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
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
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 Ringling had your number on a speed dial?… 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
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
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
And so they called me out to the zoo when I was at Hopkins and said, “We’ve got this tiger that’s sick”, and it was Gunther Gable Williams’s tiger. And he was a character. Unbelievable man. And he said, “Look at this, this animal is passing this stool, abnormal stool.”… Read More
So we had to go pick it up and now my next challenge was how do I get a tiger into Johns Hopkins Hospital?… Read More
So they said, I said, “Well, I’d like to do some diagnostic workup on it, and you know, check.” He said, “Okay, we leave it here with you”, they gave me a cage. Read More
Oh my gosh, let’s see, I think, I … Ringling Brothers … I started that when I was at Hopkins, Ringling Brothers would contact local veterinarians in the cities that they were performing, and have them on call. They had … Oh, I can’t think of the first veterinarian’s name. Read More
When was this?… Read More
What was the turning point when you said, “Hey, I think I wanna apply to this zoo, and start this different side of my career?” Well it was, it fed into my interest in doing clinical medicine and surgery, and not doing a lot of the basic research. I thought… Read More
As a sidebar, did you consult with Ringling Brothers?… Read More
Oh yes. Read More
What were the years, ’66 or … Ooh, let’s see, I graduated in 1965. I was at Angel for about two years, and so that would’ve been ’67. And then I went to National Zoo at 1972, so it’s about five years there, right around the time of 1970s, early… Read More
What times were you at Hopkins?… Read More
So what was the turning, were you happy at John Hopkins?… Read More