Companion Animal Services

Your companion animals are very important to the clinic veterinarians and staff. Our Des Moines veterinarians offer excellent diagnostic, treatment, surgery, and well care services. Our quality care is supported by on-site blood chemistry analysis, isoflorane anesthetic, surgery, x-ray, and ultrasound equipment.

Preventative Medicine
Annual physical exams are an important step to evaluate and maintain the health of your animal. Since the life span of a pet is relatively short in comparison to that of a human, the health of your pet can change significantly in a year. Blood chemistry and other evaluations during an annual check-up allow early detection of many conditions, which increases the opportunity for the condition to be completely resolved or effectively controlled for an extended period of time.

The Des Moines veterinarians at the Stuart Veterinary Clinic also provide the following preventive pet care services: vaccination for preventable diseases, testing for heartworm, parvo, feline leukemia, and feline immunodeficiency virus, fecal exams for internal parasites, and dental care and cleaning.

Nutrition
Our Des Moines veterinarians offer a variety of high quality nutrition options for growing, adult, or geriatric pets. We also provide an extensive range of prescription and specialty diets to support our therapy for a variety of conditions including allergies, obesity, and heart, kidney, or liver disease

Boarding Service
Our goal is to provide a safe, clean, friendly and pleasant environment for your pet while you are away.
All kennels are cleaned and sanitized daily. A change of towels, fresh food, water, and litter boxes is also included.
In order to protect the health of your pet and ensure the health of other hospitalized or boarding pets we require that the following vaccines be up to date:

Any Des Moines veterinarian would recommend that all animals be protected with Frontline for flea control. If fleas are found on your pet they will be treated in order to prevent the spread of fleas to other pets at our facility.

All boarding pets are fed Science Diet Food. Clients are welcome to bring regular or prescription food from home.

HomeAgain® Microchip Identification System
The HomeAgain® Microchip Identification System is a safe, simple and permanent form of pet identification designed to quickly identify lost pets and reunite them with their owners. The HomeAgain® microchip is a small, sterile transponder that contains a unique ID code capable of being read by a compatible scanner. Each HomeAgain® microchipped pet also receives a collar tag preprinted with the animal recovery service phone number and your pet’s unique ID code.

Cremation Service
The loss of a family pet can be very painful. In the event of the untimely and unfortunate death of your companion pet, our clinic can offer you a dignified and caring cremation service. As an option, we can also return the ashes to you and offer a variety of urns to choose from.

Please feel free to contact a Stuart Veterinary Clinic veterinarian to learn more about our Companion Animal Services.