The very wealthy family has a huge breeding compounds all throughout Texas. Yes, there are hunting reserves in Texas. I don’t agree with canned hunting at all whatsoever. I’m not an anti-hunter, by the way, I’m a pro, I don’t hunt, but I’m not against hunting whatsoever. Hunters give more… Read More
Boone and Crockett does have their mounts, and how they judge Boone and Crockett. You don’t something? Go back into history books. Look in the 1920s, what Boone and Crockett did. The elk, the, the pronghorn antelope, the, not the bison necessarily, about four or five species were going into… Read More
No, but you know, I’ve learned that these AZA has done one heck of a job, but can’t we go and at least offer some stuff?… Read More
My understanding is by the way, the last few, the last few months that there were some AZA members at the ZAA meeting and they really were, they weren’t there just to boy spy and all that kind of stuff. But they were there to maybe see maybe how we… Read More
Anyway, so I hope in the future, the next two to four years that we can come to something, they can still be ZAA, we can still be AZA but I think we could combine it, maybe, if we can’t, then they will keep theirs, we’ll keep ours, but we… Read More
I know that in the ZAA, I’m not a frigging idiot, you know?… Read More
Yes, they do take some of their animals. They sell them to the public. I’m not no idiot. Not an idiot, it’s incorrect English, but still I’m a believer that we can work together. That’s all. And we are a member of, I am personally. And so our, by the… Read More
Do I agree with everything AZA, the AZA does?… Read More
It’s very simple what we’re doing. We’re doing what, Indy car racing did when these formed a, remember, they took Indi, the Indianapolis, Indy five, whatever Indy car racing. Read More
And they separated about 10 years ago. Guess what?… Read More
They’ve never gotten back. They’ve never gotten back. NASCAR has taken over a period, even though Bobby Ray Hall winning 500, he’s like my godson. So I’m not knocking it, I’m just saying, I wish they’d never separated. I think it’s bad that we can’t somehow, dear God, in heaven,… Read More
Yeah, what do think about that?… Read More
I’ll tell you what I think about it. I think a lot of them are good members. Do they have some ones that aren’t, you’re darn right they do. That’s up to the ZAA to decide what they want to do, but there’s a gene pool of animals. Read More
We’re just, you know what we’re doing?… Read More
You know, I’ll be out there to help you. You know, I’ll do what I can do. Just tell you what we did in Columbus. I don’t expect you to do like Columbus ’cause we’re the 14th largest zoo in the country and you’re, I don’t know, number 225, but… Read More
Hopefully with this sustainability thing, we’ll work together, ’cause they’ll come back and kick us in a button about 50 years from now, because he know about that, and I know as far as the SSPs, gene pools, and everything else like that, but we better darn well start working… Read More
The Zoo Association of America. Read More
Maybe North Dakota, okay, let’s go there. I go up and say hello to him. “God can’t believe you came over to me.” I go, “Why? Why you can’t believe I came over to you?” “because we don’t have a very big zoo. “We just got accredited. “We’re not very… Read More
That could you come and help us?… Read More
You only do this and that, you’re not in SSP, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I’ve seen it. I felt it okay?… Read More