<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>People are beautiful. From the gorgeous movie star to the tiny baby in its crib asleep. The fat the thin the short and the tall. I love them all... Large and small animals and the uniqueness of each species combining their individual colors and habits bring beauty to every corner of the universe! Insects that fly or crawl birds and bees I love them all. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Harold W. Wood D.V.M.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born in Oklahoma two years before statehood Doc Wood tells some fascinating and often funny stories of growing up on a cotton farm working his way through college and veterinary school to become a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine his sometimes perilous adventures in India and his inspiring philosophy of life working with animals from bees to elephants and people all over the world No matter the color of their face no matter of their ancestral race.</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How much fun can a small boy have with just a quarter on 4th of July in 1917? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How does the son of a dirt farmer get a higher education when his father resents him trying to be smarter than his old man? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What should you do if you accidentally kill a duck owned by the parents of your high school date? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How do you leave the family farm with no car and no money? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What is the back story of a 1908 picture of a wagon loaded with cotton surrounded by 8 people and two horses and why was the image selected for the official poster for Oklahoma Archives Week 2005? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How can one travel around the world without it costing anything? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How do you perform surgery on an elephant at a wilderness clinic miles from electricity and without a scalpel big enough for the job? </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What to do with a dog that swallows a $5000 wedding ring?&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style=color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>How do you find your career and the love of your life at the same time?</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The answers are all in this book!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Learn more at: https://storiesbydoc.weebly.com</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this second edition in paperback for the first time an additional illustrated and annotated story A Romantic Anchor tells how Doc Wood met his wife and simultaneously decided to embark on his career in Veterinary Medicine.</span></p>