A girl named Xiao A took her pet dog to the pet hospital to see a doctor, after the veterinarian's diagnosis, the pet dog has a cold. Little A girl in order to cure the dog, to the dog many times infusion injection, has spent more than a thousand dollars. Cold for people is just a small disease, not much money can be cured, then why pets and people with the same disease, but to spend a lot of money?
According to the research report, in 2020, China's pet market size will exceed 240 billion yuan, in addition, in the high gross margins spawned by the pet medical care to become the second largest core industry after pet food.
There are reasons why pets are expensive to see a doctor, the first is that there are fewer formal companies producing pet medical supplies in China, and more and more people are raising pets, resulting in an oversupply. The second is because in big cities, people's pets are smaller in size, which makes it more difficult to treat them, thus making treatment more expensive.
There have been more and more people keeping pets in recent years, and in some big cities, many young people even have multiple pets. What is the reason for the current trend of keeping pets in the city? First of all, it is because the urban people's work pressure is too great, although there are many employment opportunities in the metropolis, but the competition pressure is also very great, the urban people almost every day to work overtime, which makes them physically and mentally exhausted. Pets are a very good way to relieve stress, pets are very cute, and their intimate behavior to the owner will make people feel happy, so as to relax the mood.
Secondly, because life in the city is so stressful, more and more urbanites are losing their socialization. Although these urbanites have higher salaries, they have to work hard to earn money for better living conditions. This deprives urbanites of the energy and time to socialize, and in order to fill the emptiness inside, they often choose to have a pet and will treat it as their best friend. They will tell their pets the things they can't tell others in their lives, so as to fulfill their need to confide in them. And that's why many urbanites will choose to spend a lot of money on treating their pets rather than spending money on themselves.
With more and more people keeping pets, pet-related businesses will also flourish, which will include a number of industries such as pet breeding, pet supplies, pet medical care and so on. According to relevant data, in 2019, the size of China's pet market is as high as 202.4 billion yuan alone, an increase of 18.5% over 2018, and it is still growing at a rapid pace. China's pet market has far exceeded that of other foreign countries, and such a huge market has attracted a lot of capital to help China's pet industry development again.
With the rapid rise of many pet industries, there are also many chaotic phenomena. For example, some pet breeding bases will intentionally sell diseased hatchlings, and some pet clinics sell fake pet vaccines and medicines. In order to avoid being cheated by unscrupulous traders, consumers should go to regular selling places to buy pets, and when buying, they should also carefully check their pets for any diseases. When pets are sick, they should also be taken to a regular hospital and diagnosed by a veterinarian with a veterinary license, and they should ask for an invoice from the pet hospital after spending money.
Keeping pets is a good thing, but improper keeping can also cause serious social problems. Because many people like to keep rare animals as pets, this has led to an influx of foreign animals. And at the same time there are many people who can't continue to feed their pets for various reasons, so they abandon them. Abandoning pets is not only unethical, but also leads to the destruction of local ecosystems.
Many of these abandoned pets are foreign animals, and without natural predators, these animals breed uncontrollably, causing biological invasions. And many abandoned pet cats can only prey on birds in order to survive, leading to the endangerment of many birds. Now more and more stray dogs in the city are also abandoned pet dogs, which are not only prone to biting, but also spreading parasites, posing a certain danger to society.
While people are enjoying the dividends brought by the pet industry, they should also actively face the various problems brought by the pet industry. In fact, many of the problems are due to the lack of management of the market, the growth of the market faster than the speed of laws and regulations introduced, so that law enforcement officers can not make the appropriate penalties for offenders, and consumers do not know where to go to file complaints after receiving the deception. Only to promote the improvement of relevant laws, in order to make the development of the pet industry in the long term, pet owners can really enjoy the happiness of pets!