Nobody Sits
In A Hot Car Here
Total Vet sends veterinarians to homes right across Kern County, from the older streets of Oleander to the newer tracts out past Riverlakes. In a place where the car is a hundred and thirty degrees by two o'clock, moving a sick animal across town is the worst part of the whole day — so we don't.
Mobile vet services in Bakersfield
A stocked mobile treatment room parks in your drive, and everything on this list happens indoors where it is cool.
Wellness Exams
A thorough annual assessment with weight, teeth and joints written down each year, plus a proper listen to the chest — which matters more here than in most places.
Vaccinations
Rabies as California requires, and beyond that only what the animal's routine calls for, whether that is the Kern River Parkway most mornings or a shaded back yard.
Sick Visits
A foxtail driven into a paw or an ear, a persistent cough, a dog gone lethargic in a heat wave. Seen at the house and started on treatment before we leave.
Diagnostics & Labs
Blood panels, urine, cytology and the tests that matter locally, drawn at your address and run from the vehicle so answers arrive without a week of waiting.
End-of-Life Care
Hospice conversations early and, when the day comes, a peaceful end on the cool tile where your dog has spent every summer. Aftercare arranged on your behalf.
Telehealth
Video follow-ups for patients we already see, which is the sensible route on a hundred-and-ten degree afternoon or a day when the valley air is bad.
Driveway to cool tile, across Bakersfield
Out of the heat
Tile-floor workup
Shaded drive
From Old Town Kern out to Seven Oaks, the doctor comes to the house, which in a valley summer is not a convenience so much as the only humane way to move a sick animal, which is to say not at all.
Why Bakersfield pet owners choose us
Traditional Clinic
- A car interior well over a hundred degrees by mid-afternoon
- Crossing town on 99 with a sick animal in the back
- A crowded lobby that undoes a nervous dog immediately
- Losing a working morning to a routine annual visit
- A new clinician each time, and the history retold
Total Vet Mobile Care
- Your animal stays on cool tile the entire visit
- No drive across town, and no waiting room at all
- One doctor who knows what the summer does to this dog
- Appointment windows built around a working day
- Prescriptions and records settled before we drive off
Caring for pets in Bakersfield
The San Joaquin Valley sets the terms: months of extreme dry heat, dust that carries more than dust, and seed heads that turn a walk through open ground into a veterinary problem by the weekend.
Valley fever is local
Coccidioidomycosis lives in the soil here and dogs breathe it in from disturbed dust. A cough or limp that will not resolve is worth testing for rather than treating blind.
Foxtails do real damage
Dried grass awns burrow into paws, ears, noses and eyes and travel inwards. From late spring, check the feet and ears after any walk through dry ground — they rarely come out on their own.
Heat with no evening relief
Asphalt holds its temperature long after sunset here. Walk at first light rather than after dinner, and treat any panting that does not settle in the shade as urgent.
County licensing rules
Kern County Animal Services licenses dogs over four months against a current rabies vaccination, and expects it done within fifteen days of the animal arriving. We vaccinate and leave the certificate.
Bakersfield Service Area & Pricing
Transparent pricing, with no hidden travel fees within our primary service zones.
Neighborhoods Served
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Zip Codes Served
Transparent Pricing
Those figures are for the journey out and the examination. Vaccines, laboratory testing and any medication dispensed are itemised separately and priced with you before the doctor proceeds.
Questions Bakersfield pet owners ask us
After hours, Animal Emergency & Urgent Care at 4300 Easton Drive is open continuously, and VCA Bakersfield Animal Hospital on Harris Road also takes walk-in emergencies around the clock for the wider county.
"August here is brutal and our shepherd is fourteen. Loading him into a car for a checkup honestly felt cruel. Someone came out to the house in Westchester and did the whole thing on the tile with the fan going."
Rosa M.
Westchester, Bakersfield, CA