Doing my part to protect my health and my planet
Before I left home of South Carolina to pursue my career of working with animals, I would have considered myself a deeply spiritual person, and very much connected with the spirituality of Native Americans. I was also connected to the spiritual essence of animals. I read tons of books on the subject, and was convinced…
Earlier this month I finished a book about one man’s quest to help protect the northern white rhino. It was called “The Last Rhinos” by Lawrence Anthony and at the very end of the book, something happened to me that doesn’t occur very often. I cried.
One of my favorite phrases is “Once upon a time”. It’s probably the most ideal phrase to begin any statement in which you need my undivided attention. Those words are what propelled me to be the person I am today. The first time I heard those words, “once upon a time”, was not from a…
I recognize that debating with the animal rights agenda is incredibly frustrating, for both sides. I often wish I could wave a magic wand and instantly have the anti-zoo folks see things from my point of view, and that I could see things from theirs. It does seem to me that emotions run rampant in…
Today I did our Keeper Chat at the zoo. I had asked to do this talk because I felt for one of the first times, I had an angle that could hook folks into listening and acting. Here was my spiel: Blah blah blah about the elephants. They receive phenomenal care, they get tons of…