This site contains a lot of information about domestic animals and their habits, known here as "our humble helpers," you will also find some information that pertains to certain wild animals as well. The name "humble helpers" comes from the title of the book, Our Humble Helpers by Jean Henri Fabre, and most of the information here originated in that book.

The information here is presented not so much in a typical "how to" or reference text, but rather more in the style of a story being told. If you are someone who has set about to begin learning about the care of domestic animals, I believe you will find this site very informative and even entertaining at times.

Since the information is presented in more of a "story telling" style, I believe this makes it more readable and much less dry and tedious than a typical reference text.

As you can see on the navigation menu to the left, there are sections of this site devoted to domestic foul, such as chickens and ducks as well as dogs, cats, sheep, goats, pigs and horses. There is also some material presented regarding wild animals like the wild goose.

There are also sections dedicated to milk, butter and cheese.

I must confess that I don't have any particular interest in farm animals or desire for further information about farm products beyond where in the local supermarket I can find them. However, I enjoy working with information and making it available on the Internet for people to make use of in one way or another. 

Even so, as I quickly glanced at some of the pages in the book mentioned above while extracting the info to use here, I found myself reading a few pages and learning a few things about domestic animals I did not previously know. As I mentioned earlier, the story-telling quality of the text makes it an entertaining read.

To me the Internet is a gigantic library -- indeed the largest most comprehensive library in human history. With so much garbage showing up these days on the 'net, I felt that adding some material that could actually be useful to someone is a worthy pursuit.

Although the information is dated (the book was publised in 1918), I was rather surprised to see how much of the information could be considered current today. It is amazing how much one can learn from a text that is nearly 100 years old!

One notable exeption was information regarding rabies, which seems to have been more widely known as hydrophobia in those days.

In some ways, I found reading this older material more interesting than a lot of contemporary writing. There is much about the older style of writing that is superior and more entertaining to read. So many words that were commonly used then do not seem to be used much at all today.

No matter what you think about writing or animals, I hope you are able to make use of the information here and perhaps even enjoy reading it!