RIP Muriel

I’ve got some sad news to pass along, Edmonton.

One of the Valley Zoo’s mainstays, in their own meerkat manor, is no longer with us. Muriel, The Meerkat has died. Rather, she was put down on January 6.

Muriel was 14, which is quite old for the feisty animals.

She actually lived most of her life in the zoo’s administration building (likely doing data entrey and working overtime on weekends) because she was being picked on by the other meerkats.

The City says if you’d like to honour Muriel you can make a donation to the Zoo’s Makira Conservation Fund c/o Edmonton Valley Zoo, P.O. Box 2359, Edmonton, T5J 2R7.

1995-2010 (Photo: CoE)

This entry was posted by Jeff on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 11:20 am and is filed under CITIZEN INFO and tagged with , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

3 Responses to “RIP Muriel”

  1. Stu says:
    January 14, 2010 at 11:26 am

    Your candle burned out long before
    Your legend ever did

  2. Derjis says:
    January 14, 2010 at 12:04 pm

    sad news. poor little meerkat… :(
    this January is turning into a repeat of Summer ’09, with all the crazy deaths…
    Jay Reatard, Muriel, Teddy Pendergrass…

  3. sally says:
    January 14, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? SHE WAS MY WORLD!