my meerkat house is done!YEY!!!
i have reserved a little handraised baby meerkat, to pick up on friday!!
cant wait!!!
ill post plenty of pics when i get her!
hehehehehehehe!!!!!
Saffxxx

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sweet
post pics of the house please!!!

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just the one meerkat or did i misread? Just when i've read up on them it always says they're highly social and need a group

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Sounds good.. pics?

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Pics? I also may have misread as I only read "meerkat" and also beleive they are supposed to be housed in social groups?

Did you manage to get the answers to the care questions you asked?

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call me a pesimist but after all this questions asked before i doubt she would have got more than 1

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im getting her on friday so no pics till then......
we are only getting one and i know they are social but we are going to be with her all the time and the most famous pet meerkat called merlin is kept on his own and he is fine......
here is a link.....BBC NEWS | England | Houseproud Merlin the meerkat

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Good luck with her, but they are social animals and they will only be able to exibit a fairly limited amount of natutal behaviour on their own, regardless of how much time you spend with her. They communicate using scent and body posture as well as sound so she isn't goin to expeience any of that one her own. Just because one meerkat like Merlin does well on its own, doesn't mean it is generic across the species....

Thats just my 2 pence though. Good luck with her.

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I don't wanna sound nasty here but I REALLY don't think you should just get one.

They need to be with other meerkats & they will form a sorta pecking order, that's how they live, you can't be another meerkat for her no matter how much you play with her. She needs to be with her own species. Could you not wait a bit & then get 2?

& I don't really see how it's possible for you to be with her all the time? Do you not have a job? Go to school?

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hiya im not jumping on the band wagon here but you really shouldnt keep them on their own, sure it can be done usualy only when they are kept as a house pet and so have alot more interaction than ones in enclosures but if they are kept in enclosures you should have at least two, all social animals need one of their kind to act naturaly with.
Even if you gave him as much attention as possible and spent ALL your time with him you still couldnt give him the interaction that another meerkat can.
im not trying to have a go but for the meerkats sake i hope you get another meerkat for him otherwise you may end up with a very mentaly unstable meerkat!
stu