# Hamilton Animal Hospital, Huntington Beach: a veterinarian in Huntington Beach (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/huntington-beach/hamilton-animal-hospital-huntington-beach-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 6 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 | 21552 Brookhurst St, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 7 AM to 6 PM · Sat 8 AM to 5 PM · Sun 9 AM to 4 PM | | Phone | (714) 643-8849 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.9 across 456 reviews on Google | | Known for | Vaccinations | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Sunday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 12:56 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 | 21552 Brookhurst St, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Hamilton Animal Hospital is a full-service animal clinic providing a wide range of veterinary services to your pets. With state-of-the-art technology, our veterinary facility is equipped to provide advanced and quality veterinary care to your pet. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sun 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Hamilton Animal Hospital | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (714) 643-8849 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Services | Service | 714 964 4744 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Behavioral counseling | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Book appointment | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Book now | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dental cleanings | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Diagnostics | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Emergencies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Modal title | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Nutrition counseling | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Online pharmacy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Outside box feline house soiling | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Pets holiday hazards | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Saved searches | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Save search | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Sick visits | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Surgeries | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Update profile | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Vaccinations | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/hamiltonanimalhospital | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=gbp&utm_campaign=gbp | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 18 services Hamilton Animal Hospital offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vaccinations | | | | Confirmed | | Diagnostics | | | | Confirmed | | 714 964 4744 | | | | Confirmed | | Emergencies | | | | Confirmed | | Modal title | | | | Confirmed | | Online pharmacy | | | | Confirmed | | Outside box feline house soiling | | | | Confirmed | | Behavioral counseling | | | | Confirmed | | Surgeries | | | | Confirmed | | Nutrition counseling | | | | Confirmed | | Update profile | | | | Confirmed | | Pets holiday hazards | | | | Confirmed | | Saved searches | | | | Confirmed | | Save search | | | | Confirmed | | Sick visits | | | | Confirmed | | Book now | | | | Confirmed | | Dental cleanings | | | | Confirmed | | Book appointment | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Hamilton Animal Hospital excels in treating and educating pet owners about periodontal disease, particularly in dogs and Yorkies. Their compassionate care and thorough examinations make them a trusted choice for pet health. - Vaccinations: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews) ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Hamilton Animal Hospital Address: 21552 Brookhurst St, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, USA. Phone: (714) 643-8849. Hours: Mon to Fri 7 AM to 6 PM · Sat 8 AM to 5 PM · Sun 9 AM to 4 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Hamilton Animal Hospital on its Google Business Profile: "Hamilton Animal Hospital is a full-service animal clinic providing a wide range of veterinary services to your pets. With state-of-the-art technology, our veterinary facility is equipped to provide advanced and quality veterinary care to your pet." ### When to go Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Tuesday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Starbucks Coffee Company | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Tacos Miranda | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk | | Hamilton-Brookhurst | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | The Fighting Italian | Italian restaurant | 2 min walk | | Basilico's Pasta e Vino | Italian restaurant | 2 min walk | | Brookhurst-Hamilton | Bus stop | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.9 average across 456 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 3, 2026.) Hamilton Animal Hospital is well-regarded for its compassionate care, particularly for pets with special needs, but faces criticism for rising costs and appointment availability. (AI guess, from 456 reviews.) ### What people like - Thorough and accurate diagnoses ### What people do not like - Long waits for appointments - High prices for services - Unresponsive phone service ### Press No press story about Hamilton Animal Hospital found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Hamilton Animal Hospital Hamilton Animal Hospital hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### recovery after Hamilton Animal Hospital, what do people actually say? No answer yet ### going rate for vets locally, any idea No answer yet ### picking between the two, is Huntington Beach Pet the safer bet? No answer yet ### Coffee near this place on Brookhurst? No answer yet ### anything new from Hamilton Animal Hospital lately? No answer yet ### Turning up at Hamilton Animal Hospital in Huntington Beach for the first time, what happens? No answer yet ### how do I reach this place to sort something out? No answer yet ### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints? No answer yet ### best veterinarian in Huntington Beach No answer yet ### anywhere cheaper than Hamilton Animal Hospital in Huntington Beach that is still good? No answer yet ### Busiest day at Hamilton Animal Hospital, anyone know? No answer yet ### can I ask for numbing here without it being weird? No answer yet ### what do I actually do when I get here? No answer yet ### is there a rewards thing at Hamilton Animal Hospital No answer yet ### genuinely, what is good about this one No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Hamilton Animal Hospital? No answer yet ### real doctors here, or is it beauticians No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Hamilton Animal Hospital We ask ChatGPT about Hamilton Animal Hospital. 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. Hamilton Animal Hospital scores 26, below the Huntington Beach average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Hamilton Animal Hospital | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 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 | 93 | 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 | Not read yet | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 81 | 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 Hamilton Animal Hospital 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 Hamilton Animal Hospital | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Hamilton Animal Hospital | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=gbp&utm_campaign=gbp | Subject of this page | | Huntington Beach, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Hamilton Animal Hospital 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 Hamilton Animal Hospital. 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:ChIJ4f2EOvQg3YARcure0B59NSM (accessed Sep 3, 2026) - [2] hamiltonanimalhospital.com, https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/services.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] hamiltonanimalhospital.com, https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/request-an-appointment.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] hamiltonanimalhospital.com, https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/emergencies.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] hamiltonanimalhospital.com, https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/outside-box-feline-house-soiling.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] hamiltonanimalhospital.com, https://www.hamiltonanimalhospital.com/pets-holiday-hazards.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)