When the Animals Talked is a story that takes place millions of years ago on a shepherd's farm just outside a town called Cyrene. It's about a young donkey foul who tells legendary tales of his family's genealogy. Joined by several other small animals on a farm in the Middle East, a young donkey named Dan shares several of his family tales with a bunch of other small animals that lived there. As they listen to one another's stories, they each have one common interest: the coming of a Messiah.

All of the short tales told by the young farm animals in this book were shared details of their family's most important yet intimate aspects of their lives. These stories have been passed down and told repeatedly throughout each generation. Their stories all begin many thousands of years ago in the city of Cyrene before the coming of Christ Jesus and end in Jerusalem with his death on the cross.

Although an animal talking to a man has been mentioned only once in true biblical history, When the Animals Talked is the fictional version of what the animals might have been thinking; if it were possible that they could have talked, it's what they might have said.