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The Cat Vet

Veterinarian · St Albans, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 64 Christchurch vets.

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Checked12 October 2026
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The Cat Vet

Veterinarian · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#11of 64 vets
Overall health8.4/10across the eight areas

Going well

02Reviews9.201Google listing8.304Listings and social6.803Map positions6.707Google search and traffic6.0

Where we can help

05Facebook page4.408Opening hours4.406Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

The Cat Vet in Christchurch is a cats-only veterinary clinic located on Bealey Avenue in the City Centre. They provide medical and surgical care exclusively for cats, operate as a cat‑passionate team of vets and vet nurses, and state they are available for clients 24/7 with after‑hours emergency service for registered patients.

The Cat Vet is a cats-only veterinary clinic based at 93 Bealey Avenue in Christchurch City Centre. They describe themselves as a dedicated team of vets and vet nurses who offer medical and surgical options exclusively for cats, and they emphasise a cats-only environment with no dogs allowed on the premises.

Services focus on feline medicine and surgery, and the clinic states it provides 24/7 availability for clients, including after-hours emergency care for registered patients. Opening hours include extended weekday hours and weekend appointments, and contact numbers and email are provided for daytime and after-hours enquiries.

Customers consistently describe compassionate, gentle care from staff who handle difficult moments with kindness and respect. Reviews highlight friendly, attentive vets and nurses who put nervous or elderly cats at ease, and owners note considerate handling during end-of-life care and surgical procedures.

Locally, The Cat Vet is presented as a specialist option for cat owners seeking a cats-only clinic in Christchurch. Its focus on feline-only services, round-the-clock availability for registered clients, and repeated mentions of caring staff are the main practical features that distinguish it for customers in the City Centre and wider Christchurch area.

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Your Google listing

The Cat Vet shows a strong overall health on Google Business Listing, with a solid foundation of claimed status, open-for-business display, a listed website, and a visible phone number. The two most impactful findings are a well-optimised listing description and a high photo count that places the clinic in the top quartile locally. Further refinement targets photo depth.

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
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.3Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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4.9 ★★★★★ (346)
Veterinarian · St Albans1
Open 7 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Medical and Surgical options for Cats Only. We are proud to offer The South Island's only Vet Clinic that caters 100% to Cats. No corporate ownership or sponsorship and we are available to see our clients and patients 24/7. We are a cat-passionate team of vets and vet nurses that feel strongly about treating cats in a cats-only environment. No dogs allowed on the premises. We're here to help you and your cat.

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Google listingChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Cat Vet shows an excellent overall health in Google reviews with a 9.5/10 health score and top 10% star rating. The strongest finding is exceptionally high customer satisfaction reflected in both the Google star rating and rating confidence, signaling consistent, positive experiences. A notable opportunity is improving engagement by replying to reviews, which currently has zero responses; addressing this can further strengthen trust.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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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 two opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review countYou hold more reviews than most of this market - depth buyers read as proof.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Cat Vet
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.9★★★★★346 reviews 2
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knowledgeable staff 62compassionate care 17informative staff 8gentle handling 4expert staff 4love for cats 3
✓How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Cat Vet shows a moderate overall health on Google Maps, with an overall health score of 5.1 out of 10. This indicates visibility is improving but there is room to expand across local suburbs. The top opportunities focus on strengthening aggregate maps results and continuing to grow borough presence above the bottom tier.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
  • 2
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "veterinarian" in 4 suburbs, seen in 54
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Ourvets St Albans Veterinary Clinic4.2 ★ (122) · Veterinarian
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Ourvets Cats on Cranford4.6 ★ (43) · Veterinarian
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The Cat Vet14.9 ★ (346) · Veterinarian
Map positionsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #22 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The Cat Vet's overall health on social and directory presence sits at 7.0 out of 10, indicating above-average visibility and trust. Key strengths include very high-trust Facebook and Instagram profiles, which reflect strong branding and audience engagement. Opportunities lie mainly in expanding presence on several platforms to reach broader audiences.

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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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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.
6.8Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookthecatvetchristchurchThe Cat Vet | Facebook✓
InstagramthecatvetchristchurchThe Cat Vet | Instagram✓
Yelpcity-cat-veterinary-clinic-seattleThe Cat Vet | Yelp
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #21 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
  • 2
    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
thecatvetchristchurch✓
1.6K followers 1
Christchurch's first "cat-only" vet clinic - we are customised to suit your feline's requirements.3
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★ 25 reviews · recommended ✓
🌐 thecatvet.org✓
☎ +64 3-595 1184
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Facebook pageChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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Your website

The Cat Vet shows a mixed on-page SEO health score of 4.6 out of 10, indicating moderate room for improvement. The strongest areas are fast page load times (under 3 seconds), a valid favicon, a relevant meta description, and no render-blocking resources. Key concerns include absence of an H1 tag, and some issues with meta and title tag lengths that could affect visibility.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than almost any business in this market - a spread built over years that a competitor cannot buy their way into.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
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    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Separate sites linking to you
1Meta description
2Page title
3On-page score
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How people find you on Google

The Cat Vet's website shows an average health for website traffic, with room to improve in paid activity and SERP presence. Organic traffic is in the lower-middle range for local rankings, while paid indicators are currently untracked. Focused paid campaigns and steady organic content could help lift visibility and potential customers without increasing spend too much.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than half the businesses here, so competitors are picking up searches you could be answering.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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21No ads from you on any search
www.thecatvet.orgThe Cat Vet Christchurch

The Cat Vet is the only cats only veterinary clinic in Christchurch. 24 hour emergency care ・ 93 Bealey Ave Home. HOURS 8am - 7pm weekdays 10am - 2pm weekends ...

www.takuruavets.nzTakurua Vets Christchurch | Riccarton Veterinary Clinic
3About 1,182 visits a month from search, across 94 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #26 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

The Cat Vet's published hours largely match Christchurch demand in weekday afternoons, with strong alignment on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons where searches peak. However, several popular Saturday morning and early afternoon windows are missed while very early Thursday morning is also closed during modest demand. No low-demand open hours were identified, indicating no obvious wasted open time.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
4.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Cat Vet
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday8am-7pm
Tuesday8am-7pm
Wednesday8am-7pm
Thursday8am-7pm
Friday8am-7pm
Saturday10am-2pm
Sunday10am-2pm
Popular times Saturday · St Albans
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Opening hoursChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#11of 64 Christchurch vets
9:41
Christchurch vetsOverall · 64 businesses
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