Author Archives: d.e.larsen.dvm

D. E. Larsen, DVM Rosie was a quiet Chocolate Lab who lived with her family up the river from Cascadia. Their driveway was nearly a mile long and joined the highway just below Mountain House. Tall Douglas Fir trees lined the road in this area. The river ran along the south side of the highway.Continue reading “Rosie, From the Archives”

D. E. Larsen, DVM The year was 1949. I was four years old. We had just moved onto an old farm outside of Broadbent, Oregon. That is probably a bit of an overstatement, Broadbent was only a bit more than a wide spot in the road. The farm was 160 acres, run down and inContinue reading “Wild Pets”

D. E. Larsen, DVM  When I was growing up in Coos County one rarely encountered a Coyote, except on the high ridges. We didn’t think much about it at the time. That was just the way it was. I remember the first coyote I saw, on the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, on a cold morningContinue reading “Old Three Toes, From the Archives”