“No way. That’s not ours! “It’s on a breeding loan from Cincinnati.” Now Ed was already, he wasn’t mean to me. He just, you know, Ed was Ed. And so I had to call the man and tell him his endangered goose got eaten by a cheetah. I had, I… Read More
He goes, “How’d he get eaten by a cheetah, Jack?” Like that, you know, in his firm voice. I said, (sighs) “You’re not gonna believe this. “Somebody did it, and it was their fault. “They’re gonna pay the price.” Trust me, they did. I didn’t fire them, but they paid… Read More
You know what the cheetah did to the goose, right?… Read More
Oh God. I a get things on my little, I only had two walkies. I was unit one, I had unit two, somebody else, I don’t know. Read More
I said, “What? The cereopsis goose?… Read More
This is probably the mess, one of the mess I ever got. They put the goose, she got bit by it. Read More
She took the goose, not knowing it’s cereopsis, just a goose, right?… Read More
She took it in a barrel and threw it over the cheetah pen. Read More
Well, the maintenance people tried to pull something on her. They put the cereopsis goose out there, you know, she was definitely afraid of birds and that, and she was assistant supervisor of the maintenance, doing the restrooms. Read More
The goose bit her in the calf, right?… Read More
She’d been told them, they knew not to do that, all right?… Read More
What is this guy doing?… Read More
You know, because I’m sorry to say that we had a cereopsis goose up here, which is, I think it was endangered at the time, maybe it still is now, I don’t know. And this lady worked in the maintenance got, was afraid of geese. Read More
They would bite her, you know?… Read More
Yes. At that time, Maruska and I were now are very good friends. Read More
At that time, he probably wondered, who is this guy up here in Columbus, Ohio?… Read More
Were you getting advice from any others zoo directors?… Read More
Yup. Read More
When you started here at Columbus?… Read More
A lot of guys in the zoo business, they might not tell you, I don’t, you know me, I’ll tell you. A lot of them they go, “Oh my God. “Don’t let anybody know I like the circus.” I don’t give a, whatever, anyway. Read More