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Chique Pups Grooming Salon

Pet groomer · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 79 Christchurch pet grooming businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Chique Pups Grooming Salon

Pet groomer · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

Where you stand#70of 79 pet grooming businesses
Overall health1.2/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.01NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Where we can help

02Reviews4.404Listings and social3.203Map positions3.105Facebook page2.201Google listing1.808Opening hours1.307Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Chique Pups Grooming Salon is a pet grooming business based in Halswell, serving Tai Tapu and nearby suburbs. The salon offers professional dog grooming with experienced staff, personalised meet-and-greet service, and patient handling for anxious pets. Customers note careful consultation, tidy Schnauzer and cavoodle trims, and a calm atmosphere that leaves dogs looking and behaving happily after their groom.

Chique Pups Grooming Salon is a pet grooming salon located in Halswell and serving the Tai Tapu area. The salon focuses on dog grooming and presents itself as a local grooming option for owners seeking regular trims and full grooms.

The team offers hands-on grooming services, including breed-specific cuts such as Schnauzer styles and cavoodle trims. Staff draw on long experience, with mention of over 30 years of practice, and they undertake consultations to understand owners' requests. The salon emphasizes patient handling and a meet-and-greet approach for first visits.

Customers commonly mention a friendly welcome and careful communication during the grooming process. Reviews highlight patience with nervous dogs, clear updates for owners, and satisfaction with the finished look. Several comments describe dogs returning happy and calm, suggesting the salon manages both presentation and the animal's comfort.

Locally, Chique Pups presents as a hands-on grooming operation with experienced staff and an emphasis on personalised service. The combination of breed-aware grooming, a patient approach for anxious pets, and a focus on owner consultation distinguishes the salon for people in Halswell and the Tai Tapu community looking for steady, careful dog grooming.

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Your Google listing

Chique Pups Grooming Salon shows a low overall health for its Google Business Listing with a score of 1.7 out of 10. The listing has solid basics like a claimed status, a phone number and a full address, and the business is listed as open. Primary opportunities focus on adding a website link, a meaningful description, a logo, and more photos.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 2
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 3
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Chique Pups Grooming Salon
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5.0 ★★★★★ (14)
Pet groomer · Selwyn District East
Open 2 days ✓
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Google listingChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Chique Pups Grooming Salon shows a mixed health signal on Google reviews, with a 5.5 out of 10 health score. The standout strength is a top 10% star rating, indicating strong customer satisfaction. Opportunities lie in enhancing engagement with reviews, and continuing growth in total reviews and confidence score. Overall, customer sentiment remains positive, but engagement and volume can improve.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateYou have replied to a small share of your reviews, so most customers reading your page still see feedback about you with no voice from you anywhere on it.
  • 2
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
4.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Madison S.★★★★★ · a year ago

Really happy with my Japanese Spitz’s groom. I had a friend drop him off and pick him up, when I got home I was absolutely shocked at how well he looked. I can tell a lot of time and precaution was put into his groom which I really apprecia...

Response from the owner1

Thank you so much Madi,Casper was a darling!

Google reviewsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Chique Pups Grooming Salon shows a below-average health score for Google Maps search at 3.1 out of 10, indicating limited overall visibility. Top findings show a reasonable rank for pet groomer keywords in Halswell and Lincoln, with strong performance in specific areas like Selwyn districts and Oceanic Canterbury. The main opportunity lies in increasing both aggregate and borough level presence to move beyond this starting point.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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pet groomer
1Seen in 6 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
1
Bella Pet Grooming Salon4.9 ★ (157) · Pet groomer
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Shampoodle5.0 ★ (45) · Pet groomer
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Di's K9 Grooming5.0 ★ (21) · Pet groomer
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The Painted Paw Dog Grooming4.8 ★ (25) · Pet groomer
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Chique Pups Grooming Salon2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #55 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Chique Pups Grooming Salon shows a low overall health in social presence at 2.1/10, with a strong Facebook profile already in place. The strongest finding is the very high trust on Facebook, while opportunities lie in expanding other platforms and directories to improve visibility and credibility with local customers.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Nears Pet ListingWe can see your Nears Pet Listing listing (https://nears.me/chique-pups-grooming-salon-in-tai-tapu-pet-grooming-guide) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookChique-Pups-Grooming-Salon-61561088314363Chique Pups Grooming Salon | Facebook✓
Nears Petchique-pups-grooming-salon-in-tai-tapu-pet-grooming-guideChique Pups Grooming Salon | Nears Pet✓
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    What your page says about youFew intros in this market run as full as yours, and it sits close to the limit that length has stopped being a lever.
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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
  • 2
    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
people2
233 followers 1
Welcome to Chique! Nicky is a Master Groomer with over 30 years experience in all breeds so you can be sure you fur baby is in safe hands. We truly love our job and thank you for trusting us with your...✓
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★ 2 reviews · recommended 3
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☎ +64 21 143 5537✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsChique Pups Grooming Salon - Selwyn District East, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

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0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google search and trafficChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #35 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Chique Pups Grooming Salon's published hours show some clear alignment with weekday midday demand, particularly midweek openings around 11am-2pm. However the salon is closed during several high-demand late-afternoon and weekend windows, creating missed bookings. There are no hours open during low-demand times, so inefficiency from excess opening is not evident. Adjusting a few late-afternoon slots could capture more customers.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Chique Pups Grooming Salon
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday8am-2:30pm
Thursday8am-2:30pm
FridayClosed
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#70of 79 Christchurch pet grooming businesses
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