And I mean, you know you’re there, and so you’re hoping to get into the large muscle masses, usually in the back leg. And (chuckling) unfortunately at that time I darted and the animal moved it or whatever, and instead of hitting in the leg, it hit the animal in… Read More
The keepers, oh gosh did they jump. (chuckling) Now you’ve worked with big cats, and you’ve had to work with cheetahs as you mentioned, and you had one cheetah that woke up in the transportation?… Read More
You’re a pretty expert shot, and what occurred?… Read More
Well, not at one time. I darted lots and lots of chimpanzees, and lots of animals. And of course you wanna, especially if you’re using the Palmer capture gun, you wanna hit them in, you know, one of the large muscle masses. Usually the leg muscles are the, you know,… Read More
And just because you mentioned outside activities, and going to Brookfield to assist with them, you also had some outside activities with San Francisco Zoo?… Read More
Well, that was not to treat an animal. That was the, the veterinarian there was, they had some issues with the veterinarian. There was an acting director there who called us in. There was myself and two other veterinarians that were, Mary Fowler being one of them, Phil Robinson the… Read More
But certainly he was practicing good medicine. So you’ve had outside activities, but certainly the main of your focus has been at the- Oh, St. Louis Zoo, yeah. And you had to at one time dart a chimpanzee. Read More
What tranquilizer were you using?… Read More
I did use M99, or etorphine, in the initial knockdown of the animal, but then we maintained it on barbiturate anesthesia. Read More
That animal can’t move its head at all or anything, ’cause I’m gonna be in there dissolving that cataract, and getting it out of there.” Well, the first difficult part was, I better make sure that when that elephant goes down, that he goes down on the left side, because… Read More
So you know that was, you know the elephant was pretty docile, pretty easy to handle to give it an injection, but how are we gonna get it so that it fell on its left side?… Read More
And fortunately it did. I got them to get the animal as close over to a wall as it could, and get it to fall. But instead of taking 15 minutes, it took about two and a half hours to get it, to complete the procedure. And it was not… Read More
Was that- Was that groundbreaking surgery, or was that routine?… Read More
Well I think, you know, I mean it was, cataract removal’s done all the time, you know in people, and of course in dogs all the time. But, and another interesting cataract removal was, was here at the Brookfield Zoo. The Brookfield Zoo had an elephant that had cataracts, and… Read More
And so who gets to do it, you know?… Read More
Well I mean, we could tell that that animal, I mean you could even see, cheetahs of course, they’re the most docile of the big cats. I mean, we used to always go in with the cheetahs, but we would never go in with any of the other big cats. Read More
And the veterinary ophthalmologist did the majority of it, but the other two ophthalmologists that were human ophthalmologists were there to check it out. Read More
Good lesson. Good lesson. Read More
And it just you know, brought home to me a little bit about PR and keeping everybody informed, and telling them what to do, you know?… Read More
Another, going from hoofstock to felines, you had a cheetah, I think you mentioned earlier, that had cataracts, and how was that diagnosed and how did you treat it?… Read More