Yeah, we didn’t have any night staff, so we had quite a few menagerie at our house at a period of time, we had quite a few red pandas that my wife raised, we had some maned wolves that my wife took care of, mutt jacks, Bactrian camel calves, wildebeest calves, always seemed to have something, golden lion tamarin, that was, you know, in a bad situation, or some animal that needed intensive care, and since my wife was a veterinary technician, that I’d worked with, that was just like an extension of that. And the sidelight to that was my son telling his show and tell that he had all these animals at the house and the teachers would say, “Now Benjamin, it’s not nice to tell these fibs, you’ve gotta learn to tell”, and he would come home just crushed, and so we got a Polaroid and took pictures of him with the wolves and the camels and stuff, and that shut up the teacher. Was there ever a time when you were working with it, you mentioned, hey, a giraffe almost fell on me, but — Oh well it did fall on you, in the zoo, or again in the field, where you felt “My life’s in danger here.” No, because it happened too fast. It seems that things kind of happened too fast, afterwards you realized, “Hey, that could’ve gone really bad.” Because most things happen so fast when you have to just react. You don’t sit there and say, “Oh yeah, well the lion’s getting close to me now with its mouth open and it’s accelerating, I think I better, you know, do something.” It’s more relaxed, and then you’re sitting down going, “What just happened?” You know, thinking well, I won’t let that happen again. Now you’ve traveled around, seen a lot of zoos nationally, internationally.
