Serving the Upper East Side with over 50 years of experience in veterinary medicine, the doctors and staff of Kalvig & Shorter Veterinary Associates are pleased to offer their clients and patients excellent and personalized attention in both of the important areas of customer service and patient health care.

Our practice was founded upon a strong belief in the critical need for thorough, proper, honest, and compassionate service within all healthcare fields. Kalvig & Shorter Veterinary Associates best serves the special needs of each of our many loyal clients and their beloved pets, by offering a kind and highly experienced approach to medicine, surgery, nursing care, and customer care. Top priority is always given to our patients' comfort, with exceptional attention provided by our staff of experienced and loving nurses.

It is our pleasure to provide the extra time caring for each of our patients and their owners, rather than maintaining a high volume facility with less attention to the many important details of quality care and communication. As the chosen health care team for your beloved pet, we place great value upon our client relationships, opinions, and trust, and we work to help you and your pet spend many happy, healthy years together. Our clients appreciate that we are all close members within their pet's healthcare family -- their compliance to our recommendations and the excellent care they provide to their pets at home, allow us together to be successful in treating a large and vital geriatric pet population within our practice.

Our hospital staff truly enjoys spending extra time with our clients, providing proper education and guidance in the evolution of their pets' medical, nutritional, behavioral, and general health care needs throughout their lives. In turn, our clients truly appreciate that our patients enjoy visiting the hospital, and are able to live full, healthy, happy lives for many years. We believe that a preventative healthcare approach, when coupled with the joint support of important owner care at home, allows the greatest chance of a healthy pet, with personalized high quality medical mangement and nursing care administered only when needed.

We are pleased to offer a comprehensive range of hospital services including dentistry, radiology, surgery with state of the art monitoring equipment, medical boarding, complete out-patient services, as well as internal medicine consultations with procedures such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, ultrasound and echocardiogram. We value our excellent relationships with the top veterinary specialists in our area in the fields of internal medical, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, neurology, ophthomology, oncology, nutrition, training and behavior to offer the very best diagnostic and therapeutic advice to your pet at all times. As well, we offer excellent referrals to top trainers, dogwalkers, and grooming salons.

We wish you and your pets a happy and healthy summer. If we may be of service to you in any way, please do not hesitate to call us-- we look forward to meeting you.

Very Sincerely,

Dr. Barbara A. Kalvig, Dr. James M. Shorter, & the Doctors and Staff of
Kalvig & Shorter Veterinary Associates.