Taylor Gaines, DVM MPH
The Doc
My goal is to be the best veterinarian in Catonsville for you: meeting all your needs, answering all your questions, and giving you the attention and care you and your animals deserve.
I am Dr. Taylor Gaines. I grew up in Elkridge, went to college at UMBC, and then graduated from Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a Master of Public Health. Now I live in Catonsville with my wife, my daughters, and a handful of chickens.
Let me show you the benefits and convenience of having a house-call veterinarian. When you call Catonsville Doc On the Go, you will always get me, not a new doctor every time. I want to take care of your animals from puppy- and kittenhood to their senior years, all at a great value.
I want to offer a service to you where I treat your animals the same (or, maybe even better!) as I treat mine, my family’s, and my friends’: high quality, reasonably priced, and honestly.
I have special interests in wellness and preventative care of healthy animals, nutrition, dentistry, vaccine science and use, backyard chickens and other poultry, and honeybees (maybe someday I will live somewhere it is appropriate to keep honeybees…I want a couple of nice horizontal hives…)
Send me an email or text if you want to chat, and if you liked my service, write me a review on Google or Nextdoor. And, check me out in UMBC Magazine!
There is a healthy and an unhealthy love of animals: and the nearest definition of the difference is that the unhealthy love of animals is serious. I am quite prepared to love a rhinoceros, with reasonable precautions: he is, doubtless, a delightful father to the young rhinoceroses. But I will not promise not to laugh at a rhinoceros…
… I will not worship an animal. That is, I will not take an animal quite seriously: and I know why.
Whenever there is Animal Worship there is Human Sacrifice. That is, both symbolically and literally, a real truth of historical experience…
… The only right view of the animal is the comic view. Because the view is comic it is naturally affectionate. And because it is affectionate, it is never respectful…
… And the two extravagances which exist on the edges of our harassed and secretive society to-day are cruelty to animals and worship of animals. They both come from taking animals too seriously: the cruel man must hate the animal; the crank must worship the animal, and perhaps fear it. Neither knows how to love it.
– GK Chesterton, “On Seriousness” 1917
Serving Catonsville, Arbutus, Halethorpe, Ellicott City, Elkridge, Hanover, Linthicum Heights, Woodlawn, and Baltimore
Thank you for your interest in Catonsville Doc On the Go, a new house-call veterinary practice in Catonsville. I travel to homes in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County, and Anne Arundel County, including Arbutus, Catonsville, Halethorpe, Ellicott City, Elkridge, Hanover, Linthicum Heights, and Woodlawn to take care of your pets!