Category Archives: Veterinary Medicine

D. E. Larsen, DVM Chico had been one of my first small animal patients when I arrived in Enumclaw to start working.  The practice was primarily a dairy practice, and I was a cow doctor at heart. The dogs and cats were almost a sideline for us. And Chico was about as far removed fromContinue reading “Chico’s Mast Cell Tumor”

First published July 12, 2021 D. E. Larsen, DVM By the summer of nineteen sixty-seven, I had been elevated to Quality Control NCO in our maintenance shop for the 177th USASA Operations Company located at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. The year I was there is often called the second Korean War. We were besieged byContinue reading “Dumb and Dumber, From the Archives”

D. E. Larsen, DVM Basic training, Fall of 1965, Fort Ord, California. It was week of basic training. We were beginning to look like real soldiers. Even the fat guys were getting in shape after doing a hundred pushups every day during physical training. And the three mile marches to the rifle range every dayContinue reading “Army Vaccines “