No, it shouldn’t be a different discipline to utilize or be involved with different animals. In fact, on one occasion, I flew to Southern California to do a major surgery on an elephant, and we finished up quite rapidly. I was able to fly back to the university that same afternoon and did a hernia operation in a parakeet. Other than the size of the tools and this sort of thing, it was not difficult at all. You just learn to deal with it, whether it’s a hummingbird or an elephant, the principles are the same, and if you’ve got the right attitude, and it is an attitude and situation. In fact, when we were visiting with Tommy and he talked about the difference in people would say, “I don’t wanna think about that animal.” And I got that all the time.
