If you’re feeling notably spiteful this Valentine’s Day, HawkWatch International has received you coated. For as little as a measly 5 bucks, the charity will feed their “Raptor Ambassadors” a rodent named after your ex or different object of hatred. And for you lovebirds on the market, the organization additionally has a present bundle you should buy for a cherished one.
HawkWatch International has been round since 1986. In addition to its academic efforts, the nonprofit funds analysis applications centered on dialog efforts and the long-term monitoring of raptor populations throughout the globe. Raptors are a broadly outlined group that features owls, hawks, eagles, and different taloned birds that primarily hunt and feed on different animals.
The charity’s special promotion, titled “The One Rat Got Away,” isn’t the primary to supply romantic retribution through animal naming round Valentine’s. Several zoos and animal sanctuaries have allowed individuals to call bugs and different unpopular creatures destined to be animal chow after their exes. Perhaps essentially the most viral of those campaigns in recent years was the San Antonio Zoo’s “Cry Me a Cockroach” fundraiser, launched in 2020. This yr, the zoo is letting individuals name rats and veggies in addition to cockroaches, for a bigger buffet of playful maliciousness.
But if birds of prey are extra your factor, then HawkWatch International is the place for you. For $5, the charity will identify a mouse or rat to be fed to the hypercarnivorous birds that the charity homes and makes use of for his or her dwell education schemes (the birds had been all rescued and are unable to securely rejoin the wild). For slightly extra money, you will get photographic or video footage of the feeding, and for the max $60, you possibly can even meet your ex-eating raptor in a video name. More squeamish individuals who nonetheless need proof also can ask for no gore of their obtained pictures.
Folks who in some way imagine in love can instead opt for the reward “Owl Always Love You Bundle,” which helps the “Following Forest Owl” program. The $50 bundle supplies your beloved a symbolic adoption of a Northern Saw-whet Owl, full with an 8×10 picture and a certificates detailing one of many owls being tracked. They’ll additionally get a nifty pin and a Sibley’s Owls of North America pocket information.
Those desperate to get some rat-based revenge shouldn’t wait too lengthy: The charity’s promotion solely lasts by way of February 13.
