And so, he and I spent a lot of time wandering around the countryside just cheek swabbing cats with odd patterns and phenotyping them and genotyping them. Any rate, so they look like a little serval ideally, that’s where I’m going with them. Long legs, square body, big ears. I… Read More
Have any at home?… Read More
So, I thought how the heck does this work?… Read More
So, I just got fascinated by the fact that it was happening. And so, that led me into getting some and playing with it and just playing with the genes of cat genes and trying to create, which in turn led me to meet a lady that was hybridizing servals… Read More
So, I just got up one morning, said, “Okay, I’m gonna just do some stock selection and see if I can’t,” and in the cat fancy unlike like the dog fancy, the International Cat Association, if you follow their guidelines and it’s very, I mean, there’s a whole ‘nother world… Read More
You talked about reproduction in animals, how did you get involved in the Serengeti cat?… Read More
What is it?… Read More
Is this a personal thing with you or how did that evolve?… Read More
Definitely a personal thing with me. I’ve always been interested in genetics and certainly in small populations and genetics, which led me to a lot of the work I did with the endangered species and studbooks and things. I’d always been interested in studbooks, I’d always been interested in domestic… Read More
Obviously you run the inner workings of it. It evolved, in a way, I guess it needed to, it wasn’t 100% what I might’ve envisioned at the time, but I might’ve been wrong, actually. I mean, I felt like after awhile we were getting too involved in what ought to… Read More
Recognized that in myself very early on. So, but can I argue that maybe it got too bureaucratic or it went to the wrong, I don’t know. For me, I’m at some level, an old time zoo director that believes in the park and the animals first and serving your… Read More
Do I feel sometimes they get too intrusive?… Read More
I think I was feeling some of that, but not enough to start raging or creating new organizations like some of my colleagues attempted to do either. Read More
Well, was I on some crusade?… Read More
No, but when the opportunity came along and I wasn’t on any other committee at that point in time, I said, “Sure, I’ll serve on the Ethics Committee. I’d be glad to do that and help write some…” We were reworking some of the ethics rules at that time and… Read More
With ACA, do you think, did ACA evolve into something that you had envisioned it?… Read More
Why did you choose to work on this committee?… Read More
Because they asked me to (laughs). I mean, I like to think of myself as an ethical person. And I think the Oregon, at that point when I was on it and a little bit before, the ethics of what you could do in a zoo were changing from the… Read More
What were some of your more frustrating times as leader of the Living Desert?… Read More
Well, I think the same frustration anybody feels in that kind of a job which is that there’s always more to do than you have money to do it, always. It’s endless. It never stops. The day it stops you’re probably not doing your job right. So, at some level,… Read More