My first reaction was that here was a special little kid that needed special care, and physically in Chicago the Children’s Hospital is just a, maybe a 10-minute drive from where Lincoln Park Zoo is on the near north side of Chicago. And so I just scooped up the animal, put it in a blanket, put it in the car, and dashed over to Children’s Hospital. And said, “I’ve got a baby here that needs some help.” Well, the initial response was a total turnoff because by sheer coincidence, the week before this accident happened, a dog had been hit on the expressway near county hospital in Chicago. And the dog was brought in and one of the orthopedic surgeons at county worked on it, put it together, and helped it. And the media played both ways. On the one hand, they said, “Oh, wasn’t that a nice thing to do?” On the other hand, they said, “But there are people in Chicago with broken bones “who can’t get into the hospital, “and here they take time to fix this dog up.” Well, the people at children’s wondered, well, what’s gonna be the reaction if they try to help an animal. And I prevailed, and they did indeed agree to take care of it. And the neurosurgeon, a Dr. Tony Raimondi was there at the time.
