The Neighborhood Vet

The Neighborhood Vet Complicated cases and those needing a second opinion will be given higher acceptance. Natara L. Dr. Loose was born and raised in Michigan.

Providing both in clinic and at-home comprehensive veterinary services to Bushwick, Brooklyn
DISCLAIMER: currently only accepting new clients as a per case basis. PURPOSE: HOUSE CALL VETERINARY SERVICES: To provide quality veterinary care within the comfort of the patient's home. Loose, is a veterinarian who is also Board certified in Emergency and Critical Care. Throughout her childhood, Dr. Loo

se was surrounded by various pets and took in many injured and sick wildlife. It was this inherent instinct to care for ill animals that encouraged her to pursue advanced education in animal health care. After achieving a dual bachelors degree in pre-professional and marine biology from Florida Tech, Dr. Loose returned to the Midwest to earn her doctorate of veterinary medicine at Michigan State University. From here, she continued learn the best medicine through continued education in a rotating surgical and medical internship at the Veterinary Specialists of Rochester, NY. Upon completion of her internship, she achieved the highest standards of emergency and critical care by completing a residency at one of the founding emergency critical care facilities in the world: The Animal Emergency Center (WI). It was here that she acquired intense training in multiple areas beyond emergency and critical care. Fortunate areas of ample exposure and knowledge, include but are not limited to: abdominal surgery, soft tissue surgery, abdominal and thoracic ultrasound, endoscopy, internal medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology, avian and exotic medicine, and dentistry. By being versed in such areas, she is able to provide informed guidance for any referral needs your companion may have. In the fall following completion of her residency, she earned board certification and entrance into the elite college of emergency & critical care specialists. She practiced in Pennsylvania and helped establish the critical care facility at the Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center with extended work at the Animal Emergency and Referral Hospital of Pittston. She sustained referral practice in Long Island, NY until she transition to top-notch general practice and assisted with low-cost spay/neuter clinics. Throughout her career, her focus has been on maintaining the human-animal bond and enhancing animal welfare. It is this passion and desire that encouraged her to start her own practice, bringing quality pet care directly to an owner’s home. Three rescued dogs occupy her home, and she is looking forward to caring for those four legged, furry, scaled, two-legged and feathered, and legless wonders you call family.

There are lots of amazing feelings being a veterinarian. My top 5 are 1) when dog or cat has had nothing but high FAS in...
05/03/2026

There are lots of amazing feelings being a veterinarian.

My top 5 are

1) when dog or cat has had nothing but high FAS inducing visits prior to coming to me and then after working together and having successful happy visits....they go from not being able to be touched to allowing or even welcoming handling, blood collection and vaccines and more with minimal stress and no injectable anesthesia or they actually love coming in

2) a severely difficult surgery case with high risks and or complications makes it past that critical window and does well

3) when a pet comes in taking its last breathes and you were able to get them resuscitated and back home with their owners to live another day

4) geriatric pets (if you know you know)

And last....is what this photo represents

5) the diabetic cat that goes into remission!!!

Having a diabetic pet turns your world upside down. It changes your routines, your pets diet, injections or pills every day and having to be on high alert for changes, prepared always for an emergency and checking blood values which aren't always the easiest!

This is one of our patients who has been a diabetic for a couple years. He had a crisis where his blood sugar dropped too low and needed emergency care.

He was sent home to do a glucose curve but doing those in hospital can be difficult for cats and give falsely high results from stress. With LIBRE FREESTYLE monitors a pets blood sugar can be monitored every minute and show trends of the day.

And our friend here has been in the good zone for several days!

He is no longer diabetic!!!

So grateful that this is now an option for our clients! I love this urn. Simple, beautiful and in combination of givi...
04/23/2026

So grateful that this is now an option for our clients! I love this urn. Simple, beautiful and in combination of giving back to the world. In Louise's honor, a mangrove plant has been placed in Kenya.

Would you like a plant planted in your pets honor?

Photo dump!!!! Mamma and the babies are doing well! 6 more weeks and they can all go to new homes! The little brown on...
04/21/2026

Photo dump!!!!

Mamma and the babies are doing well! 6 more weeks and they can all go to new homes!

The little brown one looks so much like my old Baci! 😭

Enjoy! Can not wait for them to Come back and get our load of puppy breath!!!

Our day did not start out as expected and yet everyone leaped into action just seconds after we opened. A person brough...
04/09/2026

Our day did not start out as expected and yet everyone leaped into action just seconds after we opened. A person brought a dog in on a dog bed and asked for us to look at her for vomiting. Triaging her thinking she might be a puppy with parvo, as soon as i looked into the dog bed and saw her private area i knew we were dealing with a crisis. Green fluid coated her hind legs and her v***a had hemorrhage and bruising from straining or perhaps a puppy had been manually attempted to remove her or was removed. We will never know because they went to "move their car" and never returned.

Now many may judge this person for dumping a dog that was in a critical state and running.....but had he not picked our office....who knows what would have happened. Any other choice he made could have resulted in her and her puppies death. One puppy was in severe stress on ultrasound and near death.

But ALL of them survived.

I am incredibly proud of this team today. No one here had had experience with a critical dystocia before and only our LVT had had experience with c-sections before.

The team worked through the anxiety of dealing with a new life threatening condition for a pet, and they each did what they were instructed to do to help things run smoothly and ensure the success of surgery.

And three little souls are here still because they did an amazing job! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

-section

My little old man Baci passed just before Christmas. I had looked for ways to remember him and honor him. He was the m...
04/05/2026

My little old man Baci passed just before Christmas. I had looked for ways to remember him and honor him. He was the most perfect, well mannered, kindest little Chihuahua there was.

did an absolutely amazing job with him. Seeing the confirmation video literally brought me to tears. And to know his fur is within the portrait/sculpture is beautiful. She truly does an incredible job.

To those wanting her work, I would 1000% recommend reviewing the sizes and styles long before trying to hop on when her openings go live. I did not do this and I got a bit over zealous. Baci is the perfect size but I had gotten excited for Piper to ensure I got a spot....and she is the size of a life size Labrador now 😆. I still love that one. But this one with Baci is just........perfect.

Thank you,

04/04/2026

It has taken me way too long to post this....for obvious reasons. But there has to come a time to do so and I got the courage this weekend. My soul dog Piper succumbed to a severely aggressive rare liver cancer and it was either make the decision to euthanize her or do a radically advanced stent placement procedure at under the leadership of non other than the incredible Dr. Chick Weisse. The goal with the procedure was to provide improved blood flow back to her heart by opening up her major vessels that had been occluded nearly completely by the tumor and concurrent thrombosis. A second procedure would have been done to obstruct blood flow to the tumor itself (but she did not live long enough for that procedure).

The goal was to place one stent but her severity indicated two stents. Placement of a second stent, beyond the first one, was a substantial risk and required meticulous fine technique to do. Dr. Weisse did it! Two stents in one procedure. Her blood flow from the first stent improved her perfusion substantially. The second helped even more.

While she unfortunately passed for reasons I still do not know (I was too emotional to send her remains off for full autopsy), it does not remove my gratitude and awe in how incredible the entire Interventional Radiology Team is at AMC. They had over 6 people working on her little 6 pound body. That little catheter in her tail is an art-line (arterial catheter for direct blood pressure monitoring). She was on over 4 different monitors and had two dedicated anesthesia technicians. The procedure took 90 minutes. She had a special multilumen catheter, feeding tube placement, and continuous infusion of injectable anesthesia. Her procedure cost me $15,000 and it is because of ALL the things needed for her procedure. The special titanium stents cost thousands of dollars a piece. She had two of them. The huge imaging equipment to guide her catheter and stent placements cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And I would do it all over again...for her. Even knowing that she would die in my arms later that night.

It was worth it. To try.

Courtesy post for ! Meet Pancho! He is a Bushwick street cat who has an interesting story. He was originally a cat in ...
03/09/2026

Courtesy post for !

Meet Pancho!
He is a Bushwick street cat who has an interesting story. He was originally a cat in my backyard who kept trying to sneak into my apartment. But my own cat was not going to have that so.....after accidently trapping my own cat I eventually trapped Pancho and neutered him and got him all up to date on vax and such. TNR success!

Fast forward about 2 months after that he ended up in the backyard of a local rescuer and brought him in and microchip scanned him and was mine 😆.

He had severe stomatitis (and immune mediated dental and oral mucosal disease). He had all of his teeth extracted and with the devotion of Harman Street cats he has been doing great. He currently needs cyclosporine every 2 to 3 days and has been clear of any issues for several months.

He is a super sweet boy as you can see. He is a bit shy in the clinic but mister affectionate at home.

We are trying to get him more "facetime" for adoption.

Please consider adopting him by applying with Harman Street Cats. Anyone who adopts and continues care with is will get discounts for life!

Thank you!
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Meet ZoeyShe's a very sad case. I am hopeful that in a few weeks we can post success pictures about her skin and condit...
03/08/2026

Meet Zoey

She's a very sad case. I am hopeful that in a few weeks we can post success pictures about her skin and condition. Unfortunately if things can not turn around euthanasia is going to be a kinder option for her.

Zoey was relinquished by her owners because they did not have time to care for her and her severe atopic dermatitis. They had seen me back in the fall on the recommendation of their groomer. We did a tremendous amount and found a lot of answers for treatment and they did the treatment for a few weeks and said she was the best she'd ever been. Then.....they stopped treatment. And now she's worse than ever. I pray we can get things reversed.

Truth be told, I would love to find a retired individual that could provide her all her medical needs or adoption by someone willing and able to devote the time and finances to make her live out her senior years in glory.

She will need life long meds. I anticipate she will need at least one life long pill, one life long eye drop, weekly medicated baths, arthritis medication, and a STRICT food elimination trial (if it helps her). We are working on meds to help her arthritis at this time and will update that.

She is currently on Rayne nutrition Crocodile, prednisone, atopica, fluconazole, ear meds, and trizchlor4 medicated shampoo 2 to 3 times a week, and cyclosporine eye drops twice per day.

She truly is low maintenance otherwise. She is p*e pads trained although I am sure she would love a stroller to roam the outdoors with. She basically just sleeps in her orthopedic bed and eats.

If we can not find a truly devoted home for her she will remain with me. Fingers crossed we have an open heart out there for her.

Today a elderly woman brought in a kitten that was unable to move. She had seen her seizure last night but was since mi...
03/06/2026

Today a elderly woman brought in a kitten that was unable to move. She had seen her seizure last night but was since missing until she found her. A little street/colony cat that was cared for for the last few months. This sweet lady offered to pay for euthanasia but couldn't afford to actually spend hundreds trying to save her.

Given her severe ocular disease and neurological presentation, FIP was top on our list but I am so overloaded with stray, relinquished and abandoned pets and the costs for FIP are very expensive.

So......I called the Rescue Mafia!!!

And they delivered. Thanks to Eva and they offered to give this kitten a fighting chance!

And while she is not at all out of the woods...to have her sitting up, responsive and finally eating on her own.....is a win!

Many thanks to my team who stopped everything and tried to assess and help this little one who arrived even before our doors were open!

Been a busy morning already! Had to carry Max all the way to work and shovel outside before we opened. For clients who...
02/23/2026

Been a busy morning already! Had to carry Max all the way to work and shovel outside before we opened.

For clients who normally depend on car service, the busses are running this morning! MTA busses and some subway Lines are running. Benny can confirm the B60 is running well!

But we know that many do not want to brave this weather so we understand and you can contact us to reschedule.

Perhaps we should run a special discount for sled dogs today!

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