With the increase in the number of cat owners, many people who love cats but are unable to keep cats due to living environment or personal factors will choose to "cloud cats" by watching other people's pictures and videos of cats.

In recent years, with the emergence of concepts such as shared bicycles and power banks, the concept of "sharing cats" has also emerged. But can pet cats really be "shared"?

In a shopping mall in Chengdu, there are multiple "cat sharing" advertising signs. The sign reads: 9.9 yuan to bring a cat home to accompany you.

9.9 yuan per day. If you want to rent a cat, you have to queue up and buy cat supplies in the store.

Industry insiders learned that a pet store sells various breeds of cats and dogs. In the several-square-meter store, there are many cages containing several different breeds of cats and puppies. There are 10 shared cats in the store, all of which are adult British shorthair cats about one year old, ranging from blue cats to golden ones. Currently, all 10 shared cats in the store have been rented. Customers who want to rent a cat need to wait. .

The store owner said that sharing cats requires a deposit, which ranges from 1,200 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan depending on the type. Tenants need to provide copies and originals of ID cards, photos of home address and environment, and sign a cat rental contract. Tenants must live in Chengdu and have no other pets at home.

At the same time, the store owner requires tenants to purchase cat food and supplies at the store, which costs about two to three hundred yuan. In this regard, the store owner explained, "Cats will have diarrhea if they change their food suddenly, and changing food just after changing the environment is prone to stress (reaction)."

Whether the frequent changes of living environment and owners will cause It will have a bad impact on the cats. The owner said, "The shared cats have been serving every family. They are relatively adaptable. As long as they are good to the cats, there is no such thing as whether cats are used to it (frequent changes in living environment). )."

The concept of "cat sharing" was proposed and resisted a few years ago

It is reported that in 2017, a cattery in Shenzhen A "cat rental service" was briefly launched. The price of renting a cat is 39.9 yuan per day, and the rental time is in units of months. The original intention of this service was to satisfy cat lovers who have limited abilities and are unable to keep cats for a long time. After the report, the store faced a boycott from cat lovers.

In the same year, someone proposed the project planning of "Take some time and give a cat every week". The plan stated that it would cooperate with the largest and most professional pet adoption agency in China, with a monthly subscription of 99 yuan, and a cat would be given away every week. Come to your door. At the end of the planning, the planner said that the project was in the BP (Business Plan) stage and interested parties were welcome to discuss it.

However, the cat-sharing project and concept back then were criticized by all parties as soon as it was exposed. Even more cautious cat lovers rationally analyzed the cat-sharing project.

Shandong UniversityProfessor Guo Peng, director of the Animal Protection Research Center, believes that the impact of this "cat sharing" business model on cats can be divided into negative and positive aspects.

Like people, cats may have completely different mental states at one moment and another, not to mention that all of this happens passively. Therefore, the actual situation is likely to be the opposite. Cats' exploration of new environments (including relationships with people) are constantly disturbed and interrupted, causing them to feel frustrated and therefore become more tired and negative. "Guo Peng said, "Secondly, from a human perspective, positive impacts are possible: through close contact with animals, we will increase some "personal knowledge" of animals. This knowledge is individual. It comes from real life, cannot be learned from books, and cannot be given by theory. "

At the same time, Guo Peng said that the "cat sharing" business model has no way to avoid the frightened fatigue of animals and the psychological harm caused to cats intentionally or unintentionally by owners.