This Valentine’s Day, feed your cockroach ex to the animals at the Nuevo Laredo Zoo

Valentine’s Day tin beryllium a pugnacious clip for idiosyncratic precocious jilted oregon whose narration is going done a unsmooth patch.

If you are 1 whose bosom is wounded, it mightiness beryllium the cleanable clip to sojourn the Nuevo Laredo Zoo and Aquarium.

This week, the Nuevo Laredo City Hall and zoo invitation the nationalist to “baptize” a cockroach with the sanction of an ex, aft which the insect volition beryllium utilized to provender the animals astatine the zoo. Zoo visitors tin personally provender their cockroach ex to zoo animals, oregon registry online to person a video of the cockroach’s demise.

With the stated entity of helping those successful symptom connected Valentine’s Day, the zoo posted the pursuing invitation connected its website and Facebook page:

“This Feb. 14, springiness your time a unsocial touch. Take portion successful an amusing enactment whereby you tin sanction a cockroach aft your ex and spot it go nutrient for the animals astatine our zoo. It’s the cleanable mode to find closure!”

With a elemental click that takes you to a registration page, you tin crook your ex into a filthy insect. But lone 2 “baptisms” per idiosyncratic are permitted.

The station was uploaded past week and generated much than 100 comments and hundreds of Facebook likes by Friday.

Some participants adjacent admitted that they were naming cockroaches aft household and friends conscionable for fun, according to Milenio newspaper.

Others were little sanguine. One subordinate gleefully wrote “Your clip has come!” Another simply “I person a sanction successful mind.”

Despite the galore who voiced enactment for the light-hearted gambit, rather a fewer respondents expressed disapproval, categorizing it arsenic insensitive and inappropriate.

One idiosyncratic labeled it a anserine idea, according to the paper Reforma, saying Valentine’s Day should not beryllium wasted by reasoning astir an ex.

Another remark suggested the metropolis and its institutions beryllium much civic-minded: “Why don’t you repair the potholes successful the street?” it said.

Finally, 1 subordinate objected to the information that guiltless insects were being scapegoated. “What responsibility is it of the cockroaches?”

This is the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth that Nuevo Laredo has sponsored a “Finding closure done cockroaches” offer.

With reports from Reforma, Milenio and Telemundo Laredo