We can’t get a forklift in there. We can’t get anything in there, and what do we, so fortunately there was a trash dumpster that was right next to it. We’d kinda wake the rhino up and behind the trash dumpster, push, push, get him a little bit further, and… Read More
But now, how are we gonna pick up this, you know, three, 4000-pound animal and get it back in its enclosure?… Read More
It was about 3:00 in the morning, And, what are we gonna do, you know,?… Read More
The rhinoceros escape, and most animal escapes, people think of animal escapes as getting out and running around the city, or whatever. They get out of their enclosure, but they’re not out of their building usually, and they’re not out of their, you know, usually. The rhino, I assume that… Read More
We can dart it. I mean, it’s just sleeping there. I could even almost reach over and just give it a hand injection of something. Read More
I think it is still being used today. I think it was a very worthwhile text. I know it was used in veterinary schools. I will say for me, it was a, I don’t like writing. You know I published a bunch, but I don’t like doing it. And it… Read More
And can you talk about some, so for example, like the rhinoceros escape?… Read More
Is that, if you know, do you think it’s still being used today?… Read More
And so it worked out, and we were able to put it together. Read More
And so I was able to take what Joel had put together and modify it and make it really useful for the practicing veterinarian, and I was able to do it in a way that I think Joel was accepting of it, instead of, “Well, you’re changing what I put… Read More
Again, I went to a lot of other individuals asked, “Well, what do you think about me doing this?” ‘Cause this was 1983, and I was, you know, well known in the zoo business at that point, and knew a lot of people to talk to. And everybody said, “You’ll… Read More
I guess maybe Tilazol maybe is better now, I don’t know. But ketamine, he had that, he had, you know, a page on that, and then he had a whole page on using M99, and then a whole page on using, you know, various other inhalant anesthetics and so forth. Read More
I mean, I mentioned earlier my experience with the M99 with the bears, it’s not the drug of choice for bears at all, but that’s what was used back then. Read More
This is no good, you know, this is terrible,” you know?… Read More
And so apparently the three together were having all kinds of difficulties. And Saunders, who published all kinds of medical textbooks, realized this just wasn’t gonna work. And at that point, Bob Altman said, “The heck with it, I’m going to publish my, I can do books by myself,” and… Read More
I’ll do marsupials as well as doing primates, and I’ll do this,” and so forth. And one by one it got down to where there was only three authors left. Joel Wallach doing all of mammals, Bob Altman doing birds, and then I’ll think of his name, who did reptiles. Read More
I got called by Saunders Publishing Company, wanted me to be co-author of this book, and it had been in the works for several years. They had put a team together of about 20 or 30 different authors, each of them had different sections to do. One of them would… Read More
Yeah, everybody was looking at, you know, what can we do that that is better?… Read More
Now you have, we talked about publishing extensively and you have published extensively. Can you relate how you came to be the co-author with the gentleman you talked about earlier, Dr. Joel Wallach, with a book called “Diseases of Exotic Animals”, which is a pretty heavy tome. Read More
How did that come about?… Read More