You know, always look at them sideways. And we got them all into the routine. The idea of working in with baboons these days would probably, you know, keepers would, would, you know, fall down in fear, the idea. ’cause they, they, they’re, they don’t know how to do it. Read More
And that dealing with a lot of animals, you know, you can look at the zoo profession and the range of species that keepers routinely work in with now compared to what we used to work in with. And it varied from zoo to zoo. I remember when I was… Read More
When an actual fact to those of us who have grown up in that climate where manual restraint, where, where in the days where you might not have trusted the vet to knock it out, because, you know, there wasn’t a lot of zoo vets around with real experience. And… Read More
I mean, we’ve, we’ve, you know, touched on the fact that, you know, a keeper’s ability or lack of ability to use manual restraint, you know, either with a net or, you know, even just hand grabbing, you know, certain animals, you know, I’m certainly not advocating physically restraining adult… Read More
Why do you feel there was this loss of practical skills for zookeepers?… Read More
Should, should I be this surprised that no one has ever taught about death?… Read More
In, in, we’ve talked about training a bit, and you’ve indicated that it was very important that you felt there was a loss of practical skills. Read More
And ’cause to my, I mean, I should have realized this, but you know, I was just really surprised that no one was talking about it. But then when I thought about it, well, you know, if zoos aren’t prepared, they’re barely able prepared to talk about, you know, euthanasia… Read More
Doug, you know, we’ve heard about this death course, so can you provide the information?… Read More
Whatever, if an animal is getting old or getting sick, you know, how do you, how do you be part of that, that decision making process as to whether the animal should be euthanized on, on health grounds or welfare grants. And so it was actually to get people to… Read More
Should you leave it? Should you call the vet?… Read More
Should you call the boss?… Read More
What do you do? You know, how, how should you approach it?… Read More
You know, should you touch it? Should you bag it up?… Read More
No, it’s not. But I don’t, I I’m not understanding this fall into bit, so I need to take a couple of days off or whatever. ’cause it’s, you know, this is, this is, then I think you’re in the wrong job, you know, because dealing with animal death is… Read More
And so the idea was to cover the, the subject in, in all its forms. You know, you come in in the morning and you find an animal dead in the enclosure. Read More
And the this is part of it. Is it a nice part of it?… Read More
You’re either one or the other. And you should be, you should be the former. Read More
But this idea that, oh, you know, in tears about the death of an animal and whatnot, and this sounds horribly harsh, but it’s like, are you a profession?… Read More
I mean, I’ve said this previ, are you a professional animal keeper or are you a pet keeper?… Read More