This happened back in August actually, but what's bugging me is parents who can't control their kids. At the Minnesota zoo, a little 9yr old girl climbed over a large set of boulders, and over a wall/fence and got her finger bit by a meerkat. While all of the meerkats had been vaccinated for rabies noone knew for sure whether or not any of them had it. So you would think the little girl would get her rabies shots and be done with it, right? Well... you'd be wrong. As opposed to getting rabies shots for the little girl, the parents decided they would make the zoo kill all 5 of the meerkats that were outdoors (as they couldn't tell which one bit the little girl) to check to see if any of them had rabies. How is it that when a little girl who's parents are not watching her, climbs over an embankment and a wall (which is no easy task as I've been told by friends who used to work there), proceeds to get bit by a meerkat, and then the meerkats are the ones who are punished? They did nothing wrong, simply being the wild animals they are. And as it turned out none of the meerkats had rabies so basically they were killed for no good reason. Now I highly doubt meerkats are cheap at all, so now they zoo had to replace them. I am willing to bet the parents didn't have to pay any of those fees, and probably talked about suing the city/state for not making it harder for kids to climb over the walls. Walls/fences are there for a reason! Now I am only 21, so I don't have kids and can't pretend like I know how to raise them. But I know darn well that if I ever did something stupid like that not only would I have had to get the rabies shots (which I have heard are quite painful), but that I would also have gotten a good slap on the rear. Just my 2 cents.