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My First Foal Delivery

D. E. Larsen, DVM “Doc, this is Sid, Stan’s brother,” Sid said into the phone. “I have to go to work, but I have a mare down in the middle of the field, just over the little creek. She has a foal stuck. I don’t know how long she has been at it, I justContinue reading “My First Foal Delivery”

Posted byd.e.larsen.dvmMay 22, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inVeterinary MedicineTags:Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Obstetrics4 Comments on My First Foal Delivery

The Banded Collie

D. E. Larsen, DVM I stepped out of the garage to greet the station wagon that had just pulled into our driveway. We were trying to run a practice in the garage and with house calls and farm calls. The clinic was scheduled to be completed in August of 1976, but now it was lookingContinue reading “The Banded Collie”

Posted byd.e.larsen.dvmMay 20, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inVeterinary MedicineTags:Pets, Veterinary Medicine, Wound care2 Comments on The Banded Collie

Pat’s Menagerie

D. E. Larsen, DVM The mouth was wide open, and salvia dripped from the gleaming white teeth. The snarl could have come from a timber wolf. As I reached around to his rear end, the mouth snapped viciously at my arm. My arm would have been chewed to pieces if Joleen hadn’t had a deathContinue reading “Pat’s Menagerie”

Posted byd.e.larsen.dvmMay 15, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inVeterinary MedicineTags:Pets, Veterinary Medicine2 Comments on Pat’s Menagerie

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