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How did that start to come about?… Read More

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What did you think about what you wanted to do in life?… Read More

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Is that the career you thought?… Read More

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But did you think you were gonna be working with animals?… Read More

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Because most people in those days in the hills, they all raised their own foods, hogs, cows ate, slaughtered them. I helped clean hogs every October when it got cool. We put hogs in boiling water and scraped them and butchered them. Read More

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For some reason, I was fascinated with things in nature, for some reason. But my mother helped me along with that. I always wanted to be… I would go out and catch something like a possum or whatever. I’d bring it back on a pole like Frank Book, bring them… Read More

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Was that when you were at the zoo?… Read More

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My aunt, Bonnie, said, “Mildred, Mildred, you’re gonna hurt him.” She said, “I’m not gonna hurt him, I’m going to kill him.” (laughs) Well, now, when did you start to think about, I wanna work with animals?… Read More

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My mother had a broom stick and she got down and she tried to get me under the bed. Read More

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Then a little later on, I was at the house in the basement and I had the snake in my pocket. I said, “Mom, do you wanna see the snake again?” And she looked at me funny and she said, “Okay.” I pulled that snake out and showed it to… Read More

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I had a horse then, and I was over feeding the horse. I had an oatmeal box that I put the feed in for the horse, and it was just a round paper can. I left the horse, I fed him and left the horse and I was going back… Read More

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The first zoo I saw was at Knoxville, Tennessee, and they had a big bull elephant there. That was the first zoo I saw in my life, and had some other animals too and had a very famous old African bull. I had a very tolerant mother, I would bring… Read More

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And as you were growing up, were you able to see, what was the first zoo that you saw as you were growing up?… Read More

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Yes. Read More

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So in your youth, you were a collector of animals?… Read More

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So we’re not vegetarians, we’re omnivorous, we eat meat and grass. So it’s a long history between with man and animals. And thank God we have people that care about it and many of them have been sacrificed trying to protect that. Read More

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I think about $4 million or more per day goes into the federal budget from hunters and fishermen. Every time you buy a gun or buy a shell or buy a fish hook, a bow and arrow, all those things, there is a bill that a portion of that money… Read More

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Why?… Read More

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Yes, I think it’s essential. Read More

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Can you be both or are they opposed?… Read More