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House-call vets covering the biggest city in the Lower 48

The Vet Who Drives to You
across Jacksonville & Duval County

Jacksonville sprawls across roughly 840 square miles, and the St. Johns River cuts it in half — so a "quick" clinic run from Mandarin or Arlington rarely is. Total Vet flips that math: our veterinarians handle exams, vaccines, and lab work right in your kitchen, from historic Riverside bungalows to Bartram Park townhomes, anywhere in Duval County.

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A Total Vet house-call veterinarian kneeling beside a relaxed dog during an in-home exam at a Jacksonville family's house

Mobile vet services in Jacksonville

Everything a healthy Jacksonville pet needs — brought over the bridge to your door instead of the other way around.

Wellness Exams

Unhurried nose-to-tail checkups on your own sofa, tuned to Duval life — we watch senior joints that stiffen in damp river air and skin that flares in the Jacksonville humidity.

Vaccinations

Rabies shots that keep your City of Jacksonville license tag current, plus leptospirosis protection worth discussing if your dog noses around retention ponds or Hanna Park trails.

Sick Visits

Itchy ears after a swim at Dogwood Park, a stomach upset after beach-weekend scavenging, limping after zoomies — we diagnose and start treatment without a trip up Butler Boulevard.

Diagnostics & Labs

Blood draws, heartworm and fecal screens, and urinalysis collected while your pet lounges at home in San Jose or Springfield, with results back fast enough to act on.

End-of-Life Care

When it's time, we come quietly to the backyard oak or the favorite chair, so your family can say goodbye in private — never in an exam room across town.

Telehealth

A video call beats crossing the Buckman at rush hour. Established patients get quick follow-ups, med checks, and is-this-worth-a-visit answers from wherever you are.

House calls across the River City

A Total Vet veterinarian greeting a happy dog at the front door of a historic Riverside bungalow in Jacksonville

Front-porch hello

A veterinarian gently checking a relaxed dog stretched out on the couch during an in-home visit in San Marco

Couch-side exam

Total Vet's fully stocked mobile clinic van parked in a Mandarin driveway beneath old shade oaks

Driveway visit

In a city that sprawls 840 square miles across the St. Johns, we cross the bridges so your Duval County pet never has to — trading the Fuller Warren for a calm exam on their own bed.

0
minutes lost crawling over the Buckman Bridge
100%
of the visit on your pet, not a full waiting room
45+
unrushed minutes at your own kitchen table

Why Jacksonville pet owners choose us

Traditional Clinic

  • Crawling over the Fuller Warren with a dog drooling on your shoulder
  • Mandarin to a Southside clinic can burn an hour round trip
  • Your cat yowls at every light down Atlantic Boulevard
  • Waiting rooms jammed with post-beach-weekend patients
  • One appointment swallows an entire school-night evening

Total Vet Mobile Care

  • We cross the St. Johns so your pet never has to
  • Exams on your Avondale porch or Bartram Park lanai
  • The same vet remembers your pet, visit after visit
  • No carrier battles, no parking, no lobby full of strangers
  • Appointment windows that work around pickup lines and practices

Caring for pets in Jacksonville

Between the river, the beaches, and shade oaks older than the city itself, Jacksonville is built for dogs — as long as their people plan around the mosquitoes, the storms, and the sheer distance between neighborhoods.

Heartworm Has No Off-Season

North Florida's mild winters keep mosquitoes active nearly year-round, so Jacksonville pets need heartworm prevention all twelve months. We test and refill right at your door.

Room to Run Off-Leash

Dogwood Park on the Westside offers 42 members-only acres with a swim lake, and John Gorrie Dog Park in Riverside splits big and small dogs into their own runs.

City Tag Required

Jacksonville requires dogs, cats, and ferrets four months and up to have a current rabies vaccine plus an annual city license tag. Your vaccine visit with us covers the paperwork.

Storms & Sandy Season

Hurricane season and beach nor'easters mean every pet needs records, meds, and a carrier in the go-kit. At Jax Beach, leashed dogs get the sand all day October through March, but only before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m. in summer.

Jacksonville Service Area & Pricing

Transparent pricing, with no hidden travel fees within our primary service zones.

Service-area map showing Jacksonville pinned in Florida's northeast corner, with coverage spanning both banks of the St. Johns across Duval County

Neighborhoods Served

Riverside Avondale Murray Hill Ortega San Marco San Jose Springfield Arlington Southside Baymeadows Mandarin Bartram Park Intracoastal West Jacksonville Beach

Don't see your neighborhood? Contact us to verify coverage.

Zip Codes Served

32204 32205 32207 32210 32211 32216 32217 32223 32250 32256 32257 32258

Transparent Pricing

House Call & Wellness Exam
Travel fee + comprehensive nose-to-tail exam (1 pet)
$175
Additional Pet Exam
Exam fee for each additional pet during the same visit
$85
Sick Visit / Consultation
Travel fee + focused diagnostic exam
$195
Telehealth Follow-up
Video consultation for existing patients
$65

Visit fees above cover travel and the exam itself; any vaccines, lab panels, or medications your pet needs that day are itemized separately on your invoice.

Questions Jacksonville pet owners ask us

Not much — that's the point. Pick a comfortable spot with decent light, corral your cat indoors an hour or two ahead (they have a sixth sense about vet visits), and jot down any questions. If you're in a gated community like some Bartram Park or Intracoastal West subdivisions, just add the gate code to your booking notes.

No — procedures that need anesthesia or imaging belong in a fully equipped facility. When your pet needs a dental, a mass removal, or radiographs, we refer you to a trusted brick-and-mortar partner on your side of the river and send records ahead so nothing gets repeated or lost.

Almost always. Most plans reimburse you rather than paying the vet directly, so what matters is documentation — whether we examined your pet in Ortega or out at Jacksonville Beach, you'll have a fully itemized, code-complete invoice ready to upload to your carrier's claim portal before bedtime.

Never. One trip to your home means one travel fee, no matter how many pets line up. Each animal after the first is billed at a reduced exam rate, which makes a multi-pet household visit in Jacksonville meaningfully cheaper than three separate clinic runs.

Go, don't wait for us. BluePearl Pet Hospital at 3444 Southside Blvd is a 24-hour ER with critical care and surgery, and VEG Jacksonville on Town Center Pkwy near St. Johns Town Center also takes walk-in emergencies around the clock. Call them while you're en route so their team is ready.

You pay once, at the end of the visit — that's it. Card, debit, or a tap of your phone settles everything before our van backs out of your Duval driveway, and the receipt hits your email before we've merged onto I-95.

With a day's notice, there's never a fee. Because Jacksonville is so spread out, we build each day's route by area — Northside and Arlington one day, Mandarin and the Beaches another — so early notice lets another family in your part of town take the slot.

If something can't wait for a house call, head straight to BluePearl Pet Hospital on Southside Blvd or Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) by St. Johns Town Center — both run 24/7, every day of the year.

"Our senior lab hates the car, so having Total Vet come to our San Marco home was a revelation. He stayed calm on his own bed the whole exam. We'll never go back to a clinic."

Katie H. & Moose

San Marco, Jacksonville, FL