Flower Power
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Flower Power is the tenth episode of the first season of the hit series, Meerkat Manor.
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In Flower Power dominant female Flower is shown to be pregnant again, with a huge appetite. While she's busy eating a beetle evicted female Tosca attempts to join the group. Some of the Whiskers try to chase her away but Tosca doesn't move. However, when Flower notices what's happening she sends the entire group charging towards her daughter, Tosca then finally flees. Flower then leads her family to a water trough for a drink. Tosca's son Jogu however can't reach the water, making him frustrated. After a drink the Whiskers return home for the night before the storm sets in. By morning Flower had given birth to four pups. When the group leaves to go foraging 5 month olds Jogu and McMurphy are left to babysit. But the youngsters quickly tire of their duties and sneak off to look for food. Shakespeare, suspecting that the young babysitters would abandon their jobs, returns to the burrow to check on the babies. While he's belong ground Tosca tries to sneak in. But Shakespeare spots her and chases her away, knowing that the Whiskers don't want her back. The Whiskers make it home safely that night. Jogu and McMurphy also rejoin them without being punished. The next day the Whiskers travel into Lazuli territory and raid their burrow in an attempt to kill their pups. A Lazuli rover named Magnus returns, distracting the Whiskers from their mission. Magnus realises that Flower is almost ready to breed and tries to approach her. Zaphod becomes paniced at the situation and goes into a frenzy, but the other Whiskers members manage to find anc chase away Magnus before he could get to Flower. Unsettled by the events, the Whiskers end up going back home without harming the Lazuli pups.