The heterogeneous market is getting hot and challenged to biological safety
Author:Look at the think tank Time:2022.09.14
Recently, the "strange fish" crocodile croaks appeared in many places, and some caused the breeders to release, causing the public's attention and heated discussion on different pets.
Recently, the reporter's investigation found that the pet market is no longer just the world of dogs and cats, and the climbing pets dominated by snakes, lizards, and geckos have gained the favor of many people. Sight.
Different pet enthusiasts generally contact the seller through the Internet, and the seller sends it through the delivery method. Some of these different pets are used by the breeders, and some have been sold publicly. The channels include various online shopping platforms, offline bi -pet cafes, pet shops, etc.
However, the popular pet market brings challenges to biological safety. Some people do not understand their characteristics because of their strange hunter and follow the trend. Once they cannot meet psychological expectations, such as "no loved ones", "big taste", "difficulty in breeding", etc., they will abandon them. Some of the abandoned pets may bring danger to others, and some may threaten the local ecological balance because they are foreign species.
Who is keen on breeding? What is the threshold for heterolic breeding, and what dilemma does their illness treatment face? The reporter conducted a comprehensive investigation around the "birth, sickness and death" and its possible risks.
Text | Zhao Li intern Jia Jingzhang Rule of Law Daily All Media Reporter
This article is reproduced from the WeChat public account "Daily of the rule of law" (ID: Fazhiribaoxinwen). The original first was released on September 13, 2022. View.
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Feed
The cost of eye -catching companionship is high
Schott from Qingdao, Shandong is a snake -raising expert, with more than 20 corn snakes and a pair of house snakes. He introduced that corn snakes are the most common pet snakes, with docile spleen, mature development, and the price of basic entry varieties.
"Compared with cats and dogs, climbing pets is quieter and worry. For about 3 years, it can make it grow from seven or eight grams to three or four hundred grams of adults. It is very fulfilled to see it to see the snake breaking the shell. "Talking about his original intention of raising snakes, Xiao Teki said.
Good -looking is another reason why he is popular. Zhang Xian, who is engaged in fox adoption and rescue work part -time, raised the first pet fox in 2016 because the fox "looks good" can bring a visual satisfaction to the breeder. When eating, it will respond to the owner to respond to the owner "It seems to be coquettish."
The "White Paper on China's Pet Content Value Research in 2021" released by the consulting agency shows that the attention of the different pet content that meets the attitude of users' curiosity has gradually increased, accounting for between 5%and 15%of the popularity of the content of cute pets.
But the beauty is short -lived in most cases, replaced by the cumbersome brought by nourishing and petting, and the expenses are not low.
The main expenses of Schott are snake cabinets prepared for pet snakes. Specific expenditures are food. The snake's staple is a rat. The frozen rat is generally sent to the house by freezing transportation. In addition, the snake is a temperature -changing animal. The breeder needs to prepare heating pads and temperature control. He also takes a regular bath to clean up the scales and odors on it to prevent skin diseases and parasites.
The breeding procedure of Xuliu breeder Wu Dong is more complicated. He prepared a lot of supplies for ferrets, such as food pots, exclusive toilets, and a double -layer cage that is sufficient for ferrets. Because shelves are afraid of heat, they need to prepare mats, ice cushions or cooling boards in the summer; if the owner leaves home, To turn off the air conditioner, a small fan needs to be placed; in winter, you need to add velvet thick hammocks. In addition to the basic configuration, Wu Dong also purchased many toys, special shower gels, hairy cream, and towel bags that allowed the whole of Coninet to get into. In terms of food, in addition to high -quality main food, he also prepared a lot of snacks and nutrition creams, molars and clean teeth snacks that were feeded during interaction.
Like Wu Dong, more and more pet owners are willing to spend their care of their pets. However, the reporter's interview found that excessive equipment can easily lead to difficulty in cleaning, breeding bacteria, while pet supplies lack supervision, and the quality of goods is uneven. Merchants generally attract customers with good appearance, and lack of guarantee after -sales.
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Buy and sell
Random pricing goods are not right board
When there is demand, there is market. As people's interest in different pets becomes higher and higher, a pet transaction has formed an industrial chain, and many agency agents have appeared between buyers and sellers.
Shawt told reporters that it is difficult to buy snakes on e -commerce platforms, so the "snake circle" usually trades through social platforms. Most of the sellers are individuals, send ordinary express delivery, and bear risks; buyers must record the box video after receiving the goods, otherwise the seller will not be responsible even if there is a problem.
Therefore, the main role in this trading chain is an intermediary, which is generally held by the insiders who believe in the buyers and sellers. The transaction process is roughly: buyers pay for the intermediary-seller shipped-buyers receive the goods and confirm that the intermediary gives the seller for money. If there is a problem or a transaction dispute, the intermediary is judged.
"But the" climbing circle "has many unreliable agents, and everyone can be an agent, without a threshold." Saud said.
He encountered such a situation. A agent had no supply, but he used a beautiful set of placing pictures to promote on the social platform and set a price on the ground. For example, the market price of the albino red snake seedlings is 250 to 350 yuan, and the price of this agent is 780 yuan. Shawt found that many agents of "climbing circles" did not even have the basic knowledge of snake farming, and rely on the false news on the Internet to give buyers a lecture. After buyers buy it, the pet snakes they receive are often incorrect. "Even the agents of the character passing are not fully guaranteed to ensure that the pet is okay, because there is no supply in the hands of the agent. The next layer continues to recruit agents, often there are many layers of superiors of an agent. "
Why does the favorite market need an agent exist? As a physical seller, Wu Dong's explanation is: a large number of animals raised by some merchants have a large number of animals, and they are unable to sell them all, so they need to be agents. But agents and merchants are prone to poor information, and both parties may sell the same snake at the same time. Therefore, the snake may have been bought, but the agent will tell the buyer that the snake is still in his own hands and continue to send a video of the snake to the buyer.
Because some different pet buyers often use videos to distinguish the quality of snakes, some agents often make the sick snake healthy. "As long as the buyer has seen the video, you need to pay the deposit first. When you receive the animals, the deposit cannot be refunded even if there is a problem." Schut said.
In addition, the reporter learned that the price of different pets is unstable, and the price may still rise after the buyer pays the deposit transaction. In this case, the seller and the agency have been dragging without shipping. After the tug -of -war, most buyers choose to return the goods, and the seller transferred to the new buyer at a higher market price.
Shawt told reporters that different pet transactions are not pure seller markets, and buyers often have to deceive goods. After receiving the goods, the buyer was not confirmed to receive the goods, and reported to the seller to send a living body to the platform to threaten the seller to refund the money. After the platform was involved, the seller would be sentenced to refund the money to achieve the purpose of "white".
In this trading mode, pet disease has become another major hidden danger.
The reporter learned from a number of different pet breeders that most of them purchase pets through online trading platforms, or to introduce one -on -one sale by well -known people, and "quarantine" is far away from them. In this regard, professionals of pet epidemic prevention and treatment are quite concerned: "There is no fixed market and clear supply channels for the purchase of strange pets. It is not clear whether animals come from, whether they have quarantine, or whether they carry viruses on their bodies."
A strange doctor who is unwilling to be named proposes that there is still a large deficiency in the research of domestic and animal -animal diseases in China. Whether the virus carried on his body is contagious and pathogenic. It belongs to the field of knowledge gap.
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transportation
Express mail parasites unexpectedly
There are also many problems with different pet transportation sections after buying and selling.
Liu Jiaqi, who has been doing special animal veterinary veterinaries in Beijing for 5 years, told reporters that all courier can not mail livers. Common pets include air transportation and land transportation. Land transport has high -speed rail, train, special cars, and cars. However, no matter what, it is necessary to apply for quarantine certificates in advance, and it is hosted by a professional consignment party.
"Because the attention of special animals is not as good as dogs and cats, even if someone secretly transports through express delivery, it is difficult to cause attention in the process." Liu Jiaqi said.
There are indeed merchants stealing through express delivery. The reporter's investigation found that some businesses add tipping to the express delivery site in the jurisdiction. Please ask the courier not to pass the security inspection, and say that the risk of the death and injury of the actual matter will be borne by the sender.
In this case, some businesses only pay attention to whether they can sell animals, do not pay attention to the scientific nature of mailing, and uniformly shipped, resulting in the occasion of attacking and even predation of each other.
Zhang Xian encountered this situation. Once, she purchased two foxes of the same size and age, a red fox and a snowfox, but in the end they received a red fox and half a snow fox. "Most of them are engraved in the bones. Hunter awareness, different animals with different sizes and different varieties are not suitable for putting together, snow foxes were eaten by red foxes. "
There are also some merchants who sell foxes in the form of blind boxes, which are randomly sent. Pets are bumpy during transportation, some are tortured to death, and some are damaged to varying degrees. Zhang Xian once purchased three foxes at one time, and the seller told her to send pets, but when she went to pick it up, she saw a coal -pull truck responsible for transportation. The fox was placed under the carriage and did not eat and drink for nearly a week. Luck.
For this kind of phenomenon, Liu Jiaqi analyzed that some sellers chose the way of randomly issuing, saving manpower and material resources, eliminating elimination and screening, and maximizing profits. Some farms only have breeding -related qualifications and procedures, lack of understanding of the pet industry, and do not have relevant qualifications and proofs.
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Medical treatment
Veterinary scarce autonomy prevails
A doctor surnamed Jiang, who has been in Nanchang Denuo Animal Hospital for 8 years, said that as long as pets are transported, there will be risk of illness, stress response such as heat stroke, and the body cannot adapt to the external environment that suddenly changes. It is easy to cause a series of metabolic disorders.
Pets are sick, but the coverage and professionalism of heterogeneous hospitals are still lacking. The doctor introduced that the threshold of a different pet doctor is high. First of all, it must be born in animal medicine -related majors, and then you can get a professional veterinarian certificate. At first, there was no professional training for different pets in China. Some platforms asked foreign teachers to lectures in China. Each diagnosis of a different pet requires a lot of learning to formulate a suitable treatment plan.
According to the case of its consultation, the study of heterogeneous treatment is not mature in dogs and cats, but the metabolism of different pets is very fast, which is four or five times that of human beings. It's dangerous. "
"Most of the different pets were originally wild animals, who is good at protecting themselves through disguise. As pets, they will force their spirits in front of the owner and pretend to eat normally. Once the owner leaves, it will immediately slum." Dr. Jiang said.
Some different pet breeders also see these problems, so they generally explore the treatment based on experience. Wu Dong's experience is: small illnesses have been cured by themselves, and it is useless to treat major illnesses.
How do I cure it myself? The reporter noticed that many breeders would ask for medicine online. Data from an online consultation platform show that during the "Double 11" period last year, online consultation orders for Totoro, hedgehogs, and turtles increased by 23 times from the previous month. One of the problems brought by the medical treatment is that it has spawned a lot of "doctors" that have been randomly recruited.
Liu Jiaqi found that there are many so -called strange doctors who have no qualifications on the Internet, which are diagnosed and used at will. A regular special animal doctor, with the average daily diagnosis of about 5 to 10 cases under normal circumstances.
"The size of pet hospitals is different, and there are differences in hardware facilities. The number of doctors hired in different careers is different, so the gap between pricing is large." Liu Jiaqi said that once the treatment fails, the pet owner will have opinions; even if the treatment is successful, some people think that the price is too high. And the heart is dissatisfied. However, there are no relevant institutions in China that can resolve such disputes, and the report can only mediate disputes.
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Abandon
Difficult to tame some discretion and be abandoned
What should I do if I really ca n’t cure or be able to afford it? Many different pet breeders chose to abandon. The reason behind it is that in addition to the treatment of great costs, some different pets are aggressive.
For example, a crocodile turtle, its behavior is like a crocodile, as long as you see what you see, you will actively attack. According to Wang Zhen, a crocodile turtle breeder, the paradoral turtle belongs to the genus of the long -necked turtle. A 40 cm long -length paradoral turtle can be extended by 40 cm. Don't relax if you bite things.
The reporter noticed that among some online pet shops, many people abandoned foxes. They are under "little guys are active, not afraid of giving birth", "Snow Fox is smart and quiet", "fat, comfortable" and other advertising words I hope someone will receive their pets.
Zhang Xian told reporters that the cost of breeding foxes in the farm is very low. It neither vaccine nor high -quality special food. It only needs to feed some low -cost wheat bran, soybean meal and carrion, and the fox growth cycle is fast. It can be reproduced in a month. There are at least five or six nests. These reasons have led to the low price of the fox, so there are many people who buy it, and usually buy a few at one time. But the fox is difficult to domesticate. If you put it on a traction rope, it will bite or break free.
"There are many buyers, difficult to domestication, and body taste. As a result, foxes have become the most abandoned mammals." Zhang Xian said.
Not long ago, Zhang Xian saw someone saying on the social platform, "The fox they bought is not obedient, otherwise it will be killed. Anyway, I buy another good one." Later, the man beat the fox to the internal organs and did not feed for a week, causing the fox to die.
In recent years, the phenomenon of abandonment of Zhang Xian has obviously increased. For a while, she had to temporarily set up more than 30 foxes in her own self -built house. There are some problems with these foxes, such as aggressive bite. In desperation, she donated part of the fox to the zoo and climbing pet ornamental garden, and gave some foxes with good personality and a small month to experience.
"If I can go back to the past and re -choice, I won't raise a favorite anymore." Zhang Xian told reporters.
From the perspective of the industry, in the process of human domestication, the public acceptance, industrial chain, and laws and regulations need to be constructed simultaneously, which must be a long process. No matter which kind of pets are raised, you cannot make a decision under the impulse. Due to unique attractive people, but in terms of habits, it is not necessarily suitable for breeding as pets. There is also a part of the "gray zone" in buying and selling. Therefore, it is necessary to consider it carefully. This market also requires more norms. As far as government functional departments are concerned, we must strengthen source management, strengthen entry quarantine supervision and law enforcement efforts of immigration goods, transportation tools, delivery, passenger baggage, cross -border e -commerce, etc. Defense system. At the same time, the list of foreign invasion species is updated in a timely manner, and it is clearly informed of the public which are opposite and which cannot be raised.
"In order to condense multi -party strength, we can effectively respond to the new challenges of biological safety." The above -mentioned industry insiders said.
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