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A pet carrier on a steel table in a clinic corridor with a blank card clipped to its door, a stethoscope on the counter behind.

Consent template

Veterinary Authorization

Permission to get an animal treated when the owner cannot be reached, with a spending limit the owner sets themselves.

Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — boarding, grooming and daycare — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 12 blanks marked, and 1 point flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for boarding, grooming and daycare

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

12 blanks in this document

guest namepet namebusiness namedrop off datedateowner phoneemergency contactemergency phonevet namespending limitvet phonepet notes

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Veterinary Authorization, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Mobile number
  • Emergency contact
  • Emergency contact number
  • Billing referenceOptional
  • I have read and understood this document

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

Check whether an advance authorization of this kind is honoured by veterinarians where you operate, and whether euthanasia needs separate wording.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Veterinary Authorization

Owner: guest name. Animal: pet name. In the care of business name from drop off date. Signed date.

  1. If pet name is ill or injured. business name will try to reach me on owner phone and then my emergency contact, emergency contact on emergency phone. If neither can be reached and staff judge that pet name needs care, I authorise business name to take pet name to vet name or, if unavailable, to the nearest veterinarian.
  2. What I authorise. Examination, and treatment up to spending limit without further contact. Treatment above that amount needs my agreement, unless the veterinarian says delay would cause suffering or death, in which case I authorise what the veterinarian judges necessary.
  3. Cost. I will pay the veterinary costs incurred under this authorization directly to the veterinarian or reimburse business name at collection.
  4. My own vet. vet name, vet phone. pet name's known conditions and medications: pet notes.

By signing I confirm that I own pet name or am authorised by the owner, and that I meant to sign this.

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