And he walked out to the front, addressed all the crowds standing there and said, the, the reason we did this procedure, the the dental part is pretty much done. All of you are welcome to stay and watch while we just wrap things up. But if you’re interested, we… Read More
And, you know, I reminded Dr. Fisher multiple times and, and finally went out and said, we’re getting ready to start, so what, what’s the plan?… Read More
Was this an advantage or a disadvantage to you?… Read More
They use, they essentially put in an electrical probe and stimulate the animal to give semen so that you can test it. And the best way to do that in terms of the proximity of the nervous system is to insert this probe into the rectum and do the electrical… Read More
So that was unusual and it was an animal that, that hadn’t been touched in a long time. So we invited the press out. The situation with the snow leopard was different in that it was sort of their request. They just wanted to see, they just wanted to get… Read More
And so there were three TV cameras, there were people from the Chicago Sun Times the Chicago Tribune. So it, it was sort of routine when you had something high profile and unusual that you would invite the press out to see it, Go back to the gorilla, tranquil for… Read More
Certainly press was involved in a lot of procedures, specifically when Sined was tranquilized. Yeah, yeah, I think so. So this one was sort of an odd case. It wasn’t one where usually the publicity is about you’re doing something unusual. We immobilized a gorilla named Sinbad at Lincoln Park… Read More
Pluses and minuses of that at Lincoln Park?… Read More
And it happens much more quickly than just an animal asphyxiating because they’ve got something plugging their airway. And she had probably been on her way out before we even started to resuscitate her, but at some point, after having gone through four or five inches of subcu hemorrhagic tissue… Read More
And I said, just don’t worry about it, just hold it off. And he said, I am, but her neck is getting big. And I went to look at her and her neck was getting to be the size of a volleyball and, and she was having difficulty breathing, she… Read More
So it wound up being part of a television show as well as being a losing an animal. So Now, so the press was present, but how do you feel about the press being present when procedures are being done?… Read More
Yes, that was a, that was a, an interesting case. The thing that complicated that was, so, it, it turns out that this was a, it was a female snow leopard, an adult that had a condition that we call eno occlusive disease now. And it was relatively common at… Read More
And as part of that, they were interested in just as a sidelight a, showing what zoos were doing to help conserve endangered species. And so they just had a standing request, if you’re, if you’re doing anything with some of these animals, invite us out. So in addition to… Read More
And can you relate the story of the snow leopard that died while you were doing a routine tranquilizing and lessons learned from experience?… Read More
How did you handle events when a routine procedure resulted in the death of an animal?… Read More
N not too much. It was, you know, who I worked for and where my office was. But you know, those things changed after I’d been there about a year, year and a half. But I had been mostly on my own for, for that time. Read More
So your responsibilities to the collection didn’t change much?… Read More
Well, I was, I was an assistant veterinarian, but Dr. Ashkin was, you know, because of declining health, he had a brain tumor and he underwent various surgeries and he was, we, we didn’t work together very long a after I started there. And so I was still officially the… Read More
Well, it, Or was it one in the same?… Read More
So, so those are, you know, that, that, that was one of the big changes and one of the challenges that I really enjoyed. Now you were hired as a staff veterinarian, but you moved up to the head veterinarian position. Read More