Valley Animals: True Stories about the Animals and People of California's Santa Ynez Valley

About this book

Twenty-five years in the making this book is a collection of true stories about the animals and the people of Californias Santa Ynez Valley in the heart of wine country farm country and animal country. The animals Brooks Firestone and his neighbors have lived with worked with played with and otherwise associated with include horses cattle dog cats elands alpacas bobcats mountain lions coyotes deer ostriches parrots geese ducks and even an Elephant at Michael Jacksons Neverland Ranch. This book is a tribute to a beautiful valley with all its landscape in both town and country. Most of all it is a celebration of that magic that happens when human beings and their animal neighbors interact.