With the increase in the number of cat owners, many people who love cats but cannot keep cats due to their living environment or personal factors will choose to raise cats in the cloud by watching other people's pictures and videos of cats.

In recent years, with the emergence of concepts such as shared bicycles and power banks, the concept of sharing cats has also emerged, but as pets cats can really be shared. ?

In a shopping mall in Chengdu, there are several advertisement signs for sharing cats that read: 9.9 yuan cat to bring home to accompany you.

9.9 yuan a day, if you want to rent a cat, you must buy cat supplies in the store if you want to line up.

Industry insiders have learned of a pet store that sells a variety of breeds of cats and dogs. In the shop of several square meters, there are many cages containing several cats and puppies of different breeds. There are 10 shared cats in the store, all of them are adult British Short series cats about one year old, ranging from blue cats to gold gradients. At present, all 10 shared cats in the store have been rented out. Customers who want to rent cats need to wait.

According to the owner, the shared cat needs to pay a deposit, which varies from 1,200 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan depending on the type. The tenant needs to provide a copy and original of the ID card, a photo of the home address and environment, and sign a cat rental contract. The tenant must live in Chengdu and have no other pets at home.

At the same time, the owner requires the tenant to buy cat staple food and supplies in the store, which costs about two or three hundred yuan. In this regard, the owner explained, The cat will have diarrhea when suddenly changing food, and it is easy to (produce) stress (reaction) when changing food just after changing the environment.

Frequent changes of living environment and owner, whether or not It will have a bad impact on cats, the owner said, The shared cats have been serving every family, they are more adaptable, as long as they are good for cats, in fact, cats do not have the so-called habit (frequently changing the living environment). ) problem.

The concept of sharing cats was proposed a few years ago and was boycotted

It is reported that in 2017, a cattery in Shenzhen The cat rental service was briefly launched. The daily price of renting a cat is 39.9 yuan, and the rental time is monthly. The original intention of this service is to meet cat lovers who have limited ability to keep cats for a long time. After the report, the store was boycotted by cat lovers.

In the same year, someone proposed the project plan of Spend some time, a cat every week, the plan said to cooperate with the largest and most professional pet adoption agency in China, 99 yuan per month, one cat per week home. At the end of the planning, the planner said that the project is in the BP (business plan) stage, and interested parties are welcome to discuss.

However, the cat-sharing project and ideas of the year were reprimanded from all sides once it was exposed, and more cautious cat lovers rationally analyzed the cat-sharing project.

Professor Guo Peng, director of the Animal Protection Research Center of Shandong University, believes that the impact of this sharing cat business model on cats is divided into negative and positive aspects.

Like humans, cats may have completely different mental states at one time and another, and all of this happens passively. Therefore, the actual situation is likely to be the opposite. The cat's exploration of the new environment (including the relationship with the human being) is constantly disturbed and interrupted, causing them to feel frustrated and thus become more tired and passive. Guo Peng said, Secondly, from the human side, positive effects are possible: through close contact with animals, we will increase some knowing of animals, and this knowledge is individual, It comes from real life, it cannot be learned from books, and it cannot be given by theory.

At the same time, Guo Peng said that the business model of sharing cats cannot avoid the fright and fatigue of animals, and the psychological damage to cats caused by owners intentionally or unintentionally.