China News Service, Changsha, December 11 (Reporter Tang Xiaoqing) Liao Wentao put the body of a two-year-old Garfield cat "hot pot" on a small bed surrounded by flowers, and carefully cleaned up the stains on his body and combed his hair.
After mourning and mourning, the "hot pot" was put into the incinerator after the memorial ceremonies such as farewell to the owner and prayer.
"The owner can choose to take the columbarium home, or rent it in the ashes storage room, and check it out when he misses it." The 26-year-old Liao Wentao, a pet funeral director, has created a pet aftercare service. company.
The company provides free cremation services for all stray animals.
Liu Wei is looking for the lost pet.
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"We bid farewell to 400 to 500 pets a year. There is a huge demand for pet funerals, but the market has not yet fully opened up." Liao Wentao once did aftercare for rabbits, hamsters, tortoises, goldfish and other pets.
He said that being a pet funeral director is more important to help pet owners to vent their emotions. "This is a career with warmth."
"Sucking cats" and "puddling dogs" are becoming a new way of life for contemporary young people.
They are willing to pay for the "hairy kids" who give themselves company and affection, which makes the pet economy develop rapidly.
According to iResearch's 2021 White Paper on China's Pet Consumption Trends, in 2020, the market size of China's pet industry will be close to 300 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), and it will gradually develop into an entire industry chain covering pet food, clothing, housing, life, old age, sickness and death.
The increasingly hot pet economy has become a hot spot for new entrepreneurship and a "gold rush", and it has also given birth to many emerging professions related to pet industry segmentation services.
Liao Wentao's pet funeral director is one of them.
Liu Wei and his team helped a lady find a pet dog.
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The 33-year-old Liu Wei is a "pet detective". He and his team in Shanghai mainly help families find lost pets and are well-known in the industry.
"We traveled to more than 20 cities in China, participated in the search for nearly 3,000 pets, and recovered more than 1,000. In addition to cats and dogs, there are also birds, lizards, hamsters and other small animals. There is a dog named Xiaomi we found. 45 days." Liu Wei told reporters.
To be a pet detective requires not only a sense of responsibility, love, and a fondness for pets, but also keen thinking and observation skills, and the assistance of professional equipment such as infrared thermal imaging cameras and hunting cameras.
"Finding pets is a real technical job. For example, to find a lost cat, you must first ask about its breed and habits." Liu Weihe's team will calculate the order price based on the distance.
Liu Wei also released a pet-seeking video on a short video platform that young people like. It has accumulated a lot of popularity, and there are more and more people looking for his help in finding pets.
"The team has expanded to 15 people. There were dozens of orders a year before, and now the summit takes more than 40 orders a month. This also reflects the increasing number of pet families." Liu Wei said.
Liu Wei is sorting out equipment for finding pets.
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According to data from the "White Paper on China's Pet Industry in 2020" (Consumption Report), the number of pet dogs and cats in China's cities and towns will exceed 100 million in 2020, reaching 10.84 million.
"In big cities, cats and dogs have become an indispensable part of many young people and are cared for. We are not looking for pets, but every'family member'." Liu Wei's team also plans to do pet homestays and pets Training and other projects, "the future prospects of the pet industry will be brighter."
The Liepin Big Data Research Institute released the 2020 "Post-90s" Workplace Insight Report, which pointed out that the new occupations of the pet industry "post-90s" account for half of the country.
The 27-year-old Wu Qiuqiao turned his hobby into work and resigned from Beijing and returned to Changsha to make Hanfu for cats.
"In addition to looking good, it must be easy to wear and durable, and use the standard of baby clothes to make pet Hanfu." Her Taobao shop has nearly 30,000 fans, and her monthly turnover exceeds 70,000 yuan at the highest.
Wu Qiuqiao, who is committed to making original pet products, has made many friends who love animals.
She hopes that her products will be known to more pet friends who like the trend of the country, and even go abroad.
"Let every cat live a delicate and beautiful life." Wu Qiuqiao said.
The reporter learned that the pet economy has also spawned new occupations such as pet UP owners, professional dog walkers, pet testers, pet health care workers, and pet dieters.
"People's demand for pets has increased, which has promoted the rapid development of the entire industry chain, and has spawned a large number of new pet-related occupations." Tu Di, secretary-general of the Hunan Pet Diagnosis and Treatment Industry Association, believes that the pet economy and the new occupations it has spawned are also the prosperity of the country and the life of the people. A manifestation of improved levels.
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