That’s the classic story of, you know, I think shock is the thing that you say when you have, can’t find another more obvious cause, I think shock is an overused term. I don’t think I’ve ever felt comfortable by saying that animal died of shock. Now an animal that… Read More
How do you define shock?… Read More
What do you think made you a good veterinarian?… Read More
Yeah, I lost an orangutan. One of our adult male orangs died on their anesthesia with me, and I did CPR on him for I guess 30 or 40 minutes, and we kept him going until he finally, we lost him. So that was when I … And then I… Read More
Have you had animals?… Read More
I have in my experience, that die of shock. I mean just …… Read More
Did you ever have to work, and have challenges with invertebrates?… Read More
Have you ever had any experiences, where you lost a particular animal that you’ve cared for a long time?… Read More
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we’ve had a lot of interesting things, when the national zoo opened their invertebrate house, and working with cuttlefish, and trying to figure out how to deal with those and various other invertebrates, but there you’re basic and basically dealing with environmental management, you’re managing their… Read More
We talked about the veterinarian being a generalist, but is there a particular family or group of animals that you prefer to work with?… Read More
I like the megavertebrates, which are the rhinos, hippos, giraffe, elephants, just because they present such unique challenges. And I generally, I think I like hoofstock, I don’t like primates per se, reptiles and birds, they’re just there. But big cats can be interesting, but I would probably put the… Read More
And why, if so?… Read More
Would you say zoos today are potentially doing enough to manage their animal collections regarding medical husbandry groups?… Read More
Yeah, we didn’t have any night staff, so we had quite a few menagerie at our house at a period of time, we had quite a few red pandas that my wife raised, we had some maned wolves that my wife took care of, mutt jacks, Bactrian camel calves, wildebeest… Read More
I think it depends on the zoo, and the medical staff, and the facilities that they have. And that’s just a hard question to ask, generally I would think it’s probably better, because there’s more veterinarians full-time in zoos, and hopefully most of these veterinarians are practicing, you know, good… Read More
Is there differences in drug dosages, or how it’s applied or — Of course there is, in free-ranging animals, you don’t have ’em as confined, and it takes a lot longer, higher dosages, and longer for the induction period, generally speaking. We found also with metodine, which is an alpha… Read More
Oh, from the zoo?… Read More
You mentioned that, well did you ever have the occasion to bring animals home to take care of them?… Read More
I hate to keep going back to anesthesia and preventative medicine, I think, and hopefully, you know, just a philosophy of the proactive approach to a problem. In other words, I’d rather be shot down for trying, than have people say, “Well he didn’t get around to getting the animal… Read More
Do you have to be acutely aware?… Read More