I didn’t know a whole lot about zoo work, and the snow leopard was the most expensive animal in the zoo. At that time, it cost $3,500. More than an elephant. Three times as much as an elephant, as a matter of fact. So I packed up a little kit of instruments and drugs and went out there and drove in the service road, and out on the main road and pulled up in front of the cat house, and the animal was inside. So I went inside. Well, since it was such a rare animal, not only was I zoo director there, the head keeper, several curators, but most of the zoo board was there and the president too. They all wanted to see me work on this animal.
