Keep The Morning
For The Canyon
Total Vet works house calls throughout Salt Lake County, from the tight lanes of the Avenues to the wide streets down in Sugar House. Your dog would rather be at the mouth of Millcreek than in a lobby, and honestly so would you — so the doctor comes to the house instead.
Mobile vet services in Salt Lake City
The vehicle carries what a treatment room carries, and every item below is handled inside your house at four thousand three hundred feet.
Wellness Exams
Careful annual checks with real attention to shoulders, hips and pads, since a dog covering canyon miles most weekends wears differently from one that walks the block.
Vaccinations
Rabies and the core series, then a genuine discussion about rattlesnake cover if your summer hiking drops below the benches and into the warmer foothill trails.
Sick Visits
A cheatgrass awn lodged in an ear, a cough that will not shift during an inversion week, a cat drinking noticeably more. Worked up at home, treated the same visit.
Diagnostics & Labs
Full blood work, urinalysis and cytology taken on your floor and processed from the vehicle, so the numbers get explained while the doctor is still standing there.
End-of-Life Care
Hospice planning, and when the day comes, a quiet goodbye in the sunny spot by the window with the mountains in view. Aftercare handled without you making calls.
Telehealth
Video rechecks for established patients — the sensible option on a red air day, when the last thing an old dog needs is a trip out into it.
Front path to front room, across the valley
Under the Wasatch
Bright-room exam
Parked on the bench
From Capitol Hill down to Glendale, we bring the practice to the door, which suits a valley where half the dogs are trail athletes and the other half will not get in a car for anything.
Why Salt Lake City pet owners choose us
Traditional Clinic
- A sore dog jumping into the back of the car after a long hike
- I-15 at rush hour with an anxious animal in the boot
- A waiting room that unsettles a cat within seconds
- Losing a Saturday morning that was meant for the canyon
- Fifteen rushed minutes and half your questions unasked
Total Vet Mobile Care
- No drive, no jump into a vehicle, no lobby
- Sore joints assessed on level ground at home
- Cats stay exactly where they are, undisturbed
- The same clinician tracking fitness across seasons
- Time enough to plan the summer properly
Caring for pets in Salt Lake City
Altitude, dry air and a valley that traps its own weather shape the caseload here — and a great many patients spend their weekends higher and harder than their owners quite realise.
Dry air, thin air
Dogs newly arrived from lower ground dehydrate and tire faster than expected, and dry air cracks noses and pads. Build up gradually and carry more water than the walk seems to need.
Inversion weeks
When winter inversions settle over the valley the air quality drops hard, and older dogs and flat-faced breeds feel it first. On bad days we shorten walks and move rechecks to video.
Canyon rules and awns
Millcreek Canyon alternates its dog policy by date, off-leash on odd-numbered days and leashed on even ones, and cheatgrass awns get into ears and paws all summer long.
Licensing in the valley
Salt Lake County Animal Services handles licensing for the city, and dogs and cats from four months old need to be registered with a current rabies vaccination behind it.
Salt Lake City 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
Those amounts cover getting a doctor to your address and examining your animal. Vaccines, laboratory panels and dispensed medication are each itemised and priced with you before we go ahead.
Questions Salt Lake City pet owners ask us
For emergencies once we are off the road, MedVet Salt Lake City at 331 West Bearcat Drive keeps critical care staffed continuously, and Advanced Veterinary Care on East 3300 South also runs an emergency service every hour of the year.
"Our collie tore something on a canyon run and couldn't put weight on it. Having the vet come to the house in Sugar House for the exam and then the follow-ups made an awful fortnight a lot more manageable."
Emily S.
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, UT