I mean you were coming from one job, you could just come in there and make rounds, or did you check in with someone, and they told you what they wanted you to look at, or … Well, from my house where I was living out in the suburbs of… Read More
What was the day like at Baltimore?… Read More
Yeah, it was, I think I enjoyed it more, ’cause one thing that I found out at Angel and I think the reason now that I could not go into private practice was that I’d see an animal brought into Angel and even though it was an SPCA hospital, and… Read More
Everything. Yeah, I had the advantage of, when I was at Angel Memorial, there was a, one of the first veterinarians, Midge Petrach track that was doing pet birds, and had written, wrote a book on that. So we had an exposure to birds and basic bird medicine when I… Read More
And so it must have been, was it so much different from working at Angel, and working at the zoo, aside from the exotic end of it?… Read More
It’s larger now, the Baltimore Zoo now is much larger, but we had giraffes, you know, we had the classic zoo animals, it was the menagerie type small cages, they didn’t have, at that time, there was no big, open, naturalistic exhibits. But it was, and it was set in… Read More
Unique collection?… Read More
When you were at the Baltimore Zoo, you were dealing with reptiles, and birds, and all kinds of things?… Read More
Is it you said John Moore was the Assistant Director?… Read More
Who was the director of the …… Read More
Arthur Watson. And he was a … I guess he had a TV show in Baltimore, which I never saw, that was, I guess an early Marlon Perkins-type prototype, and well-known throughout the Baltimore area, and a very interesting man, very dedicated to animals, he had one unique trait that… Read More
Were there curators at the zoo at the time of, how did you work with the staff?… Read More
You were the new guy or they just accepted you as the new part-time guy?… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you were there?… Read More
Well, I’m not sure. I think I was pretty well-accepted, because at that time they had nobody, and I showed an interest, and I was there, you know, probably four or five times a week, and we were making some success. I mean we were making major changes, and things… Read More
Did you have technicians?… Read More
Were you the, you were the one man show part-time?… Read More
Well my future wife was my technician at Johns Hopkins, and I would bring her out when I’d need some help, you know, so she would help me out there, and John Moore, the Assistant Director was a good animal man, and so he would help with the animal handling,… Read More
That was before we had Yohimbine to reverse xylazine. If we’d had Yohimbine at that time, we could’ve reversed, we could reverse those cats within 20 minutes, and they’d have been fine. Now you mentioned at Baltimore you were the part-time veterinarian for them. Read More
Did you have help when you were there?… Read More