To discuss 丨 young people have become "cute pets" and "main force" is worrying

According to the "2020 China Pet Industry White Paper", the number of urban dogs and cats in the country exceeded 100 million in 2020, an increase of 1.7% over 2019. Among the pet owners, the post-80s and post-90s account for 36.2% and 38.1% respectively, and young people are still the main group in the current and future consumer markets. As the main force of the pet population, young people have led to the vigorous development of the pet economy: a dip in the word "pet", everything is expensive.

When the pet "occupies" the human spiritual world on a large scale, it seems that to be a qualified modern person, it must have a name in the "shoveling circle". Therefore, young people have become the "main force" of "cute pets", which has led to the vigorous development of the pet economy, and many young people "spend nearly half of their wages on pets" under the "one dip 'pet' word, everything is expensive". This has also spawned a "100 billion market", which has built a huge industrial chain around the life and death of cute pets.

Young people are cute, supposedly because, "empty nest youth", "singleism", "Dink family"... More and more young people's emotional gaps are beginning to be bridged by cute pets. For example, many young people like to raise "alternative" pets, and the more aggressive, the more domesticated, easy to hurt "alternative" pets, the more "cute pets". How do such cold-blooded, aggressive pets "pin" their feelings? In fact, such a cute pet is only used as a sign to highlight his so-called "personality".

Cute pets can also be said to be the "awakening" of animal protection awareness. But if this is to treat animals well or even care for animals, then it is obviously not normal to drive the pet economy to "flourish" to the extent of "a dip in the word 'pet', everything is expensive". In fact, unless it is endangered, no matter what kind of animal, it has its own survival ability, and does not need people's special pampering and emotional investment, which is the survival law of nature, and it is also the way for people and animals to live in harmony, on the other hand, animals have their own laws of life, old age, illness and death, and it is not the will of man to change.

Now, people's too closeness to pets, even as the sustenance of all feelings, can not be fully understood as caring for animals.

Nowadays, the relationship between many young people and pets such as cats and dogs has reached the point of deformity, and even puts pets in an inappropriate position in their own lives, which deserves attention. The "cute pet" of "a dip in the word 'pet', everything is expensive" is not only excessive, but also should not be, for example, a young man, so "cute pet" expenses, how to live.

Not to mention that young people should have their own lofty pursuits, and energy and time are always limited, in fact, even if the "cute pet", its ultimate meaning is to give more humanistic care to human beings themselves. Now the "cute pet" of "a dip in the word 'pet', everything is expensive" is obviously pathological, and it is particularly worrying.

Author Qian Suwei

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