Tammy: Okay. This is Dr. Bruce Olcott and he is at Louisiana State University in the large animal veterinary clinic. Well tell me a little bit about your background. You’ve worked with goats quite a while right?

Dr. Olcott: Yes ma’am I have. I’ve been a veterinarian since 1978 and all through that period of time, which I don’t even want to count how many years that is, I’ve been doing veterinary medicine with goats, so I’ve got quite an extensive amount of veterinary work and then in addition to that, I’ve got a fairly large herd of my own I’ve had for about the last, oh, 12 years now I guess. We’ve got about 200 goats and about 100 sheep that we run on a farm.

Tammy: You work with pygmies?

Dr. Olcott: I work with pygmies. Yes ma’am.

Tammy: Okay. Well tell…

Dr. Olcott: Let me just mention…

Tammy: Oh sure.

Dr. Olcott: …in addition to that experience, my wife and I have traveled all over the world. We’ve been to Haiti working on goat projects there, to Nepal, to Bangladesh, and each of those countries. That’s what we go for is to work on goats, so we’ve worked on goats all over the world.

Tammy: That’s cool.

Dr. Olcott: It is. It’s fun.

Tammy: I bet that is fun. Well tell me a little bit about what got you interested in goats.

Dr. Olcott: Well that’s a good question I guess. From a couple of different standpoints I guess. Number one is that goats in themselves are interesting animals. In terms of the work that we do around the world, goat are usually the only option, that they can’t afford things larger than a cow. It’s just out of the question for a small family in Haiti or Bangladesh.