We Come To
Your Front Room
Total Vet visits homes throughout Washtenaw County, from the porches of the Old West Side to the quieter streets out past Dicken. In a town where a great many households manage without a second car, the sensible answer to a vet appointment is for the vet to arrive at the door.
Mobile vet services in Ann Arbor
A properly equipped vehicle parks outside and the whole appointment happens indoors. Here is what that covers.
Wellness Exams
A patient, complete annual check with everything written down and compared year on year, which is how the small changes in a middle-aged cat actually get noticed.
Vaccinations
Rabies as Michigan requires, plus the extras that make sense for a dog on the Border-to-Border Trail most days or one heading to a kennel over the winter break.
Sick Visits
An ear that keeps returning, sudden stiffness on the stairs, a cat off its food since the weekend. Examined at home, with treatment started before we go.
Diagnostics & Labs
Blood, urine and cytology drawn at your table, and tick-borne panels run as a matter of course, because Michigan's Lyme picture has changed considerably in a decade.
End-of-Life Care
Quality-of-life visits when you are weighing it up, and a gentle end at home when the time comes — in the study, on the rug, wherever the animal has always settled.
Telehealth
Video follow-ups for existing patients, useful in a February week when nobody wants to walk a recovering dog down an icy porch step twice.
Front walk to fireside, across Ann Arbor
Under the maples
Armchair exam
Parked on the street
From Water Hill across to Georgetown, the practice arrives on foot from the kerb, which suits a town where plenty of people have deliberately arranged their lives around not needing to drive anywhere.
Why Ann Arbor pet owners choose us
Traditional Clinic
- Borrowing a car for a fifteen-minute annual appointment
- Hunting for parking on a street with a two-hour limit
- A lobby that sets a nervous cat off before you sit down
- Rescheduling because the first real snow arrived early
- Repeating the whole history to a clinician you've not met
Total Vet Mobile Care
- No car needed, and no parking meter involved
- The cat stays on its own shelf until we are ready
- One doctor who has the history already in front of them
- Slots that fit around teaching, shifts and school runs
- Notes, refills and paperwork settled at the door
Caring for pets in Ann Arbor
A green, bookish, heavily-walked town with a proper Michigan winter behind it — which means salted brick underfoot from December and a tick season that now starts earlier than most owners expect.
Michigan's tick season
Blacklegged ticks have spread steadily across the Lower Peninsula and Lyme cases in dogs with them. Prevention here should run well beyond summer, and we screen with the yearly bloods.
Salt on brick and stone
The sidewalks get treated heavily and the residue cracks pads and irritates skin, then gets licked off indoors. A rinse at the door is the whole fix, and it works.
Green space between the classes
Swift Run and Olson Park both have fenced off-leash areas, Gallup Park follows the Huron for miles, and Nichols Arboretum is the leashed walk half the town does on a Sunday.
Licensed by the City Clerk
Washtenaw County's treasurer licenses dogs for most of the county, but not for Ann Arbor itself — city residents register through the City Clerk's office instead, on a current rabies certificate.
Ann Arbor 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
That covers getting a doctor to your door and examining your animal. Vaccines, laboratory work and dispensed medication appear as separate lines and are agreed with you beforehand.
Questions Ann Arbor pet owners ask us
Out of hours, the Emergency Veterinary Hospital at 5245 Jackson Road never closes and is the one place locally that will also see exotics, while VEG ER for Pets on Ann Arbor-Saline Road stays open through the night as well.
"We don't own a car, which made routine vet visits a genuine logistical problem for years. Someone came to the house near Kerrytown, saw both cats in an hour, and the whole thing cost less than the taxi used to."
Ingrid H.
Kerrytown, Ann Arbor, MI