Don stepped on his brakes and pulled his pickup to the side of Bellinger Scale Road.
"I think that was an orange kitten," Don said to himself as he stepped out of his pickup.
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"Do you think he will have any lasting problems from those days of starvation?" Don asked.
"I don't think he will have any physical problems," I said. "But, we see cats who are rescued from a feral situation that have a real problem with overeating. Some of those cats will eat food until it is gone, and if the owner doesn't regulate their portions, they will get heavy."
"He will get enough to eat at our place, but he has enough competition at the food dish that he won't have much of a chance to overeat," Don said.
Fate served Wazzu well. Rather than becoming a boney morsel for a coyote, he fell into a household of multiple cats and attentive owners.
-from "The Orange Kitten"
Adding to the popular series of Dr. David E. Larsen's Memoirs of a Country Vet, book 6 picks up with more true-to-life stories from a country veterinary practice in the fringes of Oregon's Willamette Valley. As the cover portrays, the stories are a little slanted toward kittens and cats but there are many memoirs of dogs, cows, sheep, and horses. Even a pig story makes the lineup.
These books prove entertaining and easy to read as they capture the essence of daily life in a solo veterinary practice in the 1970s and 80s.
