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
When you were at the Baltimore Zoo, you were dealing with reptiles, and birds, and all kinds of things?… Read More
Who was the director of the …… Read More
Is it you said John Moore was the Assistant Director?… 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
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
What kind of zoo did you find when you were there?… 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
Did you have technicians?… 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
So Ringling had your number on a speed dial?… Read More
Something had to do it.” “Well, we got some of this horse meat.” And so what had happened, somebody had euthanized a horse with a barbiturate, and a large dose, and it gets into the meat, and so then secondarily it poisons, and they all go to sleep, and the… Read More
Yeah, and we had a lion that one of the Spanish lion tamers used to put his head in the mouth at the end of the thing, had pyometra, which was an infection in the uterus, and so we did surgery on that, and that uterus was just terrible. I… Read More
So I get over there and I said, “Hmm.” I watched them, you know, they had a performance in the afternoon, and the cats just set up on the pedestal, and they were trying to stay up on the pedestal, and do their job, and one of ’em turned around… Read More
You got a tiger?” I said, “What would I be doing with a tiger in Johns Hopkins?” “I’m sorry, I just asked, you know.” Of course, the tiger hadn’t roared or done anything, but she said, “I saw a cage like that just at the zoo, at the circus.” So… Read More
Well, we measured the cage and we went all around the hospital looking at the size of elevators, and doors’ widths and things like that, so we had to take it over through a service entrance through tunnels, and it was about a 15- or 20-minute-trip with this tiger in… Read More