We had … At the Baltimore Zoo, there was this black leopard that was having seizures, and so they got it into a crate, and brought it down into the animal holding area, so I’m sitting down there, and here is a crate with an opening about this big, with a leopard that’s snarling, you know, at you, and there’s no way to get a dart gun or anything in there. And so finally I remembered back, well, your dissociative is, anesthetics are effective orally. So I loaded up a syringe with Serilin, and kind of looked in there, and he came up and squirted right in his mouth, and went right down, and so I was dragging him out and looking at him, and so I couldn’t find much, and I was gonna, I figured, well, we better do a spinal tap to see if I can find anything in the spinal fluid to help us with the diagnostic of why the animal’s having seizures. And I said, well, they have a neurology department just right up in the ninth floor of the building I was in. I said, I called up there, and I said, well, I said, “You know, this is Dr. Bush. I’m a veterinary down there in comparative medicine, and I’ve got a black panther down here that I need some help” or not, I didn’t, I said, “This is Dr. Bush, I’m downstairs. I’ve got a black panther that I need some help with a spinal tap on, can somebody come down?” So the Head of the department came down thinking that I had a militant Afro-American down there, and he was gonna be working on that, so when he was working on the black leopard, and he continues to tell the story, we were, I just had dinner with him about two weeks ago, and we laughed at that story, which was over 30-years-old.
