As my colleagues know, I opened a cat house.
They don't understand why I have been in the Internet industry for ten years and have tossed this undignified job.
Isn't it nice to have a high salary?
In fact, they don't know that I have tossed a lot of side business behind my boss's back over the years.
Published books, comic strips, corporate training, original painting outsourcing.
Almost all of my side hustles related to fine arts have been repeated by me.
Without much investment, I fully experienced the identity of a slash youth, and also deeply understood a truth: it is impossible to make a fortune by working part-time, and it is possible to establish a good financial cognition and passive income as soon as possible in order to step into the RANKs of FIRE before the mid-life crisis.
My family knows that I grew up with cats for more than ten years.
From the earliest pastoral cats, experienced British short American short pet breeding.
You can get along and communicate with the cat with ease.
But what they don't understand is why I suddenly invested so much money and chose to run a cat house.
The selection is still not the mainstream breed - German curly cat.
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I'm sure 95% of my friends around me have never heard of this cat.
I remember that seven or eight years ago, when I was working in Shanghai, the first type of curly cat I was exposed to was called the American curly cat.
It is particularly expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it.
I never thought about having one, much less that I would be surrounded by a large group of curly cats a few years later.
How did you suddenly open such a Devon cat house? Also introduced a batch of 40,000 or 50,000 breeding cats? Am I crazy?
Why... In fact, it is quite simple, in the game industry 996ICU in the past ten years, I have long had the heart of retreat.
In two years, I will stop working and choose my favorite way of working and my attitude towards life.
This is also the reason why I now start to run the Gio's cat self-media: share the aesthetics of life after fire, look for like-minded friends, and in the rest of my life, I can often collide with everyone's summit ideas.
Schopenhauer said that a person is either vulgar or lonely. I found that I belonged to the type that was not good at wine table culture and socialized in the workplace. I realized early on that being alone is the norm in my life; enjoying solitude gives me more time to learn to grow and dominate my will.
You must know that in the past, for this matter, my father could bury me many times, saying that I did not have as many wine and meat friends as he did, and that life was so boring, and now that I look back, it is really a big disaster, and his good brothers have not also flown faster than last year's US stock circuit breaker.
Most of the side businesses I choose can be done in solitude, at most many two or three partners, or online remote, we can jointly develop a product, not only to make money but also to avoid a lot of unnecessary emotional internal friction.
Having said all that, I like cats and I like to be alone, I have a reason to open a cat house.
Why choose the Devon variety?
It is a variant of Devonshire, England, in the 1960s and was not recognized by the International Cat Association until 1979.
Initially, it didn't get into my line of sight.
The price is discouraging, and I have heard that it is not easy to breed, small body cats, low yield, afraid of cold.
The incidence of hemolysis in kittens is high, with 41% of blood type B accounting for 24 hours of artificial feeding.
The proportion of B blood in the United States is zero.
Admittedly, any breed of cat has its flaws, and there will be problems such as cats with folded ears. But when I did come into contact with the Devon breed, its light and charming elf structure, the enthusiasm of the dog in the cat, and the curly texture of not easy to shed hair, brought infinite vitality to the calm and introverted me.
At that moment, I was sure that it was it.
Next is the purchase of cats, I am a little paranoid about breeding, commonly known as perfectionists, this is not the norm, but I think since you want to do this industry well, don't go down the low-end road. Of course, as a minimalist consumer, in terms of unnecessary and non-essential living expenses, I still implement the principle of being second-hand and second-hand to Taobao, because most of those are i want, and without them does not affect my current plans.
To do this thing in the cat house, at the beginning I set a relatively high starting point for myself: the German of the one or two thousand phases on the idle fish did not consider, and gave priority to the breed of the well-known cat house stable blood line, try to start breeding from the kitten, and avoid the pit of infertility of adult cats. There are some bad merchants will sell problematic breeding cats to the budding breeders, the two sides finally make a fuss with each other, I do not want to consume too much emotion in this regard, for the sake of insurance, each breeding cat must be personally screened by me and from small breeding to large, experience a complete process of life, this is actually a detour, want to quickly return to the breeding of people will basically consider taking adult female cats.
Secondly, I am more stubborn, spending more than 200,000 yuan to buy so many cats, it is impossible to convince the family, no one can understand why a cat sells for such a high price, so I have to strongly promise that all the expenses of the cat house will not occupy the existing savings of the family, and I will advance this fund by my own extra payment. So I spent half a year alone on a business trip to an Internet company in the Caohejing area of Shanghai, and used this income to hedge the risk while building the cat house in the early stage, which now seems to be a very wise choice for me who is conservative. Borrowing money to speculate in stocks is always unstable, and when all the expenses of the cat house have been wiped out in the early stages, I can maintain a very good attitude to run my own industry. Therefore, I suggest that you need to pay attention to these points when starting a business:
Don't do business with a friend, who may divest at any time, and you will become very passive. If you must find a partner, the content related to money and power must be written clearly in black and white.
Don't borrow money to invest or leverage assets, most people can't hold it mentally, which means that the highest point will not belong to you, and once you lose, you will be the first to collapse.
Before doing any industry, it is recommended to think about how to monetize, which tour area the industry is in the middle and lower parts of the entire industry, and which class the audience belongs to from low to high; how many months are expected to return the capital, and how long the cash on hand can support.
It's best not to spend more than 20% of your total savings in the initial stage of any side hustle, as it takes longer to build customer relationships than you might think.
In the process of booking breeding cats, I have also suffered losses, there are some foreign cat houses, the pictures sent are very beautiful, but the appearance of kittens is very general. There are also some so-called domestic so-called big-name cat houses, breeding people themselves or the judges of cat competitions in the region, hanging their own walls full of prize flowers, this kind of cat house bluestone bridge with prize flowers to deceive the small white, do not blindly trust this so-called champion cat breeding cat house, the actual booking found that this kitten product is extremely general, but the price is high.
I recommend that buyers do not book unborn kittens, even if the parents promise that the appearance is good, it is difficult for you to determine the appearance of the kitten, and whether it is the possibility of being dropped by the store in the process of growing up, try to choose a kitten with a fixed appearance of more than three months, do not need to pay a deposit, and directly receive the cat in full.
In addition to showing the identity information of both parties, in the total amount you pay, the deposit contract must indicate what parts of the cost are included, such as sterilization costs, CFA certificate processing, blood group testing, triple vaccines, air freight, etc. Whether they are included in the total amount, black paper and white words are clear, so as not to be confused in the later stage. Some cat houses do not include part of the above content, which is not a big bully, they treat all customers as a principle.
As a breeder, I often communicate with the breeding of major cat houses abroad on Facebook, in addition to learning about the breeding direction of their latest kittens, it is also necessary to learn some experience and skills in German breeding.
Excellent cat house has basically been stable for more than ten or twenty years, cats due to the extremely stable blood line, a litter of quality is basically highly unified, everyone will use the name of their cat house to name the blood line, such as "raya", "Logannderry" and other blood lines are breeding experience at least five generations of breeding after the stabilization of the well-known blood line.
As far as I know, the development of domestic German curly cat houses has not yet had such a long history, most of the old cat houses are in about 16 years to enter, began to introduce the first batch of breeding cats from abroad, some are other breeds of cat houses along the way breeding German as a branch, far less than the short-haired cats and long-haired cats precipitation of the deeper. German breeding is difficult, the fertility cycle is long, the number of cubs is small, which is doomed to it will not develop rapidly, coupled with the target customer is niche, the pricing is too high, the future of this blue ocean there is still a long time to transition.
The threshold for making a cat house is not high, but the early consumption is quite large, in addition to the initial breeding cat budget, the net expenditure of each cat head for one year, and the breeding cost of the first 4 months of the kitten, are actually not low. Our dietary arrangements in Devon are usually fed in the same way as many big cat houses abroad, all kinds of canned supplies, bone meat packages are readily available, to tell the truth they eat meat is more expensive than what we eat, I often buy 28 pounds of scrap beef stew, and cats occasionally eat more than 40 yuan a pound of Australian brisket, really people are not as good as cats.
Whether it is a pet family or a breeding family, if you are interested in understanding this elf breed, research, cat fairy welcomes like-minded friends to communicate private messages, but our cat does not borrow blood lines, do not carry out visits to the outside world, this is all the system of cat houses in order to ensure the health of each cat set up regulations, every year because of the parents who visit the door and the number of cat houses infected with diseases can be quite a lot Oh ~ For the sake of prudence, we still try to avoid contact with customers with complex sources, Although there are countless parents who apply to see the cat every year, I am very sorry to refuse it ~ As a professional and intimate breeding person, please rest assured that our mortality rate per litter of kittens is almost zero, even if hemolysis requires 48 hours of artificial feeding, we also have enough energy to take care of each kitten and ensure that they grow up healthy and strong in the first three months.
As one of my slash professions, The Cat of the Gio family will become a strategic brand for my long-term continuous operation plan in the future, and I will also continue to update my experience on the cat house in the follow-up, so that everyone can avoid the pit ~ Thank you for reading, I wish you a smooth pick-up of the cat star of your choice.
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