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Do you know anything?… Read More

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His after the mare, have you done any reading on this?… Read More

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Do you know anything about horses?… Read More

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I had her manager with me and said, were you not watching what was going on here?… Read More

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I said the stallion wasn’t after that foal at all. He could care less about the foal. Now, the foal was there around mom ’cause that’s what the foal does. Read More

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And it looks like the stallion is trying to harm the foal when in essence all he does is he wants to get to the mare, right?… Read More

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You know, that whole scenario. Read More

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So this keeper is screaming at the top of her lungs across the exhibit. He’s trying to kill the foal, he’s trying to kill the foal. It’s like, no, he’s not. So he got the stallion off exhibit and I pulled the keeper aside and I said we need to… Read More

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Stallion’s getting fired up because he wants to breed back the mare, right?… Read More

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We can’t have this. So for that, I go through more of a checklist. I try to dampen down the emotional side of animal management issues by looking at the biology and pushing back on staff sometimes to say, what about, what about. I had one keeper many years ago,… Read More

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And he said I screwed up. I said you got one more, we’re done. He made another mistake. He came in, he said I’m gonna be fired. I said you’re fired. That was in the paperwork anyway, to back up what I had said his manager agreed, he said we… Read More

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Right?… Read More

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I don’t get much pushback on any of that because I want them to make that very logical step forward. If all those are nos, we’ve got some issues then ourselves that we haven’t trained properly, and so on, and so forth. If we’ve got yes’s all over the place… Read More

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Is the manager managing this person properly?… Read More

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Did we, god forbid, put the person in a bad situation where they might have hurt themselves or hurt the animal?… Read More

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If we didn’t train the person properly, that’s our fault, right?… Read More

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Person makes a mistake. Read More

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Have those questions been asked and answered?… Read More

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Or is it you don’t like the person and so you try to make up what the issue may be and justify disciplinary action. So when it comes to that, I ask the manager to develop a lot of questions about that and be able to answer that. Read More

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Did we give everybody the tools?… Read More