When deemed appropriate, a doctor at the Milwaukee Emergency Center of Animals may administer a type of anesthesia called epidural injection. You may know a mother who delivered her child using this procedure. Similar to what she underwent, your animal would receive an injection into what is known as the epidural space. The epidural space is the space surrounding the spinal cord and nerves that come off directly from the spinal cord.

This completely eliminates sensation in the parts of the body that are below the injection point of the spinal column — without providing anesthesia to the parts above that point.