With the Spring Festival holiday approaching, many citizens have made their travel plans well in advance.
The reporter recently visited a number of pet shops in the urban area and found that pet foster care services have shown an unusually hot trend this year, and the phenomenon of “Spring Festival shop” in short supply is extremely common.
The owner of a pet shop in Wanda, Jiangbei, said, “Our store has had customers come to book foster care services half a month ago, and all the places have been booked up. The Spring Festival came earlier this year, and the time of booking is also in advance, and the number of reservations is large. Maybe it’s because it’s the first time we have an eight-day holiday, so many people are going to go out and have fun.” The reporter saw in the store that the original “Spring Festival shop” is now no seat left.
Similarly, in a large dog training and foster care base in Yinzhou Jishi Port, more than 50 “shops” for this year’s Spring Festival have also been booked. Lu, head of the base, said the demand for foster care this year has increased significantly compared to previous years due to the sharp increase in the number of pet families in recent years. “In previous years, it is generally a few days before the Spring Festival, but this year, it has been fully booked on January 9.” The first pets were sent by their owners half a month ago, and most of the pets will enter the base between January 23 and January 27.”
The reporter observed that not only the foster care “bunk” booking is hot, and the price rise of related services has also become a common phenomenon. At one pet shop in the eastern New Town, there are only a handful of places left for dogs. But from January 24, the price of foster care will double. The staff said: “Usually weigh 6 kg to 10 kg of pets, foster care charges 50 yuan per day, more than 10 kg charge 60 yuan; After January 24, the prices will rise to 100 yuan and 120 yuan respectively, and we will offer a twice-daily dog-walking service, but owners need to bring their own dog food.” In addition, the store’s pet bath service has been fully booked before January 23, and the bath price will increase by 50% after January 24.
In contrast, the “full occupancy” rate of cat foster care is slightly lower. Most of the pet stores and cat parlors visited by reporters still had a few empty seats. At a cat house in a commercial complex in Jiangbei that provides Spring Festival foster care services, about one-fifth of the “bunk” is also available for cat foster care. However, since January 20, the price of foster care services has doubled, and the price of bath services has also increased by 50%. The staff explained that the space required by the cat is relatively small, the same size space can accommodate more cats, and many owners will choose to travel with the cat, so the booking situation of the cat foster care is not as tense as the dog, but the probability will be fully booked before the Spring Festival.
In addition to leaving pets in the store, some owners also choose to buy door-to-door feeding and walking services. After the reporter entered “Spring Festival door-to-door feeding” on social media, he found a large number of orders for walking dogs and feeding cats, and the prices of such services during the Spring Festival were mostly around 50 to 80 yuan. Judging from the comments and messages, there are a large number of pet owners with such needs. Soon after Posting, some bloggers said they were full.
When the reporter searched for “Pet New Year’s Eve dinner” on multiple e-commerce platforms, he saw that a variety of “pet packages” were packaged in red gift boxes, full of ritual. These products cover canned food, snacks, snacks, etc., the price is mostly more than 20 yuan a piece. Take a “pet New Year’s Eve dinner” priced at 29.8 yuan, which includes six glutinous rice balls, as well as golden soup buns, beef liver cordyceps flowers, duck meat and dragon fruit rings, goat milk poached eggs, rabbit blood love pieces. Judging from the more than 200 reviews of the product, it is not only suitable for pets to enjoy during Chinese New Year, but also suitable as a gift for other pet families. Store customer service said,
So far, sales of the “Pet New Year’s Eve Dinner” are going well, “we put this product on the shelves at the end of last year and have sold more than 1,000 copies. While many customers are making small purchases, the number of new customers is up quite a bit.”
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