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Show Surgeons Remove Tiger's Tail Joint Big Cat at Hoglo Cardans Zoo Provaa to Ba Modal Patient If you are gently insistent, Bobby will tell you about her operation. Bobby la a 3-year-old Bengal tiger at Hogle Gardens oo and a perfect patient as shs proved Thursday. Without a whimper, site submitted to a "shot in the srm" of 40 grains of nembutal. Then, semiconscious, she dreamed of far away Jungles in India while Dr. L. A. Browne and Dr J. E. Parker of the Salt Lake veterinary veteri-nary hospital, deftly removed a gangrenous gan-grenous Joint from her tail. Bobby s only objection to the whole proceeding and take the word of her keepers, she always ia an even tempered lady came when a noose waa dropped about her neck with the aid of a prong manipulated from outside out-side her cage. AROUSES UONS That was to enable the doctors and staff of "nurses" to tie her securely 1 1 to the front bars so that the nembutal I might be injected. I Aa the rope cinched, Bobby went into a aeries of gymnastics that shook the cage. Her rage aroused lions two cage away and they were on the prowl constantly during the rest of the operation. Dragged to the front of the cage, Bobby allowed her paws to be caught in more nooses. When they were ' made fast to the bars, the rope about i her neck was loosened and aha stretched out quietly, apparently un- : derstanding that what was about to ' be done wss for her good, from then on her behavior waa above reproach ' and ah allowed the operation to go ahead unmolested, merely raising her heed now and then th veterinarians veterinar-ians cleaned a rear leg for the nembutal nem-butal injection. Three "nurses" were kept busy seeing see-ing that tha tangle of ropea binding Iher paws were kept tight around the bare. These aidea of the Impromptu (operating room were A. E. Lund.1 I manager of the zoo: E. M. "Dutch" iShider, trainer, and J. R. Harris, night 'watchman. i OPERATION BEGINS After some 40 minutes spent in getting get-ting Bobby into piece and allowing tha injection to take effect, the actual operation began and took only about 15 minutes. Tha akin was slit and th ailing Joint, at th bs of th tail, waa removed. An administration of antiseptic, loosening of ropes and it wss all over. . Bobby lay Inert a few minutes, roused herself snd crawled Into a cor-1 : ner, where she gently licked the sore spot and gased appreciatively at her attendants. The big tiger, which has resided at the too sines lsst June, suffered sn injury to her tail in a Kansas City train wreck about a year ago, when i he wss in a circus. Th injury grew worst and developed Into gangrene, paralyzing th entire member. There were plenty of interested spectators. Neighboring lions paced back and forth in their cages, heads turned toward Bobby. A monkey that had darted from her cage earlier in the morning ceased her scampering on the raftera to watch from a vantage van-tage point above the cage. |