Top 5 Benefits of a Mobile Vet

Pet parents love their furry friends and will go to any length to keep them healthy and happy. And keeping them healthy requires frequent visits to the vet to detect any problems before they become too serious.

But as any pet parent knows, visits to the vet can be a stressful affair for everyone involved. From scheduling appointments, arranging babysitters for any children at home, taking time off work to actually putting your pet in its crate and taking it to the vet, there’s a lot involved in just a single vet visit!

Fortunately, with the rise of mobile vet services in multiple locations across Australia, annual and routine checkups have become easy and stress-free. But the question then arises: would a mobile vet be able to give a pet the same amount of care as a brick and mortar vet? If you’re on the shelf about making the switch over to a home visit vet and have had the same question pop up in your head, here’s exactly why you should make the switch!

What do mobile vets do?

Mobile vets are just like brick and mortar vets, with one exception: instead of you having to take your pet to them, they come to your house to look at your pet. A mobile vet can offer the same range of services a traditional vet does, like general health checkups, blood tests, vaccinations, eye, ear and skin checkups, wound care, cytology, geriatic and chronic illness care and at-home euthanasia among others.

House visit vets come equipped with all the tools and medication they need to diagnose a vast majority of issues. 98% of all vet visits don’t require any special tools or equipment to make accurate diagnoses. In rare cases when a pet requires specialised care or medication the vet doesn’t have on hand, most house visit vets are able to refer people to partner clinics for further specialised care at no extra cost, or may be able to organise for the prescription medication to be delivered to the patient’s house.

Top 5 benefits of a mobile vet

-Less stressful for you and your pet

Organising a vet visit comes with its share of problems. Starting with scheduling the appointment, then arranging time off work, hiring a babysitter for the kids at home to actually taking your pet to the vet, it can all be a stressful ordeal.

Cats, in particular, are creatures of habit and are very attached to familiar scents, sounds and places. A visit to a vet where your cat is likely to be exposed to all kinds of new smells, sounds and other animals can be highly stressful for it, and may even lead to anxiety around being in a car, even when a visit to the vet is not on the agenda. Additionally, stress can lead to high blood pressure, elevated respiratory and pulse rates and abnormally high blood glucose levels, which can make it difficult to achieve accurate vital signs.

With a mobile vet, the only thing you need to worry about is being at home at the time of the appointment and ensuring all other pets are kept out of the room of consultation. This could even be done after hours so you don’t need to take time off work. Your pet is also more likely to be relaxed in a setting it is familiar with, allowing your vet to see its normal temperature, habits and living conditions.

-Easier for people with multiple pets

When you have a number of pets in the house who all need their annual checkups, you can either schedule multiple appointments and make multiple trips to your local vet, or you can have them all checked up on the same day. Both of these situations come with their own set of inconveniences.

House visit vet services are ideal for households with multiple pets. Instead of you stuffing all your pets into a car and driving down to your vet, the vet comes to you and checks up all your animals in a single go.

-Lower risk of contracting diseases

Sitting in a waiting room with other sick animals, you never know what kind of bacteria, parasite or illness your pet might pick up. Avoiding this risk is especially important for pets with a compromised immune system, or for older or very young animals.

When opting for a mobile vet, your living room is the waiting room, and you know the medical history of all the animals in that waiting room, which also means less stress for you.

-Ideal for senior pets

For older cats or dogs, the ride to the vet’s clinic can be enough to put their fear and anxiety over the normal threshold, possibly making them sicker than they were before the vet visit. In case your old pet is nearing the end of his or her life or needs to be euthanized, saying their final goodbyes in the comfort of their own home can help make the ordeal easier both for your pets and for you.

-Convenience and flexibility

Most of all, mobile vet services offer convenience and flexibility that is unmatched. You can go about your day as normal, and wait for the vet to show up at the time of appointment. You may even schedule an appointment after hours so you don’t have to miss work or send the kids off to daycare or hire a babysitter. Mobile vet services give your pets more personalised service as they are not just a number in a clinic, and your vet is less likely to be distracted by the dog howling in the waiting room.

House visit vets take the stress out of vet visits, so book your first appointment today!