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{{Infobox familiar
|name = Meerkats
|image = [[File:Meerkats.png|300px|Meerkats]]
|level = 4
|time = 40
|points = 1
|ability = Retrieve treasure trail caskets
|special = Fetch casket
|race = Meerkat
|combat = Non-Combatant
|lifepoints = Non-Combatant
|immune to poison = Non-Combatant
|style = Non-Combatant
|max = Non-Combatant
|examine = Two ancient meerkat familiars.
}}

[[File:Meerkat chathead.png|left|Meerkat chathead]]
[[File:Meerkat.png|200px|thumb|Meerkats standing on their hind legs.]]
'''Meerkats''' are level 4 Summoning familiars that were added on [[4 August]] [[2010]] with the [[Update:Elite Treasure Trails and New Rewards|Elite treasure trail update]], whose helping functions link in with [[Treasure Trails]].
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They possess a scroll ability 'Fetch Casket' which allows them to dig for caskets which would otherwise trigger a god mage to attack the player.

By interacting with them, 3 options appear: "chat", "get sextant coordinate" and "dig".

The "Fetch Casket" ability is necessary in order to avoid a god mage. The "Dig" option works exactly like a spade, and will dig where you are standing, this however, WILL trigger a god mage if the clue happens to include one.

One [[Summoning points|Summoning point]] is expended when summoning meerkats from a meerkat pouch. Afterwards, unlike other familiars, [[Summoning points]] are drained very slowly for having the meerkats summoned.

This pouch cannot be exchanged for shards from [[Bogrog]].

== Meerkats pouch ==
{{Infobar Summon Pouch
|name = Meerkats pouch
|image = [[File:Meerkats pouch.png|Meerkat pouch]]
|shards = N/A
|charm = N/A
|tertiary = N/A
|createxp = N/A
|usexp = 1
|low = 1200
|high = 1800
|cost = N/A
|exchange = gemw
|examine = I can summon meerkat familiars with this.
|returnlvl = N/A
}}

A '''Meerkats pouch''' is received as a reward from a [[Treasure Trail]]. Unlike other Summoning pouches, it cannot be made by players. When released, it was listed with a cost of 3,000 coins in the Grand Exchange. It can be obtained from completing a clue scroll of any level. It requires a [[Summoning]] level of 4 to summon.

== Fetch Casket scroll ==
[[File:Digging_Meerkat.gif|frame|Meerkats, performing the Dig action.]]
{{Infobar Summon Scroll
|name = Fetch casket scroll
|exchange = gemw
|image = [[File:Fetch casket scroll.png|Fetch casket]]
|createxp = N/A
|usexp = 0
|special = 12 points to cast
|low = 120
|high = 180
|examine = A scroll for meerkat familiars.
|return = N/A
|returnlvl = N/A
}}

A '''Fetch Casket scroll''' is also a reward item, note you cannot make these by using a meerkat pouch on an obelisk. The scroll allows use of the special move of the Meerkat, Fetch Casket. When used, it makes the meerkats dig for a co-ordinate clue without making a [[Zamorak wizard]], [[Saradomin wizard]] or [[Guthix wizard]] appear.

== Trivia ==

*They were the first (and at the time, only) Summoning familiars able to run. After the update on 15 March 2011, all familiars can run.
*This is the only pouch that summons more than one familiar at once.
*The only other item that can summon two followers are the [[squirrel ears]], a reward from the [[2010 Easter event]].
*The Meerkats pouch is one of only two pouches that cannot be created by players. The other is the [[Ghast familiar|Ghast pouch]].
*When you do the Dig action with the meerkats, they dig under you; meaning you cannot move, until the move is finished.
*If you look at the hole while the Meerkats do the digging animation, there is actually no hole, just the ground.
*There is a glitch which occurs where players cannot use the find coordinates ability with their meerkat.
*They cannot be used with the Duel Arena Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 02.46 North, 29.11 East, as you cannot enable both obstacles and summoning in a duel.
*Fetch Casket cannot be used with the Mort Myre Swamp Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 05.37 North, 31.15 East, because this is a summoning free area.
*Due to a glitch, Fetch Casket could not be used with the Rellekka Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 17.50 North, 08.30 East. It has since been fixed.

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