It’s everybody’s job. It’s the keeper’s job, it’s the toilet cleaners job, it’s everybody’s job. And they have to feel like that, and I certainly had certain staff members who would say to me, that’s not my job. And I’d go, well, yeah, it is. And if you don’t change… Read More
What made you a good director?… Read More
I don’t know if I was one (laughs). That’s the first question (laughs). Well, they say time is currency of greatness. You have obviously been there a significant amount of time. So, you must’ve been doing something correct. Read More
When I tried to explain that to my board, a few of ’em from the Midwest went, “Well, yeah, but there’s no snow.” I said, “They’re not gonna care, it’s nighttime.” And just those kind of events put us on the map far more than whether we brought in a… Read More
How would you say fundraising has or hasn’t changed in a director’s involvement?… Read More
I don’t think it’ll ever change. I think when it come to the big funds, if you really wanna get the job done and particularly if you’re really trying to create a long-term relationship with a donor, the director has got to be there. I mean, it may not neither… Read More
Run for the hill, she’s on the grounds (laughs).” ‘Cause I’d get angry when I’d find the tennis ball, all the torn up boxes in the exhibits and so I’d go back in my hole, again. Read More
What would you say were some of the more successful strategies for getting the community to the zoo that really worked?… Read More
Actually, probably, rehab. In other words, taking in local wildlife because that was a community service that made people feel so good that we did it, that you couldn’t have paid for the positive PR on that. I think because we were a small community and didn’t have initially a… Read More
Yeah, yeah. I have a breeding program from home, sure. Many directors have said that they do rounds. Read More
How involved were you in the day-to-day activities, hands-on when you became director and were doing it, did you do rounds on a regular basis?… Read More
Not the last 15 years I was there. Terry did rounds, my assistant director. She was hands-on, expected her to be hands-on, but I did not. The last 15 years I was there, I pretty much was 100% the head development person. I didn’t have even a senior development person. Read More
And what does the Serengeti cat look like?… Read More
In ideal circumstances, which it doesn’t quite get there yet, it looks like a miniature serval. It’s a very leggy cat, but it’s domestic cat size as opposed to serval size. It has big ears, spots. It’s coat color hasn’t been achievable yet in the sense of the yellow and… Read More
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