I think it is still being used today. I think it was a very worthwhile text. I know it was used in veterinary schools. I will say for me, it was a, I don’t like writing. You know I published a bunch, but I don’t like doing it. And it… Read More
And can you talk about some, so for example, like the rhinoceros escape?… Read More
And so I was able to take what Joel had put together and modify it and make it really useful for the practicing veterinarian, and I was able to do it in a way that I think Joel was accepting of it, instead of, “Well, you’re changing what I put… Read More
And so it worked out, and we were able to put it together. Read More
Is that, if you know, do you think it’s still being used today?… Read More
Again, I went to a lot of other individuals asked, “Well, what do you think about me doing this?” ‘Cause this was 1983, and I was, you know, well known in the zoo business at that point, and knew a lot of people to talk to. And everybody said, “You’ll… Read More
I guess maybe Tilazol maybe is better now, I don’t know. But ketamine, he had that, he had, you know, a page on that, and then he had a whole page on using M99, and then a whole page on using, you know, various other inhalant anesthetics and so forth. Read More
I mean, I mentioned earlier my experience with the M99 with the bears, it’s not the drug of choice for bears at all, but that’s what was used back then. Read More
This is no good, you know, this is terrible,” you know?… Read More
And so apparently the three together were having all kinds of difficulties. And Saunders, who published all kinds of medical textbooks, realized this just wasn’t gonna work. And at that point, Bob Altman said, “The heck with it, I’m going to publish my, I can do books by myself,” and… Read More
I got called by Saunders Publishing Company, wanted me to be co-author of this book, and it had been in the works for several years. They had put a team together of about 20 or 30 different authors, each of them had different sections to do. One of them would… Read More
I’ll do marsupials as well as doing primates, and I’ll do this,” and so forth. And one by one it got down to where there was only three authors left. Joel Wallach doing all of mammals, Bob Altman doing birds, and then I’ll think of his name, who did reptiles. Read More
Yeah, everybody was looking at, you know, what can we do that that is better?… Read More
Now you have, we talked about publishing extensively and you have published extensively. Can you relate how you came to be the co-author with the gentleman you talked about earlier, Dr. Joel Wallach, with a book called “Diseases of Exotic Animals”, which is a pretty heavy tome. Read More
How did that come about?… Read More
Were you, or were you in St. Louis, one of the leaders in doing this kind of research?… Read More
Or were this being done in other zoos also?… Read More
Oh, I think this was being done in other zoos too. Read More
It’s not using its hind legs very well. I thought, well maybe the dart hit, kinda on a spinal column, or up there, and it you know, caused some difficulty there, and why it’s having difficulty in the back legs. And so I thought, “Well, we’d better go in and… Read More
And, you know, I told them, “Look, I don’t wanna publish anything about the tigers, the drug is fabulous.” And at that time they were getting ready to put it on the market for use in dogs and cats, not in, obviously the zoo market is not a big place… Read More