How We Verify Listings
Our quality assurance process for maintaining the most accurate large animal vet directory.
1. Discovery
We identify large animal veterinary practices across the US using publicly available business directories, state veterinary licensing databases, and business listings. We filter out companion-only practices to ensure every listing serves large animals and livestock.
2. Cleaning & Deduplication
Raw records are deduplicated, standardized, and filtered. Permanently closed practices are excluded. Businesses that don't treat large animals are removed. Every edge case is individually reviewed before a decision is made.
3. Validation
Each business is reviewed to confirm it is a legitimate, active large animal veterinary practice accepting new clients. We use a YES/MAYBE/NO classification. MAYBE records are retained with lower confidence scores. NO records are excluded from the published directory.
4. Data Enrichment
For each validated practice, we review their public website to extract structured data: species treated, services offered, emergency availability, mobile service details, USDA accreditation, certifications, and facility features. Each extracted value includes a confidence score.
5. Confidence Scoring
Every data point carries a confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0. Values below 0.5 are not displayed — we show "Contact for details" instead. Values between 0.5 and 0.8 are shown as unverified. Only values at 0.8+ are displayed as confirmed facts.
6. Ongoing Maintenance
Data is refreshed on a rolling quarterly basis. High-traffic county pages are prioritized for re-verification. When practice owners claim their listing, updates are applied immediately. Users can report incorrect data via our contact form.
Our Zero-Fabrication Policy
We never invent data. If we can't find species information for a practice, we display "Contact for details." If we can't confirm emergency availability, we display "Contact for details." A gap in our data is always preferable to incorrect information.