We hope to be able to control that pain. Surgeries are painful procedures by definition, but we control that pain by giving them pain medication before surgery. We call that our pre-medication. We provide them with pain medication during the surgery, and then we send them home medication afterward. We also control pain through our cold laser, our K-Laser, a non-medication, but it is a pain control.

Beforehand we've probably communicated with you as far as the general procedure, what to expect, and when we will follow up with you to let you know how the pet's doing. We offer multiple ways to communicate, whether through texting or calling. Sometimes we send pictures and things like that during recovery, and you can always call in and check on your pet if you want to. We do have the occasional client that stays with us during the procedure. You cannot be right there with them during the surgery, but you can stay at our clinic if you don't want to leave them. But the majority of our clients we call or text.

In most of our surgeries, they will be intubated. There are certain minor procedures where they may only have IV anesthesia.

So there are different types of anesthesia (we have a video on that), whether sedation or general anesthesia. So they will be sedated and/or anesthetized for any kind of surgical procedure. And the second part of that question was who's going to be monitoring them. So the veterinarian that is doing the procedure is constantly monitoring our patients. Because we are focused on the surgery, we’ll also have a trained staff member that will be in the room with your pet, monitoring them physically. The dog will also be connected to monitoring equipment that measures their heart rate, oxygen saturation, their blood pressure. And so, there's a lot of monitoring that goes on. The trained technicians watch the monitors and physically put their hands on the pet, which are both important.

One important question would be thinking about the care afterward, which we've talked a lot about. You’d, of course, want to know the cost of the procedure. That's an important thing for clients to know. And then, you may want to know the length of the procedure. Is the pet going to need to stay in the hospital, or will they come home the same day?