Author Description

Buddy was a 12-week-old hound pup belonging to Frank Updegrave. I had seen Buddy a couple of times for routine vaccines and such. On this day, Frank was helping a friend building a shed. They were putting up rafters. Buddy was running around the shed doing hound stuff. Like any good hound, his nose was to the ground as he followed some scent. About then, he was suddenly in the wrong place at the wrong time. from "Polyradiculoneuritis (Coonhound Paralysis)" Following Last Cow in the Chute, Widow Woman's Ranch is Book Two in Dr. David Larsen's Memoirs of a Country Vet series. Among this collection of fifty, short, true-life stories, we meet Joe, Coco, Tramp, Ali, Peanut Digger, Buddy, Emma, and their owners as varied in personality as these large and small farm animals in their care. Dave Larsen brings readers his skillfully written accounts of life as a country veterinarian in the 1970s and 1980s where he ran a one-vet general clinic in Sweet Home, Oregon, and 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.