On one particular film, I was asked to take four cattle steers up to Mojave Desert and anesthetize them in certain places on the desert to appear well eventually to be dead animals all over the place from the drought, or from a disease that was going through the area. And so I would immobilize and anesthetize a steer and put it in this place. And then the cameraman would take pictures from different points of view, seeing maybe two or three animals down at the most, and when it came out in the movie, this was called “The Rainmaker,” the original Burt Lancaster, “The Rainmaker,” and there were dead cattle all over the desert from four animals. So again, I found out that the way some of those animals are treated is the result of having to spend a lot of hours recovering an animal from anesthesia on the desert when they started to bloat and other things that can occur when it’s too hot and everything else goes along with it, but we were there to try and… We didn’t lose any animals during that period of time.
