Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 51
Was it best practice at the time?… Read More
Was it best practice at the time?… Read More
You have used the phrase, in a competitive world, look for every opportunity to build your experience and showcase it pro proactively to a prospective employer. What did you mean?… Read More
Yeah, no, that, that comes back to mum with the 14-year-old daughter. And, and I think all of us in the zoo world, and, and I found, particularly in the veterinary world, talking to my own sort of veterinary colleagues or folks who qualify with me, it’s much the same. Read More
So you have to, you know, you think, ah, well if I, if this was a cow at 600 pounds, what would I, what would I do with that?… Read More
Let’s, let’s give it a minimal dose and see, see what happens. And it just happens. Muskox, actually, I would rather sensitive oversensitive to these drugs. So the first, so I thought, I’m gonna have to give this animal maybe two or more darts to make sure I’m not killing… Read More
So I mean, in, for example, I remember we had a, a particularly ferocious muskox bull. We had a little group of muskox and, and one, I remember one day when the keepers came running to me to say, the muskox bull has broken out through the roof of his… Read More
So what do you do?… Read More
Well, there was, there’d been a fair amount of work for some years by a guy called Tony Harthorne in South Africa. ’cause obviously managing, you know, managing those parks required that sort of knowledge. But the drugs were fairly, the drugs at the time were not particularly effective. And,… Read More
Was it all trial and error?… Read More
Very new, yeah. Read More
How, what prepared you to do this, if anything?… Read More
So tranquilizing was still a pretty new science when you were there?… Read More
Oh, absolutely. Fresh outta school. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely. How did You start coping with, they’re not cows, how did you start coping with some of these unique illnesses? Yeah, or, Well, I had What did you refer with?… Read More
Because, because I’d got this degree in zoology halfway through the veterinary course, I, I actually was eligible for Fellowship, scientific Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, which I immediately joined. And also I think, you know, through my teens, my interest was very much in Hoofstock. Still is,… Read More
You, you simply drew on what little experience?… Read More
And fortunately, not too much error over those years. Lot of trial. Now many of these species are brand new to you. Read More
There were one or two publications you mentioned. We were talking earlier about Lee Crandall, Murray Fowler, but they were the only thing, there was nothing like the sort of specialist veterinary care that there is today. And so we had, we had to wing it and because it was… Read More
Ba basically it was managing, it was much more than just veterinary. It was managing the entire collection. So here was this 24-year-old coming straight out of VE college into, you know, into a situation where almost immediately I had to manage, I mean, there were what they call overseers. Read More
What were your responsibilities?… Read More
The only vet, but I was the fact previously, and it was still the case at the time, most zoos were reliant on local veterinary practices, you know, who were agricultural or mixed small animal agricultural. And London had had a full-time clinician and a full-time pathologist for quite some… Read More