So that professional growth, if they don’t have the means to get a degree or some professional training, but they’re interested, and they’re doing reading, and so on, and so forth, I couldn’t ask for more. That’s fantastic. I wanna see the results of that. I wanna see them execute… Read More
That professional growth, learn your craft, learn your animals, do reading. Okay, I know everybody wants to jump on a computer now. Okay, that’s fine. I learn old school through books. But everybody wants to jump on a computer. Okay, great. Just use reliable sources is what I’m telling ’em. Read More
How important was professional growth for your staff?… Read More
Very, very important. I can’t underline it enough. And I see people attempting to make shortcuts through that. Read More
Ah no, it just didn’t look right. I said no, it didn’t look right at all. It looked ugly, but slow the tape down. Let’s go back and look at it, you know, and see what was going on. We didn’t fire her over that. Read More
If she doesn’t know her animal, doesn’t know the biology, isn’t looking at this logically. I’m upset about this too. What I’m really upset about is the fact that the staff missed this foal and the fact that the stallion was still on exhibit, they should have had that stallion… Read More
But I said to her manager, I said you need to watch her because she’s going down a path that on another animal evaluation, can you trust her accuracy?… Read More
Do you know anything about horses?… Read More
His after the mare, have you done any reading on this?… Read More
Do you know anything?… Read More
I said the stallion wasn’t after that foal at all. He could care less about the foal. Now, the foal was there around mom ’cause that’s what the foal does. Read More
I had her manager with me and said, were you not watching what was going on here?… Read More
And it looks like the stallion is trying to harm the foal when in essence all he does is he wants to get to the mare, right?… Read More
You know, that whole scenario. Read More
So this keeper is screaming at the top of her lungs across the exhibit. He’s trying to kill the foal, he’s trying to kill the foal. It’s like, no, he’s not. So he got the stallion off exhibit and I pulled the keeper aside and I said we need to… Read More
We can’t have this. So for that, I go through more of a checklist. I try to dampen down the emotional side of animal management issues by looking at the biology and pushing back on staff sometimes to say, what about, what about. I had one keeper many years ago,… Read More
Stallion’s getting fired up because he wants to breed back the mare, right?… Read More
I don’t get much pushback on any of that because I want them to make that very logical step forward. If all those are nos, we’ve got some issues then ourselves that we haven’t trained properly, and so on, and so forth. If we’ve got yes’s all over the place… Read More
Right?… Read More
And he said I screwed up. I said you got one more, we’re done. He made another mistake. He came in, he said I’m gonna be fired. I said you’re fired. That was in the paperwork anyway, to back up what I had said his manager agreed, he said we… Read More