He was an old circus guy that was made Director, I don’t remember his name, but he was a character. I mean he had them there, and as soon as he got the … This is his story now, as soon as he got the giant pandas, he just told… Read More
The giant pandas in Mexico, one time I flew down there to help them with a baby that had just been born. They had one born, and by the time I got there, it died. And so I had to do the autopsy on the giant panda cub. Next time… Read More
And I said, “I think we got a problem here.” And we had hundreds of people around, you know, they all had their white coats, and they were, you know … And so I did a biopsy of a lymph node, we gotta take a lymph node out. So I… Read More
Ugh … Oh yes, the breeding of the giant pandas, it was like amateur night in the backseat of a drive-in movie. There was just no natural breeding, and then that, of course, they, we wanted to do the natural breeding for a couple of years, and that didn’t work. Read More
He was, I went down and saw the guy, he was, did you ever meet him?… Read More
And I’d be hitting him in the mouth with the fire hose and stuff like this. And then she’d look up periodically, make sure I was still there. And finally, we got the male separated, he chewed her up something terrible. But fortunately she pulled through, and then we went… Read More
Because I think, I believe they lost a giant panda recently in Japan under anesthesia, and they’ve changed the situation now that a Chinese veterinarian has to be there if possible, during an anesthesia. I haven’t had to work under that situation. I worked with, I anesthetized the pandas at… Read More
Were you involved in those kind of discussions on what to do?… Read More
Were there any frustrations with that?… Read More
Yeah, a certain amount, yeah, we had some, I got my picture on the front of the LA Times doing the biopsy of the female’s kidney. So that was, I made the LA Times’ front page, so …… Read More
No, they didn’t. The classic thing is when the Chinese brought it over, and they were bringing it over, I was talking to ’em about what diseases, what, you know, what things they, and of course the contingencies that come over were all just diplomats that we’re getting their junket… Read More
Did the Chinese have representatives always there?… Read More
Okay, I guess I’m gonna have to start a monologue on that one. Well, I was there about four or five months, and it was announced that Nixon was bringing over the giant pandas, and I went to a meeting in Las Vegas, and Chuck Sedgwick was giving something and… Read More
So while you’re doing this, you had a lot of people looking over your shoulder?… Read More
So don’t tell me it’s comparing to anesthetizing the …” And so I would just almost get cataleptic about doing it, and finally I said, “It’s gotta be done.” I said, “Who else do you want anesthetizing it with you?” And I said, “You’ve gotta do it.” So went ahead… Read More
You know, their gut is so specialized for handling bamboo and they probably have a flora in there that is attuned to bamboo. And if we kill that flora with chloromycetin, I think we’re gonna have a heck of a lot more problems.” Ted, and the lights came in and… Read More
What kind of pressures did you feel, or did you feel that you were under, and how was the relationship with the people who were bringing the panda?… Read More
Or, what kind of freedom did you have to be the doctor?… Read More
Ted Reed. Ted Reed was a veterinarian, and Ted was an interesting person. He kept saying veterinary medicine has passed him by, but as he became a Director, but you talked to Ted, and Ted would know what was going on, and Ted treated a few cases when none of… Read More
Who was Director of the zoo department?… Read More