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Steady, neighbourly vets who come to you

The Appointment
Comes To The House

Total Vet keeps veterinarians on the road across Marion County, calling at bungalows in Irvington and ranch homes up towards Nora alike. This is a flat, easy city to drive — which is exactly why it makes more sense for the doctor to do the driving than for your cat to.

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Veterinarian gently examining a large orange tabby cat on a walnut credenza in an Indianapolis mid-century ranch house

Mobile vet services in Indianapolis

A vehicle equipped like a treatment room turns up at your kerb, and all of the following gets done inside the house.

Wellness Exams

Unhurried annual checks with weight, dental grade and mobility recorded each time, which makes the slow drift of an ageing cat far easier to spot early.

Vaccinations

Rabies plus a sensible short list based on what your animal really does — a dog on the Monon most evenings has different exposure to one that stays in the yard.

Sick Visits

Vomiting into a second day, a limp after the dog park, itching that has gone on all month. Assessed at the house and started on treatment the same visit.

Diagnostics & Labs

Bloods, urine, cytology and tick-borne screening collected in your kitchen and processed from the vehicle, so results come with a conversation rather than a callback.

End-of-Life Care

Hospice support and, when it is time, a gentle end at home on the bed or the rug your animal always chose. The arrangements afterwards are handled for you.

Telehealth

Video rechecks for animals already in our care, which spares a second outing when the question is only whether an incision is closing properly.

Kerb to kitchen, across Indianapolis

Total Vet veterinarian arriving at the storm door of an Irvington home in Indianapolis

At the storm door

Veterinarian examining a cat on a low cabinet during a Broad Ripple house call

Countertop check

Total Vet mobile veterinary vehicle parked outside a ranch house in Indianapolis

Kerbside setup

From Fountain Square out to Castleton, we bring the practice to the door, which is worth most to the cats that were never getting in a carrier and the old dogs that no longer manage the step up.

0
carrier standoffs before an annual checkup
100%
of the visit belonging to one address
45+
calm minutes indoors, at your animal's pace

Why Indianapolis pet owners choose us

Traditional Clinic

  • Coaxing a cat into a carrier for a twenty-minute drive
  • The 465 loop at five with an animal panicking in back
  • A lobby where one anxious dog unsettles the whole room
  • Booking weeks out and losing a morning to a routine check
  • A different clinician every visit, and the history again

Total Vet Mobile Care

  • No carrier, no loop, no waiting room whatsoever
  • Your cat stays on the windowsill until we're ready
  • The same doctor, learning your animal over the years
  • Arrival windows that fit round a normal working day
  • Refills, records and paperwork done before we leave

Caring for pets in Indianapolis

A flat, green, walkable city with a proper winter attached. The seasonal swing here shows up in the exam room as cracked pads in February, ticks by May and heat-flattened dogs through August.

Salt on the sidewalks

De-icer splits pads and irritates skin, and it comes off on the tongue when a dog cleans its feet indoors. Wiping paws at the door prevents most of what we end up treating.

Ticks and the trail

Indiana's tick population has spread well into the suburbs, and dogs pick them up on the greenways as readily as in the woods. We screen with the annual bloodwork rather than waiting.

Trail-side running room

The Monon Trail links half the north side, Eagle Creek Park has one of the state's largest dog parks with water access, and Broad Ripple Park's fenced run is busy year-round.

No licence, but a registry

Indianapolis does not run a general pet licence the way many cities do, but Marion County maintains a registry for animals that have not been spayed or neutered. We can talk you through where you stand.

Indianapolis Service Area & Pricing

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

Illustrated map of Indiana with Indianapolis marked at the centre of the state and a shaded ring showing the Marion County service area

Neighborhoods Served

Broad Ripple Meridian-Kessler Irvington Fountain Square Herron-Morton Lockerbie Square Butler-Tarkington Garfield Park Fletcher Place Holy Cross Nora Castleton Warren Park Mars Hill

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

Zip Codes Served

46201 46202 46203 46205 46208 46218 46219 46220 46226 46227 46240 46260

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

The prices listed are the visit and the examination. Vaccines, laboratory panels and dispensed medication are each shown as their own line and quoted to you before anything is given.

Questions Indianapolis pet owners ask us

Next to nothing. A room with light and floor space, and the cat's bolt-hole shut in advance. If you're in an apartment or a building with a controlled entrance, send the door code with the booking — that's the detail that most often holds us up.

No. Anaesthesia and imaging belong in a hospital with the right kit, so we refer to established Indianapolis surgical practices and forward your file so nothing is repeated. The assessment beforehand and every recheck afterwards stay at the house.

In our experience they always are, exactly as a clinic visit would be. An itemised, coded invoice reaches you by email the same day and is normally all the claim requires.

It does, and it's cheaper that way. The travel element is charged once for the address and each animal after the first is examined at a reduced rate, so three pets is one appointment.

An emergency hospital, straight away, rather than waiting for our next opening. IndyVet on Victory Drive is staffed for emergencies at all hours, and MedVet Indianapolis runs continuously as well. Ring us once your pet is stable and we'll take over.

Yes — on a card reader at the end of the exam, by card or phone. The receipt arrives by email straight away and nothing gets sent on to you later.

A day's notice, free of charge. The doctors run planned loops — the north side one day, the east and Irvington the next — so early notice means another family on that loop can take the time.

When it will not hold until morning, IndyVet Emergency & Specialty Hospital at 5425 Victory Drive has emergency clinicians on site at every hour, and MedVet Indianapolis also runs its emergency floor continuously and takes patients without an appointment.

"Our cat is nineteen and the drive alone used to wipe her out for two days. The vet came to our place in Meridian-Kessler, did everything on the sideboard where she sleeps, and she barely noticed."

Paul & Grace N.

Meridian-Kessler, Indianapolis, IN