PetLife Animal Hospital recommends patients having procedures (surgery, biopsies, and radiographs) to be dropped off the day of the procedure between 8am and 9am. You will need to withhold food from 12am the night before and the day of the procedure. Your pet will undergo sedation and/or anesthesia and will need to be fasted. However, patients that may require feeding include very young animals or diabetic patients. If your pet falls into one of these categories, please check with the doctor for specific feeding and water instructions as they may allow you to offer food and water that day, depending on the procedure. The doctor will call you after the procedure is done to go over findings and post-operative care. We do not encourage visitation on the day of surgery or an extensive procedure. We would like the patient to recover from anesthesia on his or her own terms. Sometimes they may be vocal or appear anxious from the sedation. This can be heightened if the patient is anxious when separating from their owner. For this reason, unless your pet is critically ill, we ask that visitation be held off until the following day. Pets will be released same day for most procedures. In the rare case that a pet needs to stay overnight, PetLife Animal Hospital is staffed 24 hours a day with trained nurses when there is a critical care patient in the hospital. You need not fear that your pet will be left alone in a cage unattended. On the day of discharge from PetLife, you will receive written discharge instructions detailing the required care of your pet once you get him home.