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At the front desk, Sandy was busy getting their information. Sue, the petite brunette, held out her hand and showed Sandy a deep bite wound at the base of her thumb. "Did that cat bite you?" Sandy asked? "Yes," Sue said. "She is not mean. She was just scared and in pain." "This changes the whole thing," Sandy said. "Just a minute while I get the doctor. -from Isabelle, Saved by a Bite Following the success of Last Cow in the Chute and Widow Woman's Ranch in Dr. David Larsen's Memoirs of a Country Vet series, Lambs and Crab Legs & other stories continues in the same format. Among this collection of fifty short, true-life stories. In these pages, you will find heartbreak, almost beyond belief, the elation of a new pet, surprise, humor, and success. Sprinkled with a few bits of wisdom throughout. Dave Larsen brings readers his skillfully written accounts of life as a country veterinarian in the 1970s and 1980s. These stories start in Enumclaw, Washington, where he joined a mixed practice out of school. And then it continues where he ran a one-vet general clinic in Sweet Home, Oregon. Where often his medical attention, expertise, and wisdom, in often immediate life-and-death situations, were sought with one phone call at any time of the day, every day of the week.