2Everyone knows the story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the gripping journey of Joseph and Mary as they made their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem ending up in a stable where the Christ Child was born. But there is more to the story than what is told in the Bible about what happened on that cold winter's night. Besides Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in the stable, there were angels, shepherds, and the animals. There were donkeys along with oxen, goats, birds, a cow, a wolf, and sheep, if not others. So what about the animals who witnessed the birth of Christ? Did they just stand there and look at this special event? No, they did not These animals carry their own story, a story that needs to be told of their role on that special night that Jesus was born.