On this national holiday, new hangzhou's ai is returning home, and the pet cat toss is left unattended, so she has a pet-tubist on the internet, who comes in every other day, feeding cat food, feeding water, freezing drying, brushing bowls, changing cat sands, cleaning garbage, teasing cats, combing hairs, pacing cats, and so on at $45 a half hour。
The vacations sent pets to the pet shop, and the cages were no longer the preferred option for pets, and more and more people, like eid, paid professionals to take care of pets, and the profession of “curter” went off quietly. On this national holiday, some people take part-time jobs and others have made “paternists” stable jobs。
Help me shovel shit and make cats laugh
The pets charge $45 at a time
Before inviting a petist, ei asked around every holiday whether there were people who were not far away to look after the cat at home, or whether he could go to her house every few days to feed and shovel shit. It's a bit embarrassing to ask so many questions, to get a cat to foster care at a pet store after new year's holiday, and to get a few days of temper and sometimes a few days of illness
After reading a lot of posts online, ai ended up with a petist, a freelancer who lived not far from ai's home. She herself was a pet and had four cats and one dog in her own home, which was said to have been raised from the first-born to the first-ever adult。
Before the holidays, ei gave her the keys to the house, and when she came to the house, the pettographer and ei would have a video, "where's the cat's food, what's in the canteen, how much water, just tell her. And she had a cat service for about 15 minutes, and i was a little nervous, but i had a good time watching my cat and her on the video. If i can, i think i'll ask her to serve on every holiday. I'll pay. She'll serve. No more trouble friends.”
The pets are part-time
Holiday operations are dominated
Wing is a 90-year-old, working nine-to-fives and having a double weekend. Her family had a seven-and-a-half-year-old sphinx, the legendary canadian hairless cat. "i've been busy working, i've been on business a lot, and there's no one to look after my cat, and a cat friend has recommended me to someone to feed the cat. There wasn't a pet teacher at the time, but the cat friends helped each other. I changed my job about three years ago, and then i got a cat friend asking if i could help them feed them. Maybe i'm good at it? It's like i'm a professional cat feeder, and then i'm thinking of doing it part-time."
Except for the whole day of each holiday, she's on double break on weekends before 24 hours after 18. Over the past three years, she has been unable to remember how many times she has been at the door: “i've been on the phone for three days on mid-autumn holidays, and i've been going to six households on average every day, about five kilometres away, the most recent being under our house, where i made about $2,000 in three days.”
The fee for each event varies according to the distance and the content of the service, except for basic operations such as feeding, shoveling and garbage removal, which range from $25 to $50, plus $10 per cat for about half an hour. Of course, if clients have special requirements, such as tearing cats and dogs, feeding drugs, etc., additional fees are required. "i have to wear shoes and gloves before every job starts, and the client's home, if it's monitored, can watch my work, and if it isn't, i can take pictures and video to the client. Like what before, after, etc. It's okay for a client to want a real-time video of the whole trip."
It is not a holiday, with a four-and-a-half a week to pick up, and clients mostly travel or leave for a few days, and operations are concentrated mainly during extended leave periods. On the first day of the fourth of july, winnie took 11 orders in one day. "it's too far for me to pick up, it's too much, and i didn't expect so many people to come to the house this year
Wing says she likes little animals herself, even if she has them, and she likes to play with more cats and dogs, and every time she goes to see someone else's hairy kids, she's always excited and excited, and even though sometimes it's tired, she likes more, “friends say i'm just a cat。
A lot of pet stores in hangcheng offer home service
Mr. Yu runs a cat-dog pets supermarket, which also provides home-to-door feeding services to cats, in addition to the sale of pets and pet beauty. He was on his way to feeding the cat when the phone called him: “it's an urgent order today, and the client called and said he wanted to feed the family cat at noon.” mr. Yu is going to feed a young man, including feeding, changing water, etc., at a cost of $45. “can we play with the cat and see if the cat is afraid of life, and if so, i'll make a video to the client.”
Mr. Yu's shop is in fact open for more than two months, not to call it an ordinary shop, but it is well-dressed, more like a café, and therefore attracts many young pets。
Before the fourth of july, his girlfriend posted photos of the shop on the social platform, and sent them along with the shop, one of which was a picture of a “go-to-door cat” which attracted a lot of people to consult: “it was only a small piece of our service, but there were a lot of people who came to ask for a cat service, especially after the social platform had been released. But my shop is still run by pets, and it's only after 8 p. M., after three or four units a day, and it's about 3 km of shop business, which is already the limit. It's not easy to go beyond. Of course, some of the pet stores i know are going to take on more distant services, which are old clients of many years of love."
Mr. Yu said that most of the customers who asked them to feed cats were old customers who usually bought cat food or bathed cats or dogs, asking what other services were available and asking so many questions that they wanted to feed the cat to the door in a more visible place. Indeed, in addition to feeding the cat, mr. Yu's door-to-door pet service also includes walking dogs and feeding other small animals, such as hamsters, “it depends on the customer's needs”。
Mr. Yu said that although the pet teacher's job seemed simple, it was not always possible for everyone to do it. It was highly professional and people who had never had a cat or a dog came to the house to help them and to fuck things up. “cats, for example, are sensitive and very fond of animals who leave their homes, and they must be careful to open doors and be afraid that they will slip out of the door and feed them to the cat. Dogs are different. Dogs are afraid of strangers. It's even more important how quickly they can build trust with dogs."
There's a risk in the door service
It's important to have an i. D. Protocol
Feeding cats at home seems to be a very simple business, but mr. Wing and mr. Yu say that demands are actually high. Mr. Yu said: “this job requires a strong sense of morality, which is, after all, to come alone in the absence of the owner, but it is easy to make mistakes when there is a misperception.”
Siu ying says: “the people who come to us know themselves about our careers and are relatively tolerant. And, of course, it also requires that each time we come to the door, we follow the prescribed procedure.”
As a part-time pet carer, he always checks his personal identity information and enters into a simple agreement. And mr. Yu's pet store, let alone shop information and business licences, is known to clients. “and every time we open the door, we take video and send it to the customers, the business is a long-term business and it must be accountable to the customers.”
New ways of foster care for pets
In recent years, the hospitality industry has entered an era of diversity, with journalists searching for key words such as “go-to-door feeding” and “go-and-go dog” on various web platforms, elapse links, in addition to home-based pet providers and traditional pet shop foster care, and other forms of pet hosting, such as:
An advanced pet hotel, single-dog foster care, was launched at a pet home in hangzhou。
There are also pets who travel with their pets on holidays, mainly for short trips。
Specialized care is available in the country for pet apps, which are similar to the internet, where trained pets are sent home for feeding or basic care。
Do you have pets? Do you have friends with pets? How did you arrange for your pets on vacation
