The Cat Practice
4.7 from 111 reviews
Address 145 W 24th St 3rd floor, New York, NY 10011
Phone Number +12126771401
Description Welcome to The Cat Practice, one of NYC's feline-only veterinary practices! Dr. Eric Dougherty is Chelsea's exclusive feline veterinarian, and he is seeing appointments Monday through Saturday. * Booking by appointment only* Masks must be worn at all times for the safety of our team. If you need to remove your mask for *any* reason, please do so outside of our office (eating, drinking, phone calls, etc). We also ask that social distancing is respected inside the office at all times as well. If you have been recently exposed to COVID-19, please make sure to reschedule your appointment with us. Thank you for understanding and for helping to keep our office a safe environment! =^..^=
Website http://www.thecatpractice.com/
Natalia Shukina
I am so happy to find this amazingly welcoming and professional crew who works exclusively with cats. They have been taken care of my feral sick cat for over 2 years now and I believe that with their help we are keeping on prolonging his life. Barsik, the client of The Cat Practice, loves to go there. Great job and thank you for taking care of Barsik.
R C
I’ve used The Cat Practice numerous times now for cat boarding, and I’m super pleased. Miso is always well taken care of and comes back home very happy - it only takes him a few minutes to be back to his normal silly self again. I know he can be a handful sometimes so I appreciate the extra care. Thank you!
Francis Sullivan
Dr. Dougherty excedes all expectations. He and his team are experienced and driven providers who love cats, and they’ll do everything right by your feline pal. As relatively new cat people, my roommate and I were a bit overwhelmed when one of our 2 became very ill. Dr. Dougherty has been extremely kind in helping us through a very difficult time, and we’ve been put at ease by his top notch skills and singularly compassionate care. You will not regret choosing the cat practice.
Kristin Lukich Berkowitz
Hands down the best cat vet in NYC! Dr. Eric Dougherty is a kind, experienced, knowledgeable, and compassionate vet, and I felt like my cat was very well taken care of. It was clear that he really cared about my cat and her health. I was previously told that my cat would have to be sedated for a proper check up, but not with The Cat Practice! They handled my pet with care and were able to do her check up with no sedation. Thank you for being such a wonderful vet!
Katherine Schiano
Amazing practice, amazing doctor, amazing staff!!! They know how to treat your cat just perfectly. My Mia was so well behaved with them I couldn’t believe it was her. Dr. Dougherty is very knowledgeable about cats in general and is great the way he handle his cat patients, not all Vets can handle cats properly, I strongly recommend Dr. Dougherty and his practice.
Morgan Korbel
Finding Dr. Dougherty and his team at The Cat Practice has been a godsend. We have two seven-year-old cats who are our absolute world and have unfortunately each experienced quite a few health concerns in recent years. The Cat Practice has been a tremendous breath of feline-focused fresh air in a world of veterinary offices with intimidating, barking-dog-packed waiting rooms and doctors who clearly didn’t have specialized expertise in diagnosing and caring for cats like they do at The Cat Practice. We found them online and figured it was worth a shot to take a drive in to the city (we live in NJ and had visited a number of more local vets, none of whom had been able to really make a difference for us) and are SO GLAD that we did! We will be clients for life. I would seriously look in to flying back to see them if we ever had to move out of the surrounding area. Dr. Dougherty is incredibly knowledgeable, thorough, compassionate, and SO gentle. He always takes the time to fully explain everything that he’s doing and thinking, and he has such a calming presence on both cats and nervous cat-parents alike. You can really feel how much he truly adores cats and is personally invested in making sure they are all as healthy and happy as possible. His Tech Dylan is also fantastic and so kind…Dylan didn’t even flinch when, during one visit, our tabby Toast got a little scared and took a swipe at him, literally leaving a claw shard dangling from his cheek. He kept carefully holding her until Dr. D finished up, and then he was actually comforting US before leaving the room to clean himself up. Toast suffers from allergies and an autoimmune issue which cause her to be very itchy and to dramatically over-groom, and Dr. Dougherty has been the only one to be able to figure out exactly what was going on and finally get things under control for her. His amazing partner Arielle has spent hours helping us navigate different pharmacy/medication options, and Toast is now doing the best that she has in years, with fluffy fur covering her previously bare patches and a dramatically improved quality of life! We could not be more thankful to see Toast so happy and comfortable again. Recently, our tuxedo cat Monkey started limping and not being able to jump out of nowhere, and Dr. Dougherty got us in right away and was able to identify what was wrong IMMEDIATELY. It turned out that Monkey had torn her ACL (extremely unusual in cats, so not something many Vets would have known) but he was able to feel and accurately diagnose our very agitated, hurting girl within minutes and got us referred to/seen by an excellent surgeon at Blue Pearl within days. We are seriously always amazed by what a cat-whisperer Dr. D is – his expertise is so specialized and so impressive. The Cat Practice’s prices are very reasonable, and they never suggest any procedures/treatments that are not absolutely 100% necessary (which is something I have not found to be true with previous vets). Even with treatments that are very important, they will walk you through what order things should be done if money is tight, and help you to understand all of your options. The office itself feels more like a warm, cozy home than it does a medical facility, and your cat is free to explore the exam room prior to the appointment rather than being confined to the carrier which seems to lower anxiety levels. We trust Dr. Dougherty, Arielle, Dylan, and the whole Cat Practice team without question, and we will continue to drive into NYC to see them from NJ for as long as they’ll let us! (By the way, we always find convenient street parking right outside of the office too, which is a great added bonus for those driving in.) Oh, they also offer boarding, which we’ve not done yet but if we were to ever need to board Toast and Monkey, The Cat Practice is the ONLY place we would ever trust!
Business Hours
Monday:08:30AM - 17:00PMTuesday:08:30AM - 18:00PMWednesday:08:30AM - 18:00PMThursday:08:30AM - 18:00PMFriday:08:30AM - 18:00PMSaturday:08:30AM - 17:00PMSunday:08:30AM - 15:00PM
Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
Amenities
- Gender-neutral restroom
- Restroom
Crowd
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Transgender safespace
Planning
- Appointment required
- Appointments recommended
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