Donald Turner returns to his home town to work as assistant to the local vet. It is difficult enough to adjust to a new job, but when your first patient is an elephant with 'the skitters'...

Donald Turner 's success rating isn't very high in the zoo world - and it is not improved when he is recalled to treat Mary, the elephant - only this time for toothache ...

Donald Turner's distress at his own helplessness with zoo animals is once more tested when Rajah, the tiger, becomes ill ...