{"id":448661,"date":"2026-02-27T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:57:08","slug":"brockham-meerkat-pub-offering-something-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448661\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockham meerkat pub offering &#8216;something unique&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the landlord said it had not all been plain sailing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One male meerkat had to be hand-reared in Collier&#8217;s home after being ostracised from the group, he said. Another meerkat died, while three females have been pregnant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Collier admitted that the first few months were a &#8220;steep learning curve&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hadn&#8217;t planned to breed the meerkats, but it happened and suddenly we had seven babies. We neutered the females so it wouldn&#8217;t happen again,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the original meerkats were not tame, the &#8220;new babies&#8221; underwent a four-week handling programme and began interacting with customers, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve since continued with the human interaction as the meerkats love the attention and it&#8217;s beneficial for them,&#8221; Collier added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are now two remaining adults and five babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the landlord said it had not all been plain sailing. One male meerkat had to be hand-reared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-448661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}