<p>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.<br>"Did that cat bite you?" Sandy asked?<br>"Yes," Sue said. "She is not mean. She was just scared and in pain."<br>"This changes the whole thing," Sandy said.<br>"Just a minute while I get the doctor. -from Isabelle, Saved by a Bite</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>