Läbilööjalammas ja marukoer - Juhan Voolaid

Animals, whether out of fear or by accident, through training, beatings or upbringing, acquire human intelligence. Realizing their miserable position in a world appropriated by humans, the creatures begin to rearrange things.

The collection "The Sheep and the Mad Dog" contains six independent stories, the main characters of which are chickens, a cat, a cow, a dog, a sheep and a lion.

"A man lives with a dog and thinks that everything is fine," says the wise old man, "but a dog lives with a man and thinks that everything is not fine."

A cow that has come to her senses in the barn trades a day off from the worker to go earn money and buy herself freedom. A talking lion longs to water the seeds of intelligence in her descendants with the water of intelligence. A sheep trained to survive independently in the forest dreams of gradually exterminating wolves.

"Now we have such an instrument as reason," says the wise chicken. "Wouldn't this allow us to change our lives? Couldn't we use it to climb out of the human soup pot, flap our wings, and say, "Wow!"?" the library's own