The hut where the lizards are collected, many people come here and then go into the pit to play the crawling Cantonese to collect the reptiles of the band lead singer of the lizards, the velociraptor in the lizard, he found the crawling pet is the future gold? Entering the pit and climbing pets, you need to pay attention to legal issues

In Huadi Bay, Guangzhou, there is a small shop called Zhenbaotang.

Just stand in the doorway and you can see the strange animals in the room through the glass display cases on the outer wall.

The doors of these little guys' homes are plastered with corresponding Chinese names and Latin names, as if to show the unusual origin of their origins.

Frogs, toads, snakes, spiders... The largest numbers are large and small lizards and shogunates.

"From 3- and 4-year-old children to those around 60 years old, many people come here to play and start to 'enter the pit' to climb the pet."

The owner of the shop, Fei Bao, introduced it this way.

<h1>Play crawling Cantonese</h1>

Fei Bao is an authentic Cantonese who has loved animals since he was a child, and since his first contact with lizards and spiders, he has been fascinated by these magical little guys.

"To this day, I still remember the surprised look on my dad's face when I first came home with a spider called the Red Rose," Fatpo recalls, "I loved these animals so much that many friends and family thought I was an outlier. ”

The climbing pet has a charm that attracts people to understand, and different genes will match different colors, presenting beautiful forms, even more colorful than mammals.

"A lot of people are resistant to cold-blooded animals like lizards." It's no wonder that a large number of works of art, both in Eastern and Western cultures, see reptiles such as lizards, geckos, snakes, and scorpions as symbols of evil, but Fatty Knows That's Not the Case.

"When you really touch the crawling pets and touch them, you will find that it is not as terrible as you think. Especially after generations of artificial domestication and breeding, most of them are docile and are good "companions". After many children raise pets under the guidance of their parents, they have also become very loving and have more reverence for life. “

When it comes to climbing pets, the usually honest and thick fat treasure words have become more: "Whether it is a lizard, a palace, a snake or a stone dragon, they are all spiritual, and after a period of breeding, they will recognize your taste and regard you as a partner." ”

Today's fat treasure is already a grandfather, but his love for this cause has never cooled. "In the past, as long as the family only had to raise climbing pets, now they still have to raise babies." Talking about this, Fei Bao smiled and said, "When my son is older, I will also take him to know the climbing pet." ”

<h1>Collect the lead singers of the band of Reptiles</h1>

In addition to pet climbing enthusiasts, Fei Bao's other identity is the lead singer of the Guangzhou "Jingqi Shen" band. In 2002, Fei Bao and his friends founded this group, and played it for more than ten years. In order to maintain his music hobby and out of his love for climbing pets, Fei Bao made his favorite climbing pets into a business.

After that, Fei Bao began to officially step into this strange circle: "At the beginning, I didn't think much about making money, and when I saw interesting species, I would buy them, but fortunately I was lucky enough to be pitted." ”

<h1>The velociraptor among the lizards was found by him</h1>

Since 2015, Feibao has raised a group of "informants" around the world, and once he finds a suspected new breed of lizard, he will contact his friends in the area for the first time to understand the situation.

"Sometimes international calls run until two or three in the morning. In the middle of the night, I received a call, and in order not to wake up my family, I had to run to the living room to answer the phone. Fat Bao recalled.

Among the various species he collected, the most popular was the ring-necked lizard. For the evaluation of this lizard, Fei Bao has only one sentence: "Lizards cannot be disguised." ”

Despite its bloated body and even a "beer belly", the ring-necked lizard is one of the best lizards on the American continent.

When hunting prey or escaping predators, ring-necked lizards take the form of bipedal walking to obtain the highest sprint speed, as if they were a shrunken "velociraptor".

The small dwarf shield-tailed lizard is also one of The Fat Treasure's favorite climbing pets.

In the wild, this lizard will dig several meters of passages underground, and several "tunnels" dug together will even be connected to form a huge underground kingdom.

At this point, these little guys will cooperate with each other, blocking the hole at night with a thorny "shield" on their tail to prevent predators such as snakes from invading.

Holding this shield-tailed lizard in the palm of his hand, it is only a few centimeters long and weighs about half a bottle of mineral water.

<h1>Is climbing pet the gold of the future? </h1>

Public information shows that the prototype of the climbing pet market appeared centuries ago. Southern Europe once produced very beautiful and expensive "gem lizards", which existed only in Spain and in the Pyrenees in the north, and the Spanish king only authorized officials and nobles to collect them, and others were not allowed to privately capture or sell such lizards, or they would be punished by death. For nearly a century, the lizard was sold to central Europe and around the world, and it is rumored that Tsar Catherine II and Tolstoy both raised it.

At present, the number of reptile pet species that can breed in China is very limited, and many enthusiasts will choose to go to the Americas, Africa and Europe to find them.

Especially in Europe. Europe is currently the most developed region of pet climbing culture, and about 60% of the world's known climbing pets come from there. But as more and more people come to visit, the locals have also begun to "sit on the ground and start price".

Every year in the spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons, in the city of Ham in northern Germany and the city of Hautten in the south of the Netherlands, a large two-climb exhibition lasts for a week, and climbers from all over the world gather in these two small towns to exchange their income.

"Most of the participants from afar have multiple identities, from biology professors from universities in various countries, to businessmen, and traders who try to profit from reverse speculation." There are almost no people around the world who are unaware of this exhibition, and of course this includes Fat Bao: "I may be the only fat singer among them." ”

During the exhibition, the organizers also hold auctions. "Most of the foreign pet climbing exhibitions are semi-public. Before the opening of the exhibition, some collectors with corresponding qualifications in the industry around the world will receive invitations from organizers, and this business circle maintained by the chain of climbing pets is almost not open to the public, and outsiders must pass strict identity verification to enter this trading circle and need to be recommended. Fei Bao introduced.

<h1>Entering the pit and climbing pets, you need to pay attention to legal issues</h1>

"Is it dangerous for me to keep these lizards, toads and snakes at home?"

"The probability that you will be attacked by the crawler pet is actually not as high as the probability that you will bite your lip and then develop an ulcer." For this question, Fei Bao smiled and said: "What pet climbing enthusiasts need to pay attention to is actually the legal issues involved in raising climbing. ”

"There is actually a strict scientific procedure for determining the legality of the pet climbing trade in the world. Countries and international organizations around the world have a special CITE convention (i.e., the Washington Convention, full name "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora"), which stipulates that certain species of reptiles are endangered species and cannot be bought and sold. ”

China's Wildlife Protection Law also clearly stipulates that for wild animals under national key protection of first-level protection and second-level protected wild animals, individuals or organizations without relevant documents must not be raised at will.

Feibao reminds pet climbing enthusiasts that privately trading or raising CITES species and nationally protected animals is a violation of the law, and those with serious circumstances will bear criminal responsibility.

"Before choosing 'into the pit' or 'chopping hands', it is best to check online to see if the purchase is a legal species." We play crawling is a hobby and can't do things that violate the law. ”