Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 481
That’s all I remember about it, I don’t remember there was any conflict over it. We had to get though a- Some of them wanted Jungle Land, Pat’s Jungle. Read More
That’s all I remember about it, I don’t remember there was any conflict over it. We had to get though a- Some of them wanted Jungle Land, Pat’s Jungle. Read More
I don’t know. Gulf Zoo Gulf Breeze Florida. We had a name the zoo contest in the very beginning and we had lots of contests like that, name the zoo contest. The winner was going to get a trip to Africa with Pat. The zoo, that was the winning… There… Read More
And why did some of the media respond negatively to it?… Read More
What was the official name of the zoo?… Read More
Yeah. No, I wouldn’t let them on my property, they wouldn’t. So your keepers were non-union Non-union, I wouldn’t do that. Read More
To do a union?… Read More
A keeper did, a keeper actually walked- Had a piece of meat and walked the tiger back. Was as lucky as hell, back end of the cage and then he went. Because those animals once they got out of the cages, out of their areas, they’re confused what to do… Read More
You got the tiger back in?… Read More
Yeah, tigers. Tigers. And the tigers came out. and here they are right there in front of the facility with this tiger coming out. That was amazing. Read More
Were in the park with their grandchildren the keeper left a door to the tigers, do you remember that?… Read More
And a housing projects. I said if that gets out of this- And housing projects. I’ll never find it, it’s all woods back in here, swamp. So I got a gun, 36 and as it went up to get over the fence, I shot it, I threw the damn gun… Read More
He saw me, I had a capture gun with a pistol and that little turd saw me with that pistol. He runs into another room and closed this door behind him, pulls the door and he opened the door and looks around, close the door. He’d reached out, get the… Read More
But he sat up on the printer and what else did he sit up?… Read More
He never touched anything inside the gift shop. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Walked all the way through it. With $40,000 worth of stuff in it. And Diana was saying, “I hope to God, he doesn’t get in that gift shop.” And guess what, he opened that door, and got right in there. He never touched anything. Read More
It was successful. For many years. For a long time. But it got to the point where the docents were wanting to run the zoo. For example, here’s a good example, all they thought the gorillas needed something to play with, so they put an oil drum without me knowing… Read More
Did that prove to be a successful project with the docents?… Read More
They were the ambassadors. What they were able to do was to meet the public and they walked around with a rabbit or a turtle or something like that. They had a meeting and I taught classes to them for a long time. Read More
What did you want the docents to do Pat?… Read More