participants receive a video of a meerkat chomping down the critter.
“Roaches are like chocolate for meerkats. They destroy the roach, like they chew off the head and they suck it all up,” said Borrego, who named a cockroach after her former boyfriend that first year. “It’s honestly therapeutic, if we’re honest. Nine years down the drain, all eaten up by a happy animal.”
Is it petty to name a bug after an un-loved one? Perhaps. Then again, the campaigns also help zoos support their animals, caretakers and conservation efforts. Take the San Antonio Zoo, which has raised over $80,000 since it launched its “Cry Me a Cockroach Fundraiser” campaign in 2020.
For Stephanie Carrell, a 28-year-old photographer and event coordinator from Chicago, naming cockroaches after the people who’ve wronged her has become a bit of an annual event. Seeing their names written across pink hearts posted around a tank filled with leathery cockroaches gave Carrell the “ultimate feeling of closure.”
It’s normal to feel intense rage or anger after you’ve been ghosted, mistreated or cheated on, Warren added. But sweet revenge might “leave you rationally stuck to why they hurt you so much and why they deserve to be eaten as a cockroach. And that angry reaction actually keeps you fixated on your ex, instead of fixated on yourself and how you can move on.”
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