Actually, probably, rehab. In other words, taking in local wildlife because that was a community service that made people feel so good that we did it, that you couldn’t have paid for the positive PR on that. I think because we were a small community and didn’t have initially a… Read More
Yeah, yeah. I have a breeding program from home, sure. Many directors have said that they do rounds. Read More
How involved were you in the day-to-day activities, hands-on when you became director and were doing it, did you do rounds on a regular basis?… Read More
Not the last 15 years I was there. Terry did rounds, my assistant director. She was hands-on, expected her to be hands-on, but I did not. The last 15 years I was there, I pretty much was 100% the head development person. I didn’t have even a senior development person. Read More
And what does the Serengeti cat look like?… Read More
In ideal circumstances, which it doesn’t quite get there yet, it looks like a miniature serval. It’s a very leggy cat, but it’s domestic cat size as opposed to serval size. It has big ears, spots. It’s coat color hasn’t been achievable yet in the sense of the yellow and… Read More
And so, he and I spent a lot of time wandering around the countryside just cheek swabbing cats with odd patterns and phenotyping them and genotyping them. Any rate, so they look like a little serval ideally, that’s where I’m going with them. Long legs, square body, big ears. I… Read More
Have any at home?… Read More
So, I thought how the heck does this work?… Read More
So, I just got fascinated by the fact that it was happening. And so, that led me into getting some and playing with it and just playing with the genes of cat genes and trying to create, which in turn led me to meet a lady that was hybridizing servals… Read More
So, I just got up one morning, said, “Okay, I’m gonna just do some stock selection and see if I can’t,” and in the cat fancy unlike like the dog fancy, the International Cat Association, if you follow their guidelines and it’s very, I mean, there’s a whole ‘nother world… Read More
You talked about reproduction in animals, how did you get involved in the Serengeti cat?… Read More
What is it?… Read More
Is this a personal thing with you or how did that evolve?… Read More
Definitely a personal thing with me. I’ve always been interested in genetics and certainly in small populations and genetics, which led me to a lot of the work I did with the endangered species and studbooks and things. I’d always been interested in studbooks, I’d always been interested in domestic… Read More
Obviously you run the inner workings of it. It evolved, in a way, I guess it needed to, it wasn’t 100% what I might’ve envisioned at the time, but I might’ve been wrong, actually. I mean, I felt like after awhile we were getting too involved in what ought to… Read More
Recognized that in myself very early on. So, but can I argue that maybe it got too bureaucratic or it went to the wrong, I don’t know. For me, I’m at some level, an old time zoo director that believes in the park and the animals first and serving your… Read More
Do I feel sometimes they get too intrusive?… Read More
I think I was feeling some of that, but not enough to start raging or creating new organizations like some of my colleagues attempted to do either. Read More
Well, was I on some crusade?… Read More