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