A veterinary answering service that answers while your team is with a patient
A voice agent that books exams and vaccinations, moves and cancels appointments, answers repeat questions from content your team approved, and puts any call about an animal in distress straight through to a person — it never gives veterinary advice.
The short answer
How does a veterinary clinic stop missing calls?
A veterinary clinic stops missing calls when an AI agent answers every inbound call in the caller's language — while the team is in an exam room or in surgery, after closing and on weekends — instead of sending it to voicemail. The agent books, moves and cancels appointments through the systems you connect, and answers repeat questions such as opening hours, vaccination visits and what to bring from a knowledge base your staff approved. Any call about an animal in distress is transferred to your team, the on-call veterinarian or the emergency clinic number you set. The agent does not give veterinary advice, and every call leaves a recording, a transcript and a summary.
What happens today
- The phone rings while everyone is holding an animal or assisting in surgery, and nobody can pick up
- A worried owner with a sick pet who is not answered calls the next clinic on the list
- Repeat questions — opening hours, vaccination visits, what to bring to a first appointment, refill requests — fill the front desk's day
- After-hours calls go to voicemail, including the ones that needed to reach an emergency clinic right away
- Reminders for annual checkups and vaccinations do not go out, and the next visit never gets booked
How it sounds
Hi, you have reached the veterinary clinic. I am the clinic's digital assistant. I can book an appointment, move an existing one, or put you through to the team. If your pet needs urgent help, tell me now and I will connect you to a person right away.
What the agent captures
- Owner's full name and a callback number
- The pet's name, species, breed and age
- Reason for the visit — checkup, vaccination, illness, injury, follow-up
- Urgency, in the owner's own words, and whether the call needs a person now
- Preferred time window and preferred veterinarian
- Whether the pet is a new or a returning patient
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Exam rooms, surgery and the after-hours gap
When everyone is with an animal, nobody is free for the phone, and the calls keep coming. The agent answers every call in parallel, in the caller's language, with no hold queue, no matter how many owners dial at once. Outside opening hours it keeps answering exactly the same way, and urgent calls still reach a person.
- 24/7 answering on the clinic's existing line
- Many simultaneous calls with no hold music
- The same agent on WhatsApp for owners who prefer text
- Outbound calls for reminders and appointment confirmations
Booking, rescheduling and reminders
With your scheduling system connected as a tool, the agent does not just note a request — it checks availability, books the appointment, moves it or cancels it, and confirms out loud. There is no built-in integration with veterinary practice software. Out of the box the agent books into a connected calendar, or takes the request and sends it to your team to enter; a practice-management system that offers an API can be connected through an HTTP connector, the Daber AI API or webhooks.
- Book, move and cancel against the connected system
- Returning owners recognized by phone number, with their earlier conversations recalled
- Outbound calls for checkup and vaccination reminders
- Warm transfer to staff, including dialing a specific extension
An animal in distress goes to a person, never to the agent alone
The agent does not give veterinary advice, does not diagnose and does not tell an owner whether something can wait. What it does is recognize, by the rules you set, that a call may be urgent — for example an animal that was hit by a car, is struggling to breathe or may have eaten something poisonous — and transfer it straight away to your team, the on-call veterinarian or the emergency clinic you refer owners to. Anything about an animal's health reaches a person, and that limit is built into the call flow itself.
- Urgency rules you define, not the model's free interpretation
- Transfer to a specific extension or an outside number, such as the emergency clinic you refer to
- The escalation reason is stored on the conversation for review
- Guardrails that block answers outside the defined scope
What the practice manager sees after every call
Every call ends as a single record: recording, full transcript, summary, sentiment and an escalation reason if there was one. From there you can see what owners actually ask, where the agent handed off and why, and update the knowledge base accordingly. It all exports through the REST API, signed webhooks, or activity write-back to Salesforce and HubSpot.
An AI answering service for veterinary clinics
With a traditional veterinary answering service, a person at an outside company answers in your clinic's name, usually priced per minute or per call, and knows your clinic only as well as the script you gave them. An AI answering service works from your own knowledge base and calendar: owners get an answer 24/7, every call is picked up at once, and the agent books, moves or cancels an appointment or takes a message. Any call about an animal in distress is transferred to your team or the on-call number by the rules you set, and every call leaves a transcript and a summary. If every caller needs to talk to a person, a live answering service is the better fit.
- Answering 24/7, including evenings, weekends and holidays
- Every call picked up at once, with no hold queue
- Appointments booked, moved and canceled, or a message taken
- Urgent animal cases transferred to your team or the on-call number
- A recording, transcript and summary of every call
Frequently asked
Does the agent give pet owners veterinary advice?
No. The agent handles scheduling, intake, repeat questions and routing — anything about an animal's health goes to your team. That limit lives in the call flow and the guardrails rather than in the model's discretion: when an owner describes a problem, the agent captures the details and either books the appointment or, if your rules mark it as urgent, transfers the call to a person.
What happens when an owner calls about an emergency at night?
The agent answers — it runs 24/7 — and applies the rule you set for urgent calls: an immediate transfer to the on-call veterinarian, or to the emergency clinic number you give it. It does not tell the owner whether the animal can wait until morning. The escalation reason is stored on the conversation, so in the morning the team can see who called and where the call went.
Does the agent really book into our schedule, or does it just take a message?
It books for real, once you connect it to your scheduling system through a tool. The agent checks availability, books, moves or cancels, and confirms to the owner out loud on the same call. If the system is not connected or does not respond, it falls back to taking the details and handing off to staff, rather than promising a slot that does not exist. There is no built-in connector for veterinary practice software; it connects only through an API, where the software offers one.
What does it cost a veterinary clinic?
Building the agent and testing it in your browser is free. Putting it on the clinic's phone line costs $3 for 14 days, with a real number and 30 call minutes; after that it continues on the plan you choose, from $49 a month with call hours included. Every plan and what it includes is on the pricing page.
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