Animal welfare is different than animal rights. Animal welfare, when you’re talking about animal welfare, you’re talking about the best possible way that you can take care of the animals in your care, and you’re not necessarily talking about space. You’re talking about how to best care for that animal… Read More
It’s kind of the same thing. Animal husbandry is about how you take care of the animals. And we have manuals and everything else on how to take care of the animals in each of our zoo areas. So you wanna be very cognizant, and constantly evolving, constantly learning, and… Read More
And so that was their sole focus. And so they did a very in depth inspection, and we were terrified what it was gonna be, ’cause they actually give you a score. I mean, they give you a number score. And we were very happy when we got a 90… Read More
So, our team was actively involved. We were very involved in AZA, we had SSP coordinators at our zoo. We were very involved when we left. Couple of quick questions to finish up kind of a little on this part of Pittsburgh Zoo. Read More
What do you think the Pittsburgh Zoo’s responsibilities are?… Read More
And their sole purpose is to look at, are the animals humanely treated and cared for?… Read More
Are they humanely treated and cared for?… Read More
So it’s a very unique organization because it welcomes everybody. It’s very inclusive, where AZA has become exclusive. ZAA is inclusive and welcomes everybody, anybody wants to learn and be involved. Now, so you received an accreditation from them. Read More
Did you have accreditations from other organizations?… Read More
We did actually. We had years earlier become a member of American Humane. We were one of the very first organizations, the seventh one, as a matter of fact, that passed their very intense, hardest inspection I’ve ever been through, 90 some page report from them on every single animal… Read More
A true membership organization, really a true membership organization. And what I love about ZAA is that it’s unique. It’s a very unique organization, and it has that over other organizations because it’s a membership organization first with an accreditation option. So it can be accredited, and we have 63… Read More
And the philosophy is that we want everybody to have a place to come, and to learn, and to improve their animal care, learn and improve their conservation programs, their education programs, get involved in conservation. Anybody. Read More
Why would we turn away anybody who wants to learn and improve their animal care and welfare, why would we turn them away?… Read More
What you doing?… Read More
Tell me about your programs, how can we help?… Read More
What do you need?… Read More
They snubbed him, for lack of better word. And he goes to ZAA and same responses we got. Read More
Everybody was nice, everybody was like, how are you?… Read More
That was really nice. Oh my god. And I laughed and I said, well, that was like AZA of old. It’s the way it used to be when AZA was young and AZA was just starting out, and you felt like you were a member of this great organization that… Read More
He’s a chiropractor. Sorry, he’s a chiropractor, and he has like 50 different offices. Huge entrepreneur, millionaire. Millionaire, could do anything he wants to do. Well, the little snake farm in his community in Texas, the owner had died, and they were gonna sell it and close it down. And… Read More