This might involve surgery or something painful that we want the cat to be still and not feel that pain. We use anesthesia for dental procedures. If they come in and need to be sedated to take x-rays, that might be another reason.

The main types of anesthesia that we use are gas anesthesia for a procedure or even injectable anesthesia. Those are the two main types of anesthesia.

Early detection is probably our biggest factor; hence annual wellness or semi-annual wellness are excellent things to do.

We try for it not to be. Our rules are, we don't want anybody in pain. We don't want anybody sick, and we don't want anybody starving. We want them to eat. We want them to feel good.

In response to treatment, they'll go into a remissive state. A lot of those chemo protocols are done at that point or a little past that. Then we monitor the dog very closely for them to come out of remission. Then a new protocol is started at that point.