I was 101% focused on the animal collection. So now I’m the acting director, and still I’m focused on the animal collection. And Mehrtens unfortunately decided that he was not gonna go quietly, and he began attacking the Zoo Commission mostly and then me for his undoing. And remember, he and I had actually gotten along relatively well, which is amazing when you think about it, but now he turned on me pretty pretty viciously. So the zoo, even though he was gone, the controversy surrounding his termination and the future of the zoo was still front page news. So this went on for about a month, I guess. And the Zoo Commission finally, I guess, realized that this 26-year-old kid wasn’t gonna solve all of this. So they contacted the AAZPA and Bob Wagner, the executive director, and asked for advice, and Bob gave them some great advice.
