During the blood donation seen in the firehouse the truck that was used for transporting the blood donation equipment said plasma donations on the side. Plasma donations used for human transfusion must be transported by either Red Cross LifeStream or some other private blood bank donation facility.
In a flashback Sam Coopertino is accused of killing "Ellie the Lion" while on Safari. When he enters his office and get the lion head out of the box to mount it on the wall, it is clearly a male lion. Female lions do not have large manes. However, this assumes that 'Ellie' is in English, which given that the lion was in Africa, is unlikely and would more likely have a native name.