In fact there they ended up building a new. Center, and it was right at the bottom of the park area, so it was kind of a close relationship and we worked with them. If we had some animals that needed to be incinerated after death, we were able, smaller… Read More
So I think when you do that and you get to know somebody on a one-to-one basis, they can’t be as mad at you about things. And you can go yeah, but they’re trying to do this. Or, you know, and they have their own issues too. But we try… Read More
You had mentioned you read an article about worst zoos. Oh yeah. Read More
What was your relationships to animal rights groups and humane societies over the years?… Read More
I think the whole conservation awareness that was taking place. That zoos started to do some joint projects, you know, when they would have. National, you know. Bird Day or whatever they would do that you as a small zoo could come in on “some of their” bigger things and… Read More
At least for the awareness part of what zoos do and what they are and how you can be a part of that. Read More
Is that what you were trying to get at with that?… Read More
Or does that answer a question?… Read More
Or delighted you, these major events that may have affected zoos in general?… Read More
Were there any- If I…… Read More
Events that affected not only your zoo but zoos in general?… Read More
It’s that cooperative level. So during your time at the zoo. Read More
Are there any major events that you were aware of?… Read More
Or concerned you?… Read More
We did the sea lion pool. We built Lion’s Trace where we got the big cats. Out of the barred exhibits. We had over the years limited it down instead of having so many species. We only had five “cages,” of barred cages so you could – and four species… Read More
How difficult was it to move those exhibits forward in a parks department situation?… Read More
It took a lot longer than we wanted. The Friends of Glen Oak Zoo were raising money. It took some doing to get some of the park district people on board to help with it. So we were able to get the superintendent of parks at the time involved enough… Read More
Did you want to build new exhibits and get rid of the bars?… Read More
We did. It was… At the time Chuck had started a friends group. And so there were, and they had a board. And they had started raising money. You know, they contributed a few thousand dollars. Got some money to do some graphics. We built the eagle cage which worked… Read More
But. They weren’t huge fundraisers. It wasn’t the movers and shakers that you really need if you’re gonna expand. So we had Zoo Days and Zoo Run runs. All the normal things like that. But the expense of trying to do new displays, you had to at the time do… Read More