Interview 3367 – Caption Index: 57
What do you think makes yours better than a lot of others?… Read More
What do you think makes yours better than a lot of others?… Read More
Well, you know, not only in those days, did we, you know, whether or not a lot of things that we simply didn’t know, right, ’cause the knowledge base, you know, in the database simply wasn’t there. But there were a lot of, a lot of the equipment and things… Read More
You never knew quite what the thing was going to do. And so, you know, my first, you know, quote unquote dart gun was that I picked up a Remington rolling block, 50-70 saddle carbine, an old, you know, an old military, you know, cavalry carbine, and made a, you… Read More
And then a couple people saw it, came through and saw it and they wanted one. So then I, I had a lathe in my basement in Omaha and, and so, cause I would, I’d been a gun, you know, kind of an amateur gunsmith. And cause it really started… Read More
But he had sense to hire you. Well, or bad sense (muttering). Actually, it turned out to be really great because we were a great training ground. And, and because I got to dabble in virtually everything in the whole zoo and, you know, and have a say in, and… Read More
Blow pipes, yeah. All those types of implements. And based on my experience with people in the business, they speak very highly of the product. Read More
And can you tell us, how did you decide to get into that phase of it?… Read More
What prompted you to do it?… Read More
And plus because the National Zoo had the resources to communicate. So our first, you know, our first kind of formal communications within zoo vet were because of Clint Gray. And when we started going to East Lansing to Michigan State, Clint helped sponsor a bit at that. And they… Read More
When you were at Columbus Zoo, the director there that had hired you, did he teach you anything, give you any lessons or was he there just too short a time?… Read More
He was there a very short period of time. And he, and he taught me to, (chuckling) he taught me to watch out for him because he, he was careless about animals. He nearly got us all eaten by, by very angry female lion with cubs one day, cause he… Read More
Well, in some cases, dog or cat, or you know, but in some cases, you know, with the odd species that were not related to domestic animals, you look at this and had no idea. And. Read More
Were you able, while you were a vet, we were able to change the care of animals at the Columbus Zoo while you were there?… Read More
Well, I think so. Yeah, we did a, we did a lot of, you know, we did a lot of things. I mean, it was advancing the, you know, I mentioned a while ago that the, you know, the, in the course of things, there are certain people that both… Read More
And that was, that was the extent of, in those days, you know, of our, you know our communications and then, and it really kind of remained that way until about 1968, when we actually broke off and formed the, I think 68, in the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians… Read More
You’ve got, you know, you’ve got, you’ve got to report back and you’re looking at it, saying well, you know, is this, you know, do I compare this to a cow?… Read More
Do I compare it to a horse?… Read More
Do I compare it to a dog or a cat?… Read More
I just, ran my finger around the rim and stuck it on my tongue. So, you know, the guy was a weightlifter, but he did a little ballet for me, told him, you know, he thought he could bend iron bars, that he was, you know, he could do anything,… Read More
How do zoo veterinarians communicate with each?… Read More