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Veterinary medicine & pet care · Woodside, Queens
Wellness examinations, vaccinations, parasite prevention, same-day sick visits, dentistry, surgery and senior care for dogs, cats, rabbits and small mammals, three minutes from the 61st Street–Woodside station since 2009. Cats arrive through their own door into their own waiting room. Nothing is done to your animal that you have not seen a written price for first.
Why people stay
There is no shortage of veterinary practices in Queens. These are the four answers clients give when we ask them, a few years in, why they are still bringing their animals here.
You get an itemised estimate before a procedure is scheduled, not a number at collection. If we find more once we are underway, we stop and call you rather than carrying on and adding it to the bill.
A block of slots on every single day is held for animals that were well yesterday. If your pet is unwell this morning, call this morning — you are not being fitted in three weeks from now.
Cats do not queue calmly next to dogs, and pretending otherwise makes every feline appointment worse. Ours arrive through a separate entrance into a separate quiet room and are seen in cat-only consulting rooms.
Continuity is medicine, not a nicety. Ask for the veterinarian who saw your animal last time and we will book you with them wherever the diary allows it.
What we do
21 services under one roof on 61st Street, from a $75 wellness examination to orthopaedic surgery. Nobody here is paid a commission on what they recommend, which is why you will sometimes be told your animal does not need the thing you came in asking for.
Wellness & Prevention
Everything routine pet care covers in Woodside, NY, from a puppy's first visit through a senior's twice-yearly check-up, with the specific service, the actual interval and the price for each one.
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Wellness & Prevention
A full nose-to-tail wellness exam for $75, or an extended senior health check with blood pressure and a senior blood panel for $145 — both including a written plan you actually leave with.
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Wellness & Prevention
Core vaccines for dogs and cats, the rabies vaccination New York State requires, and an honest answer about titre testing — each priced plainly and given at the interval that actually protects your animal.
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Surgery & Dentistry
Full-mouth digital dental radiographs before every scale and polish, because the disease that actually matters sits below the gum line where an examination alone cannot see it. From $75 for the dental examination and estimate.
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Surgery & Dentistry
Cat and dog spay and neuter surgery priced by weight and species, timed to your particular animal's breed and size rather than a fixed age, with anaesthetic monitoring, pain relief to go home and the post-operative check all included.
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Urgent & Comfort Care
Same-day appointments held back every day for an animal that was well yesterday and is not well today, with plain guidance on the signs that mean call now rather than wait.
Read moreThe estimate
The thing people dread most about a veterinary practice is not the medicine. It is the invoice that arrives larger than the conversation. So we took that decision out of the practice's hands entirely.
Nothing is done to your animal that you have not seen a written price for first. We examine, we tell you what we found, we put a line-by-line estimate in your hand or on your phone, and then we wait. If we find more once we are underway, we stop and call you before we go further. You will never collect your pet and meet a number you have not already agreed to.
The cat wing
Most feline distress at a veterinary practice is created by the practice. A cat that has sat in a barking waiting room for twenty minutes is not an animal you can examine properly, and an examination you cannot complete is worth nothing to the cat.
Ours arrive through a separate street entrance into a cat-only waiting room, are seen in cat-only consulting rooms, and are hospitalised in a ward where no dog is ever within earshot. Feline appointments are booked longer than canine ones on purpose. It is not a marketing feature. It is the difference between sedating a cat to examine it and simply examining it.
Reasons people call
The first year has a schedule to it — vaccinations at the right intervals, parasite cover, neutering at the right age for the breed, and a diet that suits an animal that is still growing. We will map the whole year out on one sheet of paper at the first visit, and you can stop worrying about whether you have missed something.
We hold same-day slots on every single day of the week for exactly this. Call in the morning and we will see your animal that day. If what you describe on the phone sounds urgent, we will tell you to come straight in rather than book you.
Most feline distress at a veterinary practice is caused by the practice, not by the cat. Ours arrive through a separate door into a cat-only waiting room, are seen in cat-only consulting rooms, and are hospitalised in a ward where no dog is ever within earshot.
Slowing down is not a diagnosis. Arthritis, dental pain, kidney disease and thyroid disease all look like slowing down from the outside, and all four are manageable if somebody actually looks. A senior health check tells you which of them you are dealing with.
Everything we do
The appointments that keep an animal out of the other three groups. Routine examinations, vaccination, parasite cover, microchipping and the first year of a puppy or kitten's life — the cheapest medicine there is, and the only kind that works before anything is wrong.
What happens when something is already wrong and the question is what. Consultations for a sick animal, digital x-ray and ultrasound, an in-house laboratory that returns most results while you wait, skin and ear work, and the particular medicine that older animals need.
Planned procedures under general anaesthetic, with a named technician monitoring your animal continuously and a written estimate before anything is booked. Dentistry, neutering, soft tissue surgery and orthopaedics.
Same-day appointments when something has just happened, anaesthesia and pain management done properly, medical boarding for animals that need supervision rather than a kennel, and the care that matters most at the end of a life.
Plans
Preventive care is the cheapest medicine there is, and the only kind that works before anything is wrong. A plan is not compulsory and most of our clients do not have one — but if you would rather twelve small payments than four surprising ones, this is what they contain.
No feebook what you need
The default, and what most of our clients use. Book what you need, pay for what you get, nothing recurring and nothing to cancel.
Best for: One healthy adult animal, and no wish to be signed up to anything.
Start hereMost popular
$39a month, one animal
Spreads a year of preventive care across twelve payments and takes the remembering off your plate. Pays for itself at roughly one examination and one blood panel.
Best for: An adult dog or cat you intend to keep well rather than treat when it breaks.
Start here$62a month, one animal
Everything in the Wellness Plan, on the shorter interval that older animals actually need, with the monitoring that finds kidney and thyroid disease before it shows.
Best for: A dog over seven or a cat over ten, where the value is in catching things early.
Start hereThe people
Seven people, all of whom you can ask for by name. Continuity is medicine rather than a nicety, so if you want the veterinarian who saw your animal last time, say so at booking and we will make it happen wherever the diary allows.
Medical Director & Veterinarian
Licensed veterinarian, New York State · with us since 2009
Amara opened the 61st Street practice in 2009 after eight years in a busy multi-vet hospital, largely because she wanted to run a diary that had room in it for people who needed to be seen today. She still keeps a clinical caseload alongside running the practice, and she still calls clients herself when the news is difficult.
English, French
Head of Surgery
Licensed veterinarian, New York State · with us since 2013
Nikhil leads the surgical service and has a standing rule that no animal goes to theatre without its owner having a written estimate and an honest answer about what happens if they do nothing. He is the person most likely to talk you out of a procedure your animal does not need.
English, Hindi, Tamil
Veterinarian, Dentistry & Oral Surgery
Licensed veterinarian, New York State · with us since 2016
Sofia built the dental suite and the full-mouth radiography service, on the grounds that dentistry done without x-rays is guesswork with better lighting. She is unusually good at explaining to a sceptical owner why a mouth that looks fine from the front is not fine.
English, Spanish
In their words
Illustrative comments written for this demonstration site. They are not real client reviews, and for that reason they are deliberately not marked up as review data anywhere in this page's code.
The cat entrance alone is worth changing practice for. He used to be a nightmare and now he just walks in.
They talked me out of a procedure and told me what to watch for instead. That is the reason I have been going back for six years.
Called at nine in the morning about my dog not eating. Seen at half past eleven the same day.
The estimate was itemised and the final bill was the same number. That should not be remarkable, and it is.
Questions
A full wellness examination is $75 and a same-day sick visit is $95, both including the consultation itself. A puppy or kitten first visit is $60 and includes thirty minutes to ask everything. Anything beyond the consultation — tests, imaging, dentistry, surgery — is quoted in writing before it happens, and you are never asked to agree to a procedure without a price attached to it. The full list is on our pricing page.
Usually, yes. We hold back a block of appointments on every single day for animals that were well yesterday and are not well today, which is exactly what those slots exist for. Call in the morning if you can. If what you describe sounds urgent, the desk will put a veterinarian on the phone rather than book you an appointment.
Yes, and it is one of the things we have built the practice around. Cats arrive through their own street entrance into a cat-only waiting room, are seen in cat-only consulting rooms, and are hospitalised in a ward where no dog is ever within earshot. Most feline distress at a veterinary practice is created by the practice, and it is largely avoidable.
Dogs and cats are the bulk of what we do. We also see rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, ferrets and other small mammals. We do not see birds, reptiles, fish or farm animals, and rather than do a poor job of it we will refer you to a practice that sees them properly. Our species page sets out exactly where that line is.
Your animal, secured — a carrier for a cat or small mammal, a lead for a dog — and any records you have from a previous practice. If you cannot get hold of them, tell us and we will request them for you. Bring the packaging or a photograph of any food or medication your animal is on, and if you have noticed something specific, a short phone video of it is often more useful than a description.
We work with every insurer and we will complete claim forms for you, usually within two working days. Most policies reimburse you rather than paying us directly, so payment is normally due on the day, but if a claim is large we will talk to your insurer about direct settlement. We will always tell you before a procedure whether we think it is likely to be covered, and we will never tell you a policy covers something we are not sure about.
A written estimate before anything is booked
We hold same-day appointments back on every single day of the week for animals that were well yesterday. Call the practice and describe what you have noticed, and the desk will book you at the right speed rather than the soonest one.