Yeah, and we had a lion that one of the Spanish lion tamers used to put his head in the mouth at the end of the thing, had pyometra, which was an infection in the uterus, and so we did surgery on that, and that uterus was just terrible. I mean it was like sewing up a wet Graham cracker, every time you’d try to put a suture in it, the tissue just, so he had to very carefully get back to where we could find some viable tissue, that cat did well, and that guy thought we were all right. And some, later on we had, I was called up, Dick Houck, who was the veterinarian there used to get us tickets, you know, for the staff, because that was the only way, I didn’t charge or anything for them, so they would pay us by, you know, giving me 20 tickets, so I’d take the staff and few of the people, and we’d go to to the zoo and then, I mean go to the circus, until the Smithsonian General Council found out, “Well you can’t do that. You can’t, that’s a payback thing.” So then we had to buy the tickets to go, but still Dick, we get it there, and so I got, as it was closing down, we’re all getting ready to leave, I got a page, it says, “Dr. Bush come back”, you know, they knew I was there, and here were his two of his white cats laid flat out in their cages. And so I went to look at ’em, you touch ’em and they kind of get up and respond like they weren’t totally asleep. And I said, “Gee, you know, this looks like somebody giving ’em Rompun or xylazine, because they were totally flat out.” So we took some blood samples, and a couple of ’em urinated, so I collected some urine, and we sent ’em out for tox screen, first the blood, nothing came back. And so, but then I sent the urine out, and it was loaded with Xylazine. So somebody in the staff at Ringling Brothers had, it was suspected that somebody had slipped some xylazine to them, some disgruntled person, which I don’t think we ever found out, but the cats recovered after about three days.
