First let me say POOR ROCKETDOG

Second of all are the Whiskers togehter or apart? I mean first Flower passed away and she was the greatest,bravest,smartest, and cutest meerkat leader ever! So her elsest daughter Rocketdog took over. And let me say she had the brains just like her mom. She's leader, she has sooooo many problems, her sisters are mean, and then Maybelline takes half of the whiskers!!!! She just broke up Flower's close nit family! So then to make it worse RD gets hit be a car and is killed!!! That just ruined the family! The once close nit whiskers are now in 2. And there is no dom. F! RD was the oldest and more experienced meerkat in all of the whiskers! Then she passes away... who will be dom. F?? There is nobody left! In my opinion the remaining whiskers are falling apart... they have less members, no real dom. F or male, and to top that they just lost there dom F! How could things get any worse?

To me the whiskers are apart.... they all might still be family, but unless a big male comes in and a smart female too and they take over... I think the whiskers group is in a biggg hole right now. My opinion everyone.

reply back with your opinions.


Rest in peace Rocketdog
We love you<3

yeah, it is a very tough time for our whiskers. but flower's bloodline and legacy lives on thru the aztecs, boabab, van helsing, toyota, and even the commandos now. there is hope though for the home family. the commandos at one point had nothing but very young members, and they built up there numbers very fast.

That's exactly what crossed my mind. When Flower died RD was our hope - now Zaph's not even there. This young, inexperienced girl worked through some major problems. Is someone else in the Whiskers rising to the occasion as RD had so valiently done? If not, the only thing left to hope for is an outside DF/DM. This poor, poor little group. Once the mightiest and now look at what fate had in store for them. Much good energy and love to our wonderful, wonderful Whiskers.

Good news for the Whiskers: Ella has stepped up as the new DF. Pronker said this about her in another thread:

"And little Ella (Mango) who was one of the most ambitious of Flower's younger daughters now has her shot at the top. I wish her well, long life, many babies and a supportive family."

According to the KMP Name List (link below), Ella's ID code is VWF095 and she was born on August 26, 2005:
http://friends.kalahari-meerkats.com/fileadmin/files/LH_reports/KMP_Name_List_Mar08.pdf

Someone here said Ella/Mango was shown in MM S2. I'm eager to see her. Whoever she is, I'm rooting for her and the Whiskers all the way!

RIP, sweet RD, loved and missed and never forgotten...

NazarethDodo makes a very good point. A Dominant Female that gives birth to multiple litters a year can quickly add to the group's numbers. Ella has already given birth to three pups this year. Hopefully she will produce more litters this year. She is very young. All she needs is an attractive rover.

Now don't you guys go giving up on the Whiskers. That is Flower and Zaphs bloodline you are talking about. They will survive and be just as strong as ever. They need all our love and support now.

and that is a very good point, new meerkat fan! i was looking at the newest name list earlier tonight and noticed that she has produced quite a few surviving pups at a relatively young age. ella certainly seems to have that part of being the DF down pat, now if she can figure out how to be half the leader her mom was, the whiskers will be fine.

Ella is going to be 3 years old in August. Flower was a lot younger (about 2 years old) when she became a dominant after Vialli's extremely short reign (it lasted a few months). Age, and experience are not necessarily important. Flower became very successful-eventually.

Yup, Tori, we needed that. We cannot give up on our Whiskers or any of the other mobs. Love and energy to them all - we love them all.

Hey, guys, Ella/Mango is Attila and Achille's sister. I'm crying over RD but Ella is good for the Whiskers! Her brothers are DMs of the Commandos. That litter had dominant written all over it since the day little Attila chased old Grog off his babysitters. I'm glad Ella made it though the evictions. The whiskers need her.

Like Sunshine-1, I am glad Ella made it through the evictions. Not only that, she was able to give birth to three pups. Many evicted females end up aborting their litters during their eviction.

Like Flower before her, Rocket Dog reduced the number of adult female members in the Whiskers. Ella's only competition is Wiley Kat and Amira. Without the stress of having to battle so many subordinates, perhaps Ella can focus on the task of rebuilding the Whiskers.

I understand that Flower has blood ties to a number of different groups now, but I don't want to see the Whiskers group evaportat, Flower is a huge symbol in the Kali, and her mom Holly raised her very well and was a big role in helping make Flower the leader that she was, and she was the pioneer to what is now the most lovable group of Meerkats of all time.

Hi Philmeerkat,

Another BRAVO, I think that this is your third!

Take care,
Flotosbea

i thought about saying this earlier, but now it certainly seems appropriate... there is a combined litter too of which ella was one of the moms along with billy and flo. burdock, amira, squig, rhogan josh and rufus are all surviving members of this litter. the mothers of the individual pups has not been established. so it is likely that ella has had more breeding success than what has already been stated. hopefully little ella can pick up the ball and get our favorite family going in the right direction! this is certainly no slight on rocket dog, she was thrown into a VERY tough situation with the drought and family split and everything else and it was certainly a blow for the whiskers to lose her.

Scientists have to perform DNA tests to prove who the mothers of litters that were born at the same time are. But the mothers know their pups. I suspect that the pups that were taken to the Aztecs last year belong to the females that joined the group. When some immigrated to the Whiskers were sub-adults by then. This is slightly irrelevant to the previous posts, but interesting.

We all know that, as Maybelline finds the whiskers and want to attack, the rest of the Aztecs and Whiskers dont attack each other, the most are family, and family (except evicted ones) dont attack other family members, they smell the band.

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hello burrowmates
sad news about rocket dog she showed promise with her spunkiness and true grit to dig in when the times where hard for her family we will miss her.
bishonmom made refeence to zaphod not being around has he passed also or just that hes in the aztecs dont get on much anymore with work and all.
hugs, nuzzles, cuddles and groomings to all
Mdagwoodtaz

Zaphod is still the DM of the Aztecs.

What I meant was that he's with the Aztecs and not the Whiskers, although, initially at least, he was visiting both groups. Sorry!

Wait! who is Ella? I don't remember her nor have I heard of her... and if she stepped up to be dom. F then who is dom.m?

Ella/Mango was mentioned as a pup on MM. Machu Pichu/Dudley, her brother, is the DM of the Whiskers.

hello burrowmates
ty zettak for answering my question glad to kow zaphod is still around.
Mdagwoodtaz

Does anyone know if Zaph ever visits the Whiskers anymore? Initially he was floating back and forth, I was wondering if he still did?

I would hate to think the Aztecs and the Whiskers would fight, though I believe according to the reports they have. I would have hoped that if they saw each other it would've been similar to when Flower split the group and when they came back, they almost went to battle until the realized they were family. I just don't think that is the case anymore. Maybelline was much different then RocketDog.

Wouldn't it be a dream come true if now the Whiskers and Aztecs get back together again. I guess Mabs isn't doing that well, but, still, its a nice dream.

I doubt that Zaphod would visit the other group. In the beginning, for months, kats were going back and forth, from one group to the other. They considered both groups more, or less as one. Not anymore. The two groups could unite in the beginning of the split only. A long period of time passed by. They are two separate groups now.

Prior to the big split of the Whiskers, all the members were scent marked by RD and Zaphod. However, with the creation of the Aztecs, both DF's (Monkulus/Maybelline & Rocket Dog) more then likely began scent marking their members, caused a significant smell for each mob. And since Zaphod moved permanantly to the Aztecs and Machu Pichu is now the DM of the Whiskers, there is no scent that can connect the two groups. Furthermore, Ella is DF and will begin marking her members, creating an even newer scent. If the Whiskers or Aztecs meet, it will more then likely not be a happy reunion.

Hi everyone,

Ella is going to be great for the Whiskers. I think the group will do fine, even rebound its numbers.

Monkulus is doing well, too. I think the MM tends to stretch things a little - dramatic license and all! Monkulus/Maybelline is one of my favs. She and Zaph have made the Aztecs a pretty stable group.

Anyway, back to the Whiskers. I will be surprised if they don't come back better than ever, even after this latest sad loss.

Hello ninjamom1! Yes, Monkulus/Maybelline has been overdramatized, just like Tosca. Tosca was just being a meerkat, she was depicted as rebellious, and Maybelline is depicted as incompetant. She guarded her pups during the borrow move (which has forever endeared her to me) and it takes more than that to make a mother, but like you say, she is doing well. She is a young, inexperienced kat just like RD was at the first encounter with rivals. RD turned around and led the charge, I will always feel that her hesitation was not fear or doubt, she was just waiting for Flower, that is all she ever knew. When Flower did not come, she regrouped and did fine. Another stretch of natural behavior.

It will be hard for any DF to follow the paws of Flower, but Flower began from "humble beginnings", I will give them all a chance!

Your post was wonderful! Have a great day and see you around the burrow.

Flotosbea