Oak Knoll Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 reviews and holds 493 Google reviews. Rockford Road Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 479. Vet Partners Plymouth answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 426. Those are the three veterinary practices answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read in the set someone searching around Wayzata is shown. The three most-reviewed veterinary listings in that same set of 20 hold 1704, 568 and 493 reviews, and the median across the 20 is 195.5, with a median rating of 4.8.
Pet boarding reads shallower on paper and no less answered at the top. The 20 boarding businesses we read carry a median of 87 reviews and a median rating of 4.8, and their three most-reviewed listings hold 462, 407 and 311. Camp Bow Wow Plymouth answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 462 reviews. Pampered Pooch Playground answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 407. Cats Preferred Veterinary Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 311.
Pet grooming is the thinnest of the three on review depth: a median of 68.5 across the 20 we read, with the three biggest listings at 407, 244 and 215. Pampered Pooch Playground appears here too, answering 10 of its last 10 against 407 reviews, and Woof Gang Bakery and Grooming Plymouth answered 10 of its last 10 against 169. Zoom Groom Hopkins answered 6 of its last 10 against 138. The median rating across the 20 is 4.65, which is one figure for the whole trade and says nothing about which listing is which.
Across the 50 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Wayzata is shown, a typical one answered 81% of its recent reviews. Two things that number does not do: it does not tell you which trades those businesses came from, and it does not describe the businesses we did not name here. We list only the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews, so for the rest of each twenty, this page holds no reply figure at all. Across every trade we read around Wayzata, the count is 440 businesses.
What to do about it
Read the two windows separately, because they measure different things. The big numbers here, 493 and 462 and 407, are whole-listing counts covering everything anyone has written. The reply counts come from a much narrower slice: each business's most recent reviews, and whether anything was written back under them. That means a deep file is not a backlog you have to clear. Start at the newest review and work down until you run out of unanswered ones, and the visible part is covered.
The median rating is 4.8 for the veterinarians and the pet boarders we read, and 4.65 for pet grooming. A median is one figure for a whole trade; it does not distinguish one listing from another, so it is not what separates you. The replies underneath can. Write them in your own words, answer the good reviews as well as the difficult ones, and mention the specific thing the customer named, so the reply reads as a reply and not a form.
Pet grooming
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 | 407 | 4.8 |
| 2 | Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming Plymouth | 10 of 10 | 169 | 4.8 |
| 3 | Zoom Groom Hopkins | 6 of 10 | 138 | 4.6 |
Pet boarding
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camp Bow Wow Plymouth | 10 of 10 | 462 | 4.7 |
| 2 | Pampered Pooch Playground | 10 of 10 | 407 | 4.8 |
| 3 | Cats Preferred Veterinary Hospital | 10 of 10 | 311 | 4.8 |
Veterinarians
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oak Knoll Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 | 493 | 4.8 |
| 2 | Rockford Road Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 | 479 | 4.8 |
| 3 | Vet Partners Plymouth | 10 of 10 | 426 | 4.7 |