When you’re 6 or 7 years old, milking cows. By the way, it sounds like I’m going back to the 1800s, but, I walked down the gravel road at eight years, six, I’m sorry, eight years old. Walked down the road over a mile by myself, off our farm to go down, we didn’t have, we had the horses and pigs, stuff like that. Walked down there and helped Ott make, milk those three cows, all he had, and make cottage cheese in a sock. And his grinding meal was run by a water wheel in the back. It’s now a national landmark, this mill. So that’s how I really got started in the animals, obviously. And then when I was 11 years old, I went to work for a veterinarian named Dr. Roy Roberts, at the Knoxville Animal Clinic.
