$5 Valentine's Present: Name A Cockroach After Your Ex and Let it Be Eaten by Animals

Have you ever wished that you can crush the person who broke your heart then feed them to animals for revenge? Well, now you can. Kinda.

Are you celebrating Valentine's day alone because your former lover broke your heart and ran off to the sunset with someone new? Know that you are not alone; a lot of people are. And, almost all of those people want to get back (not together) to their exes in one way or another. Now, they can.

For just $5, the San Antonio Zoo will name a cockroach after your former significant other and feed it to a bird, reptile, or mammal. It's part of the zoo's "Cry Me a Cockroach" event on Valentine's Day.

You don't even have to be in the zoo to watch as your pesky ex gets eaten by the animals. The zoo will host an online event on the day before Valentine's where you and all your fellow broken-hearted people can watch as they feed your exes to the animals.

The money raised from the "Cry Me A Cockroach" event will go towards expanding the zoo's jaguar habitat with a connected overhead catwalk. You get to help animals while you satisfy your cravings for vengeance; it's a win-win situation!

Cry Me A Cockroach! Fundraising Event

Back by popular demand, San Antonio Zoo returns with the perfect remedy for your broken heart with our second annual 'Cry Me a Cockroach!' Fundraising Event.

Patrons will be able to symbolically name a cockroach after their ex, and the zoo will serve it up as an enrichment treat to one of their animals for only $5. If your ex was a snake, you could name a pre-frozen rat after them, and they will feed it to a reptile for $25!

And, this year, San Antonio Zoo is offering a herbivorous option. You can also symbolically purchase a herbivore option for those roommates who never pick up after themselves or for the people you've been stuck within quarantine for $5, and they will feed them to one of their vegetarian animals!

On Valentine's Day, February 14th, they will be showing their 'Cry Me A Cockroach!' feeding frenzy on their social media pages. Birds, reptiles, and mammals from San Antonio Zoo will join in on this feast.

Meal Insects

Meal insects like cockroaches and mealworms are living food for carnivorous or omnivorous animals kept in captivity; in other words, small animals such as insects or mice fed to larger carnivorous omnivorous species kept either in a zoo or as a pet.

Live food is commonly used as feed for a variety of species of exotic pets and zoo animals, ranging from alligators to various snakes, frogs, and lizards, but also including other non-reptile, non-amphibian carnivores and omnivores (for instance, skunks, which are omnivorous mammals, can technically be fed a limited amount of live food, though this is not known to be common practice).

Typical live food ranges from crickets (used as an inexpensive form of feed for carnivorous and omnivorous reptiles such as bearded dragons and commonly available in pet stores for this reason), waxworms, mealworms, and to a lesser extent, cockroaches and locusts, to small birds and mammals such as mice or chickens.

They give the animals nutrients while helping them stimulate the feeling of being in the wild and hunting for their own meals.