: Twenty stories reveal the secrets of nature and describe the habits of animals endowed with a bright personality. Stories teach justice and respect for the world around us.
The stories of the cycle are arranged in the order of publication.
Lobo
A cunning wolf slaughter the cattle of nearby farmers, and no hunter can kill him. The narrator kills a wolf friend and catches a predator with her body. The wolf dies in captivity, yearning for a girlfriend.
Woolley
A simple mongrel becomes a shepherd dog. Driving a flock of sheep, she is lost, then she finds a new owner, but becomes gloomy and ferocious. It turns out that the dog is strangling other people's sheep, and they kill her.
Krasnosheyka
Partridge cockerel starts a family, but a hunter kills his girlfriend. The cockerel is trying to grow chickens alone, but the hunter does not leave them alone and gradually exterminates the whole family of partridges.
Silver speck
For many years the storyteller has been observing the old and clever leader of the crow's pack, he sees how wisely he controls his relatives and teaches young animals. When an owl kills the leader, his pack thins and gradually disappears.
Gray bear life
A hunter kills a grizzly bear and injures her teddy bear. He survives, becomes a gloomy grizzly, hating people, and takes revenge on his enemies.Aged, the bear gives way to a weak but cunning rival and leaves to die in a hollow filled with poisonous gas.
Winnipeg wolf
A wolf who grew up on a chain loved only the son of his master. The boy died, the wolf escaped, but remained in the city, at the grave of a child. The wolf kept the city in fear, took revenge on a long-time offender and died in a raid.
Royal Analostanka
A fraudster passes off a street cat as a thoroughbred and sells it to a wealthy family. Despite a well-fed life, a freedom-loving cat escapes, returns to its slums and stays there forever.
Boy and lynx
An old lynx steals food in a forest hut, whose inhabitants are seriously ill. One of them, a fifteen-year-old boy, decides to repulse the lynx, wounds it with a jail, and the predator dies.
Snap
The narrator receives a bull terrier puppy as a gift from a friend. The dog turns out to be very brave, boldly rushes into battle even with the one who is larger than her, and dies during the hunt for the wolf.
Jack - Warhorse
A smart and strong rabbit is caught and sent to dog racing, where he wins victory after victory. In one of the races, the rabbit almost dies, but the hippodrome employee saves him and sets him free.
Arno
Fast carrier pigeon sets many records. Making a flight, he is captured by a dishonest person. Two years later, a dove breaks free and perishes in the claws of falcons near the house.
Street singer
Sparrow grows in a cage from canaries and learns to sing. One day he falls into freedom, makes a girlfriend, but she dies, without having sat the chicks. Sparrow again enters the cage, where it remains forever.
Tito
A female coyote raised among humans learns to avoid their traps. Having broken free, she transfers this invaluable experience to her children, thanks to which coyotes are still flourishing.
Why do tits lose their minds once a year
Small birds used to not fly south, but then mother nature warned them of the cold. Tits did not believe her, adapted to the cold winters and only in the fall they went crazy, wishing they had left for the south.
Johnny Teddy Bear
A bear from an American reserve protects her sick teddy bear from other bears. Once a teddy bear is captured by people, loses his mother, becomes attached to a girl and dies in her arms from an illness.
Chink
A puppy living with a drunkard in the reserve is haunted by a cheeky jackal. The drunkard leaves, and the puppy protects his tent from the jackal for four days. The returning drunkard stands up for a friend, killing the jackal.
Dominoes
In red foxes, a black-brown fox is born. Growing up, he finds a girlfriend and steals chickens from the surrounding farms. Farmers raid the fox, but he is saved and defeats his enemy - the ferocious dog.
Mustang Pacer
Cowboys try to catch the Mustang, known for its speed and intelligence, but all attempts fail. Finally, the mustang manages to be caught, but he breaks free, falls into the abyss and dies free.
In the footsteps of a deer
The young hunter has been chasing a huge deer for several years. Finally, he drives the animal into a trap, but understands that the deer, like himself, the son of mother nature, and releases him.
Bingo
The narrator starts a Scottish shepherd puppy, then gives it away.The puppy grows up, but remains faithful to his first owner, once saves him from coyotes and comes to die on the threshold of his house.
