# Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital, Santa Ana: a veterinarian in Santa Ana (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-ana/metropolitan-veterinary-hospital-santa-ana-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 7 sources. Updated 2026-10-22. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-ana/metropolitan-veterinary-hospital-santa-ana-ca

## Photos

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## In short

Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital is a veterinarian in Santa Ana, CA. Its AI Score is 55 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 Gemini, Perplexity 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 | 1729 N Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed 9 AM to 2 PM · Thu to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (714) 972-0125 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.4 across 193 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Surgery |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 22, 2026, 1:13 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 | 1729 N Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital is a family-owned veterinary clinic in Santa Ana, California, proudly serving the community for over 25 years. Led by Dr. David Weber, DVM, we provide comprehensive veterinary care including wellness exams, vaccinations, surgery, dental cleanings, diagnostics, and emergency veterinary services. Our experienced and caring team is dedicated to keeping your pets healthy, comfortable, and happy. Whether you need routine preventive care or urgent medical attention, we’re here to help. 📍 Conveniently located in Santa Ana near North Grand Ave, we welcome dogs, cats, and small pets from across Orange County and further! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Tue 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Wed 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM · Thu to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (714) 972-0125 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 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 | 714 972 0125 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Cat safe house plants | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Day time emergencies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Dental cleaning | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Diagnostic | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Emergencies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Emergency veterinary services | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Metrovethosp gmail com | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Orthopedic shock wave therapy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Prescription request | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Quick links | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Surgery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Vaccination | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Wellness exams | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/metrovetoc | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/metropolitan_vet_hospital | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Links | Website | https://www.metropolitanveterinary.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/metropolitan-veterinary-hospital-santa-ana-2 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 22, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 12 services Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Surgery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| 714 972 0125 |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Cat safe house plants |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Metrovethosp gmail com |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Orthopedic shock wave therapy |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Vaccination |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Day time emergencies |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Prescription request |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Quick links |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Dental cleaning |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Diagnostic |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Emergencies |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

- Surgery: 40% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews)


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital

Address: 1729 N Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA. Phone: (714) 972-0125. Hours: Mon to Tue 9 AM to 5 PM · Wed 9 AM to 2 PM · Thu to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital on its Google Business Profile: "Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital is a family-owned veterinary clinic in Santa Ana, California, proudly serving the community for over 25 years. Led by Dr. David Weber, DVM, we provide comprehensive veterinary care including wellness exams, vaccinations, surgery, dental cleanings, diagnostics, and emergency veterinary services. Our experienced and caring team is dedicated to keeping your pets healthy, comfortable, and happy. Whether you need routine preventive care or urgent medical attention, we’re here to help.

📍 Conveniently located in Santa Ana near North Grand Ave, we welcome dogs, cats, and small pets from across Orange County and further!"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grand-17th | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Grand-17th | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Taco Bell | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Maggie cafe | Coffee shop | 2 min walk |
| 17th-Grand | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.4 average across 193 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 3, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 193 reviews.)


### What people like

- Compassionate care for pets
- Effective dental cleaning procedures


### What people do not like

- Long waits for appointments
- Poor communication from staff
- High costs for services


### Press

No press story about Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital

Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### Open Saturdays here?

No answer yet


### best veterinarian in Santa Ana

No answer yet


### the good stuff about Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital, what is it?

No answer yet


### Calling this place, or is there a better way?

No answer yet


### torn between this place and Grand Pet Care?

No answer yet


### is there a rewards thing at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital

No answer yet


### going rate for vets locally, any idea

No answer yet


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand

No answer yet


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?

No answer yet


### killing time on Grand, any ideas

No answer yet


### how rough is the follow up at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital?

No answer yet


### pain wise, what is it like here

No answer yet


### who is actually holding the needle at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital?

No answer yet


### Turning up here for the first time, what happens?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### anything new from Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital lately?

No answer yet


### never been to Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Santa Ana, how does it go?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital

We ask Gemini, Perplexity and ChatGPT about Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 22, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What the record says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 22, 2026: 1729 N. Grand Ave. | 1729 N Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026: 1729 N. Grand Ave. | 1729 N Grand Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA |


## The AI Score: 55 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Santa Ana veterinarians run 25 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital scores 55, above the Santa Ana average of 43. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | 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. | Good |
| 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 | 30 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 9 of 30 answers that recommended anyone. 4 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 70 | 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 | 36 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| 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 Metropolitan Veterinary 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 Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.metropolitanveterinary.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Santa Ana, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Metropolitan Veterinary 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 Santa Ana, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best veterinarians in Santa Ana: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-ana/veterinarian
- Best businesses in Santa Ana: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-ana


### 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 Metropolitan Veterinary 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:ChIJR37NHJnZ3IARUhRuvkplde0 (accessed Sep 3, 2026)
- [2] metropolitanveterinary.com, https://metropolitanveterinary.com/services/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] metropolitanveterinary.com, https://metropolitanveterinary.com/cat-safe-house-plants/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] metropolitanveterinary.com, https://metropolitanveterinary.com/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] metropolitanveterinary.com, https://metropolitanveterinary.com/services/emergencies/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026; Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 22, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] metropolitanveterinary.com, https://www.metropolitanveterinary.com/ (accessed Oct 22, 2026)