Funny and touching stories about animals by English writer and veterinarian James Herriot have been translated into dozens of languages. His good-natured humor, well-aimed observation and the brilliant gift of the narrator have been gaining new readers for several decades, never ceasing to amaze how interesting stories from the practice of the "cow doctor" can be. And as far as the everyday life of a rural veterinarian is far from routine, there is no need to say! Try, for example, to reason with a furious bull, or to move a stubborn pig, or turn it into an operating stall, while not forgetting about the sharp teeth and hooves of their four-legged patients. This edition presents Herriot's book "On All Creatures - Beautiful and Intelligent" (1974), in which, as in the collection "On All Creatures - Large and Small," the author again refers to the first years of his veterinary practice in Darrowby, a fictional town among the Yorkshire hills, beyond which the features of Thirsk, where the world famous James Herriot Museum is now located