A few days ago, Wang Sicong spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy two pet ducks, and suddenly became a hot search on Weibo for many days.
The Express reporter contacted Xiao Jiang, the owner of the Chongqing Taobao shop that sells Wang Sicong's duck, and she said that the scientific name of the duck that Wang Sicong bought was Keer duck, "because it has snow white coat, cute appearance, and no peculiar smell, and many people buy it back as a pet." Xiao Jiang said that after Wang Sicong bought pet ducks on the hot search, the business in her store was so good that many buyers in Zhejiang also bought ducks here.
Compared with raising cats and dogs, raising ducks is a minority in the pet circle, and now many people like to raise niche pets, in addition to ducks, there are piglets, pythons, various beetle spiders, etc. Several "people who raise niche pets" sigh, raising rare pets should be cautious.
Miss Hangzhou's pet pig grew to nearly 200 pounds
Pig farmer: "Your pig will be delicious when grilled..."
In the Year of the Pig, raising a cute pet pig has become a new trend on Douyin. Lulu, who lives in Hangzhou's Binjiang, is the "mother" of a small pig " Pepe ".
Pepe was a birthday present from a friend to Lulu, just after a full moon.
"In fact, three or four years ago I wanted to raise pigs, I have already placed orders on Taobao, and then I thought about it and returned it, afraid that it would not be good to raise." In order to raise Pepe well, Lulu did a lot of homework, "Piglet to a new environment, the first three or five days is the adaptation period, will be afraid of shivering and not let people touch, to take good care of, and then it is very clingy."
Lulu went to the pet market to buy Pepe diapers, toilets, cages, pig feed... The feed seller reminded her to ration, not too much, and not to feed anything else so the pigs wouldn't grow too big.
But this joy was soon defeated by the daily cleaning up of the mess left by Pepe. In the first few months of pig farming, Lulu was very broken, "regretting why she raised pigs every day."
"Pigs don't actually stink, just take a bath and clean up." The Internet says that if you put the diapers that smell of pet pigs into its exclusive toilet, it will learn to go to the toilet according to the smell. "Actually, it can never be taught." Lulu said desperately. After raising Pepe, she spent a lot of time every day cleaning up all the defecation in it.
And the pig is not what you think of eating and sleeping, "The pig's demolition skills are no worse than the husky." "At first Lulu bought a cage, but she couldn't hold Pepe at all, and she needed a pigsty. So Lulu gave the whole balcony to Pepe, and "the glass door of the balcony was about to be broken by it."
"There are no pet pigs that don't grow big" – this is almost the consensus in pet pig circles.
After seven or eight months of raising, Pepe has grown to more than fifty pounds. Lulu felt that she had no energy to raise any more, contacted a friend of Jiande Pig Farm, and decided to send Pepe to the countryside, "the friend promised me that I would continue to raise it well." When she first arrived home, Pepe was small enough to hold it in the palm of her hand, and on the day of sending it away, Lulu and the other girl could lift it. When the owner of the pig farm saw Pepe, he told Lulu, "Your pig is actually a breed of roast suckling pig, and it will be delicious to roast..."
After that, Lulu often asked her friends on the farm to send her pictures of Pepe, and she seemed to be very happy in the pig herd. Recently, Pepe has been almost 200 pounds.
I asked Lulu, have you ever thought about what if Pepe was actually eaten? She thought for a moment and said, "I don't want to think about it. ”
So what do you have to say to your friends who are raising pigs in the end? Lulu blurted out, "Don't raise pigs!" ”
No cats, no dogs
Hangzhou guys raise pythons
Hangzhou guys and big trees are more "hardcore", and the family of three unanimously voted at the beginning of the year to raise pythons!
"I heard that I have a python at home, and my friends who often come to play at home are too scared to come over." Previously, the big tree family had cats and dogs, but because the couple was busy at work, they usually had to tutor their second-grade sons to do their homework at night, and sometimes it was inevitable that they would not have time to accompany these pets that needed the owner's care.
"It just so happens that a friend who came back from the United States said that it is fashionable to keep pythons as reptiles in the United States now." Coupled with the support of Dashu's wife and son, at the beginning of the year, the family of three adopted a small python that had just been born for more than half a month from a friend who also raised pythons.
Compared with the previous docile cats and dogs, the practice of the Big Tree family directly advanced to raising pythons made many friends around them feel incomprehensible. "In fact, just like many people like to raise grasshoppers and praying mantises, it is not unusual to keep pythons at home." The big tree said that the python that pulled out its teeth was not poisonous and not as aggressive as everyone had claimed.
He compared raising pythons to raising flowers, "compared to raising cats and dogs, raising pythons is really too worry-free and labor-saving." It only takes more than 10 days to feed once. ”
When he first started raising pythons, Dashu couldn't figure out what this guy liked to eat. The python was fed chicken breast a few times and didn't eat much.
Pythons like to eat the little mice the most. Big Tree bought a big bag of frozen little mice online, not expensive. In the past four months of raising pythons, the big tree has calculated an account, plus the purchase of pet urine mats, heating pads (the big trees have tropical pythons, which need to maintain indoor temperature at 25 degrees Celsius) and the cost of food, a total of not more than 500 yuan.
Now, the python raised by the big tree has grown to half a meter long. "My son loves to play with it, and I think it's an opportunity for him to watch the little animals grow."
More and more exotic pets have entered the Hangzhou family
The pet clinic downstairs may not be able to admit treatment
In addition to cats and dogs, which account for more than half, more pets are coming into the family.
On the first floor of the basement of the Wushan Flower and Bird Market, the reporter visited and found that compared with most of the merchants selling cats and dogs and other pets in previous years, the types of pets in the flower and bird market are becoming more and more diverse. Devil squirrels, hamsters, dragon fish, lizards... In front of many stalls, you can see the figure of these niche pets.
A stall owner who sells a green lizard for 35 yuan per unit said that now, many cool young people who pursue individuality will come to him to buy lizards. "The unit price is not expensive, it is good to feed, many young people feel that compared to cats and dogs, lizards are quite suitable for them to raise."
The data shows that among the pets raised in China in 2017, cats and dogs are still the mainstream, and other pet fish account for 16%, hamsters account for 10%, turtles account for 9%, and rabbits account for 7%. According to the "2018 Pet Consumption Trend Report", the sales amount of bird/insect products increased by 179% year-on-year, and the increase in hamster, climbing pets and rabbit products also reached about 90%.
More and more pets are entering the family, and the most worrying thing for the owners is that in case the pet is sick, can the pet clinic downstairs be treated?
Lulu has been to many pet hospitals to inquire about what to do if Pepe is sick, and has been told that "we don't look at pigs, or go to the epidemic prevention station to ask."
Previously, a friend who gave it to the big tree python had a python that he had kept for many years, and because of the change of season, after the scales were broken, he was sent to the hospital in time and died. "When I first started raising a python, I was also worried that if it got sick, I would take it to the doctor."
At present, mainstream pet food, supplies, medicines and services are all aimed at cats and dogs, and the products and services around the subdivision of pets are still a minority.
"Our branch, which specializes in treating niche pets such as rabbits, hamsters, turtles, snakes, etc., opened in 2017." The relevant person in charge of Hangzhou Songzi Pet Hospital said that in the past two or three years, around the pet medical treatment of different pets, the major related pet hospitals in Hangzhou have also begun to have relevant layouts.
Source: City Express
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