I'm busy. I don't have time to feed cats and walk dogs. In recent days, some citizens have discovered the presence of professional “collar pets” (also known as pets) on web platforms to help with the care of pets, but have questioned whether there is a safety problem because they have to come to the house to look after them. Journalists investigate the situation and ask professional lawyers for analysis.
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In recent days, on the Internet buying platform, searching for key words such as “dog walkers”, “paternity of pets”, a number of links were removed and randomly clicked on one of the links. Journalists found that the store offered dog walkers at a cost of $30 every half hour, as well as helping to clean up the site after the dog “breaking house” and ventilating. However, the seller indicated that the consumer was required to provide a certificate of vaccine collection for dogs, and that only non-aggressive dogs received orders.
In another commercial link, which provides door-to-door feeding to cats, it is indicated that it provides services such as home-to-door changes for cats, feeding and play with cats at a cost of about $50 a day.
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“Most of the peak consumption periods are New Year's and holiday holidays, and many people travel and invite us to take care of their pets.” According to the shopkeepers, most of the people who come to buy these services are people who travel frequently, and some of them even buy a monthly service for fear of being left unattended.
Journalists learned from a businessman that a door-to-door service requires a buyer to provide a home key or open the door code, although staff members come to the door and record videos, while at the same time promising not to mess around with household goods. The journalists found, however, that the shops were staffed by a large number of staff and did not report to the authorities.
[Lawyers alert]
The journalist contacted Xu Dong, a lawyer at Yingko Law Office in Beijing. According to Xudong, the risks associated with door-to-door feeding services for pets are mainly three-fold:
First, a pet feeding service may lead to security risks for the buyer ' s property and pets, as there is no assurance that the person feeding the house has the subjective malice to steal or damage household property, harm or steal pets.
Second, the service may later lead to a physical security hazard for the owner of the pet, who may directly reproduce the key for the purpose of committing a criminal offence if the key of the house is given to the pet, thereby creating a serious security risk for the buyer and other third persons.
Third, the provision of door-to-door services by accompanying pets resulted in the negligent loss of customers, such as the loss of water from the closure of houses and property from the closure.
Sign agreements to verify identity, enhance security
While accompanying pets facilitate their owners, their sense of self-security should be constantly strengthened.
First, the owner of the pet is reluctant to deliver the key directly to the other, the key is replicable, and if the other has an unlawful purpose, it will pose a threat to the property and physical integrity of the house, and should do so in a reasonable manner, such as by seeking trusted family custody of the key and monitoring the pet feeding process.
Second, when accepting pet feeding services, written service agreements are necessary to clarify the rights and obligations of both parties, verify each other ' s identity information and actively promote contract performance.
Finally, market supervisory authorities should increase supervision and supervision of pet home feeding providers, develop industry standards, improve the identification procedures for practitioners and safeguard consumers ' legitimate rights and interests.