Keota Veterinary Clinic

Hamsters to draft horses is the honest description of what walks through the door at Keota Veterinary Clinic, a locally owned mixed practice serving Keokuk and Washington counties with roughly 55 years of combined veterinary experience on staff. Small animal care covers dogs, cats, and exotics with wellness visits, vaccinations, parasite prevention, surgery, microchipping, dental radiography with scale and polish, diagnostic imaging and ultrasound, and in-house laboratory work. The large animal side handles cattle, horses, donkeys and mules, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry — the full range of what an eastern Iowa farm operation needs. After-hours emergency care is available to current clients, which in farm country can mean the difference between a saved animal and a lost one. In-home euthanasia is offered as well, sparing families a final car ride. The clinic's history includes a genuinely notable footnote: Dr. Richard Carmichael, one of the doctors in its lineage, established the first embryo transfer facility in the United States, seeding what became a multi-million-dollar industry. Where hometown values meet modern medicine is the guiding line, and clients have been known to drive from Des Moines rather than settle for something closer.