Animal Hospital Characters

Also called: Doctor

Location

Shift results, Staff Only Room, waiting area, Ambulance prelude, late-run office escort

Appears

Between shifts; waiting-area lore from Shift 7+; warns before Ambulance rushes; box escort ~Shift 16-18 (Lore Expansion)

Senior staff who frames the night shift, stocks you between runs, hints at the next night's trouble, and calls out incoming Ambulance pressure before patients bypass the desk. Lore Expansion lets you carry confidential boxes into the NO ACCESS wing and explore his office; Mint Tea waiting-area talk still unlocks follow-up questions from Shift 7+.

Shift results may stock supplies; Ambulance events start with a verbal warning from Harlow. From Shift 7 onward he can idle in the waiting area, talk through his normal lines, then offer Mint Tea ($100 in Supplies Shop) to unlock follow-up questions about Barney, Ron, Ratthew, Liz, and the corporation. Mint Tea also restores Sanity if you drink it yourself. Late run: carry his confidential boxes through NO ACCESS → RESTRICTED → OFFICE, drop on the green mark, then explore. While he sits, hand Ratthew's Key, then the office book, to-do list, and testimony pages (not Room 5's safe).

Also called: Nurse (NPC)

Location

Supplies Shop during a shift

Appears

After the mid-shift shop opens (about Shift 3)

Pink nurse model in light blue scrubs at the Supplies Shop: she looks similar to the Nurse class model, but only handles shop purchases.

Buy Taser, Run Faster, Chocolate, Teddy Bear, Mint Tea, Scanner, Deployable Camera, and other mid-run gear through her shop row after the Supplies Shop opens.

Location

Check-in / reception area

Appears

Shift 2+; multi-visit arc before the police scene

White rabbit who asks for coffee, favors, and a desk photo across several visits, then Officer Duckman arrives with a wanted poster. Your hide-or-turn-in choice can reward a second coffee machine for the run.

Hide path (or letting the officer timer expire) grants a second Coffee Machine; turn-in triggers a scripted fight with no shop reward.

Location

Check-in area after a slime secret shift

Appears

After you survive a slime secret shift (often around Shift 12)

Calico cat in a hazmat suit who offers to work for the hospital after Slimebert nights. Former Animal Corp Hazmat, fired for undisclosed reasons: he still wears PPE with his face exposed and patrols with his own gear.

Hire for $250 at check-in; the contract lasts three shifts. He auto-patrols slime, room fires, and Hiders most often. Hider audio while he is hired often means Sam is clearing them, not that you are the target. He ignores Ghosts. He can return after future slime secret shifts if you let the contract expire.

Also called: Policeman

Location

Check-in area during the Barney finale

Appears

End of the Barney storyline

Duck officer who shows Barney's wanted photo and asks whether you have seen the suspect. His scene is the branch point for hide vs turn-in.

Turn-in: Barney stabs Duckman and flees: you may need to stabilize the officer. Hide: Barney rewards a second coffee machine.

Also called: Lisbeth

Location

Reception and waiting area during a shift; later her apartment (cutscene)

Appears

UV quest from Shift 10 onward (common ~10-18). House invite often after Shift 15 once photos are done (common ~15-20)

Caracal reporter formerly with Animal Corp news. She loans a UV camera mid-shift to document patients tied to the outbreak, not a desk visitor you admit through Shutters. Even More Lore adds a sticky note by the camera with the target name, then a late invite to her apartment outside the hospital.

Up to four photo rounds across later shifts: place her camera at the check-in wall (E), shoot only the named patient (yellow highlight plus the sticky note by the camera if you forget), then wait for her next visit. Named targets include Mike Spiders, Sophie Paws, and Rusty Yamada, then a fourth patient on the final round. You do not need to admit the target. Third clear usually pays a Chocolate Bar (+20 Sanity per bite · 3 bites); finish all four for the last Journal beat. A wrong name ends the quest for that run: she reclaims the camera and does not return. Before the fourth shot, keep Taser or Gun ready, the photographed patient can flip into a Mimic. After all four clears, keep surviving until she returns, thanks you, and offers Go to Liz's House (pick that option). Clear one more shift for the apartment cutscene. Full tour: Locations → Liz's home.

Location

Hospital dialogue scenes (often near reception); Ron's House after Shift 4

Appears

Shift 2 onward for dialogue visits; house route from Shift 4 (Skip Tutorial)

Blue-furred lop bunny accountant with maple syrup and a Top Secret briefcase. Hospital lines hint at infected patients and hallway threats. Oct 3 Ron update adds a home recovery visit after Dr. Harlow asks you to check on him.

Hospital visits: listen for Bed Monster (Maple Syrup), Ceiling Monster, and don't-stare Stalker warnings. House: peephole green admit / red reject, drop visitor medical items on Ron until his health bar fills, hold windows shut on Stalker Emergency.

Also called: Ratthew's Key

Location

Check-in window · Room 5 safe

Appears

Recurring visits across a run (key often drops around Shift 8-10)

Small rat who warns you not to trust anyone, then vanishes after handing over Ratthew's Key: opens a hidden safe in Room 5 tied to Rattina and the Animal Corporation cover-up. Not a Shutter check target.

Permanent Ratthew's Key unlocks the cat-poster safe in Room 5, lore reward, not a class or shop unlock.

Also called: Clown

Location

Upper Floor

Appears

After Second Floor unlock (first Ambulance or Skip Tutorial)

Clown held upstairs with the Lab and lore rooms. Story and Journal focus for the Second Floor patch, not a desk patient you Shutter at check-in.

Explore the UPPER FLOOR after Ambulance unlock. Pair with Lab Sampler work and new Journal achievement rows rather than treating Squiggles as a hallway threat.

Location

Main lobby

Appears

Before or between shifts

Lobby cat with ambient dialogue, helps tell lobby NPCs apart from in-shift threats.

Location

Main lobby

Appears

Before or between shifts

Lobby rabbit with ambient dialogue before you queue a shift.

Location

Lobby: news or update context

Appears

Lobby, before shifts

Lobby rabbit with news-style lines. Before the first Ambulance rush (Shift 4), check the check-in TV, his broadcast often fires right before the wave.