Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 8
What zoos did you see growing up?… Read More
What zoos did you see growing up?… Read More
What, what impression did they have on you?… Read More
I was the fourth of five kids and they were real spread out. And my, my sister, the oldest, my sister Nancy got married when I was six. So, so we were kinda spread out in years. So I mostly grew up with my, my younger brother who was three… Read More
Were animals a part of your life?… Read More
And he became an engineer and I became a veterinarian. So How many children were in the family and where were you in the, in the order?… Read More
Always. We had, we had dogs. We were, we were definitely died in the wool dog people. And, you know, we had, we raised hunting dogs. Dad was big into hunting and fishing and, you know, like a, like a lot of folks, my, my brothers were always bringing home,… Read More
Dorothy and Michael P. Meehan. He went by Bud where dad was in advertising and he was the general advertising manager for the St. Louis Globe Democrat, one of the daily newspapers. And mom was a homemaker. Worked at home for most of her life. She did some work at… Read More
What was your childhood like growing up?… Read More
I’m Dr. Thomas P. Meehan, and I was born on March 26th, 1952 in St. Louis. Read More
And who you were your parents, what did they do?… 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
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