Choosing a vet shouldn't be a guess.
Why we built this
Most pet owners pick a vet from a map pin and a star rating. Neither tells you whether the staff will explain your options, or whether a routine dental will cost $400 or $1,400. Real Vet Reviews collects both: honest accounts of visits, and what people actually paid.
Where the reviews come from
- Member reviews are written here by people who confirmed their email address. Each person can review a clinic once, and can update their review later.
- Imported reviews were published on Google and Yelp. We show short excerpts with the platform's name and a link to the original, and match each clinic's listings across platforms into one profile. Ratings and reviews are gathered by review-data services; Google's own Places service only helps us find the right listing for each clinic.
- Facebook recommendations count in the score: a recommendation as a 5-star rating, a “doesn’t recommend” as 1 star. What reviewers write there feeds the score’s “what reviewers say” adjustment like any other review.
- Prices are the totals members report, plus dollar amounts reviewers wrote on Google, Yelp or Facebook, checked word for word. We show the median for each kind of visit so one unusual bill doesn't skew it.
- Florida license records come from the state's weekly public file: every clinic's premises permit and every veterinarian's license, with status and dates. We cover other states from Google listings first; their license records aren't included yet.
- State board records are public complaint records from Florida's license portal, looked up by exact license number and shown as the state publishes them, only after a person on our team checks the match.
- Clinic details such as services, species, payment options and the veterinarians' names come from each clinic's own website. Each detail is backed by a quote that appears word for word on the clinic's website. Opening hours come from Google.
- Certifications come from professional directories that allow it: the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society's certified facilities, and the board-certified dentists (AVDC) and ophthalmologists (ACVO) they list. A clinic not being listed means nothing either way.
How clinics are ranked
Each clinic gets a Real Vet Score from 0 to 100, calculated from star ratings on Google, Yelp and here, with member reviews and checked bills counting more, then adjusted for what reviewers write about their pet's care. The full method is public: how the Real Vet Score works.
How we keep it honest
- No clinic or veterinary company owns or funds Real Vet Reviews. Clinics can't pay to remove reviews or to rank higher.
- We don't earn money from the site today. If that changes, we'll say so here first, and it will never affect reviews, scores or rankings.
- Any signed-in member can report a review. Moderators check every report and hide reviews that break our guidelines.
- Members can attach a bill. When a moderator matches it to the clinic, the review is marked “Visit confirmed with bill”.
- New reviews are checked by an AI model for spam and personal information right after they're published. It only flags reviews for a person to check; it never removes anything on its own.
- Some clinic pages show a short AI-written summary of their reviews. It's labeled, and the reviews themselves are always one scroll away.
Get involved
The site is only as useful as the reviews in it. If you've taken a pet to the vet recently, find the clinic and write about it. Include what you paid.
Contact
Corrections, removal requests and legal notices: [email protected]. Clinics can also read how removals work.