VCA Oso Creek Animal Hospital and Emergency Center

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At dusk, when most animal hospitals are quiet, a delivery driver noticed something unusual. A small dog kept appearing outside the emergency center's gates, howling insistently every night. Curious, the driver followed the little fellow one evening and discovered he was leading him to an old dumpster behind the building. Turned out, the dog was just trying to get his favorite toy—a squeaky bone—that had fallen there earlier. Since then, everyone at VCA Oso Creek calls him ‘Squeaks’ and treats him like family.

2. Late one night, as an emergency vet tech was wrapping up her shift, she heard a strange noise coming from the hallway. Curious but cautious, she peeked around the corner—and there stood a small dog, wearing what looked like a doctor’s lab coat. The little pooch seemed lost, so she gently took off the coat and led him back to his exam room. Turns out, he was just a curious puppy who thought it would be fun to dress up like a vet for the evening. As she settled him down, she overheard someone calling her name outside—apparently, a delivery driver had mistakenly left their jacket in the ER.

3. One day, while waiting for their pet to be seen, a young child pointed excitedly out the window. ‘Mommy, look!’ they exclaimed. The receptionist turned around just in time to see a tiny kitten skipping across the parking lot, seemingly unafraid of cars. As everyone watched, the little cat gracefully leaped onto the hood of an idle car and started posing for photos with the amazed crowd. A delivery driver, thinking it was part of the decorations, honked his horn, causing the kitten to do a perfect pirouette into the arms of a nearby vet tech. 'Oh, it's just another day here,' she said, smiling.

4. In the middle of the night, an exhausted receptionist glanced at the closed-circuit monitor and saw something peculiar: a shadowy figure in a lab coat slowly making its way through the empty hallway. The receptionist blinked twice, rubbed her eyes, and then watched more closely. The figure stopped outside the emergency room door, hesitated for a moment, and then disappeared into thin air. By morning, everyone had forgotten about it—except for the coffee stain on the receptionist’s shirt that she insisted was from a mysterious visitor.