Now I looked him straight in the eye and said, every gorilla I’ve ever hauled has been in a crate just like that. I just didn’t tell him it was the first time in my whole life I’d ever transported a gorilla. Didn’t lie. We’d put the tarp back down,… Read More
Buy a first class ticket so you were setting up in first class. Wait til the planes off the ground, unzip the bag. Read More
And I had managed, you know, didn’t get thrown in jail for it, to get them to, ASPCA outside of Kennedy. And then the next morning, you know, cause they came in at like 3:30 in the morning. The next morning why, APHIS came over and you know, there was… Read More
I mean, off of the bottom, cleaned up the bottom, hosed out the, hosed the grill off, hosed the crate off, you know, got everything all cleaned up, walk the up, picked it up, walk the gorilla back onto the bottom, turned it back over and screwed the bottoms down. Read More
And the pilot came on board and we had them already loaded. And the pilot came on board and said, I want to see them. I said, well, they’re all strapped down. They’re all, you know, they’re all quiet, they’re all asleep. And he said, no, I want to see… Read More
Any other, any other names for those?… Read More
And if I’d have just shut up and stuck to the scientific name, we’d have been all right. But foolishly, I said, well, I know some people call them Barbary sheep. Well, that was a dumb thing to do because they just had a big scabies scare in Canada with… Read More
And then we had to pull him out of the barrel, gripping with sheep dip, put him back in his crate, jump in the thing, because if we didn’t get to the border before they closed, then we’d have to spend the weekend in Buffalo. And so they, we got… Read More
I mean, at some, some difficulty getting them to ASPCA to clear them. This crazy Frenchman that had shipped them into the huts had put them in two by two, you know, tropical hardwood crates. They were two by two frames with storm screen, heavy storm screen over them, a… Read More
You know, it was kind of not too far out of the way, and we’re going to go through Buffalo, New York. So we picked up the aoudad at midnight in the parking lot of the Cleveland Zoo. Went on up. I’d never been to Buffalo. I’d never met Clayton. Read More
And I was doing pretty good until some Canadian border guy said, aoudad, I had scientific name. I don’t know what that is. Read More
Because they had people showing up in Riverbank, South Carolina with Royal Zoo memberships, getting in reciprocal, getting in free. And there were actually two websites, one of which the town knew about that was selling Royal Zoo memberships and another, which the town didn’t know about, that looked the… Read More
So I treated a lot of circus animals, worked on, you know, the, the Clauser bears and Willie Kugler’s chimps and Kirby chimps, and even did some work with Gunther Gable Williams, a lot of his animals, but I also did a fair amount of work in transporting animals, both… Read More
Could you stop by and pick it up and bring it with you?… Read More
And I said, sure, why not?… Read More
And when we got, when we got a computer system backed up and running, so we could actually, and started taking zip codes again, we found out that an awful lot of those people that were buying that membership actually lived in Omaha. And the Royals Zoo, you know, which… Read More
And we, all we could do is get our teeth for a year. And yeah, this is a town that is say 150,000, 150 people in the whole town. You know, you put the whole zoo in this room and they skinned us alive. The guy also skinned the town… Read More
I got a call from Riverbanks that said, where is this Royal Zoo?… Read More
No. (laughs) Sorry about that. One other question. (laughs) And then if there’s anything we haven’t covered, you’ll say something. No, I think we’ve (mumbles). What was your, you talked about relationships and so forth. Read More
What was your relationship to the Royal Zoo?… Read More