So don’t tell me it’s comparing to anesthetizing the …” And so I would just almost get cataleptic about doing it, and finally I said, “It’s gotta be done.” I said, “Who else do you want anesthetizing it with you?” And I said, “You’ve gotta do it.” So went ahead… Read More
Or, what kind of freedom did you have to be the doctor?… Read More
You know, their gut is so specialized for handling bamboo and they probably have a flora in there that is attuned to bamboo. And if we kill that flora with chloromycetin, I think we’re gonna have a heck of a lot more problems.” Ted, and the lights came in and… Read More
What kind of pressures did you feel, or did you feel that you were under, and how was the relationship with the people who were bringing the panda?… Read More
Who was Director of the zoo department?… Read More
Oh yeah. I was working seven days a week. Read More
Ted Reed. Ted Reed was a veterinarian, and Ted was an interesting person. He kept saying veterinary medicine has passed him by, but as he became a Director, but you talked to Ted, and Ted would know what was going on, and Ted treated a few cases when none of… Read More
Well we had a veterinary pathologist, Bob Sauer. But you’re the two people doing day-to-day. Yeah, Clint was mainly administration. I was doing 95% of the clinical work. Clint kind of moved over to administration, and …… Read More
So Clint Gray, so it’s you and Clint, you’re the two vets?… Read More
So you were on call 24-7?… Read More
Oh, well the collection was quite a bit bigger. I thought the exhibits were a little bit more modern. The keeper staff I believe was a little bit better, but it still evolved. The keeper staff at National Zoo evolved, as did the curatorial staff during my tenure there. It… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you came to the National Zoo, as compared to Baltimore?… Read More
It was just, it was there, and we took off with what we did, I think the most unique part of the place, I had a hospital there at least, and it was not the best hospital in the world, but the first thing as you drove into the hospital… Read More
You’re now a federal employee. Correct. Well, I was put on temporary, I was hired during a freeze, so I was a term appointment for several years before I actually got full-time. But it was a federal position. So what did you find, I mean you went from a part-time… Read More
What kind of staff did you find when you went for this first job?… Read More
We had a histopath technician, and we had a pathologist, Bob Sauer. And then there was one keeper in the hospital, and then one keeper “technician”, Tom Snyder was his name. And so it was quite a bit different. I had, you know, some help, but I still didn’t have… Read More
What was the job, and was it at the National Zoo, or did he have a office of Animal Health and Washington?… Read More
I mean was it the zoo job that he was offering you?… Read More
He was offering me as Assistant Veterinarian at the National Zoo. This was long before Front Royal was in existence, and I was gonna be his assistant, and that was basically it. I started doing rounds, and started treating animals, and started instituting some preventative medicine programs, and …… Read More
What was the favorite part of your job, when you were at Baltimore?… Read More