Not specifically with the government, we were asked to, you know, freedom of information, and they were trying to hammer me one time on the care of the giant panda, and we’re doing some stuff, and what I learned there is that the unfortunate thing with the freedom of information, it didn’t give me the opportunity on my record. Like if I went down and saw the giant panda and I said, “Okay, today the animal didn’t eat well, it vomited a little bit in the morning, but it looks active and alert, I maybe should be considering, you know, worming them at, considering worming this, we may consider that it’s had some exposure to toxic plant.” You can’t subject it, because they do that and they say, “Well here, they should have wormed it. They said they should have, you know”, and it just comes back and hammers you, and to me that’s that kind of limits ’cause you know, two or three weeks later if I come back and read, if I haven’t remembered that I’d, oh yeah, that was something and I should have, but you’re very careful now of what, or you should be, if you’re in a place, where the freedom of information is on what you write down, because they’re gonna come back and just kill you. And that I think is a detriment. That’s kind of the exposure I’ve had to that type, ’cause I had some things that, well, like in Front Royal, I tried to do preventative medicine, but sometimes in a herd situation, you don’t get around every Pere David deer in a 100-acre-thing and do a TB test every year, or you don’t get a clostridium vaccine in it, but I had that down as my protocol for preventive medicine on there, but I would do it opportunistically, if I had to anesthetize it, do a hoof trim, or if we’d ran it through the shoots, of course we did all that. So they started raking me over the cold, well you’re not doing preventive medicine, because you’re not doing this every year. So then we had to rewrite our preventive medicine and saying, “If it’s opportunistically we will do this”, rather than setting out some very strict guidelines, because they were just, you know, shoving it down your face, and they’d go look the right, “Well, you haven’t done this and this, you haven’t done this”, and you know, just trying to build cases, and spend time fighting that type of bull. You’ve been in a large zoo that had the ability to do wildlife conservation, both from a management and medical standpoint.
