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We drive the lake-effect roads so you don't

February Shouldn't
Cancel The Checkup

Total Vet works house calls across Cuyahoga County, from the tight streets of Tremont to the long driveways out in West Park. Between January ice and a dog who dreads the carrier, plenty of appointments quietly get postponed here — this is how they stop being.

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Veterinarian kneeling beside a greying senior beagle near a radiator in a Cleveland colonial home on a grey winter day

Mobile vet services in Cleveland

A working exam room arrives at the kerb, and everything below happens inside, where it is warm and your animal is calm.

Wellness Exams

Thorough annual checks with particular attention to the hips and elbows of older dogs, whose stiffness always reads worse in the cold months than owners expect it to.

Vaccinations

Rabies to meet Ohio requirements, plus the boarding and lifestyle vaccines that a dog using the Metroparks or a kennel over the holidays genuinely needs.

Sick Visits

Cracked pads after a salted pavement, an ear infection that came back, a cat off its food for two days. Examined and started on treatment without leaving the house.

Diagnostics & Labs

Blood draws, urine collection, skin cytology and tick screening, taken in your kitchen and run from the vehicle so answers arrive the same day, not next week.

End-of-Life Care

Hospice support and home euthanasia by the radiator or on the back porch, taken at the family's pace, with cremation and aftercare arranged on your behalf.

Telehealth

Video rechecks for existing patients, which is exactly what you want when the driveway is sheet ice and the question is only whether a wound is healing properly.

In from the cold, across Cleveland

Total Vet veterinarian stepping inside a Cleveland home from a snowy front step

Boots on the mat

Veterinarian examining an older dog beside a radiator during a house call in Tremont

By the radiator

Total Vet mobile veterinary vehicle parked on a snowy residential street in Cleveland

Van in the snow

From Ohio City out to Collinwood, we take the winter roads instead of you, which is the difference between an annual exam that happens in February and one that quietly slips to May.

0
appointments lost to lake-effect snow
100%
of the doctor's time on a single household
45+
warm, unhurried minutes indoors

Why Cleveland pet owners choose us

Traditional Clinic

  • Clearing the car of six inches of snow to make an appointment
  • The Shoreway at rush hour with a dog panicking in back
  • Cancelling entirely because the lake decided otherwise
  • A lobby that undoes an anxious animal in ninety seconds
  • Fifteen minutes, most of it spent waiting for the room

Total Vet Mobile Care

  • Nobody clears a windscreen to see the vet
  • Your pet stays inside where it's warm and quiet
  • Winter weather is our routing problem, not your excuse
  • The same clinician across years, not a rota
  • Enough time to raise everything you meant to ask

Caring for pets in Cleveland

The lake sets the terms here. Winters run long and heavily salted, spring brings ticks into the Metroparks, and a stretch of August humidity can floor a thick-coated dog with no warning at all.

Salt and antifreeze

Treated pavements crack pads and burn skin, and antifreeze pooled on a driveway is sweet, tempting and lethal in tiny amounts. Rinse paws indoors and mop spills immediately.

Ticks in the Metroparks

Blacklegged ticks are well established across northern Ohio now, and Lyme cases in dogs have climbed with them. We include a tick-borne panel in the yearly bloodwork.

Lakefront running room

Edgewater Park's dog beach lets dogs into the water off-leash in season, Wendy Park sits out on the Whiskey Island spit, and the Metroparks reservations link most of the west side.

County licence, renewed yearly

Ohio requires dogs over three months to be licensed through the county, so Cuyahoga registrations renew each year in the window running from December into late January.

Cleveland Service Area & Pricing

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

Illustrated map of Ohio with Cleveland marked on the Lake Erie shore and a shaded circle covering the Cuyahoga County service area

Neighborhoods Served

Tremont Ohio City Detroit-Shoreway Edgewater Old Brooklyn Clark-Fulton West Park Kamm's Corners University Circle Buckeye-Shaker Slavic Village Collinwood Glenville Downtown

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

Zip Codes Served

44102 44103 44104 44105 44106 44109 44111 44113 44114 44119 44120 44135

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 amounts above are the call-out and examination. Vaccines, laboratory testing and dispensed medication each appear as separate lines, and the doctor tells you what they cost before using them.

Questions Cleveland pet owners ask us

Not much at all. Somewhere with light and floor space, and the cat's escape route shut off in advance. In winter, if your street doesn't get ploughed early or the drive hasn't been salted, a heads-up lets us allow extra time rather than run late to everyone after you.

That goes to a hospital with a theatre and imaging, and we refer within the Cleveland area with the complete record sent across first. What stays with us is the assessment that led there and every recheck once your animal is home again.

They are, in the same way a clinic appointment would be. We email a fully coded, itemised invoice the same day, which is what carriers ask for and generally all they ask for.

Yes, and that's the sensible way to book. The trip is charged once for the address and every animal after the first gets a reduced examination fee, so a house with three cats is one visit.

Don't wait on us. MedVet Cleveland on Emerald Parkway has emergency clinicians on duty at all hours, and Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Highland Heights does too. Get your pet stabilised, then call us to pick the care back up at home.

Right at the end of the visit, by card or phone wallet on the doctor's tablet. Your receipt is emailed on the spot and nothing gets billed to you afterwards.

Give us a day where you can and there's no charge — and if the roads are genuinely bad we'll often be the ones ringing you. Our doctors work a geographic route, so early notice means the slot can go to another family on the same side of the county.

When the worst happens after dark, MedVet Cleveland at 20400 Emerald Parkway operates its emergency service every hour of the year, and Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital over in Highland Heights runs a round-the-clock emergency floor as well.

"Our dog is thirteen and hasn't managed the car ride comfortably in two years. Someone came out to Old Brooklyn in the middle of a snowy week and did the whole exam and her bloodwork on the living room floor."

Tom & Mary K.

Old Brooklyn, Cleveland, OH