Brace yourselves – Valentine’s Day is upon us once more. And if you’re just not in the mood for it this year, the El Paso Zoo has a solution. Name a cockroach after your ex, and have it fed to a meerkat.

Come again?

Yes, you read that right.

The zoo got an overwhelming response and has now officially stopped taking names for the cockroaches. Too late for a live bug? How about a dead fish named after your ex, courtesy of Wildlife Images in Oregon?

Now Wildlife Images is doing this RIGHT, and making a fundraiser out of it! Even $5 a cockroach would have been HUGE money, El Paso Zoo! Something to remember for next year.

Valentine’s Day – a day that actually commemorates the death of Saint Valentine – came to signify love and romance as far back as the 15th century. Nowadays, Hallmark and chocolate companies and florists make a killing on these days – often with mixed results.

Some of us simply aren’t as lucky in love as others. Which is clearly why these named cockroaches and salmon are so on point. Can you imagine some of our more famous public figures opting to name a cockroach? Mackenzie Bezos should. Huma Abedin should. There’s probably a long list of women who would feed “Bill Clinton” or “Donald Trump” to a meerkat, and not for political reasons.

So, here’s hoping that your Valentine’s Day can be spent with someone special. And if not, maybe you can watch as other people’s exes become snack food for meerkats and bears instead.

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