Your exotics. Well Trudie Jerkins who I met in 1961 when she came to St. Louis for a zoo conference, I met her there and I did import animals from her. Actually, she did the importing but shipped ’em from Florida. She had someone she worked with, Ralph Curtis, at that time worked in conjunction with her. We’d pick the animals up at the Miami airport and then ship ’em back to zoos or the pet shops that were dealing with exotic animals at the time. That was after my tropical fish business was pretty established and I began getting kinda adventurous by going into the more exotic animals. I didn’t sell a lotta monkeys because it didn’t take me long to find out that you have to really find the right customer that deserved having and given the right care. And I ultimately came to the conclusion that they weren’t really suitable as pets.
