Well … I think, you know, as certain as the education, I went through two phases at the National Zoo, where the keepers were all initially some of the lowest paid because the National Zoo used to be a city zoo, before it became a federal zoo, so we got a lot of people that hadn’t finished high school, both African Americans and others, and so we had a group in there that didn’t have much of dedication, it was the job, we had some that were good, like, you know, the education doesn’t mean that, and then it’s kind of evolved to where we had people in high school, then they said, well you have to have college degrees and masters, and then some of the people got so full of themselves, that they would challenge you not in a way that would be constructive to you know, discussion, but just outright challenges or coming out with a statement like, you’re not gonna do this and that, so that was kind of a thing that you had to settle out, and get squished right away. And I think that may be coming out more, because I think maybe some of the veterinarians aren’t ready to tackle that, they wanna be everybody’s friend, and I’ve, in Adelaide, I had one veterinarian that was just this nicest gal, and she was just a disaster, because I finally had to sit down, and talk to her. I said, “You have already been voted the most popular veterinarian in this department. You don’t have to do that anymore. But you know, really things go better when you’re not here, because you make all these promises, and tell people and then don’t do any of the follow up, or do any of the other thing, and you say whatever the keepers wanna hear, and that just is disastrous for us, when we come by and make another diagnosis, you know, that may involve more manipulation, or something that the keeper didn’t wanna hear, and so she’d tell ’em whatever the keeper wanted to hear. So I’m hoping that’s not a tendency that you know, you have to get this rapport, that they respect your medical things, and that you don’t cave into somebody that thinks they know more than you do.
