Chinanews.com, Shanghai, January 16th (Reporter Zheng Yingying and Xu Mingrui) "Breakfast around 9:30, 1 full spoonful of dry food + 1/4 canned food + 1 spoonful of probiotics + 1 egg yolk (crushed) + 3 chondroitin + vitamins (Vitamin) 6 pieces + 3 pieces of lecithin.” In a pet store in Pudong New District, Shanghai, a detailed recipe is posted outside the “glass room” of a puppet cat.
As the Spring Festival approaches, pet foster care in Shanghai is heating up, and the service is becoming more and more refined. Photo by Xu Mingrui
As the Spring Festival approaches, many owners of cute pets go home to visit relatives or go out for the holidays. The journey is far away and it is inconvenient to carry their pets. The pet foster care service in Shanghai is rapidly heating up.
The reporter visited and found that, on the one hand, the cost of foster care has increased during the Spring Festival, and on the other hand, related services have become increasingly refined.
Ou Xiaorui, the manager of a pet store in Shanghai, said that fostering cats and dogs is no more than storing things. Pets have many requirements in terms of diet and life. In addition to the most basic tasks of walking the dog, accompanying the cat, feeding, shoveling, etc., it also includes feeding medicine and wiping eyes. , Take short video feedback to customers and other services.
He will write down and print out the pet owner's requirements and post them outside each "room" for easy care.
As the Spring Festival approaches, pet foster care in Shanghai is heating up, and the service is becoming more and more refined. Photo by Xu Mingrui
"Some may need to be fed fish oil, milk powder, some may need to be fed medicine, and even Garfield (cat) may have to wipe his nose and tears several times a day." Ou Xiaorui said.
Luo Ping, the supervisor of a pet store in Jing'an District, Shanghai, told reporters that although the cost of foster care during the Spring Festival is about 50% higher than usual, its pet rooms are basically fully booked.
As the Spring Festival approaches, pet foster care in Shanghai is heating up, and the service is becoming more and more refined. Photo by Xu Mingrui
Merchants said that one of the main reasons for the price increase of pet foster care during the Spring Festival is that pet services are becoming more and more refined, and labor costs are correspondingly bullish.
Ms. Zhang, a clerk at a pet store on Lujiabang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, said that some pets are prone to stress reactions such as nervousness and not eating after changing the environment, so they ask pet owners to bring some common pet items to prevent it from stress. Immediate response, "Bring your own bowl and its mattress, we will give it a home-like space." (End)
As the Spring Festival approaches, pet foster care in Shanghai is heating up, and the service is becoming more and more refined. Photo by Xu Mingrui