Yes. to the zoo director, and you had to sell it to the university. Well, I had to sell it to the zoo director because it allowed, but these students weren’t getting paid. They were coming to learn. And so in the beginning yes, I had to sell it to… Read More
Do you think you did it because you never had the opportunity?… Read More
(laughing) Maybe, you know?… Read More
So this was your idea to start the program?… Read More
As I was the veterinarian at the zoo, I right away allowed veterinary students, I had them sign up, I only took one student at a time, and they were there for two months, and then another student. At that time, the university had started what they called the block… Read More
Or was it when you got to the next level and became the senior veterinarian?… Read More
So you’re the veterinarian, and while you were the veterinarian, is that when you started the preceptor, the residency program?… Read More
Did you start this program as you were the veterinarian at the zoo or after you moved up a little?… Read More
Well, if they were extremely well worked up, I could go, you know, publish them in various journals, referee journals. You know it was interesting, because as you know, university professors and so forth, they talk about publishing all the time, or trying to publish and how difficult it is. Read More
I guess I just thought it was part of the duty to share that knowledge and to do it in, you know, a professional manner. Every time I did I, you know, took that opportunity. I also did, you know in the beginning, offered an opportunity for veterinary students who… Read More
What prompted you, if there was anything, to feel that it was important for you to publish, and tell people about what you’d seen?… Read More
Who were some of the people and zoos who had the full-time vets that you were working with?… Read More
Well, Chuck Sedgwick was at San Diego Zoo. Earl Schobert was not full-time, but he did Busch Gardens in Florida. The other ones that were, I talked with Paul Chaffee out in California, Gordy Hubble down in Florida. There was a couple of part-time ones. Bud Herzog was part-time veterinarian… Read More
So how did you communicate these different cases with these veterinarians?… Read More
And it was a group that if you had cases, “Well, how do you take care of this?… Read More
How do you take care of that?” And so we communicated a lot, and so I got involved probably a little bit more in some case studies, and publishing some of the events, some of the cases that I saw. And so I got more involved in research activities, and… Read More
Working with the curators and keepers, it was, you know, what’s best for the animals, how do we take care of them Well, and in some cases, how are we able to reproduce them?… Read More
As a veterinarian, and as a veterinarian in really the pioneer days of veterinary medicine in zoos, it was a huge opportunity to learn more. And so besides just treating the animals, and you know, for their medical care, I thought there was a big opportunity for, I don’t know… Read More
And as you’re doing this job as a veterinarian, did you think you wanted to do more than that, or were you thinking, “I want to be a veterinarian here,” and maybe now you’re thinking, at what time did you think, “I think I wanna stick around here”?… Read More
Well, I think at that time zoos were primarily places where people came to be entertained, to have a good time. I don’t think at that point conservation was a high priority for most zoos. Read More