In recent years, a coffee shop that can drink coffee by the name of cat and dog has become a playground for many people. In addition to cats and dogs, there are also increasing numbers of different types of pet experience such as camels, colloquia, parrots, rabbits, etc. In recent days, the video of Chengdu's cat curator, half-monthless, turned into a cat's hell, has triggered online debate. On 3 September, Modern Express journalists visited many cats and dogs in Nanjing and many shopkeepers indicated that the costs of the operation were indeed considerable, although even during the period of the epidemic, staff continued to come to the shop to feed their pets, clean up their sanitation and provide a healthy and healthy environment for cats and dogs.
The cathouse.
Chengdu is a cat and a cat and a half-month-old.
In recent days, there has been an explosion in the Internet, a cat curry in Chengdu is on the verge of collapse, and cats in the cat curry have been left unattended for a long time, and the shop has become a “cat hell”. Cats in the shop are breeding, and there are flies everywhere, and the environment is poor. According to local netizens, the cat-café was dirty and smelled. After the video was released on the scene, it triggered an online discussion.
A lot of Internet users look at it and say, "Don't take cats as commodities, they're life."
On 2 September, the microblog owner “and the cat live” sent a letter thanking the netizens for their interest in the cat-crop incident and their active voice to the cat, hoping that you would not search for or expose the details and addresses of the cat-café's shopkeeper, and refrain from malicious speculation and attacks.
According to “House with Cats”, cats are now well settled and, once their bodies are stabilized, they are subject to uniform sterilization and adoption, and are called upon to explore rationally with a wide range of netizens a more regulated management of the pet industry and to share the good practices of the cats around them in order to give these small lives a bright future.
Rent, utilities, pet maintenance, still high costs during unserviceability
Modern Express journalists search for a web platform, and there are nearly 100 shops for Nanjing cats and dogs, most of which are located in commercial writing buildings.
You dog!
Cats and dogs are the subject, and coffee drinks are second. According to the owner of a cat and curry in Dongwoo Building, “the holidays are the highest in business, the number of people is too high to be busy, and this year's business is much lower. We offered a discount on the Internet, which was 70 dollars a day, and now it's 45 dollars and two hours."
“Last year, many of our colleagues closed their shops, and between the end of July and August this year, the shops were temporarily closed, but the costs of water, water and cats were very high.” A staff member on the ground stated that the shop air conditioner was open 24 hours a day and that during the closed period, there was no shortage of cans and cat food to feed each day, and that there were 30 or 40 cats in the shop to make them comfortable.
The cathouse.
Journalists have seen the sale of cat food, toys, etc. in addition to the various kinds of drinks. Customers can also bathe their own cats before making an appointment. In addition, the shopkeepers operate a cathouse nearby, where the cat’s sign says varieties, birthdays, vaccine time, and internal deworming time. “On the basis of the benefits of cat-breeding, it can basically maintain normal operations. It's not very optimistic if it's just a cat-hunting business."
What about pets when they're not open? Shopkeepers: every day you go to the shop to feed and clean up
At the International Trade Centre in Nanjing, a cat curry, the bouquet of grass piled out of the European garden, even the cat climbs into a tree, and the shop is clean and clean, attracting many young people to play cards. “We were shut down for almost a month during the outbreak, but we visited the cats almost every day to feed them and wash them.” According to a staff member.
On the same floor, there was a dog man who, as journalists saw, had dozens of different types of dogs in it, and staff members were constantly dragging, cleaning and playing with dogs. The shopkeepers said that they came to the shop every day during the closed period to feed, clean hair and clean up.
A rabbit.
A private cat shop near New Street opened at 12 noon, where customers could choose to change their slippers or shoes and then wash their hands and disinfect them, leaving the former staff to clean up their clothes and pants. According to the shopkeeper, there is a need for special care in maintaining cats, and measures such as disinfection ensure the health and safety of cats on the one hand and protection of customers on the other. "The cats here have been vaccinated and sterilized, and they are responsible for your health."
Staff told reporters that there were more than a hundred cats in the shop and in the room, each of which was required to take a bath every month and spent half a day cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, etc. "All we can do is do everything in our power to ensure the health of small animals and the hygiene of shops, and to raise pets because of love, and of course because of it."
The parrot.
“I was worried about the smell. I didn't know it was very clean, and the cats were clean, and they weren't too hairy to play with the kids.” Citizen Zhang's grandmother came with her grandson to pick up cards and take pictures.
You can contact professionals for help if you are sick or abandoned.
If pets are abandoned, how do we put them?
Modern Express journalists consulted the Nanjing City Wildlife Reception and Rescue Centre, which, according to its staff, is predominantly used to rescue wildlife, and domestic pets and homeless animals need to be consulted by small animals and stray pet rescue associations, each of which should have local support organizations.
At present, there are a number of civil-sponsored animal protection and rescue organizations in Nanjing that can call for help from abandoned pets and homeless animals.
The staff of the Centre for Animal Disease Prevention and Control in Nanjing stated that, from the perspective of animal vaccination, sick cats and dogs do not recommend close contact and that they encounter abandoned, ill and homeless pets and should contact professionals to help them.