Dr. Merrill’s first comment was my God. That’s the first kid I’ve ever had that could grab the forceps from his umbilical cord with his feet. So we had a lot of fun. We worked closely with the local medical community, and I can’t remember an instance when I ever had one of them say no from cardiologists. We did a lot of dental work, had oral surgeons. In fact, we had an oral surgeon that was on our board and he’d loved to come over and help us with dental things because as a practicing veterinarian, you aren’t taught that much about doing root canals and some of the more intricate procedures that should be done on some of these valuable zoo animals. So at times you’d lean on various experts that. My pride never gotten a way of asking for help.
