Pet owners searching for a vet or a pet care business, groomer, boarding kennel, dog walker, usually want the same handful of facts fast: what services are offered, where the business is located, current hours, and how to book or call. A cluttered template built for a generic "local business" niche often buries that under stock photos of unrelated animals.
Describing your practice to Nova, for example "a website for a small-animal veterinary clinic with our services, hours, and location, plus a page for new patients," produces a site built around that description, with a live preview before you publish. Because the draft reflects your actual services and patient policies rather than generic veterinary boilerplate, it starts closer to something you could put in front of a pet owner right away.
One thing to plan for: Nova builds the site itself, but appointment scheduling, especially for a clinic with an existing practice management system, typically stays in that system rather than moving to the website. Most clinics link to their existing scheduling or patient portal from the site rather than replacing it, and Nova's job is the front door: services, hours, location, and contact, not the backend practice management software.
Yes, describe your actual hours including any emergency or after-hours policy, and Nova will structure the site around that instead of assuming a single schedule.
No, most clinics keep their existing scheduling or practice management software and link to it from the site; Nova builds the site around that system rather than replacing it.
Yes, describe what new patients need to know, and Nova will include that as its own section rather than folding it into a generic "about us" page.
Describe your practice to Nova and see the site before deciding on anything else.