"Shared cats" that rent for 9.9 yuan a day quietly appeared. A certain pet store has rented out more than ten cats, and news that they still have to queue up has become a hot search topic.
Living pets have not escaped the power of the sharing economy under the Internet in the end.
The so-called Internetization actually means that user needs are met quickly and quickly, without having to bear the entire service link for a long time.
For example, in shared bicycles, users only enjoy the process of riding without worrying about where to park, how to find the bike, what to do if the bike is stolen, and other things that need to be "wiped".
Similarly, the so-called "shared cat" is the same model. You don't have to worry about getting sick or getting tired of playing with it. It doesn't matter, just change it to another one.
Users pay money and only care about the pleasure of petting cats for a while, but they do not need to bear any obligations and responsibilities associated with raising cats, because cats can "return" at any time.
So, being responsible for a little life is out of the question. As long as it doesn't "die", everything is normal.
Although businesses may be out of good intentions to rescue stray cats,
but if this awareness is continuously passed on, they are encouraging abandonment in disguise, because as long as the "cost price" of 9.9 yuan can have a cat, the threshold is too low.
Consequently, there is also a decrease in guilt for abandonment.
Because in a short period of time, a small pet cannot establish a strong emotional connection with its owner.
They are just valuable commodities, not priceless lives.
This is from a human perspective. If you look at it from the perspective of pet cats, the sharing model is their "journey to hell."
The proverb "Curiosity killed the cat" is actually a reflection of the cat's survival instinct. As solitary animals, they need to face their surroundings alone, so they are extremely sensitive to everything.
Every time you change to a new environment, it is a process of re-acquainting yourself with "stressors". It is like transferring to a new school, moving once, or going to a strange city. It takes a long time for the nervousness to be relieved.
Sharing cats repeats this painful process over and over again, and prolonged stress response can cause nerve damage or disease.
On the other hand, anyone who has raised a cat knows that the prevention and treatment of hair loss, cat moss, cat triad, and some other diseases require more or less professional knowledge.
If you only find it fun for a while and fail to detect problems in time, it will only cause the cat to suffer more harm.
After talking about humans and cats, let’s talk about the negative impact of the entire business model on the pet market.
If, as reported in the news, the “cat sharing” business is booming, users in need will have to queue up to rent a cat.
So, this involves a core issue, which is production capacity.
Famous cats in regular pet stores will definitely not be rented out due to cost issues, so where do some cats with average appearance come from?
Normal female cats will give birth once or twice a year, so unscrupulous merchants will inject drugs into female cats to achieve the purpose of having more babies.
But unlike the inventory of inanimate goods, when the demand for rental cats changes cyclically, who will bear the problem of "oversupply"?
It is conceivable that there will be another wave of stray cat problems at that time, which will in turn aggravate the abandonment phenomenon.
Renting out cats can be said to be an unscrupulous and high-profit business. The "purchase price" of cats for rent is not very expensive.
10 yuan a day is 300 yuan a month, and some pet stores stipulate that tenants must spend money in the store, so buying some cat food, small toys, etc. is another income.
Businessmen are really creative wizards in the business world for money, but Xiaobai doesn't know that doing so is no different from cat abuse, so it becomes a vicious circle of "one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer".
The emergence and disappearance of a life should be a romantic process of slow realization and discovery. If it is artificially accelerated and money controls your emotions, people will no longer be human.
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