Valentine’s Day is the best time of year to spread love all around. To get into the holiday spirit, a Texas zoo is offering gift packages that include naming a cockroach and purchasing hippo poop candles.
The San Antonio Zoo is taking a different approach with its “Cry Me a Cockroach” fundraiser in 2024. The program now allows patrons to pay to have a roach, rat or vegetable named for their ex-lovers before the chosen recipient of the moniker is fed to another zoo animal.
“Symbolically name a roach, rat, or veggie after your ex or not-so-special someone and San Antonio Zoo will help squash your past, a true heartbreak healer, by feeding your selection to an animal resident,” the zoo’s website reads.
The San Antonio Zoo is also offering a new product for Valentine’s Day: a candle bearing the scent of hippo poop. The zoo said poop “is the cologne of the hippo world and is used to impress potential mates.” The candles are made by the Stinky Candle Company and are specifically scented to resemble the odor of the poop from the zoo’s male hippo, Timothy.
These unique gifts are sure to take your loved one’s breath away.