# Beach Animal Urgent Care, Huntington Beach: a veterinarian in Huntington Beach (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/huntington-beach/beach-animal-urgent-care-huntington-beach-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 7 sources. Updated 2026-09-03. Owner review: not yet. 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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 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 | 19201 Brookhurst St Ste 105, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 12 PM to 10 PM | | Phone | (657) 485-0338 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 99 reviews on Google | | Known for | Beach Animal Urgent Care excels in emergency veterinary services and compassionate care for pets, making it a go-to clinic for urgent needs and routine check-ups in Huntington Beach. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Wednesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 1:15 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 | 19201 Brookhurst St Ste 105, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Description | For over 15 years Dr. Thomas Babcock has practiced emergency medicine and urgent care for Animals. Favorite skills include surgery, ultrasound, endoscopy, and internal medicine. In addition, he has held a position with Western University as a preceptor for over 10 years, helping to teach the next generation of veterinarians. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 12:00 to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Beach Animal Urgent Care | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (657) 485-0338 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dentistry | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Endoscopy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | New patients | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Pharmacy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Radiology | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Ultrasound | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/beachanimalurgentcare | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 6 services Beach Animal Urgent Care offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Dentistry | | | | Confirmed | | Pharmacy | | | | Confirmed | | Radiology | | | | Confirmed | | Ultrasound | | | | Confirmed | | Endoscopy | | | | Confirmed | | New patients | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Beach Animal Urgent Care excels in emergency veterinary services and compassionate care for pets, making it a go-to clinic for urgent needs and routine check-ups in Huntington Beach. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Beach Animal Urgent Care Address: 19201 Brookhurst St Ste 105, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA. Phone: (657) 485-0338. Hours: Mon to Sun 12 PM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Beach Animal Urgent Care on its Google Business Profile: "For over 15 years Dr. Thomas Babcock has practiced emergency medicine and urgent care for Animals. Favorite skills include surgery, ultrasound, endoscopy, and internal medicine. In addition, he has held a position with Western University as a preceptor for over 10 years, helping to teach the next generation of veterinarians." ### When to go Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | El Pollo Loco | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk | | Brookhurst-Kukui | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Brookhurst-Kukui | Transit station | 1 min walk | | Brookhurst-Kukui | Bus station | 2 min walk | | Wienerschnitzel | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk | | KFC | Chicken restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 99 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 3, 2026.) While Beach Animal Urgent Care offers compassionate service and a clean environment, some customers report troubling experiences with treatment protocols and misdiagnoses. (AI guess, from 99 reviews.) ### What people like - Compassionate follow-up care - Clean and well-equipped facility ### What people do not like - Concerns over sedation practices for larger dogs - Long waits past appointment times - Misdiagnosis and treatment concerns ### Press No press story about Beach Animal Urgent Care found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Beach Animal Urgent Care Beach Animal Urgent Care hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### never been to Beach Animal Urgent Care, how does it go? No answer yet ### is there a day here that is not slammed No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### best veterinarian in Huntington Beach No answer yet ### worth it or not, what do the regulars say No answer yet ### how rough is the follow up at Beach Animal Urgent Care? No answer yet ### payment plans here, is that a thing? No answer yet ### anyone tell me what a consult here involves No answer yet ### same day appts, does that ever happen here No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a vet in Huntington Beach? No answer yet ### which one, Beach Animal Urgent Care or Huntington Beach Pet? No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### Turning up at Beach Animal Urgent Care in Huntington Beach for the first time, what happens? No answer yet ### does it hurt, and can you ask for numbing No answer yet ### financing here, is there any? No answer yet ### medical staff at Beach Animal Urgent Care, or is it techs? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Beach Animal Urgent Care We ask ChatGPT about Beach Animal Urgent Care. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 3, 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. Huntington Beach veterinarians run 26 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Beach Animal Urgent Care scores 26, below the Huntington Beach average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Beach Animal Urgent Care | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 41 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 91 | 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 | 54 | 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 | 46 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 61 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | 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 Beach Animal Urgent Care 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 Beach Animal Urgent Care | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Beach Animal Urgent Care | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/ | Subject of this page | | Huntington Beach, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Beach Animal Urgent Care 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 Huntington Beach, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best veterinarians in Huntington Beach: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/huntington-beach/veterinarian - Best businesses in Huntington Beach: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/huntington-beach ### 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 Beach Animal Urgent Care. 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:ChIJ59bycD0L-YoROpfPuvPRIXY (accessed Sep 3, 2026) - [2] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/services/dentistry (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/services/endoscopy (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/new-patients (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/pharmacy (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/services/radiology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] beachanimalurgentcare.com, https://www.beachanimalurgentcare.com/services/ultrasound (accessed Sep 19, 2026)