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
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 so who gets to do it, you know?… 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
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
Good lesson. Good lesson. 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
So the next, we brought them in, the next day it hits the front page, huge title on there, you know, “The Zoo Puts 36 Animals to Sleep”, or whatever and so on. Read More
I mean, it’s a terrible thing, you know?… Read More
Or, “Puts 36 Animals to Death”, and that. But when you read it then, read the article, it talks about, a little bit about Johne’s disease, and then it says how forward-thinking the zoo was, and how great they were to be able to prevent this from spreading to all… Read More
They’re not endangered at all. They’re pretty plentiful. There’s a lot of them in Texas, and all over.” And so Bob says, “Okay, so we’re gonna sacrifice that whole group and keep that area empty of any hoofstock for a year. Read More
We can put ostrich in there or something else.” I says, “Yeah, we’re gonna do that.” He says, “Okay, that’s the recommendation,” and I confirmed that with the Veterinary’s College and everything, “Yeah, that’s the way to go.” He says, “Okay, we’re gonna call the newspaper in tomorrow morning and… Read More