All Total Vet locations
House-call veterinary care, Sarasota style

The Vet Who Comes to You
across Sarasota & the Keys

From a Laurel Park bungalow to a condo overlooking the Ringling Bridge, our veterinarians bring the full exam-room experience to your door anywhere in Sarasota County. Your pet keeps their favorite chair; we bring everything else.

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A Total Vet doctor kneeling beside a relaxed dog during a house call in a light-filled Sarasota living room

Mobile vet services in Sarasota

Every visit is a complete clinic on wheels, whether we're parked on a brick street in Laurel Park or a driveway in Gulf Gate. Here's what we handle in your home.

Wellness Exams

Annual and senior checkups done where your pet naps — a full physical, weight and mobility review, and a plan tuned to Sarasota's year-round outdoor life.

Vaccinations

Rabies, distemper-parvo, leptospirosis, and bordetella given at home, with the paperwork you'll need for Sarasota County's annual license tag handled on the spot.

Sick Visits

Limping after a Legacy Trail walk, an ear flared up from a Siesta Key swim, a cat who's gone off her food — we come diagnose and treat it at home.

Diagnostics & Labs

Blood chemistry, heartworm and tick-borne disease screens, cytology, and urinalysis collected in a Gulf Gate kitchen or Palmer Ranch great room, then explained in plain language.

End-of-Life Care

Gentle goodbyes where Sarasota Bay breezes reach the porch, or wherever your family gathers at home — unrushed time, comfort medication, and aftercare guidance included.

Telehealth

Video check-ins for established patients, handy for recheck questions or when season traffic on US 41 makes even a short trip feel long.

Care that never crosses the causeway

A Total Vet doctor meeting a tail-wagging dog at the front door of a Laurel Park brick-street bungalow in Sarasota

Brick-street welcome

A veterinarian gently examining a cat on the lanai couch of a Siesta Key home, with no carrier anywhere in sight

Lanai checkup

Total Vet's fully equipped mobile clinic van parked in a Gulf Gate driveway under afternoon banyan shade

Parked in Gulf Gate

In Sarasota, your pet's care unfolds at the pace of a banyan-shaded morning at the Ringling — unhurried, fear-free, and always on their own favorite chair.

0
Minutes lost to season traffic on the Ringling Causeway
100%
Of the visit spent on your pet, from Bird Key to Palmer Ranch
45+
Relaxed minutes per exam, timed to your pet, not a lobby

Why Sarasota pet owners choose us

Traditional Clinic

  • Coaxing a yowling cat over the Ringling Bridge in season traffic
  • Waiting rooms shared with anxious dogs and ringing phones
  • Circling for parking off the Tamiami Trail at midday
  • Twelve rushed minutes with a doctor you just met
  • Hot car seats and hotter pavement between door and clinic

Total Vet Mobile Care

  • We take the Ringling Causeway so your pet never has to
  • Exams on the couch, the lanai, or the garden step
  • Appointment windows that respect your day, not a lobby queue
  • A full unhurried hour with one attentive doctor
  • Cats stay out of carriers; seniors skip the stairs and heat

Caring for pets in Sarasota

Sarasota pets live well: morning walks past galleries and the Saturday farmers market downtown, powder-white beaches a bridge away, and shade under banyans at the Ringling. Caring for them here means knowing the Gulf as well as the vet books.

Watch the Red Tide Reports

When red tide settles over the coast, brevetoxins can sicken dogs that swim, lick wet fur, or nose dead fish along the wrack line. Check Sarasota County beach conditions before island outings and rinse pets after any Gulf swim.

Paw Parks & a Dog Beach

17th Street Paw Park off 17th Street offers fenced runs for big and small dogs, and Brohard Paw Park in Venice — about 18 miles south — is the county's only off-leash dog beach. Leashed dogs are welcome on the Legacy Trail.

County License, Every Year

In Sarasota County, any dog or cat four months or older needs a current rabies vaccination and a license tag renewed every year through Animal Services — yes, annually, even on a three-year vaccine. We supply the certificate at your visit.

Quartz Sand, Hot Asphalt

Siesta Beach's 99% quartz sand famously stays cool underfoot, but crosswalks and parking lots don't — test pavement with your palm in summer. Warm, wet months also mean mosquitoes, so heartworm prevention here never takes a season off.

Sarasota Service Area & Pricing

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

Suncoast map showing Sarasota pinned between its barrier keys and I-75, with the Sarasota County service area shaded

Neighborhoods Served

Downtown Sarasota Rosemary District Laurel Park Southside Village Arlington Park Gulf Gate The Meadows Palmer Ranch Siesta Key Lido Key & St. Armands Bird Key Longboat Key Indian Beach–Sapphire Shores

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

Zip Codes Served

34231 34232 34233 34234 34235 34236 34237 34238 34239 34242

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

Exam and travel are bundled in the prices above; vaccines, lab work, and dispensed medications are itemized separately, and you'll see those costs before we proceed.

Questions Sarasota pet owners ask us

Very little. Pick a spot your pet already likes — many Siesta Key and Bird Key clients choose the lanai — and keep cats indoors for the hour before we arrive. If you have recent records from another practice, have them handy; otherwise we'll request them for you.

Anything involving anesthesia or imaging gets referred to trusted surgical and radiology partners in the Sarasota area. We send your records ahead, then manage the before-and-after care ourselves at home.

Most plans make no distinction between our visit to your Laurel Park cottage and an appointment at a Bee Ridge Road clinic. The invoice we email is itemized with diagnosis codes, so your claim is filing-ready the moment it lands.

Please, that's the best kind of visit. You're billed for the trip a single time, and every companion after the first is seen at a reduced exam fee, so a Palmer Ranch or Meadows household saves real money seeing everyone at once.

Go straight to a 24-hour hospital: BluePearl Pet Hospital at 7414 S Tamiami Trail serves the south side near Gulf Gate, and Animal ER of University Park covers the north end near University Parkway. Call us the next morning and we'll coordinate follow-up.

The balance clears as the appointment concludes — one tap of a card or phone on the doctor's reader, even out on a Bird Key dock. You'll never chase an invoice or stand in a checkout line.

A day's notice is all we ask. Our doctors route each day geographically — keys and waterfront in one loop, Gulf Gate through Palmer Ranch in another — so early word lets us offer your slot to a neighbor on the same route.

If something can't wait for a house call, BluePearl Pet Hospital on S Tamiami Trail near Gulf Gate and Animal ER of University Park by the UTC district both staff veterinarians around the clock.

"Our kitten's first vaccines happened on the living room rug in Southside Village while she played. No fear, no trauma—just a great start to her care."

Jessica & Ryan B.

Southside Village, Sarasota, FL