I mean again, yeah, we can go ahead and sacrifice the ones that are positive, ’cause they’re gonna die anyway, and probably better to go ahead and put them to sleep than to go through, you know, deteriorating and emaciation and eventual death. But I went to the director, and… Read More
Yeah, Johne’s disease is a paratuberculosis, it’s an intestinal virus, I guess. It’s a disease that, we had this whole herd of Barbary sheep, mouflon too. We had mouflon and Barbary sheep that both had it. And what would happen with it is, they would deteriorate, get thinner and thinner… Read More
Well, the traditional way of dealing with Johne’s disease is you can test all of the animals, do a testing on all of them. Those that are positive, in terms of livestock, you send them to slaughter. Read More
Those that are negative, you keep, okay?… Read More
And then went back to the party?… Read More
And then went back to the rest of the party, went dancing. (chuckling) Tuxedo looked the same?… Read More
I think I probably took the coat off or whatever. (laughing) Can you explain what Johne’s disease is, and how it affected the zoo, and what kind of press it garnered?… Read More
Of course I have a cattle farm, and I’ve delivered a lot of calves, and there’s just a technique sometimes if, you know, if they’re not in the right position and that, you don’t keep working on it. Read More
And so after watching for, I don’t know, at least a half an hour to more work, and we’re all in tuxedos still, and I said, “Well, let me have a shot at it.” And I went in and within, you know, three or four minutes had the thing delivered. Read More
You push them all the way back in, reposition it and get it out, you know?… Read More
Okay, I’m just kinda standing back watching. And he’s having more difficulty getting that little one out of it. It’s got a breech birth and, and it just didn’t come. Read More
And he’s working and working and nothing, you know?… Read More
Am I correct, you actually had to deliver a antelope in a tuxedo?… Read More
(laughing) Yeah, every year we have a big dinner, dance bash at the zoo with some big name entertainment, and all of our big donors come to that. And it’s a black tie affair, so everybody’s, you know, dressed up. And here we’re at this event and we get a… Read More
So they’re all, got the animal immobilized and they’re, and nobody, they can’t, you know, they’re not, and you asked before about my management style, I usually let them go and get it done, you know?… Read More
Well of course that was way before COVID, you know?… Read More
And it had been part of when we used to have an elephant show, and none of them were positive reactors. They were always negative. But the exposure during a necropsy was far more than than day-in, day-out care of that animal. We’re talking medical things that you’ve been involved… Read More
Nobody knew about masks. But we TB tested then all of those employees that were involved with the necropsy, even though they had been TB tested earlier, but we had two people that converted from negative TB test to positive TB test, just from the exposure at that necropsy, to… Read More
Well, all of our employees that work with elephants, hoofstock, primates and that, not the office staff or that. But we tested everybody annually. Read More
And so he came out, and right away he’s on my case because none of us had masks on, you know?… Read More