Completely revised and updated, the second edition of this comprehensive text details the basic, in-office diagnostic and therapeutic procedures commonly performed in treating dogs, cats, and rabbits. The step-by-step instructions on restraint, anesthesia, surgical technique, and medical management are provided and include the whether to in addition to the why to and how to. This book discusses purposes of the procedures, indications, precautions, possible complications, equipment needed, and preparations. It also includes superb line drawings of procedures, explicitly demonstrating operational motions as well as pertinent anatomic relationships.