Oh, boy, animal handling was then still is an issue, but it’s been, of course, altered dramatically by newer technology. But in the early years it was a hands-on situation. For example, if we had to go and work on one of the hoofstock, say one of the antelopes, the only way we could do it was to go into that stall where the animal was, and get hold of it physically and wrestle it down, and do whatever we had to do with it. And that was fraught with stress for everybody, the animal was stressed beyond belief, and of course, the people. You’d tell one animal keeper, you grab the head or the horns, and you tell them another one, you try to get the front legs, and the other one, the hind legs, and one, two, three, go. And that would be kind of a way to get to the animal. The Lion Hose was another individual classic situation, the big cats were all behind the barred cages and there wasn’t any way to get to them other than with a long pole and a lariat on the end of it. In other words, we had a noose of the rope on the end, and the idea was to drop it over the animal’s head.
