During the May Day holiday, many people have arranged travel plans, but for families with cute pets, they should consider how to settle these pets before traveling. In recent years, with the increasing number of pet families, there are also high holiday pet boarding prices and even "hard to find", and door-to-door feeding practitioners are mixed. From May 2nd to 4th, the reporter interviewed a number of pet stores.
Pet boarding up to more than 200 a day
It is understood that during the boarding period of cats and dogs, the store mainly provides independent foster rooms, feeding food once in the morning and evening, the boarding room is open with air conditioning and constant temperature throughout the day, regular patrols and observation and water and other services, and the basic store will also remind "under 6 months old, the vaccine has not been injected, elderly dogs, infectious diseases, separation anxiety, self-harm, cage aggressive pets do not accept fostering".
Pet boarding is mostly on holidays, and boarding shops charge by the number of days. The reporter interviewed and found that the basic price of fostered cats and dogs in Shenzhen is about 50 yuan per day, but if it is a chain store, the basic price is mostly about 100 yuan per day. For example, a pet chain store has a pet "deluxe room" price of as high as 220 yuan per day depending on the room in which it is fostered. This means that if you board at the pet store during the entire May Day holiday, it will cost you anywhere from 500 yuan to 1,100 yuan.
However, not all pet stores can be boarded, and some pet stores themselves will not open boarding services if there are more pets in the store, and some pet stores have requirements for boarding pets. A staff member of the chain store such as "Kitten is Coming" said: "The pet store only fosters pets sold by the store. ”
The door-to-door feeding service staff is complex and mostly part-time
Ms. He fed a pet dog at home a few years ago, and whenever she went out on holidays, she would "call someone to feed her". When asked about the reason, Ms. He said: "The foster cage looks pitiful, and the dog is more comfortable at home, and the eldest sister who provides door-to-door service is also more familiar, and many families in the community are looking for her." The eldest sister mentioned by Ms. He used to walk her dog in the community, and then met the pet owner, and now the door-to-door feeding fee is 50 yuan per time.
"Having a pet is more troublesome to travel on holidays, I wanted to take the dog out, but there is no suitable hotel, and the pet-friendly hotels are too expensive. Ms. He said.
At the same time, on the Internet platform, some students or graduates majoring in pet medicine will also post door-to-door feeding service posts, hoping to use the knowledge they have learned to carry out "business". A netizen "Yihaoer" located in Shenzhen posted: "You can pick up the door to walk the dog and feed the cat on May Day." And self-recommended: "I majored in animal medicine in college, and I often interned in the animal hospital opened by the school in school, and I also worked as a doctor's assistant in a pet hospital, and I get along well with cats and dogs." "Of course, the price given is lower than that of pet stores and pet hospitals, about thirty or forty yuan each time.
In addition, some companies have launched some online platforms, which can contact foster care or home feeding by simply placing an order online. Foster care is usually the home of a pet companion, or a pet hotel, pet shop, or pet hospital. However, for pet door-to-door feeding, pet good luck staff said that the door-to-door feeding is not the company's employees, "all part-time settlers". Regarding the safety of property at home, he also said: "You can ask the feeder to video you the whole process before entering the door." ”
Compared with online, the offline physical store "Fiiiling + Coffee Pet Life Hall" also provides door-to-door feeding services, the person in charge Guo Guo said: "First of all, shovel cat feces, then change the cat litter, once a day put the amount of food that the pet needs, by the way, do the hygiene near the cat, and tease the cat to play for about 30-40 minutes." As for the higher price of door-to-door feeding, Guoguo said that the store specializes in door-to-door feeding, "which is better in terms of care and professionalism".
"And there will be a greater risk of door-to-door feeding, and many owners will consider issues such as the property risk of strangers entering the house. But we are a physical store, which is much more reliable than 30-40 yuan at a time online, and we can't run away if there is any problem, there is a physical store here. Guoguo said.
Whether it is placing an order on a small program or posting on a social platform, users do not have a high level of understanding of the practitioners of the door-to-door feeding service, and most of these practitioners are part-time, and once an accident occurs, they may need to face problems such as rights protection. Finally, it is recommended that you foster pets from formal channels to avoid unexpected disputes.
(Author: Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reporter Fu Yangqing)