They bite. It hurts. They are predators.

01:11When Dakar appeared in my life,

01:15I couldn't even imagine that my life would change, well, 180 degrees, probably for sure.

01:21The first thing I did was go home to work.

01:24All the room flowers disappeared in my apartment.

01:27Because any pot will definitely be excavated,

01:31and no plant will survive in your apartment for more than an hour.

01:35Surikats taught me the order of observation, because it will immediately be excavated.

01:42They feed on live crickets.

01:45And we buy about 100-150 of them every week.

01:50They are in a container covered with a lid.

01:55And one beautiful morning I woke up to the fact that a cricket was jumping on me.

02:00It turned out that while we were sleeping, the guys found the crickets, opened the container,

02:07ate some of the crickets, and the rest of the crickets went for a walk all over the apartment.

02:14If I were asked who I would recommend to have such a pet,

02:19I would answer no one.

02:21Because not many people are ready to change their lives.