Jimu News.
The Spring Festival is approaching,Many urban pet owners are faced with the problem of how to settle pets during the holidays, and the demand for pet sitters who provide door-to-door feeding and other services is hot, compared with the usual holiday care, the Spring Festival has more than doubled. On February 6, the relevant person in charge of the Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission said in an interview with The Paper that it is recommended that consumers give priority to choosing institutions for services. Consumers can use single-access password locks and install cameras in their homes, while eliminating potential safety hazards in their homes and closing doors and windows to prevent accidents.
Due to the lack of clear industry service standards and the lack of corresponding supervision, it is difficult to hide hidden worries behind the hot demand for the Spring Festival - disputes caused by feeding pets alone are not uncommon on social networks, such as pet loss, illness, injury, and leakage of consumers' personal information. 
Source: Visual China.
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Due to the low entry threshold, large market demand, and flexible service hours, pet nurseries have attracted many "slash youth" who want to have multiple careers and diverse lifestyles to serve part-time. Netizen "Miao Miao feeds cats" posted on a platform in October last year, saying that "I earned 4,900 yuan by feeding cats during the National Day", on October 1, she rode an electric scooter to feed more than 20 left-behind cats in 9 communities, using 2 boxes of shoe covers, 3 packs of masks and gloves, and a large bottle of alcohol spray. The mainstream mode of pet door-to-door feeding is: pet nurses publish the theme "business post" on social **, pet owners place orders in private messages, and communicate all needs one-on-one, without middlemen. Service ** generally according to the number of pets, size, character, door-to-door mileage, in Nanjing, for example, during the Spring Festival, within 3 kilometers of the door-to-door feeding of a pet cat ** in 50 60 yuan at a time, non-holidays 20 30 yuan.
36-year-old Ma Qun (pseudonym) has been working part-time as a pet nurse for more than three years. During the Spring Festival of 2020, when the epidemic made many pet owners who were forced to stay in their hometowns unable to return to the city where they worked, Ma Qun received many requests for help from door-to-door feeding in the community's WeChat group. During the door-to-door visit, the horses add food, change water, wash dishes, shovel feces, play with them, comb their hair, and shoot ** feedback to the owner, with a single charge of 50 yuan. "There's almost no threshold in this line, as long as you like animals. Ma Qun said that her most "thrilling" feeding experience was that a couple's six cats were trapped in the room, as soon as the door was opened, the fishy smell came to the face, the bed, balcony, and the ground were full of feces, and the cats and dogs had been cut off from water and food for several days. ”
In addition to personal pet nurses, there have also been third-party platforms, which will carry out real-name registration, pet experience certification, business assessment, etc., some platforms require pet nurses to pay a deposit, but the pricing is more expensive than individual pet nurses, such as a platform during the Spring Festival every day to feed ** in 105 230 yuan, and the service often can not cover all cities. Screen pet nurses like HR
Yao Yao (pseudonym), a 26-year-old lawyer, was going back to his hometown for 10 days during the Spring Festival, and began to be anxious a month ago: what to do with the social phobia cat "Sichuan Pepper" at home?
She said that the 4-year-old "peppercorn" is very timid, and will hide when a stranger arrives at home, and even does not eat or drink for a day, so she does not dare to send it to a pet store for foster care - stay in a strange and noisy small cage for 10 days, what if there is a sudden stress reaction and illness?
As for how to find a reliable pet nurse, Yao Yao has found out his experience: choose a cat with experience, has been in the industry for a period of time, and has a good reputation, "The kind of person who has only sent a door-to-door feeding post looks like a temporary part-time job, and it is difficult to ensure that he understands the cat's personality and provides professional services." However, the large number of orders also makes people worry, "What if the pet nurse comes to feed a lot of cats and dogs, what if they bring infectious germs to the house?" ”
After many rounds of comparison, she chose a female pet nurse with experience in raising cats. Yao Yao looked at the theme post posted by the other party and found that this pet nurse entered the industry in 2022 and posted many chat records with pet owners and door-to-door feeding, and the customer evaluation was good. The most important thing is that she has two cats at home, the cat hair is shiny, there are no tear stains, and the floor at home is also very bright. ”
Many pet owners are like an HR when choosing a pet nursery, carefully comparing and observing, they are often more worried about the feeding of their pets than the risks that strangers may bring when they enter the door.
Cheng Shu (pseudonym) raises a cat called "Liuyi", is afraid of strangers, and cannot do without the owner. In the past three years, during the Spring Festival, Cheng Shu controlled the time to go home within five days, which is the limit of "June 1st" independent life, "If you leave for too long, it will not eat or drink or even 'dismantle the house' to release anxiety." ”
This year, Cheng Shu was looking for a pet nurse in a cat rescue WeChat group in Nanjing. She believes that the people in the rescue group have been involved in rescuing cats all year round, and they are experienced, kind-hearted and responsible. On the recommendation of a rescuer in the group, she chose a female college student who had adopted 4 cats, "Her cats have clean hair, a rich variety of toys, and are very attentive to cats." ”
However, Cheng Shu still anticipated the unexpected situation and prepared medical protective clothing and disposable gloves for the pet nurse to reduce the possibility of carrying germs to the home; He also takes care of his neighbors, and in case of an emergency, he asks him to take over the care of "June 1st" urgently. Door-to-door feedingIs it a good business?
Pet owners pick pet nurses, and experienced pet nurses also screen customers. Dong Yu (pseudonym) opened a pet studio after graduating from graduate school in 2022, and door-to-door feeding is one of the businesses. When receiving orders, she prefers to choose customers who have monitoring at home, and she records the whole process every time she comes to the door, which not only reassures the owner, but also reduces unnecessary risks.
There are real risks associated with pet nurses coming to feed pets, such as being bitten or scratched. On the other hand, due to the lack of supervision and management organization constraints, there are also some pet nurses who do not take care of pets as agreed, resulting in pet injuries, illnesses, and even pet nurses forget to turn off the faucet, resulting in the house soaking in water, forgetting to close the door and causing losses.
Hu Li (not his real name), a pet nurse in Hefei, recalls an order in August last year, when he came to the door to find the customer's door open and the cat missing, only to contact the owner to find out that the cat would open the door on its own. Hu Li went all the way from the 20th floor to the 8th floor, and finally found the cat behind a cardboard box in the hallway, "This kind of emergency situation is very complicated, and if customers are not able to communicate with each other, there may be disputes." ”
At present, most pet nurses are part-time, and in addition to considering risk factors, there is also the issue of income. Dong Yu, who runs a pet studio, looks closer to being a full-time pet nursery, but she believes that although the Spring Festival orders are full, the list of non-holidays is very small, "The income of this job may not be enough to support myself, and it is difficult to stick to it without a love for pets." ”
Xia Lei, a lawyer from the Consumer Rights Protection Public Interest Lawyer Group of the Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission, said that pet nurses should have professional skills, understand the basic habits of pets, and have professional solutions for sudden contact. Although the Civil Code stipulates that "if the animal is raised and causes damage to others, the animal keeper or manager shall bear tort liability", it does not apply in the business environment of the pet nursery, because the pet keeper is the manager at this time, and if the door-to-door feeding is scratched or bitten due to improper operation during the agreement period, it may face self-responsibility.
Xia Lei suggested that if consumers are unable to send their pets to professional institutions for foster care, they should choose a reputable nurse as much as possible to come to the door, establish a written contract, and determine the responsibilities and obligations of both parties. People who want to engage in the pet care industry for a long time should purchase relevant insurance, such as liability insurance, accident insurance, etc., while improving their professional skills, to reduce the possibility of disputes. **The Paper Editor: Chen Xizi Review: Wei Xi.