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A Zoo Will Let You Name A Rat Or Cockroach After Your Ex For Valentine's Day

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If you're single and HATING on your ex this Valentine's Day, San Antonio Zoo is here to help you!

This Valentine's Day, the zoo is hosting a special event in which scorned lovers can name cockroaches or rats after their exes, and watch them get fed to zoo animals.


"Cry Me a Cockroach" can be submitted through the zoo's website until 6pm Friday and will be live-streamed for all to watch on Valentine's Day, as the cockroaches get fed to animals and the pre-frozen rats are handed over to reptiles.

Cockroaches cost $5 to name and rats $25, for which donors will get a certificate declaring the animals officially named after their no-good former partners.

The zoo notes that all rodents fed to animals are already dead, and are delivered frozen from a mouse farm; The roaches, meanwhile, are alive and sourced from professional roach breeders.