Based in the suburb of East Bentleigh, Dr Mariya's Mobile Veterinary Service is a unique service that specialises in providing a high standard of veterinary care in the comfort of your own home. We pride ourselves on providing premium service to our clients and convenient quality care to our patients at reasonable prices.
The service operates predominantly in the Bayside and the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne - please
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Dr. Mariya Dikshteyn (Principal Vet).
Having graduated with Honours from Veterinary Science at the University Of Melbourne in 2005, I have worked in a number of small animal practices in the Bayside area. Although I have always immensely enjoyed my job as a veterinarian I also felt that there was something missing in the way that veterinary service was provided.
The animals were more often than not stressed and anxious due to the unfamiliar clinical environment, the owners were also tense after struggling to get their pets in and out of the car and the next appointment would be waiting in the waiting room, making it difficult to fully focus on the consultation at hand. Surely there had to be a better way!
Eventually the solution became obvious - house calls! But when working in a busy vet clinic, home visits are, sadly, the last priority as the in-clinic patients need to be attended to first. This prompted me to establish a veterinary service where the clients requiring a home visit were in fact my first priority and so Dr Mariya's Mobile Veterinary Service came into existence.
Home visits allow me to really get to know my patients and see them as members of a loving family which is very rewarding. They allow me to observe the pet in their familiar environment and to give my undivided attention to the patients and their owners without the distractions that are common in the clinic scenario. The animals are usually relaxed at home and in most cases are not even aware that they had just been visited by a vet. As far as they are concerned they had a visitor who gave them lots of attention and a treat at the end! As a result of all this, home visits give me the chance to provide a really personal service to my clients and, after all - a personal, individual approach is really what every pet needs and deserves.
Whenever I am not out on the road doing house calls you may find me studying for my membership exams as, after completing a Post Graduate Course in Small Animal Internal Medicine last year, my next goal is to become a Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in the field of Internal Medicine.
I am also very passionate about responsible pet care and have been involved in a number of campaigns by the City Of Port Phillip to raise awareness of responsible pet ownership in the community.
Other community involvements stem from my enthusiasm for helping people provide the best possible care to their beloved pets and have involved conducting veterinary information sessions for members of a local dog obedience school and pet care information sessions in a number of childcare centres around the Bayside area.
