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Caring for Your Pets Like Family

The relationships we have with our animals form the most pure and cherished bonds.   We understand first hand that a pet is not just a pet and is truly a part of the family.

At Traveling Heart Vet, our mission is to provide the highest quality of cutting-edge cardiology care with the warmth and individualized attention of a family doctor.   Visiting a veterinary specialist can be stressful for animals and humans alike.   We understand.   From the moment you walk through the door, we are committed to caring for your pets with the same love and respect as if they were our own.

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Who We Are

Traveling Heart Vet is a specialized, mobile veterinary cardiology service focused on the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions in small animals. Our team of a veterinary cardiologist and veterinary cardiology technician travels to veterinary hospitals bringing specialty cardiac care to your primary veterinarian’s practice. 

What We Do

Veterinary cardiologists can identify heart conditions at the earliest stages, as well as treat existing conditions to significantly impact your pet’s overall health and longevity. Working with your primary veterinarian, we diagnose and treat a range of heart conditions, including congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, age-related valve disease, congenital heart defects, and arrhythmias.

Approximately 10% of dogs and 15% of cats have some form of cardiac disease. As animals age, their risk increases significantly – nearly 75% of senior dogs exhibit some type of heart condition. Early intervention and treatment is key.   We use echocardiograms and electrocardiograms to diagnose these conditions and can then create a customized treatment plan.

We offer two types of appointments:

Cardiac consultations, where you meet directly with the cardiologist, who will complete a thorough physical examination and discuss your pet’s specific needs and treatment plan.
Cardiac evaluations for your veterinarian, where we perform the test that your veterinarian requests and your veterinarian would relay the results to you.
All appointments are scheduled through your veterinarian.  Please contact your veterinarian to request an appointment.
While we primarily perform cardiac evaluations on cats and dogs, we can also provide cardiac evaluations by special request from your primary veterinarian for other species (such as ferrets, chinchillas, rats, rabbits, and others)

Meet Dr. Michelle Kazdin

Dr. Kazdin received her VMD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine after earning her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Tufts University.   After completing a year-long internship at the ASPCA Animal Hospital in New York City, she began work as an emergency veterinarian at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital.  She completed a three-year cardiology residency at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital in New Jersey and has since been practicing as a veterinary cardiologist in large veterinary specialty hospitals (including Red Bank Veterinary Hospitals in Tinton Falls, Hillsborough, and Mount Laurel) for 13 years.

 

While most of her career has been spent in the tristate area, she has traveled all over the world in her volunteer work with Rural Area Veterinary Services, including volunteer neuter and vaccinations for horses in Guatemala, and spay and neuter services for cats and dogs on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona.  She has also volunteered for the Wildlife Conservation Society reserve for Humboldt penguins in Peru.

 

In 2025, Dr. Kazdin started Traveling Heart Vet to make veterinary cardiology services more accessible to a wider range of patients, to encourage early heart interventions as well as specialty care, and to improve the well-being and promote longevity of our four-legged family members.

Meet Jessenia Martinez

Jessenia Martinez is a highly skilled veterinarian technician with 12 years of experience working in large specialty hospitals and general practice. Specializing in cardiology, she has worked together with Dr. Kazdin for 4 years, as an invaluable member of the team. In addition to her work in cardiology, she has extensive emergency experience, having worked as an emergency technician for 5 years and specialty technician in dermatology for 2 years.  Her ability to work quickly in urgent care has made her in demand with other veterinary departments throughout the hospital, but her true passion is cardiology.

Working closely with Dr. Kazdin, Jessenia also educates clients to ensure that care is as smooth as possible once animals leave the hospital, and that clients are fully equipped and confident to continue care at home.

For Jessenia, every animal she treats is like her own for the time they are with her. She knows that an extra blanket and soothing words before a procedure can have an enormously positive impact on an animal’s peace of mind, well-being, and even recovery. She is thrilled to be bringing care to a wider group of animals and their pet parents with Traveling Heart Vet.

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What Our Clients Say

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Ekaterina Sedia

Dr. Kazdin is a wonderful cardiologist who has been taking care of my cat with cardiomyopathy since 2021. I also just started bringing my dog to her, because she is so great — attentive, caring, never makes us feel rushed. The rest of the staff is also fabulous — very accommodating and helpful. Things are generally on schedule so we never have to wait. Highly recommend!

Rich Fialkoff

Dr. Kazdin is an excellent cardiologist and our dog has really improved under her care. Her severe heart disease has remained stable so far, which is far better than we had expected. Dr. Kazdin is very thorough in her analysis of echo test results, and Importantly, makes adjustments across multiple meds as needed.

Carol weiss

Today we met with cardiologist Dr Michele Kazdin. I have never felt more at ease at the vet before. We didn’t have to wait .

She explained everything in detail and then some. Even my dog Bella stopped shaking. The tech that was with her was kind and attentive. They both turned a stressful visit into a pleasant one.

I would definitely recommend taking your pet their . I just had a good feeling about our entire visit. I’m glad I found them.

Jessica Mester

Dr Kazdin and staff are FANTASTIC! They treat my dog Chippy Shane and me like family. It’s definitely worth the long drive to get there!

Annie Trinkle

Dr. Kazdin is a brilliant cardiologist with a heart of gold. so smart, so kind, so concerned and careful with the care of her patients. several of our dogs have been patients of hers over the years, and the care has always been beyond the best.

Jaime W

We have brought our dog here to see for cardiology appointments with Dr. Kazdin a few times. Making an appointment is always so easy and fast. Dr. Kazdin is so knowledgeable and understanding. She always takes the time to hear our concerns and explain things in ways that we can understand. We live far away but always make the drive when our dog needs a cardiology check up!! Cannot say enough good things about the rest of the staff here as well.

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Signs of heart disease in cats

  • Trouble breathing:   breathing rate may be faster, breaths may appear heavier, deeper, or more exaggerated.  Some cats with trouble breathing may breathe at a normal rate, but each breath appears to be a deep sigh.
  • Restlessness (accompanied by change in breathing) – inability to sleep or rest comfortably
  • Collapse or fainting
  • Exercise intolerance:  In a cat this can be transient heavier breathing after exertion, such as playing or jumping up on furniture, or stopping to lie down after taking a few steps
  • Cough is rarely a sign of heart disease in cats (it is more commonly due to asthma or other respiratory diseases), however some cats can cough with heart disease
  • Sudden paralysis or inability to use hind limbs or a forelimb
  • Behavior change:  Although this is not specific for heart disease (it can be a sign of any other illness in a cat), when cats do not feel well they may hide or sleep in unusual places, not greet you at the normal times, or be less affectionate.  Since cats are very good at hiding how they feel, it is important to have a cat evaluated when they are not acting like themselves.
Please note:
  • Some of these signs can also occur with other disease processes.  A cardiac evaluation can determine if these signs are heart-related or not.
  • Cats can also have heart disease without having any obvious signs at all.
  • Trouble breathing is an emergency; cats with trouble breathing should go to their nearest emergency hospital. 

Signs of heart disease in dogs

  • Trouble breathing: breathing rate may be faster, breaths may appear heavier, deeper, or more exaggerated
  • Cough: new cough, increase in frequency of cough, or change in sound of cough
  • Collapse or fainting
  • Exercise intolerance: getting winded or out of breath with normal activity, or not tolerating normal walks
  • Restlessness (accompanied by change in breathing):  inability to sleep or rest comfortably
Please note:
  • Some of these signs can also occur with other disease processes.  A cardiac evaluation can determine if these signs are heart-related or not.
  • Dogs can also have heart disease without having any obvious signs at all.
  • Trouble breathing is an emergency; dogs with trouble breathing should go to their nearest emergency hospital.