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Mobile Pet Services Offer Premium Care at Home

Convenient mobile vet and grooming services make life easier for pets and their parents

Those of us with furry family members aim to provide them optimal care. However, it can be a challenge with our packed daily schedules. Fortunately, two innovative women have established businesses that bring premium customer service right to their clients’ doorsteps—Paws Calls and Diamonds in the Scruff. These options provide a less stressful way to tend to your pets’ veterinary and grooming needs and get individual attention for both pet and their owners.   

Dr. Kara Ryczek, owner and operator of Paws Calls, completed an externship at a small animal hospital during her senior year at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and then was welcomed on as an employee during her final spring semester. During this time while she was gaining hands-on experience, Kara decided that becoming a vet would be a good fit for her. She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tufts University in 2001. Just prior to the global pandemic, Kara fortuitously opened her own mobile vet business.

The decision to start a portable practice was based on a community need for high-quality, convenient pet care for clients. It also allows for flexibility for Kara, a mother of two children with many school and extra-curricular activities. Paws Calls provides an alternative that is less hectic and stressful for everyone. Kara shares, “I was excited to start my own practice and manage both the business and medical side on my own.” She says that being a vet is a career that demands “compassion, intelligence, and the ability to multitask, as well as working with people and animals every day.” 

Kara offers many services for pets, including annual physical exams, vaccinations, diagnostic testing, emergency visits, minor surgical procedures, and at-home euthanasia. She is hopeful that she will soon be able to add dental procedures to this extensive list. Kara is licensed in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. Paws Calls can be reached at dr.pawscalls@gmail.com or call 617.797.3070, or visit her Facebook page, Dr. Paws Calls.

In addition to medical care, pet owners also need to attend to their animals’ grooming requirements. MaryAnn Moskey, owner of Diamonds in the Scruff, will bring her state-of-the-art mobile grooming van directly to your home or office. After working in the corporate world for many years, MaryAnn decided to follow her passion and opened a brick-and-mortar pet salon in 1998. Seventeen years later, she started a mobile grooming business. She describes it as a “self-contained salon on wheels.”

MaryAnn’s mobile unit is climate-controlled with fresh, heated water for bathing and its own power supply. The vehicle is thoroughly vacuumed and sanitized after each appointment. This clean and convenient option allows for undivided attention and provides a calm, quiet setting for cats and dogs.   

Although she loves all of her clients, MaryAnn holds a particular appreciation for the service dogs that are in her care, such as police K-9s and dogs that assist their hearing-impaired owners. She shares, “Working with special dogs like that makes my heart happy that I can give back.”   

MaryAnn gives back in a multitude of ways. In addition to her busy work schedule, she utilizes her knowledge and years of experience to train new groomers and volunteers at a cat rescue. MaryAnn is also certified in pet CPR and first aid and offers class in these areas to both pet owners and fellow pet care professionals. Diamonds in the Scruff can be reached at 413.636.2237 or 860.888.2507, or visit diamondsinthescruff.com.

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