Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 366
And the Benson. A job at Benson’s Animal Park. Read More
And the Benson. A job at Benson’s Animal Park. Read More
What brought me to New Hampshire?… Read More
My question is, what brought you to New Hampshire?… Read More
Well, I had somewhere else to go, so I had to. Yeah, it’s not easy changing jobs. All right. I’m going to ask you, I want to go next to 1979 when you go to Benson Animal Park. Read More
Was that a tough decision to make or an easy one?… Read More
It took them by surprise a little bit. But I had discussed it. I was made promises they didn’t keep, so I left. Read More
Were they taken by surprise?… Read More
Well, they weren’t. Read More
So were they upset that you wanted to leave?… Read More
Well, I had someplace else to go. I had someplace else to go. I wouldn’t quit a job unless I had something to go to. Read More
And now you make a decision to leave Lion Country, how did that come about, you just told them one day?… Read More
Because I know you were very concerned about conservation. Yes. Well, we did, we did support conservation, and I always have. My passion now, of course, is right and elephant conservation. So at some point again, as we talked, you were a bit disillusioned with promises that had been made… Read More
When you were running the parks, all of them, was there a conservation thing that you wanted to put through?… Read More
I was taking stool out of a constipated rhino, and here I was, hands up the butt, cars lined up looking. All you had to do was, “Oh, we’re doing some research here on this animal.” “Oh, okay.” You could do whatever you wanted to do, all you had to… Read More
What are you doing back there?… Read More
You can do anything you want to do with an animal and you’ll have somebody, the car is stopping, what are you doing?… Read More
Yeah. It’s very interesting how people react to things when you’re dealing with animals and stuff. Read More
Were you always at the park?… Read More
BB guns, shook it They knew what a BB gun was, you just shake that BB gun and they know how to get in. All you had to do was shake the gun. After their butts were stung a couple of times, they learned to go in. That was what… Read More
How’d you get the lines back in?… Read More