Yes it was. He didn’t wanna have anything to do with any of that. He knew it had to happen, but he didn’t wanna do it. And so, and he wanted to punish me and take me away from all the animal responsibilities. It’s like, well, I wanted to be the zoo person. I needed to learn and I needed to grow in the profession. And so I took the job as an assistant that took me away from the animals for those three years. Now in 1983, you go to the Jersey Zoo to study.
