Can I get in this week at Small Animal?
Question · by wedding_iris · Member since Jul 2026 · 52 posts · 2w2 weeks ago
Animal hospital in Riverside, CA
4.6 · 184 reviewsOpen today until 6 PMOpen until 6
Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment!
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What Small Animal offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
Small Animal lists 4 services on its website. Here's each one, with a plain description and how many reviews mention each.
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Brockton Surgery Center, a surgical center, is a 7 minute walk. Soup Shoppe, a american restaurant, is a 1 minute walk.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Oct 26, 2026.
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.
What reviews, press and directories say about Small Animal.
4.6from 184 reviews on Google
The hospital is known for its compassionate care but struggles with wait times and communication, impacting the overall experience. Experiences at this animal hospital vary significantly, with some praising the compassionate care for pets while others express frustration over long wait times and communication issues. Many reviewers appreciate the thoroughness of the examinations and the genuine concern shown towards their animals, but complaints about outdated practices and unresponsive staff are common.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
38 Riverside avg
Signal and how much it countsSmall Animal
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Small Animal, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Small Animal, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Small Animal. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Animal hospitals in Riverside, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 21, 2026.
Published October 21, 2026 · Updated October 21, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Small Animal Hospital is an animal hospital in Riverside, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Animal hospital |
| Address | 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (951) 684-1530 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 184 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 21, 2026 |
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 | 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Small Animal Hospital | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (951) 684-1530 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Client portal | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dental services | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Diagnostic services | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Euthanasia | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Imaging services | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Surgery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Vaccinations | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Wellness exams | AI guess | |
| Links | Website | http://vetsmallanimal.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Details | Opening date | 1945 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 4 services Small Animal offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccinations | From their website | |||
| Surgery | From their website | |||
| Euthanasia | From their website | |||
| Client portal | From their website |
Address: 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA. Phone: (951) 684-1530. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment!"
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Soup Shoppe | American restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Magnolia at Brockton Arcade | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| 3799 San Simeon Way Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| Magnolia at Brockton Arcade | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Riverside Cookie Shoppe | Bakery | 2 min walk |
| Brockton + Nelson | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
4.6 average across 184 reviews: Google 184. (Confirmed, read October 21, 2026.)
The hospital is known for its compassionate care but struggles with wait times and communication, impacting the overall experience. (AI guess, from 184 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Riverside animal hospitals run 26 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Small Animal scores 34, below the Riverside average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Small Animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | 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. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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 | 55 | 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 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | ||
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about an animal hospital: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-med-spa. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-med-spa
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 Small Animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Animal Hospital | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://vetsmallanimal.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Riverside, California | City | #city | City Small Animal is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the animal hospitals in Riverside, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Small Animal Hospital, Riverside CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/riverside/small-animal-hospital-riverside-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-21. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/riverside/small-animal-hospital-riverside-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Small Animal Hospital is an animal hospital in Riverside, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Animal hospital | | Address | 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (951) 684-1530 | | Rating | 4.6 across 184 reviews on Google | | Updated | October 21, 2026 | ## 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 | 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Small Animal Hospital | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (951) 684-1530 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Client portal | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Dental services | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Diagnostic services | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Euthanasia | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Imaging services | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Surgery | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Vaccinations | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Wellness exams | AI guess | | | Links | Website | http://vetsmallanimal.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Details | Opening date | 1945 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 4 services Small Animal offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vaccinations | | | | From their website | | Surgery | | | | From their website | | Euthanasia | | | | From their website | | Client portal | | | | From their website | ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Small Animal Address: 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA. Phone: (951) 684-1530. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment!" ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Soup Shoppe | American restaurant | 1 min walk | | Magnolia at Brockton Arcade | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | 3799 San Simeon Way Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk | | Magnolia at Brockton Arcade | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | Riverside Cookie Shoppe | Bakery | 2 min walk | | Brockton + Nelson | Bus stop | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.6 average across 184 reviews: Google 184. (Confirmed, read October 21, 2026.) The hospital is known for its compassionate care but struggles with wait times and communication, impacting the overall experience. (AI guess, from 184 reviews.) ### What people like - Compassionate care for pets - Thorough examinations - Accommodating staff ### What people do not like - Long waits past the appointment time - Unresponsive front desk - Pressure to agree to additional treatments ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### Can I get in this week at Small Animal? ### how rough is the follow up at Small Animal? ### going rate for hospitals locally, any idea ### quietest day to hit Small Animal? ### what do I actually do when I get to Small Animal in Riverside? ### Are the hours on Google right for Small Animal? ### never been here, how does it go? ### Calling this place, or is there a better way? ### do they shut Saturdays ### who should I ask for here? ### parking here, how bad is it? ### anything people actually moan about here? ### points or member pricing at Small Animal, worth signing up? ### Small Animal or Riverside Animal? ### is there a socials account worth following ### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in? ### Coffee near this place on Magnolia? ### numbing here, do you have to ask for it? ### Any medical supervision on site? ### anywhere cheaper than Small Animal in Riverside that is still good? ## The AI Score: 34 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Riverside animal hospitals run 26 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Small Animal scores 34, below the Riverside average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Small Animal | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | 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. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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 | 55 | 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 | | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about an animal hospital: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-med-spa. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-med-spa ## 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 Small Animal | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Small Animal Hospital | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://vetsmallanimal.com/ | Subject of this page | | Riverside, California | City | #city | | City Small Animal is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the animal hospitals in Riverside, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best animal hospitals in Riverside: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/riverside/animal-hospital - Best businesses in Riverside: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/riverside ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJUWA2EK6x3IARi3sFRw98I_w (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [2] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/euthanasia (accessed Oct 26, 2026) - [3] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/surgery (accessed Oct 26, 2026) - [4] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/vaccinations (accessed Oct 26, 2026) - [5] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/client-portal (accessed Oct 26, 2026) - [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Animal hospitals in Riverside, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Small Animal Hospital, Riverside CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 21, 2026.</p>
<p>Published October 21, 2026 · Updated October 21, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Small Animal Hospital is an animal hospital in Riverside, CA. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Animal hospital</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(951) 684-1530</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.6 across 184 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>October 21, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment!</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Small Animal Hospital</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(951) 684-1530</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>8:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>8:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>8:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Client portal</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Dental services</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Diagnostic services</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Euthanasia</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Imaging services</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Surgery</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Vaccinations</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Wellness exams</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://vetsmallanimal.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Details</td><td>Opening date</td><td>1945</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 4 services Small Animal offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Vaccinations</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Surgery</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Euthanasia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Client portal</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-small-animal">
<h3>Visiting Small Animal</h3>
<p>Address: 6695 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92506, USA. Phone: (951) 684-1530. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Established in 1945, Small Animal Hospital has been serving the local Riverside community for over 75 years. We provide wellness, imaging, diagnostic, dental, and surgery services for your dog or cat companion. Call us today to book an appointment!"</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Soup Shoppe</td><td>American restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Magnolia at Brockton Arcade</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>3799 San Simeon Way Parking</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Magnolia at Brockton Arcade</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Riverside Cookie Shoppe</td><td>Bakery</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Brockton + Nelson</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.6 average across 184 reviews: Google 184. (Confirmed, read October 21, 2026.)</p>
<p>The hospital is known for its compassionate care but struggles with wait times and communication, impacting the overall experience. (AI guess, from 184 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Compassionate care for pets</li>
<li>Thorough examinations</li>
<li>Accommodating staff</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Long waits past the appointment time</li>
<li>Unresponsive front desk</li>
<li>Pressure to agree to additional treatments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Can I get in this week at Small Animal?</h4>
<h4>how rough is the follow up at Small Animal?</h4>
<h4>going rate for hospitals locally, any idea</h4>
<h4>quietest day to hit Small Animal?</h4>
<h4>what do I actually do when I get to Small Animal in Riverside?</h4>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for Small Animal?</h4>
<h4>never been here, how does it go?</h4>
<h4>Calling this place, or is there a better way?</h4>
<h4>do they shut Saturdays</h4>
<h4>who should I ask for here?</h4>
<h4>parking here, how bad is it?</h4>
<h4>anything people actually moan about here?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing at Small Animal, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>Small Animal or Riverside Animal?</h4>
<h4>is there a socials account worth following</h4>
<h4>new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in?</h4>
<h4>Coffee near this place on Magnolia?</h4>
<h4>numbing here, do you have to ask for it?</h4>
<h4>Any medical supervision on site?</h4>
<h4>anywhere cheaper than Small Animal in Riverside that is still good?</h4>
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<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 34 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Riverside animal hospitals run 26 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Small Animal scores 34, below the Riverside average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Small Animal</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>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.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>81</td><td>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.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>55</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td></td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>57</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about an animal hospital: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-med-spa. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-med-spa</p>
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<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Small Animal</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Small Animal Hospital</td><td>MedicalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://vetsmallanimal.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Riverside, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Small Animal is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the animal hospitals in Riverside, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best animal hospitals in Riverside: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/riverside/animal-hospital</li>
<li>Best businesses in Riverside: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/riverside</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
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<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJUWA2EK6x3IARi3sFRw98I_w (accessed Oct 21, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/euthanasia (accessed Oct 26, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/surgery (accessed Oct 26, 2026)</li>
<li>[4] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/vaccinations (accessed Oct 26, 2026)</li>
<li>[5] vetsmallanimal.com, https://vetsmallanimal.com/client-portal (accessed Oct 26, 2026)</li>
<li>[6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)</li>
</ul>
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