Dr. Steven Schnee and his two technicians (Jess and April) make an awesome team. We have 6 cats who range in age from 9 1/2 years to just 5 months old. so it makes it difficult to get all of our pets seen at the same time, if appointments with local vets are even available, many scheduling appointments for several weeks to months in advance! It is nearly impossible trying to fit up to six car cat carriers into our car, then to transport each carrier into a crowded vet's office. While we have attempted to do this, one-two cats at a time, the problem continues to be, post-pandemic, a shortage of veterinarians even in long-standing practices, meaning less available appointments available. Dr. Schnee and 518 House Call Vet changes ALL of that! HE and his team come right to your home! Today, for example, all 6 of our cats received their annual check-ups, 4 of the 6 got their updated shots and vaccinations, lab-work was done AND our youngest male, little Jasper, had his Neuter surgery performed in the comfort of our home, As he came out of anesthesia it was so comforting for him to be in familiar surroundings and he bounced back to his normal playfulness in short order! With a previous cat (Rascal) who was fixed when he was a kitten at another site, he had to be dropped off early in the morning and picked up at the end of the day, completely separated from his family and feline housemates. It took him awhile to reacclimate to our home setting after we brought him back home. Now with Jasper, today, he was placed right in my arms, wrapped in a warm towel, right after his procedure. As he slowly woke up, he recognized my face and his home surroundings and began to purr. Within half an hour he was up and playing again, as if nothing had happened. Dr. Schnee and his team took great care to make sure he was not in any pain and did the procedure quickly and expertly. Our oldest cat, Shadow, who is recovering from a serious illness was recently taken off of a medication, prescribed by another vet, after being weaned off of it. Dr. Schnee noticed the presence of continuing inflammation inside Shadow's mouth and the need to continue the medication, quickly prescribing the medicine and arranging for it to be delivered to our home! If he hadn't found the inflammation (that the other "internal medicine vet" had missed, Shadow might have degraded back to how sick he was when the infection first started. This doctor knows his stuff! It is so obvious how much he loves our furry family members, as do his two assistants, Jess and April, all of them being pet parents, themselves. He took the time to answer all of our questions, making sure to ask if we were sure we had covered everything we needed, before getting ready to leave. He arrived promptly at 8a.m. and completed all 6 exams, including one neuter surgery by 10a.m.! We never felt hurried and our cats never felt rushed, man-handled or scared and they did this all in 2 hours! His travel fee is $50, no matter where you live in the Capital District area he covers. Besides travel fee (charged once- no matter how many pets he sees at the same location), neuter- surgery, blood tests, stool samples, individual exams, vaccines and medications given, up-dating patient files (which he completed on his laptop right there) and sending them to our email account AND ordering the medication we needed,(at a vastly cheaper price than other vets charged) and arranging for it to be mailed to us... total bill for 6 cats was $1700 +/- Our last vet bill, at a vet's office, for one cat, for a simple follow-up with minimal testing etc was $284 AND we had to get the cat there... wait over 2 hours to be seen... and by the time we got the cat home, he was tired, irritated and generally unhappy) Compare that to having SIX cats seen, in the comfort of their own home... NO travel time... NO waiting time... EXTRA procedures, blood work, vaccinations and even SURGERY... and when Dr. Schnee left... neither ours nor our cats' lives had not been disrupted and we were in the peaceful surroundings of our home. All we provided was a quiet room with a card table for them to work on... and they did the rest. Any pet owner... especially, any cat owner can empathize that cats just "seem to know" when the Vet is around and can find places to hide to make retrieving them for treatment. With nary a "hiss" (except for Rascal... and he "grumbles" at Vets in general), our day went for what a trial a normal vet day would be to one where we made new friends in the comfort of our own home, who loved our cats as much as we do. Thank you Dr. Schnee, Jess & April ! read more