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 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
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
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
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
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
Were you not involved with an escaped elephant?… 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
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
’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
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
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
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
So yeah. So Is it true that as the London Zoo you would get calls from celebrities to look at their animals?… Read More
They were, they were really, you know, well there were amazing functions and really quite, you know, you were sort of up close and personal with many members of the royal family at those, they were, they were quite a meal as you can imagine in Buckingham Palace. So many,… Read More
I don’t think either Charles or Camilla are, are involved with that. Camilla, we mentioned the Brooke earlier. Camilla is the, is the president of Brooke, the, the, the major, you know, there are three wings. Brooke has a, an organization has, the main organization is based in London. Then… Read More
Charles, not so much with the zoo world. He’s, as you know, Charles is very, very countryside oriented, very much interested in the sort of broader natural things that we’ve been talking about. And both, both the boys, both Prince William and Prince Harry have been very, very, very interested… Read More
So it’s, it’s a really, it’s the, as far as I know, I mean there are, you know, I know individual zoos have actually produced a lot of useful material, but it’s, it’s the only really comprehensive welfare oriented teaching program in the world that’s online to anyone, anyone who… Read More