In the Internet era, everyone is a cloud youth, we take you to raid. In today's widespread autistic social life of young people, cute pets have become the emotional sustenance objects of many people. But not everyone has the conditions to have a pet, and cat coffee, dog coffee and even duck coffee for ducks have come into being.
Recently, we have noticed that small furry can no longer satisfy everyone, and at the time of the collapse of cat cafes in many cities, the pet interaction stores in first-tier cities have been upgraded from cute cats and dogs to raccoons, capybaras and kangaroos.
On this road closer and closer to the tropics and the wild, is there an end to the range of animals that shopkeepers choose? Does the "close play with small animals" really bring happiness? We decided to experience it for ourselves.
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Where are the fantastic beasts?
Capybaras are on maternity leave, and kangaroos are a bit dangerous
Search for the keyword "kangaroo capybara Beijing" in a book, and the page immediately pops up a bunch of videos of intimate interaction with these new star animals. With the blessing of different filters, their coat color is also somewhat erratic.
We identified the hottest one in the information stream and found that it was still a chain brand, with two branches in Beijing alone.
Go to a review to search for the name of the store and found that the person who opened the store really knows that "eggs cannot be placed in the same basket" and "leeks are distributed and cut, and the harvest is more profitable": kangaroos and capybaras are arranged in different branches, and if you want to save them, you must spend two dollars.
In the end, we chose an interactive shop with capybaras in Joy City, Chaoyang. As they were about to leave, a team member found a piece of bad news from the comments on the review site: the star capybara of the store had gone to give birth, taken maternity leave, and could not return until the end of the year.
However, the store replied that it guaranteed that there would be new star animal substitutes coming in, and please don't worry. Unexpectedly, the capybara working in the capital business district could not escape such an inward fate, and for a while I did not know whether to be happy or sad for it.
Due to the celebrity vacation, we had to choose another chain brand store, opened in Sanlitun SOHO, AKA "Pan Meng Pet Economic Zone". In the process of finding the way, we are also making up for the knowledge of the evil, ready to check the Internet to find out what we need to pay attention to with capybaras and kangaroos, and the first result is that our palms sweat.
With the question of whether "being beaten by a kangaroo" was a work injury, we walked into the store nervously.
Fantastic Beasts in business!
When the popular star is in a daze, the "past pet" is a little sad
The overall store is not very large, about 40 square meters. As soon as we entered the door, we heard a fight on the right hand side. Turning his head, a few dogs on the floor formed a whirlwind, and the star capybara not far away was beautiful alone.
The staff said that the star animals of this shop are only capybaras and small raccoons, and if you want to play kangaroos, you have to go to the second store, which is less than 100 meters away.
▲ Walking past only consumed 5 calories, in addition to making another money, I really can't think of the significance of opening two stores so closely.
Thinking that we could be beaten later and acceptable to be harvested once more, we paid 166 yuan / person for the service, wearing shoe covers and holding a bag of lettuce and being put into the fence by the staff.
As soon as our feet touched the ground, we seemed to step on a switch in a certain state of operation, and several dogs that were wrestling together instantly pounced on us in a very united way and wagged their tails in circles.
Afraid of accidentally stepping on the dog, we had to sit down on the steps near the entrance and let the clerk call the capybara for us.
A closer look revealed that capybaras were completely different from what we had previously envisioned. I thought it would be like a small fragrant pig pro, with fine hair and good hand, a pleasant and sticky voice.
As a result, it was found that the capybara's hair was pierced like a pine needle, sparsely distributed like the hedgehog's spines, and the sound was like boiling water that was about to burn dry. The whole form is not so much a small fragrant pig pro as a small hippo mini.
It has no business spirit at all, except that when it takes out the lettuce it will show a little enthusiasm, and the only thing it will do other times is to be in a daze.
▲ Non-static screen.
Casually standing still for twenty or thirty seconds, it made us lose interest in it, ready to see another star, Little Raccoon. After looking for half a day, we finally saw it in a cage in the corner.
It looked at us lovelessly in its cage, its nose shaking wildly, but its body had no intention of moving. The clerk explained that because the raccoon came out day and night, there was no energy during the day, and he said that he shook the cage with his hand.
I suddenly felt a hint of guilt in my heart, and immediately said that I had no interest in the raccoon and let it continue to rest. The clerk noticed the change in our mood and immediately pulled us to the wall and said that the babies here were very enthusiastic and wanted to play which one to help us get it.
We discovered that one of the walls near the outside of the store was a divided window made of glass, each with one or more very small cats and dogs, and two children lying outside looking out of the window. The clerk said that usually there are more parents bringing their children in the store.
▲ A young pet in a glass lattice.
The clerk was still enthusiastically recommending us, while I was a little interested in the few dogs I had kept free-ranging outside. I found one of them very sticky to me, and whether I went to feed the capybara or watch the baby raccoon, it followed me.
Since it is a black one in the fight whirlwind, let's call it Li Kui for the time being.
Li Kui is a pug, which is obviously the older of the animals in terms of body size. It may be a racial talent, it has a lot of folds on its forehead, but I always feel that it is very melancholy. The clerk saw that I had been playing with it, so he leaned over and asked, "You guys are so involved, you still don't take it home?" ”
Only then did I react, and after inquiring, I learned that the animals in the shop windows can be bought, and the clerk also emphasized: "Our (pets) are too cute to say, that is, there is no blood or other ordinary money." ”
▲ "Ordinary cat without pedigree".
I thought about it, indeed, if the blood cats and dogs are often tens of thousands, how can the guests take it away with a pat on the head? It turns out that this shop does not provide companionship services like cat coffee, and the ultimate goal is to let customers buy animals.
I asked how much this Li Kui was, and the clerk raised his voice: "It's almost 6 months, 2,000 yuan can be taken away." ”
I was amazed at how small it was, and the clerk said that their pets basically did not last more than 5 months, and "the children like to play with small animals."
▲ The life of the outcast Pug.
I asked about the capybara again, and the clerk said he was almost 2 years old. I asked if the capybara could be sold, and the clerk was a little wary: "Capybarra is not for sale, and this country can't buy it... However, if you want to buy it, you can order it for you. From Panama Lane, more than 200,000 one. Saying that, he glanced at Li Kui with his feet to my side.
The clerk's reaction stung me, firstly because her tone expressed the idea that I couldn't afford it, and it was, and because her attitude towards celebrity capybaras and "over-aged dogs" made me uncomfortable.
This also raises questions about the origin of kangaroos. Just as we were about to leave for the nearby second store, the capybara suddenly opened its mouth and grabbed my shoe cover to prevent me from leaving.
This time it became the first heart-warming moment since I entered the store, but it was immediately shattered by an arrow step rushed up by the clerk: "I'm sorry, it is rodent, and it likes to eat shoe covers and grind teeth." ”
▲ The shoe cover that was bitten.
The clerk took the debris out of the capybara's mouth and threw it aside, then flicked it again. The free-range dog on the side came over and grabbed the debris and began to chew, and no one cared.
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The lady owner of the second store was more straightforward, and when she saw us, she asked: "Are you here to play, or are you going to pick up the baby?" Knowing that we were coming for the first time, she added: "More interactive interaction, there are those who like it can also take home Ha ~"
The same is 166 yuan an entrance fee, we just entered the market to see the second store star kangaroo standing in the middle. Much smaller than I thought, one punch should not kill me.
The clerk said it was a small kangaroo, at most so big and not aggressive, but our eyes were drawn to its huge claws.
When the kangaroo eats lettuce, it will be eaten with both hands, and after eating it, it may be because it is in a good mood, and suddenly jumped on the bath platform, and the clerk saw the latter and grabbed the kangaroo's tail and dragged it back to the ground.
▲ The incident happened too quickly and was filmed falsely.
There is also a capybara in the second store, this bath is for it, but now there is no water in it, but two cages, respectively, containing a small fragrant pig and a lump of hair, and later the hair moved a little, we found out that it was an angora rabbit.
The two of them were placed in the innermost corner of the pool, and even the clerk did not pass by much, and the piglet saw us approaching and paced frantically in the cage. It seems that they are the "past stars" of the second store.
The clerk watched us finish feeding the kangaroos and prepared to put them back in their cages. We asked if the kangaroo could buy it, and the clerk nervously gave a negative answer. But after hearing us say that the people in a store replied that they could help fix the capybara, the clerk became fragmented, saying that kangaroos are more difficult to buy than capybaras, and that the store was only obtained from the import and export company, and more can not be said.
Although we collected information before and learned that there is no explicit ban on the breeding of kangaroos in China, such a mysterious way still makes us listen to the hair.
▲ Kangaroos that are returned to their cages are labeled with "For Viewing Only".
We asked if the capybara and kangaroo in the store had ever been vaccinated against animals, and the clerk said they were vegetarian and didn't carry diseases with them. I don't know if this statement is really reliable, but in my heart, it is not as reliable as "animals are raised wearing masks".
Maybe we have too many questions, the clerk began to explain to us, raising kangaroos ah capybaras are in line with the regulations, as long as they are not allowed to breed no problem, the domestic breeding certificate is too difficult to get.
But this creates a new contradiction, remember the capybara that took maternity leave in the beginning? The capybara gestation period is 5-8 months, and according to the calculation of returning around the New Year, the fastest time to free up entry and exit.
After the whole interactive experience, our most intuitive feeling is that we spent more than 300 yuan and did not buy the happiness of interacting with the cute pet, but got a lot of shocking facts without answers.
Fantastic beasts are not happy
The happiest person is the store manager
Coincidentally, the second store also has a white cat with a "bad personality", which has not been selected for 5 months, and the pug dog in the first store is called "black and white double brake", and the clerk said that 2888 yuan can be taken home.
▲ At the foot is the lettuce left over from the kangaroo that has just been eaten, and it has not picked it up several times with its mouth.
I reached out and touched it with a little pain, and at first it didn't resist, but a few seconds later it suddenly rolled over and grabbed my hand.
When the clerk saw this, he immediately apologized to me and took out the alcohol in his pocket and sprayed it on my hand. Just when I lamented that I was finally injured, I found that there were only a few more red marks on my hands, and I didn't break the skin at all.
The clerk explained that because there are many children in the store, they will cut the nails of the cat very "bitterly" (cut along the part very close to the root blood vessels), and then gave the cat a white look: "It's been 6 months, and now I see that you are not even worth 2,000 yuan." ”
I blew the alcohol on my hand and asked her what would happen if the cats and dogs in the store were not bought, and where would they be sent? She paused and replied, "Just... There will still be people who like it, and no one will take it away. Then he pulled out his phone and showed us a video of a kangaroo scratching his stomach.
Now we can't laugh at all. Looking at the door of the glass compartment next to me, there are "product introductions" of small animals, most of which are only two or three months old, and they are also attached with personality labels such as "Humble" and "Drama Spirit".
I don't know if parents bring their children, they will learn what kind of human-animal mode of getting along, nor do they know whether those over-aged animals that are just not pleasing in appearance or personality are really warm in the end, or whether they are as unattracted as the cats in the news of the closed cat cafe.
▲ After the collapse of a cat café in Chengdu, the cat was abandoned in the store.
When we left, the hostess was still just as enthusiastic and asked if we would like to take the white cat that was scratching people away? After we refused, she smiled and said, "I don't want to take you away, it's all my heart." In the future, there will be new ones, often come to Ha! ”
When Fantastic Beasts Become "Limited Commodities"
After coming out of the store, we walked around the "Pan Meng Pet Economic Zone" and saw a high-end pet pool, a cute pet "spa", and a shop that specializes in selling race-grade pedigree pets.
I thought that the so-called "valuable" pedigree would make them happier than the same kind of people who operated in the store, but it seems that this is not the case.
In a row of glass lattices with the inscription "Shunsuke Puppy", many dogs are constantly circling in place, just like the little fragrant pig in the second shop. Animal behavior analysis explains that the "stereotyped behavior" of the unconscious repetition of animals is one of the symptoms of mental illness.
In the deepest part of the store, a giant poodle sits in a low railing. The railing wasn't hard for it to cross, but it just sat still.
And a few young people outside the railing are holding mobile phones to put it on the short video platform.
The appearance of animals in human society as "attractions" does not seem to be a healthy phenomenon in the first place.
If this demand for animals is too rampant, and today's star kangaroos and capybaras can't satisfy their curiosity, the human hand may reach out to new species, creating a new "net red" logo, and the cycle will go on without end.
▲ The new "star" fox enters the store. The fox is a very social animal and generally needs to live in groups.
People who really like animals can get companionship by adopting instead of buying, and people who just want to come to the store and play with them can realize that this "experience" is not the consumer's selection of goods, but the gaze of one life on another life.
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