Suggested Family Activity • Cow 🐄 Appreciation Day
Suggested Family Activity • Cow 🐄 Appreciation Day
Two different national days this week fit perfectly into our animal theme this summer – Cow Appreciation Day today and National I Love Horses Day tomorrow! So, take this time to appreciate the gently mooing creatures that give us great products such as milk and cheese. And in the case of horses, we honor how they have helped clear fields, worked on farms, served as reliable transportation, and helped make the settling of our country possible, while at the same time becoming treasured members of our families.
English country veterinarian James Herriot loved the horses, cows, dogs, and cats he cared for during his career so much that he wrote a series of best-selling memoirs about his life. His first book, All Creatures Great and Small, is perhaps his best-known work, although he wrote many other books, including All Things Wise and Wonderful, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and James Herriot’s Animal Stories, among many others. A compilation of his best stories can be found in The Best of James Herriot: Favorite Memories of a Country Vet, as well as James Herriot’s Treasury for Children. His life and books have even become the basis of a highly popular new series on PBS titled All Creatures Great and Small. If you missed the series beginning earlier this year, check out season one on DVD from the NERL collection and get caught up while everyone is waiting for season two to begin!
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