Starting out, it was essentially animal husbandry, cleaning cages we had, and at, at the time, we, we knew more about, we knew less about contracepting big cats than, than we did about, you know, having them in a situation where, where you could get breeding. And so a lot of animals came through the animal nursery. And I think that first year we had something like something over 20 big cats, lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, mountain lions. We had hyenas. These all came through the nursery. And this was a, a Marlon Perkins thing that, you know, establishing a nursery with dedicated keepers just to take care of newborn big cats, other primates apes. And so when they outgrew the nursery, they lived in the children’s zoo. So working with lions and tigers and leopards, the size of house cats was one of the big things that keepers did. And so coming from a family that were dedicated dog people, my exposure to 10 pound fills all was started with leopards and lions and tigers.
