Well, at that time, the zoo was a municipal zoo, very small budget, we talked about the superintendent so forth. And the zoological society was minimally active. When I first started working at the zoo, Hank Spencer very quickly said, “I want you to be a consultant.” And literally that’s… Read More
Well, first of all, the new zoo is run by this zoological society, we didn’t do that when I was a member of the presidency and so it’s become a business. And then many zoos in the United States and other places in the world, zoos have become big business,… Read More
Where are you a reluctant president?… Read More
Not really. I was willing to accept the challenge. I guess one of the things that I have done throughout my career that hopefully has been beneficial is I have allied myself or allied myself with the industry. I didn’t come in just as a veterinarian, I came in as… Read More
How did they book into that job?… Read More
And what were the goals or what were you trying to move forward as though having a different hat on?… Read More
What are the most important ones?… Read More
Well, there are many different kinds of things that have impacted veterinary medicine in general and human medicine. I think one of the more important things, as far as veterinary medicine is the adaption or adaptation of procedures or technologies that have been developed for human medicine for animal care. Read More
And I think that zoo directors, for instance, have to be smart enough to surround themselves with people who can do these various things, and then have sufficient staff meetings and time for accounting of their discharges for good delegation and lack of micromanagement, allowing people to do their thing,… Read More
You were president of the Sacramento Zoo Society, ’78, ’79, couple of questions, one, were you actively still doing veterinary medicine then for them?… Read More
Have your clinics and things, have they been instrumental in helping them move in a certain direction or if you wanted to try and move it in a certain direction?… Read More
Well, I don’t think that I have tried to move in a certain direction as far as evolution of zoo animal care, I think that more specifically a combination of newer technologies, newer techniques, and not only in veterinary medicine, but also in zoo keeping in general, we learned more… Read More
You’re involved with a lot of organizations, what is their significance to the development of veterinary care?… Read More
How did you juggle being a professor with your zoo work and other research projects?… Read More
Well, I was able to utilize my position in the university for the benefit of zoo animals. And I was given the privilege of doing that. In other words, it was sanctioned, authorized by the university for me to spend that time. I didn’t have any specific percentage of time… Read More
I had accrued vacation time, but I was always traveling and was able to see the things that I wanted to see or take my family with me, or at least certainly my wife. And so I didn’t need to take a vacation, I’ve been in over 50 countries in… Read More
Now, what would you say about has the animal care and preventative medicine changed during your time, this evolution, nationally and internationally?… Read More
I could call her, in fact, I got a call from her one time when I was still in practice. And my secretary said, “Somebody by the name of Betty White called you.” And he said, “Is that the Betty White?” Yeah, she has called me and I called her. Read More
So you also have known Zsa Zsa Gabor, was that in a professional way?… Read More
That was in a professional way. She had a burro, a burro that she wanted to castrate, and we were in an equine practice, and so I was elected to go castrate this burro. And when I got to her, she answered the door and she was in a house… Read More