No, he was just a kid. No, but I say it wasn’t the same person. Was his name Lee Simmons? No, Simmons. I don’t think so, I think Lee Simmons, I don’t think his name is Lee. So you were able to protect this guy. Yeah. Read More
Was the gentleman who became Dr. Lee Simmons?… Read More
Yeah. A volunteer, we had lots of volunteers. Pat had a docent program. He had a docent program and he had lots of women that were from the Garden Club from, oh gosh, Flower club. Now, you mentioned this gentleman’s name was Lee Simmons. Yes. Read More
Now, this was someone who worked for you?… Read More
So I go, I jump the fence, hook myself on the fence and cut myself under here on the wire trying to get over to… I took a two by four about eight feet long, and I hit that damn camel from top to him and it broke the two… Read More
Dr. Bud Pugh took you to the hospital, told me not to worry, I had to stay at the house with Noah. He took you to the hospital. So he took me to the hospital and had an accident. Doctor says, “What happened to you?” I said, “Well, the ostrich… Read More
We had white tail wildebeest, we had ostrich, we had- Camels. Had emu and had two camels. Oh, tell them about your incident with the ostrich. I was herding some ostrich down on a hill. It was supposed to be real cold that night or whatever it was. As I… Read More
And we had what cats?… Read More
They were on loan from Brian Hunt. Brian Hunt. And we could lay down with those hyenas, we could go into the pen with them, remember, and sit down on the ground with them. They’d walk around the zoo. Read More
The Hyenas, were they from Brian?… Read More
Well, some like the bear were donated Sun bear. Some people had a sun bear that they didn’t want anymore. Read More
How did you acquire the animals for this new zoo?… Read More
I had a pet screech owl and the screech owl would fly up into the rafters of the ceiling of the barracks in the daytime and then come down at night. But he was a funny little screech owl, we named him Owly. Very original name, afraid of dark. The… Read More
There was a big hole in the ceiling, you remember that?… Read More
So the cat could come in and out behind the bathtub. Read More
He got our home donated, which was the upper floor of an army barracks. Eventually it was plumbed, but initially we would wash our dishes at spigots inside of the park and then walk back to the army barracks where we were living. Our son, Noah, had just been born,… Read More
Lived on it 24 hours. We built sidewalks so people could walk around, it used to be just pine straw, we built the sidewalks. And everything was donated. Pat was unbelievable at getting things donated. He was really… One of his strong suits has always been public relations. And he… Read More
Hard, easy, you lived on it 24 hours, where’d you live?… Read More
Yes. Read More
So now you get these animals to this new area far away from the beaten path, and you start to develop this new location?… Read More