And now that I hadn’t done anything to advance my zoo career, I didn’t even make the final cut on either of those. So recognized that I needed to do something a little more academically rigorous to increase my chances in applying for other zoo positions. So around that time I got an offer from one of my small animal professors at vet school who had gone on and was running a small animal referral, an emergency hospital up in New York, and they were gonna have interns. And so he offered me a small animal internship. And so I took that move with my wife up to New York, an hour outta New York City and did a small animal internship. And then with that experience, my other veterinary experience and my track record at St. Louis, I was hired on as a resident. I, I got the residency at the St.
