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I’m Dr. Thomas P. Meehan, and I was born on March 26th, 1952 in St. Louis. Read More
I’m Dr. Thomas P. Meehan, and I was born on March 26th, 1952 in St. Louis. Read More
And in the middle of Chira, in the middle of the Giza Zoo is the most beautiful small botanic garden where all the structures are actually there, there are actually made outta tiny little stones. It, so all the pathways are, are just this gorgeous sort of stonery, it’s quite… Read More
Thank you David. Amazing. Alright. All. Read More
And so I turn up one afternoon with equipment ready to immobilize the, we were gonna start with the male lines of two or three male lines with claws, you know, like this. And, and in front of the cage was, oh, I’ve got a ro 10 rows of seats. Read More
It was tricky ’cause we had to certainly didn’t wanna put a giraffe on the ground today, anesthetizing. It’s still risky, but it’s not, you know, the techniques are much better now, we did not want to lay a giraffe flat out under those. So, so, so it was a… Read More
And while I was there, you know, there were a number of other things that really needed to be done and, and helped because they’d had so many complaints, mostly by tourists, by European tourists going to Cairo, going to the zoo. Simply they were told there’s a zoo in… Read More
Is that No, we, we you are okay. You’re okay. But that, yeah. But you indicated that Tyro Zoo Yes. Having Gone there was a unique experience. Yes, that’s, that’s right. Well, yeah, I, I, my connection and the way I joined the Brook was because I got a, a… Read More
And so I, I dunno how the lady got hold of it, but how got got to know, but called me one, I said sort of cold January morning, would I, would I go to, would I go to Cairo and trim the graf’s toenails?… Read More
Yeah. Well, my early introduction to the Brook, the way I became associated with, with the brook, do I, do you want me to explain what the brook is?… Read More
But yeah, the fact that it was in Windsor Great Park attracted, as you can imagine, what the media made of that one and what the cartoonists made of that one. My last question is if you would relate, you indicated a unique experience at the Cairo Zoo with the… Read More
And somebody from this circus called me one day and said, we’ve lost an elephant and we think it’s somewhere in wind in the Great Park, you know, when we find it, can we, will you please help us immobilize it and get it back to where it belongs. Anyway,… Read More
Oh, winter, yeah. Well, a lot of, there were, you know, we, we course we had our own escapes. I, we don’t, we did have, I’m trying to think, we did have one at London, I think it, I can’t remember what, I think it may have been a wolf… Read More
And I, and I remember having to go back to Jane on several occasions and say, Jane, you are sending me pickled, formalized bits of animal. It’s illegal for one thing and also this animal has probably been dead for a month and I am not gonna be able to… Read More
Were you not involved with an escaped elephant?… Read More
’cause what would happen, she’d, you know, in her wandering, she’d come across a dead chimp, usually heavily decomposed and would carve out little bits from it and send them to, to me in the, in the, obviously as part of the path lab under the veterinary department with, with… Read More
Fortunately I had a very, very calm senior technician, head technician at the time who was used to all sorts of animal emergencies. I, you you can, I, you know, and he’d been there 20 years plus didn’t bat an eyelid, but, but obviously said, well, we’re gonna have to… Read More
Thank goodness that, you know, there’s a law about it right now, you know, and, and comes up to the front door with a, this perfectly calm big male lion saying, could, could I just have its claws cut trimmed?… Read More
Oh yeah, yeah. Well, yes, Elton John, you know, who’s obviously well known to so many people now. He was not very well known at the time when I was running the, the veterinary department in London. The, and we had the, the veterinary hospital used to see, we, I… Read More
And so we, we fairly sort of regular attendances from Elton John with parrots before, long before he became as famous as, as he is now. And oh, other sort of slightly alarming occasions. I remember one, one of my technicians came and saying, there’s a lion in that taxi… Read More
Paul’s. And, and she was a big fan of the choir, the pickety of the choir, you know, the choir boy group. So we saw quite a lot of both the queen mother and, and the queen on most, mostly on formal occasions when someone was being buried. You know,… Read More