Meerkat Plugin

Meerkat Plugin

Hello! I have a question about using the Meerkat Plugin with Business Catalyst.

I got it working just fine but now I need to be able to hide the function when there is not an alert or notification that we need the plug-in for. Currently, it still pops up with 'No items found.' Is there a way to hide this when there is not an alert?

This script was listed on the Meerkat website but I don't think it is what I want, and when I included the code in the script, it didn't seem to do anything:
onMeerkatShow: function(){ $(this).animate({opacity: 'show'}) }

Looking forward to hearing everyone's take on this! Thank you so much for your thoughts!