# Cat Clinic, Costa Mesa: a veterinarian in Costa Mesa (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/costa-mesa/cat-clinic-costa-mesa-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 14 sources. Updated 2026-10-12. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/costa-mesa/cat-clinic-costa-mesa-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm5350h0bqyye8plfr84gmy%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm5350h0bqyye8plfr84gmy%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm5350h0bqyye8plfr84gmy%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm5350h0bqyye8plfr84gmy%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm5350h0bqyye8plfr84gmy%2F4.jpg) ## In short Cat Clinic is a veterinarian in Costa Mesa, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Veterinarian | | Address | 1680 Tustin Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (949) 642-3494 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 281 reviews on Google | | Known for | New patients | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 12, 2026, 3:09 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1680 Tustin Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Description | 1680 Tustin Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Cat Clinic | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (949) 642-3494 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Services | Service | 820 park hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Cat boarding | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Cat health links | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | El panamericano hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Flatiron forum hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Instructional videos | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Intro hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Moreau hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | New patients | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Photo album | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Retail | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Retail pet products | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Team hayden | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Veterinary care for cats | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/catclinicvet | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/catclinicvet | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://www.catclinicvet.net/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/cat-clinic-costa-mesa | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 11 services Cat Clinic offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | New patients | | | | Confirmed | | 820 park hayden | | | | Confirmed | | Cat health links | | | | Confirmed | | El panamericano hayden | | | | Confirmed | | Team hayden | | | | Confirmed | | Instructional videos | | | | Confirmed | | Intro hayden | | | | Confirmed | | Moreau hayden | | | | Confirmed | | Photo album | | | | Confirmed | | Retail | | | | Confirmed | | Flatiron forum hayden | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Cat Clinic is best known for its specialized feline care, making it a top choice for cat owners in Costa Mesa and Orange County. Their dedicated team excels in providing tailored veterinary services for cats. - New patients: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews) ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Cat Clinic Address: 1680 Tustin Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, USA. Phone: (949) 642-3494. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Cat Clinic on its Google Business Profile: "1680 Tustin Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627" ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Beach Pit BBQ | Barbecue restaurant | 1 min walk | | La Carniceria Wagyu - Costa Mesa | Food store | 1 min walk | | MaDee Thai Kitchen | Thai restaurant | 1 min walk | | 17th-Tustin | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | 17th-Tustin | Transit station | 1 min walk | | SkyBay Sushi | Sushi restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 281 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 3, 2026.) The Cat Clinic is known for its cat-only focus but struggles with customer service and appointment scheduling. (AI guess, from 281 reviews.) ### What people like - Excellent cat boarding service - Regular updates during boarding ### What people do not like - Unresponsive front desk - Not accepting new clients - High prices compared to other vets ### Press No press story about Cat Clinic found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Cat Clinic Cat Clinic hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### what do I actually do when I get to Cat Clinic in Costa Mesa? No answer yet ### Is numbing included here or is it extra? No answer yet ### bad experiences at Cat Clinic, anyone? No answer yet ### prices round here, anyone got a number No answer yet ### recovery after Cat Clinic, what do people actually say? No answer yet ### Why do people rate Cat Clinic? No answer yet ### never been here, how does it go? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### anything good on Tustin to kill time near Cat Clinic? No answer yet ### somewhere cheaper in Costa Mesa that is not a risk? No answer yet ### anyone been to both here and Newport Harbor? No answer yet ### where exactly is this place? No answer yet ### Do they post anywhere? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Cat Clinic? No answer yet ### best veterinarian in Costa Mesa No answer yet ### Open Saturdays here? No answer yet ### Any medical supervision on site? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Cat Clinic We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Cat Clinic. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Costa Mesa veterinarians run 26 to 70. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cat Clinic scores 26, below the Costa Mesa average of 47. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cat Clinic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 6 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 16 answers that recommended anyone. 5 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 85 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 38 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a veterinarian When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a veterinarian in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice. - Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the California medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free. - Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license. - Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area. - Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Cat Clinic if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Cat Clinic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cat Clinic | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.catclinicvet.net/ | Subject of this page | | Costa Mesa, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Cat Clinic is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the veterinarians in Costa Mesa, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best veterinarians in Costa Mesa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/costa-mesa/veterinarian - Best businesses in Costa Mesa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/costa-mesa ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Cat Clinic. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJGVPXEe7f3IARQ9nnsf-IJjU (accessed Sep 3, 2026) - [2] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/820-park-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/new-clients (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/photo-album (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/retail (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/team-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/cat-health-links (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/el-panamericano-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/flatiron-forum-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [10] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/instructional-videos (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [11] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/intro-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [12] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/moreau-hayden (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [13] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [14] catclinicvet.net, https://www.catclinicvet.net/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)