Elite Canine Collective

03/12/2024

Back for another year! ECC 12 Days of Christmas!

Every 2 days we will have a prize pack and daily deals 🎄

Day 1 winner:

Day 2 prize pack:
250g Doggy Daily!

To enter:
Follow
Tag a friend. 1 tag = 1 entry
Share to your story for a bonus entry!

Our daily deal is available both in store and online, they will be available until the next deal is released!

Open NZ wide!

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

01/12/2024

Back for another year! ECC 12 Days of Christmas!

Every 2 days we will have a prize pack and daily deals 🎄

Day 1 prize pack:
2x ECC Weasand Sticks
1x Lick Mat (your choice of colour)
1x Nutreats Beef Trachea Treats

To enter:
Follow
Tag a friend. 1 tag = 1 entry
Share to your story for a bonus entry!

Our daily deal is available both in store and online, they will be available until the next deal is released!

Open NZ wide!

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

01/12/2024

2024/25 Christmas Break Hours!

Our final day of daycare for the year will be Friday 20th December. We will return on Monday 6th January

Over this time, online orders will be sent out periodically, and click and collect orders can be organised for us to pop down for you!

Our December add ons for daycare:
Christmas themed photoshoot $10
Christmas themed paw/lick art $5
Strawberry lick mat $5
Reindeer lick mat $5
Reindeer hoof $5

Strawberry lick mat contains strawberries and pet milk.
Reindeer lick mat contains venison bone broth (venison, water, apple cider vinegar)

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

18/11/2024

Heaps of delicious treat packs, meal toppers, slow feeders, and free session vouchers heading off to our Miniature Schnauzers of Christchurch friends. They’re fundraising for this year in their Christmas Party this weekend! 🎉🎅🎄

We have:
ECC Silicone Slow Feeders
ECC Salmon Roe Meal Topper
ECC Bee Pollen Meal Topper (Chch pollen!)
ECC Bee Pollen Meal Topper samples
Lots of ECC treat packs
Lots of ECC sample treats
Free Assessment sessions
GoDog Puppy Toy

Have an epic event!

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

11/11/2024

Cute wee Tuesday Crew🩵🐾

- Just a reminder we are CLOSED this Friday (15th November) for Canterbury Anniversary day.

🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

06/11/2024

So here’s the thing; you may think fireworks only affect dogs for the time they’re exposed, so that’s fine, right? One and done?

Since fireworks have gone on sale, we have noticed an increase in our dogs being abnormally stressed, anxious, and on edge, including well established daycare dogs.

Yesterday, was awful. Most of our dogs were grumpy, snappy, very on edge. Over half of our dogs I had to sit down with owners at the end of the day and explain their dogs were unhappy. We had dogs who are usually social butterflies we had to take down to 1 on 1 because it was unsafe to group them with other dogs.

I spoke to multiple other daycare facilities and asked them if they’re experiencing the same, every single one of them said yes. Dogs refusing to come out of kennels or crates, dogs snappy, hiding in corners, dogs having to be sent home, dogs panicking, even 16+ hours after fireworks have stopped.

Why? When dogs are exposed to stressors / stressful stimuli 2 of the hormones that are released are cortisol and adrenaline.

The first hormone that is released is adrenaline; adrenaline triggers the “fight or flight” response. Adrenaline can take up to 9 DAYS to return to baseline levels.

The second hormone that is released is cortisol; cortisol increases alertness, and puts your dogs on edge. Cortisol can take up to 3 DAYS to return to baseline levels.

Now think about the repeated exposure every night, their bodies still have heightened stress hormones - as an example, put it on a scale.
Night 1 - hormones increase from 0 to level 5. Drop to 3 the following day.
Night 2, hormones go from a 3 to 8, the next day they drop to a 5.
Night 3, hormones increase from a 5 to a 10
And so on.

PLEASE rethink the use of fireworks, the damage that is caused is significantly more than what you think.

05/11/2024

Reason number 5297 why the public sale of fireworks should be banned: it’s 3.20pm and some drip is CURRENTLY setting off fireworks in Hornby.

*ps dogs are okay 👌

04/11/2024

THIS!

I commend young kids for getting out and earning money - but as a professional in the industry we see the aftermath of when it goes wrong, REGULARLY!

People often ask me if there’s any professional dog walkers I recommend, and I struggle with even that! Dogs are (domesticated) wild animals and they have behavioural traits of wild animals that are ingrained in their genetics. How is a 10 year old going to handle tough situations like off lead dogs, or dog fights? If your child is going to walk people’s dogs, please at least, have an adult with them!

So this isn't going to be a popular post, but as it's something I feel strongly about I'm going to put it out there ...
As school heads towards finishing, and kids are encouraged to find a paying job (especially in the current economic climate) I'm seeing increasing numbers of posts on community pages offering to walk, feed, baby sit, cuddle, supervise or otherwise interact with your pets while you are away/ working/ busy with the holiday period. So I'm talking specifically about dogs here. There has been a huge amount of press coverage in the last few months about 'pack walkers' and the problems with a lack of control and a lack of qualifications and registration, meaning anyone can do this, whether they know what they're doing or not.

Guess what? Same goes with the people you allow into your home to look after your dog(s). I've just seen a post with two young people, maybe around 13/14 years of age, offering to walk dogs. My 30kg Labrador could pull me off my feet if he chose to, so he'd have a field day with one of them. In addition, I doubt very much if they would have the common sense or clear headedness if something were to go wrong while they were out with your dog. What if immediate Veterinary care was required. What if the dog needed carrying somewhere?

If you're a parent of a child with these ideas, while I admire their initiative, I'd quietly stear them in another direction. It can go so terribly wrong very quickly, with the best of intentions, and society will ALWAYS blame the dog. You are your dogs advocate, so please do not put them in this position. (Photo from internet).

04/11/2024

Here we go! Howl-O-Ween best dressed awards!

🥇 Beckett - Watch Dog
🥈 Opal - Spiders
🥉 Ava - Fairy, Spider, Cowgirl and Witch!

People’s Choice:
🥇 Ruby & Penny - Witches
🥈 Kobe - Dracula

Trick or Treat Challenge
🥇 Billie

Well done to Beckett and Ruby & Penny who have won a free day of daycare. And Opal, Ava, Kobe and Billie who have won a treat of choice from our Treat Bar!

🦇💀🧚‍♀️🧙🎃👻

31/10/2024

Happy Howloween!

We LOVED seeing everyone’s costumes today! Make sure you head over to our previous FACEBOOK post to vote for your favourite costumes!

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Book your daycare spook-sessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

31/10/2024

People’s choice best dressed voting!

Vote for your favourite costume below 👇
👍❤️ = 1 vote
Comment = 2 votes!

28/10/2024

Last week’s kids LOVED the first week of our Dock Diving Pool opening! We are so excited to have the pool open for summer ☀️

We are currently working on building a brand new dock, and will soon be offering swimming and diving lessons!

You are more than welcome to bring in your own dogs life jacket to daycare if they have one, otherwise we have plenty on their way to us!

*pool access requires parent permission; which can be modified via the parent portal

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

14/10/2024

Playing catch up from last weeks updates!

Big busy week with our Spooktober Enrichment focuses; Graveyard scavenger hunts and cadaver dog searches!

This month we have welcomed lots of friendly faces to the ECC family with Bear, Korra, Gnocchi, Neo, Opie, Moss, Tig, Zoe, Freddy, Daisy and Ebony!

🐾👻🐾🎃🐾

Book your daycare spook-sessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322

05/10/2024

Your daily reminder that DOMINANCE DOES NOT EXIST IN DOGS 👇🐕

The idea of a constant and fixed hierarchy, where one dog is always “alpha” or “top dog” is highly flawed and often misunderstood.

02/10/2024

On Tuesday we celebrated Winston’s 1st Barkday! 🥳🥳

Barkday Pawties are bookable in the portal during your dogs daycare visit

Includes:
🐾 Pawty celebration with friends
🧁Pupcake
📸 Photoshoot

🐾🐾🐾

Book your daycare assessment online & come check out Christchurch’s Most Enriching Doggy Daycare Experience for yourself!

https://linktr.ee/elitecaninecollective

🐾 Canine Enrichment Park
🐾 Kennel free environment
🐾 Free roam indoor and outdoor
🐾 Qualified Staff
🐾 APDTNZ Registered trainer
🐾 Fear Free Certified Staff
🐾 Sandpit
🐾 Dock diving pool
🐾 Weekly enrichment focuses
🐾 Parties & events
🐾 Afterpay Available
🐾 Raw Food
🐾 Shop in store & online

A safe place to create happy, content, tired, enriched dogs! 🥰

Located at 9 Halwyn Drive, Hei-Hei.
Directly behind Couplands Bakery

www.elitecaninecollective.co.nz
[email protected]
021 - CHCH - ECC
021 - 2424 - 322