I got the position because I went and applied for it. They hired summer help. And so I was hired on and when they found out that I was in Veterinary School, they immediately put me into the Animal Care Department. And I worked actually with the great apes at Columbus. That was at the time that they had discovered tuberculosis in that collection. And so the Columbus Zoo Ape collection was under quarantine. And there were only a limited number of people that could go in and out of the facility that could work there and worked out well for me because the regular keepers would work Monday through Friday, and they were happy to have Saturday and Sunday off, which were the only two days I could work. So I worked Saturday and Sunday and it was an ideal job because no one was allowed in to enter out of the building behind the glass, the public viewed the animals through the glass.
