Vetco Total Care operates a full-service veterinary hospital inside the Petco store at 453 Encinitas Boulevard, providing wellness exams, vaccinations, dental care, surgery, spay/neuter procedures, and in-house diagnostics in the New Encinitas commercial district. The hospital's location within Petco consolidates veterinary care with retail pet supply access under one roof, and North County visitors staying at lodging such as Comfort Inn Encinitas Near Legoland use the walk-in model for urgent pet-health concerns during travel. Petco, the parent retailer, launched in San Diego in 1965 and now operates approximately 1,500 locations, with Vetco Total Care hospitals embedded in select stores to deliver veterinary services alongside grooming, training, and retail departments. Walk-in patients receive complimentary healthy-weight assessments and microchip scans, and the surgical suite handles dental extractions, mass removals, and soft-tissue procedures — a clinical scope that supports the same active-pet population exercising along Moonlight State Beach and the coastal trail network. The in-house diagnostic laboratory runs complete blood count, chemistry panel, urinalysis, and fecal parasite screening with same-day turnaround, enabling treatment-plan decisions within a single appointment window.