Best Buddies Dog Grooming is a neighbourhood dog grooming salon in Bishopdale, Christchurch, operating from a small shop at 4/2 Leacroft Street on the city's north side. The salon keeps practical hours — Monday to Saturday, 8:30am to 5:00pm, closed Sundays — making it easy to fit a groom around work and school runs. It's a local business built on direct, personal contact: owners can ring the salon, send an email, fill in a contact form or follow the team on Facebook.
Rather than publishing a fixed price list, Best Buddies works from quote requests. Owners describe their dog through the website's quote request form and the salon responds with pricing tailored to that dog — a sensible model for grooming, where every coat is different. Phone contact is just as welcome, with a landline and a mobile both listed.
Alongside the grooming itself, the Best Buddies website carries a Tips & Resources section with grooming advice and care notes for local dog owners. The team also grooms at a second site, at Old School Collective on Main North Road in Waikuku, which runs its own bookings via a dedicated email address and an online waitlist.
Best Buddies Dog Grooming is a neighbourhood dog grooming salon serving Christchurch from its Bishopdale shop at 4/2 Leacroft Street, on the city's north side. It's the kind of small, local business where owners deal directly with the groomers: you can ring the salon, send an email, fill in a form on the website or follow along on Facebook, and appointments are fitted around a six-day week, Monday to Saturday from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
Rather than publishing a one-size-fits-all price list, Best Buddies asks owners to request a quote through its website. It's a practical way to run a grooming salon, because dogs vary enormously — in size, coat type, and how much work their coat needs on the day. The quote request form takes your name, email, phone number and a comment describing your dog and what's needed, and the team comes back with pricing before you commit to anything.
For owners, the benefit is clarity: you know what the groom involves and what it will cost before your dog is on the table. And if you'd rather talk it through with a person, the salon phone — 03 359 7249 — is answered during opening hours, with a mobile number listed as well.
Best Buddies keeps its contact options simple. The main line is 03 359 7249, and there's also a mobile, +64 220 106920, for calls on the go. Email goes to [email protected], and the website's contact form covers the same ground for anyone who prefers to write. The salon's Facebook page, Best Buddies Dog Grooming Christchurch, is another place to keep up with the team.
Every dog's coat has its own rhythm. Coats left too long between grooms can mat, trap dirt and generally make life less comfortable for the dog, and different breeds need very different schedules — a short-coated companion and a long-coated breed are hardly the same job. That's part of why a quote-based salon makes sense: the groom is shaped around the dog in front of the groomer, not a fixed menu. A local salon with consistent weekday and Saturday hours also makes it easier to build a routine, so grooming becomes a regular part of the calendar rather than an emergency when things get tangled.
Between appointments, the Best Buddies website carries a Tips & Resources section — a collection of grooming tips and care notes published by the salon. It's a useful stop before or after a visit, especially for newer dog owners working out what their dog's coat needs and how often it needs it.
Best Buddies isn't only in Bishopdale. The team also grooms at Old School Collective, 1429 Main North Road, Waikuku, a short drive north of Christchurch. That location runs its own bookings, with a dedicated email address — [email protected] — and a waitlist page on the website. If you're closer to Waikuku than Bishopdale, use those Waikuku channels rather than the Bishopdale contact details, and vice versa.
The Bishopdale salon sits at Shop 4/2 Leacroft Street, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, and opens Monday to Saturday, 8:30am to 5:00pm — Sundays it's closed. Because grooming is booked by quote, it pays to get in touch before turning up: fill in the quote request form, send an email or call, and lock in a time that suits. Whether it's a first groom for a new dog or a standing appointment for a well-known regular, the process starts the same way — a quick conversation with the team about your dog and what they need.