Dr. Christy Silvaberg purchased Sunset Cliffs Animal Hospital in 1996 and has operated the 4862 Santa Monica Avenue practice as an LGBTQ+-owned SDEBA member clinic ever since, building a caseload around bulldogs, French bulldogs, and other brachycephalic breeds common in OB households. Her signature surgical specialty is brachycephalic airway correction — nasal and soft-palate procedures that address the bronchial collapse, gastroesophageal reflux, and chronic gastritis cascade tied to airway obstruction — with post-surgical boarding in a quiet environment available at The Dog Lodge Daycare and Boarding. Dr. Fiona Lair rounds out the medical team as a Ross University DVM who completed her internship at California Veterinary Specialists in Murrieta, is a member of the American Association of Feline Practitioners, and holds the AAFP's practice-level certification for low-stress cat exams. General services cover preventive wellness, vaccinations, dental cleaning, digital radiography, surgery, and an onsite pharmacy with online refill ordering; second-opinion cases on rescue-group animals are sometimes co-managed with Point Loma Veterinary Clinic on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Dr. Silvaberg lives with five bulldogs of her own, which gives her a lived baseline on the exact breed she operates on. The most involved procedure the hospital performs is the full brachycephalic airway package on severely affected bulldogs — staged nasal-opening surgery, elongated soft-palate resection, and saccule removal on a single anesthetic plane, followed by an overnight boarding-recovery protocol.