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Hill-to-hill house calls, no stairs for your cat

The Practice
Climbs The Hill For You

Total Vet visits homes throughout Hamilton County, from the tall brick streets of Mount Auburn down to the bungalow blocks of Pleasant Ridge. The city's hills are hard enough on an old dog's knees without adding a car journey — so we bring the appointment up the front steps instead.

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Veterinarian gently examining a grey tabby cat on a window cushion in a Cincinnati brick townhouse with autumn leaves outside

Mobile vet services in Cincinnati

The vehicle carries a working treatment room, and all of the following happens inside your house rather than across a counter.

Wellness Exams

A careful annual assessment done where the cat hasn't already spent twenty minutes shouting in a carrier — which, for what it's worth, makes the heart rate we record far more honest.

Vaccinations

Rabies to satisfy Ohio law, plus the extras a dog earns by walking the Little Miami trail or boarding while you're away for the holidays.

Sick Visits

A cough that persisted past the weekend, a cat straining in the box, a paw licked raw since the salt went down. We assess and begin treatment at your address.

Diagnostics & Labs

Blood, urine and faecal samples plus tick-borne panels, all collected in the house and run from the vehicle so results come with a conversation rather than a voicemail.

End-of-Life Care

Quality-of-life visits, and when the time comes, a gentle end in the armchair your dog claimed years ago. We take care of the arrangements that follow.

Telehealth

Video rechecks for animals we already know — useful in February, when a follow-up shouldn't require anyone to get a car up an icy hill.

Up the stoop, across Cincinnati

Total Vet veterinarian climbing the front stoop of a brick townhouse in Cincinnati

Front stoop arrival

Veterinarian examining a cat on a sunny window seat during a Hyde Park house call

Window-seat check

Total Vet mobile veterinary vehicle parked on a narrow Cincinnati street lined with brick homes

Kerbside clinic

From Northside across to Mount Lookout, the exam room comes to the house, which spares an ageing dog the stairs and spares the cat a car journey it would remember for a fortnight.

0
flights of stairs carried with a heavy carrier
100%
of the appointment spent on your animals
45+
minutes in your own front room, unhurried

Why Cincinnati pet owners choose us

Traditional Clinic

  • Getting a nervous cat down three flights of Mount Adams stairs
  • Crossing the viaduct at rush hour with a howling passenger
  • A lobby that resets your dog's nerves in under a minute
  • Booking six weeks out for a routine annual check
  • Whichever clinician happens to be free that afternoon

Total Vet Mobile Care

  • No stairs, no carrier, no drive across the basin
  • The exam happens in a room your animal chose itself
  • One doctor who knows the history without reading it
  • Appointments that fit a working day, not a queue
  • Prescriptions and paperwork settled before we leave

Caring for pets in Cincinnati

Four genuine seasons make for a varied caseload here: salt-cracked pads in February, ticks through the river valley by May, and heavy air in August that hits thick-coated dogs harder than the thermometer suggests.

What the salt does

Road and pavement salt splits pads and irritates skin, and dogs then lick it off. A rinse in warm water at the door after winter walks prevents most of the cases we see.

Ticks along the valley

The wooded slopes and river corridors around Hamilton County carry a real tick burden from spring onwards, and Lyme exposure in Ohio dogs has climbed. We run the panel with the annual bloodwork.

Parks worth the drive

Mount Airy Forest keeps one of the region's largest off-leash areas, Otto Armleder has a fenced run beside the river, and Ault Park's paths suit an older dog's pace.

Licensed by the Auditor

Ohio law puts dog licensing with the county, so Hamilton County registrations run through the Auditor's office and renew between the first of December and the end of January.

Cincinnati Service Area & Pricing

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

Illustrated map of Ohio with Cincinnati marked at the south-west corner and a shaded ring showing the Hamilton County service area

Neighborhoods Served

Hyde Park Oakley Mount Lookout Columbia Tusculum Mount Adams Mount Auburn Over-the-Rhine Clifton Northside Walnut Hills East Walnut Hills Pleasant Ridge Madisonville Westwood

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

Zip Codes Served

45202 45206 45208 45209 45211 45212 45213 45219 45220 45226 45227 45238

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

Those figures buy the journey and the physical examination. Vaccines, laboratory work and any medication handed over are charged separately, itemised on the invoice and agreed with you first.

Questions Cincinnati pet owners ask us

Almost nothing. A lit room and a closed bedroom door will do it, the second being for the benefit of any cat with a favoured hiding place. If you live in Over-the-Rhine or anywhere the street parking is genuinely hopeless, tell us in advance and we'll plan around it.

No — anything requiring anaesthesia or imaging equipment goes to a fixed hospital, and we refer within the Cincinnati network with the full record sent ahead so nothing gets repeated. The work-up before and the recheck afterwards both stay at home with us.

The same as any other consultation, in practice. You get an itemised invoice by email with diagnoses and treatments coded, which is all a claims team normally wants to see.

Considerably. The travel element is charged once per household and each additional animal is examined at a reduced rate, so seeing two cats in Oakley on one visit costs meaningfully less than two separate appointments.

Head straight for MedVet Cincinnati on Red Bank Road in Fairfax, which runs its emergency floor around the clock and doesn't need you to ring first. Once your pet is out of danger, contact us and we'll manage the recovery at home.

At the end of the visit, on a card reader the doctor carries. Nothing is posted to you later, and there's no desk to stop at on the way out because there is no desk.

Let us know a day in advance and nothing is charged. The vehicles run a planned loop — the east side one day, the west side the next — so early warning means someone else on that loop can take the slot.

Should something go badly wrong outside our hours, MedVet Cincinnati at 3964 Red Bank Road in Fairfax runs its emergency service continuously, every day of the year, and takes patients without an appointment.

"Three cats, a third-floor walk-up in Clifton and no chance of getting all of them anywhere. The vet came up, saw all three on the sofa, and I didn't take a single afternoon off work."

Devon R.

Clifton, Cincinnati, OH