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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Monday, October 23, 2006 - 11:21 am
Lexie, here's the episode guide for Season 2 Episode Guide
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:16 am
Thanks for the link Retired. BTW... did anyone see on the national evening news a few weeks ago (pretty sure it was NBC) where they were talking about Meerkat Manor and how it was one of Animal Planet most watched TV shows? They also mentioned that people were bombarding Animal Planet with frantic e-mail wanting to know if Flower & The Gang were okay.
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Retired
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07-11-2001
| Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 9:11 am
YW, Lexie. Nope didn't see that on the news.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 6:59 am
We are getting such a kick out of the star new pup's name being Blossom. That's my beagle's name. I think I replayed her scenes about 5 times from the last two shows..lol I hope she grows into a main character. They seem to be pushing her in that direction.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 6:26 am
I am so sad. I can't believe they make you fall in love with a little pup like that and then they rip your heart out! 
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 7:47 am
I just discovered this show a few weeks ago and both my husband and I are totally addicted. The funny thing is I had learning more about meerkats and observing them as one of the things on my life list! We just found the program accidentally and now I can mark this item off my list!
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 9:16 am
Oh, Blossom!! This is a tough, tense, anxiety-producing, educational, and entertaining show for me--an adult. I don't know if I could handle it if I were a child. (I still remember where I was when I read that Charlotte died and my tears spilled onto the pages of the book--from Charlotte's Web.) I know nature is harsh but I so wanted the researchers to pick up Blossom and put her back with her clan. Two thoughts--there are too many cliffhangers on this show. There are not just cliffhangers at the end of each episode. There are cliffhangers every other sentence!! It's a bit too much. "tragedy around the corner--dire consequences--most dangerous situation yet--if little Mozart, Blossom, Shakespeare doesn't/then death, starvation, exile, is inevitable etc. etc. etc. Da, Da, Dum!!! GIVE ME A VALIUM--I can't handle anymore suspense. Perhaps if there were a documentary following a family of hawks trying to find food we would be rooting for the hawks' successful hunt and "murder" of a meerkat. OR perhaps if there were a documentary of centipedes, we would be hating those little meerkats for tearing the bugs apart for dinner--hee hee.
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Nancypj
Member
08-17-2001
| Monday, November 06, 2006 - 1:12 pm
This last episode ruined me for the rest of Friday night. Poor Blossom! As I sat there watching, I kept telling myself that it was just another edited cliffhanger that would all work out. But no! I guess I should be happy that this is only the second pup we got to "know" before it met its demise (remember the one Userrian dropped during a burrow move attempt in S1?). But still... I have taped every episode to lend out to a number of friends who lack the memory to watch every week, but I always give the disclaimer that it can be tough to watch at times. At least with them all in a row, the cliffhangers are quickly resolved. They don't have to live in torment for a week like I do I went to the zoo last week with my SIL and nephew and saw the meerkats. Wow, the ones at the zoo were well-fed. Little rolly-poly buggers! But they still were doing the forraging thing, and the lookout thing. I had a little group of folks around me listening to me spout off meerkat facts I learned from the show (they displace their weight in dirt every 20 seconds! females that have not given birth to pups can still produce milk to feed the dominant female's pups!). It's not often I learn something from a reality show that I can actually repeat in public...
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 6:52 pm
I am still so sad about little Blossom I actually went to start making a little montage of all her features scenes, and then I thought I would like I was crazy.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 7:51 am
It was sad, but it was reality and I guess survival of the fittest.. the pups who learn meerkat ways that mean you stay near your family and protect each other. I thought the shot they had of the camera said it all for the researchers and how THEY must have been feeling to lose the little one like that. As researchers they cannot intervene (I mean remember when they thought Flower might never return and put the collar on another 'kat) and they have actually touched and handled, named and followed this group for years. I also don't feel so sorry for Tosca and her banning.. so she gets back in good (tentative) graces and turns on her innocent sister Daisy? Feh! I still want to "adopt a meerkat" and visit someday http://www.fellowearthlings.org/adopt.html Link thanks to hippyt when we were watching meerkat manor while in chat one night.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 4:45 pm
Sea and Hippy, what a great organization, thanks for the link! Sea, I hope you can visit someday and share with us all about it. I am too vested in this show and cried when little Blossom died. Heck, I still miss Shakespeare and keep my fingers crossed for his return. Kudos to the editors and the researchers for the fantastic job that they have done in bringing us into the meerkat world. If I were a younger woman I would love to have been on the research team - but they would have kicked me off because I would have Blossom hidden inside my shirt the first minute she wandered off!!
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 5:49 pm
I had to give up on the show a while back. I just didn't enjoy watching it. I spent every episode with a knot in my stomach, afraid something was going to happen to those cute little buggers. I know it's nature and that's the way it goes, but I just couldn't watch it. For those of you wondering what happened to Shakespeare, the show's producers are, too. They're not quite sure what happened to him and whether they'll ever see him again. Check out this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392433/
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 7:44 am
We Love this show It is so addicting Glad to see there are so many others out here that love it also
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 8:58 am
I also love this show, but it breaks my heart how Flower treats Mozart. Isn't this the second litter of pups that Mozart has now lost?
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Willsfan
Member
09-04-2000
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:08 am
When Flower decided to move to a new den I knew Mozart would have the pups by herself and they might not survive. It just took me by surprise at Flower's timing. I think we all knew what was coming when we saw the other family of meerkats going toward Mozart's den and I am so glad there weren't closeups of the pups being killed. It was bad enough seeing the little one carried away and all the adults jumping on it.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:25 am
The final episode for this season was the first one I saw. Though the pups were killed, in the long run it might have been the best way for them to be gone. Better that they were quickly killed than be starved to death over a period of days. It is nature, and nature is brutal. What I didn't like is that at the end of the show, they didn't let us know if Mozart did make it back to her family or not. If she did make it back, was she accepted?
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Nancypj
Member
08-17-2001
| Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 3:24 pm
The second season started just a few weeks (or so) after the first one ended. Any word on when season three will begin?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 8:52 pm
Well one thing, we know they film all the time 
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Oddsygirl
Member
07-11-2006
| Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 2:24 pm
The first season of Meerkat Manor was actually first on Animal Planet in 2004, if memory serves me. They just repeated it and added a new season to see if it would get more viewers this time. After watching the first season such a long time ago, I am happy to see more viewers this time around.
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Nancypj
Member
08-17-2001
| Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 3:09 pm
Wow, I had no idea - thanks Oddsy! I guess that means Season 3 won't be starting in a month or anything 
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Weeniewhiner
Member
07-22-2005
| Friday, November 17, 2006 - 6:25 am
There's a Meerkat Marathon on Fri Nov 24th from 7 am to 8 pm EST.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, November 17, 2006 - 12:03 pm
I think it was originally on in fall of 2005. Remember when I had that problem where Tivo wouldn't record the episode "Boys Will Be Boys"?. Well over in my Tivo forum, we found out it's because those of us who had our season passes set to "Record new episodes only" wouldn't grab that episode because it was the only season 1 ep they accidentally left the original air-date as Nov 2005. So tivo wasn't seeing it as a new ep to grab. All the other eps they re-tagged with new original air-dates.
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