Co-owner (with wife Kari) of the privately-funded elephant reservation "Have Trunk Will Travel" in Perris, California. The elephant family comprises adult members, Rosie, Dixie, Tai, Becky and Kitty, whose services over the years have been rented out to movie productions such as,
Made in America (1993),
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995),
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995),
Larger Than Life (1996),
George of the Jungle (1997),
Evan Almighty (2007),
Water for Elephants (2011),
Zookeeper (2011), etc.