(laughs) Yeah, I’ve brought animals home to take care of them. I’ve have had chimpanzees, I’ve had macaques, I had skunks, baby skunks, baby raccoons. Kind of one of the neat things is that our children always wanted to have a pet monkey. So I had an opportunity to bring… Read More
But I’ve had others that have come into the home. In fact, fairly recently, while I was gone, a colleague, not a colleague, a client brought a camel and unloaded it in my front yard. And since I wasn’t home, but it congregated the neighbors and they all came over… Read More
How important it is to know your- Well, that was in a mobilization situation, and there are slight differences between a mobilization and anesthesia. But in that particular case, I was utilizing phencyclidine again, and I injected a polar bear that was on exhibit, and the reason it was on… Read More
So I was concerned about that, I got a long pole and we tried to poke it to see if it was responding. We got up on top of the exhibit and used a piece of electrical conduit to touch it, no response whatsoever. So somebody was looking out for… Read More
Luck is not a very major factor involved, it’s usually a lack of knowledge or something like that that gets us into trouble. But we also have support, and our keepers again, knowing the behavior of these animals can frequently let us know, okay, this animal does look like it’s… Read More
Or was there any difference?… Read More
Well, it’s interesting to look at the use of anesthesia, not as a separate entity, but in common with immobilization. And immobilization is necessary for studying individual animals and general, dealing with diseases and so forth for both free ranging animals and captive animals. But I guess one of the… Read More
And I guess I have utilized my colleagues maybe from a plagiaristic standpoint, more than other people have, but I haven’t been reticent to employ the information that I have gained from colleagues in furthering the profession, in furthering the life of animals, doing good things for the animals, so… Read More
You mentioned anesthesia, can you relate the polar bear story?… Read More
Well, when I wrote that I had just started working with wild animals. I had already learned how to do restraint, (coughs) excuse me, of domestic animals, and I knew that there was that need for domestic animal restraint. And obviously the first thing that I really had to be… Read More
And I thought, well, all I want is for my students, but eventually some of these books became used worldwide. And that was a thrill, that was not the impetus for doing it, but it was the result of doing it. Read More
How difficult was it to work with anesthesia in animals in the wild as compared to in captivity?… Read More
But specifically. Read More
What was the most significant change that you implemented in the care of animals that you did?… Read More
Well, I think the most influential things that I was able to see that effected animals was the publications that I was able to be involved with. I was not comfortable writer, but I felt the need for such information to the accumulated, so I set about to do it. Read More
What prompted you to feel the need to write your book on restraint?… Read More
Well, I spent a time in the military in San Diego and it was a desirable place to go. I had the opportunity for a sabbatical leave, and I knew Chuck Sedgwick, who was at the San Diego zoo at that time. and also Lynn Greiner, who was a pathologist… Read More
But they also needed to learn some things. And yet those that really adapted to it and did learn about their animals could offer me something. I was able to use my photographic prowess that I had at that point in time to document some of these things. And I… Read More
That isn’t what we’ve been talking about?… Read More
We were visiting with Dr. Meehan last night, the excitement that is engendered by having access to some of these newer technologies is just astounding. And I could only hope that that will continue enlarge, improve. And the fact that we can call upon that technology is important. That entails… Read More