Clearly spending had to be brought under control. So I got with the business manager and we went over the budget, and based on my experience up to that point, I knew… There was clear we had two issues. We had a bloated staff, and our food budget was off the scale high. Mehrtens, for example, did not believe in feeding any of the ZuPreem or any of the scientifically based diets. He fed all the carnivores raw horse meat, which was creating its own problems. So I set about redoing all the diets, and I, you know, 10 years later, I thought back about that and said, you know, that was really stupid because had the animals, some of the animals died, I would have been clearly responsible because I didn’t know what the hell they ate. I mean, well, I did by then.
