D. E. Larsen, DVM I have a vivid memory of having only a single request for a present for Christmas in 1950. I was five years old, and the only thing I wished for was a pocket knife. I was delighted when I opened the small package. It wasn’t much of a knife, small andContinue reading “My Pocket Knife, From the Archives”
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Brownie, 1953
Brownie, 1953 D. E. Larsen, DVM I woke to an empty bedroom. The sky was clear and the morning sun was out, but there was still a chill to the summer air. I laid still and tried to listen to hear my brothers downstairs. I hated to wake to an empty room. Did the monsterContinue reading “Brownie, 1953”
On a Thanksgiving Eve, From the Archives
On a Thanksgiving Eve D. E. Larsen,DVM The barn was cold, but there was steam rising from the back of young heifer. A dusting of snow on her back was melting fast. Bill and Connie Wolfenbarger had called with a heifer in labor. They were not regular large animal clients but did visit the clinicContinue reading “On a Thanksgiving Eve, From the Archives”
Memoirs of a Country Vet 