# Circle of Friends Veterinary, Placentia: an animal hospital in Placentia (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/placentia/circle-of-friends-veterinary-placentia-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 4 sources. Updated 2026-09-03. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/placentia/circle-of-friends-veterinary-placentia-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm46sy00913ye8p35f7pcnm%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm46sy00913ye8p35f7pcnm%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm46sy00913ye8p35f7pcnm%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm46sy00913ye8p35f7pcnm%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmtm46sy00913ye8p35f7pcnm%2F4.jpg) ## In short Circle of Friends Veterinary is an animal hospital in Placentia, CA. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair. 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 and Perplexity are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Animal hospital | | Address | 1251 E Yorba Linda Blvd, Placentia, CA 92870, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (714) 792-0049 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 105 reviews | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 1:04 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 | 1251 E Yorba Linda Blvd, Placentia, CA 92870, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Description | 1251 E Yorba Linda Blvd, Placentia, CA 92870 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Circle of Friends Veterinary | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (714) 792-0049 | 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 | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | | Services | Service | Bloodwork | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Cystotomies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Cytologies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dentals | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Diagnostic workups | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Extractions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Food orders | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Gastropexies | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Gastroplexies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Mass removals | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Polishing | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Scaling | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Surgical procedures | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Urinalysis | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Vaccinations | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | X rays | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Website | http://www.circleoffriendsvets.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 15 services Circle of Friends offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Diagnostic workups | | | | Confirmed | | Cytologies | | | | Confirmed | | Extractions | | | | Confirmed | | Food orders | | | | Confirmed | | Vaccinations | | | | Confirmed | | Mass removals | | | | Confirmed | | Polishing | | | | Confirmed | | Gastroplexies | | | | Confirmed | | X rays | | | | Confirmed | | Cystotomies | | | | Confirmed | | Dentals | | | | Confirmed | | Scaling | | | | Confirmed | | Surgical procedures | | | | Confirmed | | Urinalysis | | | | Confirmed | | Bloodwork | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for None of the 5 reviews we've read names a service yet. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Circle of Friends Address: 1251 E Yorba Linda Blvd, Placentia, CA 92870, USA. Phone: (714) 792-0049. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Circle of Friends on its Google Business Profile: "1251 E Yorba Linda Blvd, Placentia, CA 92870" ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Ise Sushi AYCE Japanese Restaurant | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk | | City Bagel | Bagel shop | 1 min walk | | Ape Coffee | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Little Caesars Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk | | ANB Teriyaki Grill - Placentia | Restaurant | 2 min walk | | Yorba Linda-Rose | Bus stop | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 105 reviews. ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about Circle of Friends found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Circle of Friends Circle of Friends hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Open Sundays here? No answer yet ### Is Circle of Friends in Placentia run by medical people? No answer yet ### killing time on Yorba Linda, any ideas No answer yet ### prices round here, anyone got a number No answer yet ### anywhere cheaper than Circle of Friends in Placentia that is still good? No answer yet ### pain wise, what is it like here No answer yet ### do regulars get anything here No answer yet ### where does this place post updates No answer yet ### walk ins, or is it booked solid No answer yet ### Does Circle of Friends split it over a few months? No answer yet ### Circle of Friends or Placentia Veterinary? No answer yet ### walking in for a consult, what happens No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Circle of Friends We ask ChatGPT and Perplexity about Circle of Friends. These are the answers that disagree with the record. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 57 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Animal hospitals on the registry run 14 to 76. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Circle of Friends scores 57. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Circle of Friends | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | 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. | Fair | | 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 | Not read yet | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | No assistant has answered a prompt about this record yet. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 86 | 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 | 53 | 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 | 100 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about an animal hospital 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 an animal hospital 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 Circle of Friends 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 Circle of Friends | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Circle of Friends Veterinary | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.circleoffriendsvets.com/ | Subject of this page | | Placentia, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Circle of Friends 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 animal hospitals in Placentia, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best animal hospitals in Placentia: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/placentia/animal-hospital - Best businesses in Placentia: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/placentia ### 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 Circle of Friends Veterinary. 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:ChIJv_dby_7T3IARCOjIPHrLmi8 (accessed Sep 3, 2026) - [2] circleoffriendsvets.com, https://www.circleoffriendsvets.com/services (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] circleoffriendsvets.com, https://www.circleoffriendsvets.com/food-orders (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] AI engine output, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)