Pet Wellness

Dr. Taylor Truitt, Dr. Eva Radke and the staff at The Vet Set believe that prevention is the key to your pet’s long-term health. This approach helps us to identify health issues before they become serious and expensive to treat. We recommend thorough, routine wellness exams, vaccinations, regular lab work, deworming and fecal checks, as well as medications to prevent heartworm, fleas and ticks. The Vet Set team stays current with all the latest veterinary innovations to ensure your pet receives the highest quality veterinary services.

The tests we offer in your home can be done during your pet’s regular exam. This is our chance to get to know your pet, assess your pet’s overall health, discuss any changes we see, update you on advancements in veterinary care and an opportunity for you to discuss any concerns or questions you may have.

During your in-home pet’s yearly wellness exam, we will:

- Examine your pet’s teeth, throat and oral cavity
- Check your pet’s vision and examine the eyes
- Examine the ears for infection, ear mites, allergic reaction and other related health issues
- Examine the respiratory system
- Assess your pet’s heart
- Test your pet’s reflexes
- Palpate lymph nodes and abdomen
- Inspect the skin
- Palpate joints and muscles for arthritis and other orthopedic conditions
- Test to evaluate the function of internal organs, blood and other systems

Deworming and Fecal Check

Dangerous parasites are always present in the environment. If brought into your home, these parasites can be passed from your pet to you and your family. We normally associate parasites, such as roundworms, tapeworms and hookworms, with cats and dogs, but people can be infected with the same parasites. In-home, regular fecal checks and dewormings are the best way to prevent parasitic disease. It also prevents the shedding of parasite eggs, which can contaminate the lawns or any place a pet defecates.

Routine Blood Work

A complete physical includes a heartworm test and parasite screening, and it should include a full blood workup. Not only can a full chemistry panel and complete blood count identify the presence of underlying disease processes, but these tests help create a baseline, should your pet become ill between routine examinations. Additionally, blood work is necessary if your veterinarian recommends a dental cleaning, removal of a skin mass or any other procedure that requires anesthesia.

Heartworm Testing

Heartworms are transmitted by mosquitos and infect the heart of our dogs and, less commonly, cats. While easy to prevent, dogs must be tested prior to starting heartworm preventative medication to prevent complications. A dog that is heartworm positive and given preventative can have a fatal reaction. If your dog has been off of preventative medication for the winter months, you must test your dog prior to starting your heartworm preventative. Don’t worry — the test is a simple blood test.

Flea and Tick Preventatives

Heartworm Preventative

Heartworm disease is a serious disease that results in severe lung disease, heart failure, other organ damage and death in dogs and cats. It is caused by a parasitic worm, called Dirofilaria immitis. The worms are spread through the bite of a mosquito. The disease is easy to prevent with prescription medication administered monthly. An easy-to-administer heartworm test is required prior to prescribing preventative medication.

Puppy and Kitten Care

There is nothing more joyous and sometimes stressful than bringing in a new puppy or kitten into your family. We provide custom kitten and puppy packages, including all necessary health checkups, to make sure your new “kid” is growing well, to assess for any genetic diseases, to administer all necessary vaccines, to test for intestinal parasites and to administer any medications as needed. We take the time to answer any and all questions you may have regarding nutrition, medical care, training, home care and introducing your “kid” to New York City.

Senior Pet Care

Senior pets have special needs. By taking the time to learn more about these needs, you've taken the first step toward ensuring that your senior pet leads a healthy and happy life for many more years.

Pets in their senior years — those of about eight years of age and older — begin to go through a gradual reduction of their physical capabilities. This process can be slowed and managed through proper veterinary care thereby, offering your beloved senior pet an extended period of vitality and good health. Additionally, preventive care tailored to your pet's age, lifestyle, risk factors and other elements can help to prevent common diseases, or detect them at early and easily treatable stages.

There is also an important role for you to play as your senior pet's primary caregiver. While you cannot control age-related decline, you can influence your pet's activity level, living conditions, access to quality senior veterinary care and daily nutrition. With Vet Set’s help, you can manage these factors in order to prolong your senior pet's good health and vitality, and increase his or her wellbeing, even as his or her pace slows a bit.

At The Vet Set, we offer a Senior Preventive Care Plan personalized to address the specific needs of your older dog or cat. This plan provides a baseline to monitor your pet at a time when small changes can be detected and that will help us identify health problems for dog or cat before they become serious concerns, or even life-threatening.

Read more about your senior pet’s needs on our recent blog post here.

Our senior pet plan includes:

Glaucoma check
Complete blood count
Complete urinalysis
Heartworm test
Full chemistry blood panel
Internal parasite test
Thyroid test
Electrocardiogram as recommended

These tests are not time-intensive or difficult to do, and can be performed during routine home preventative exams.

We recommend complete blood testing annually for all dogs and cats over the age of seven.

In Case of Emergency...

In case of emergency, please contact one of the following 24-hour emergency animal hospitals:

BluePearl Veterinary Partners
1 W 15th St
(212) 924-3311

BluePearl Veterinary Partners
410 W 55th St
(212) 767-0099

Blue Pearl Veterinary Partners - Brooklyn
32 4th Ave
(718) 596-0099

Veterinary Emergency & Referral Group (VERG North) - Brooklyn
318 Warren St
(718)522-9400

Veterinary Emergency & Referral Group (VERG South) - Brooklyn
2220 Flatbush Ave
(718)677-6700

Animal Medical Center
510 E 62nd St, New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8100

Dr. Taylor was able to diagnose my kitty girl with just a few descriptions of her symptoms. I was AMAZED at her seemingly magical vet powers and can't recommend her highly enough. Talia is all better now thanks to The Vet Set expertise!

Heather M. & Talia

Dr. Taylor is an animal lover's dream vet! I've always found her to be sensitive, sensible, extremely knowledgeable and understanding, whether for a routine visit, a recurrent issue or something as difficult as saying goodbye to a beloved pet.

Sally V. & Dart and Cricket

Dr. Eva is the best vet I have ever known! I have known her and her practice for years. This is a great fit for her skills and anyone that gets lucky enough to have Dr. Eva show up on call will be very happy with her knowledge and experience. I couldn't recommend Eva and their services more!

Johnny E. & Summit

Both Dr. Eva & Dr. Taylor are simply the best and most caring vets. They both have abundant love for their jobs and patients!

Nick A. & Burger

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