Spring Festival Special Issue: Fostering Pet Store

In the long holidays of Spring Festival, tourism has become the first choice for many people to enjoy the Spring Festival. What about dog babies at home?

Looking for pet foster care.

As a result, pet foster care, or providing foster care business on the basis of pet shops, has become a major business opportunity during the Spring Festival.

It is understood that in Urumqi, foster pets are generally dogs, and pet foster income is not bad. For example, the average size of a pet dog is about 50 yuan / day. The small size is about 30 yuan / day. If you want to choose a "luxury room" for a dog baby, the charge will be more expensive.

How do you manage this project?

What are the risks of investment?

In January 9th, the reporter walked into the "beautiful baby pet family hotel", heard and heard, and learned many business know-how from Ding Chunmei, the operator.

If you do not look at the signs, the reporter never thought that the two storey villa building was actually a "pet foster family hotel".

When the door enters, the left side is three ordinary rooms surrounded by iron fences, and six of them are dressed up as "Lady" dogs.

One question is that Ding Chunmei himself raised it.

On the right is a temporary foster care area made of glass. Through the glass, inside the spacious workspace, the pet beauty process is taken in a glance.

Ding Chunmei, who founded the "beautiful baby pet care center" by herself, is a woman with a smile and gentle personality.

She said that it was coming to the Spring Festival, and the appointment call for pets was coming. Two "lists" have been negotiated.

Ding Chunmei is also not in a hurry, because the annual golden holiday is the "peak" of pet foster care. The customers always come. There are three reasons for their foster: visiting, visiting relatives and travelling.

Now the number of pets in the city is increasing. In many people's eyes, pet foster care is indeed a good business opportunity. However, in her view, business opportunities are good business opportunities, but not everyone can do it. Investing in pet foster care is best to think twice before doing so.

The premise of love, patience, responsibility and confidence is not to invest but to invest. The premise is actually the requirement of investors.

"Because the puppy has left the host and has just arrived in a new environment, it must communicate with it, comfort it, make it feel that it has arrived at a new home, and can not beat it with a new mother.

Slowly, it understood.

After mixing it, you will soon understand the temperament of a puppy and its rule of the day before.

After mastering these, we can manage their food and drink well.

Ding Chunmei said.

She took the analogy that caring for a pet dog is like caring for a child who has not yet grown up. Besides, the child can not speak.

You have to observe its movements, eyes and mental state all the time.

She said that pet foster care is not like people imagine, when the puppy comes, they are kept in cages, so long as they are not hungry and sick.

In fact, if a puppy arrives in a new environment, if no one takes care of it for 24 hours, carefully observe it and make it always in a state of panic and depression, it will easily become ill.

When Ding Chunmei said that dogs were sick, he emphasized that the puppies must be healthy, so that they can also reduce their own business risks.

Whether puppy is healthy or not can be seen with eyes: fur is bright, smooth, eyes are bright, and the nose is wet. Such dogs are generally healthy.

In summary, Ding Chunmei's advice to investors who are interested in "pet foster care" is to manage pet foster care business. In addition to understanding the habits of different pets, operators should also have suitable places of operation and certain funds to prepare adequate food and playgrounds.

In addition, it is best to provide pet care, pet training, pet medical care and other services while providing foster care services.

In addition to running and moving, dogs are especially fond of animals. Therefore, if you want to operate "pet foster care", you must consider the problem of running the premises. Downtown and residential buildings are definitely not suitable. The former is too noisy for the environment, and the rest of the dogs are not good. The latter are dogs who quarrel and cause neighbors to raise their opinions.

Taking into account the above reasons, Ding Chunmei selected the store on the Shanghai Road: Although the location is slightly remote from the urban area, the environment is good, with a total of 160 square meters on the two floors.

There are lots of lawns behind the building.

With curiosity, the reporter came to the main site of the pet foster - upstairs, the largest one on both sides of the room was separated into 6 small areas with a fence, which was "ordinary".

The wide open space allows dogs to play.

Each "ordinary room" contains a pet rice bowl and sleeping pad.

There are several "puppy shots" and decorations of the puppies on the white walls.

A "Lady" who went upstairs with her was groaning anxiously at a door, and Ding Chunmei laughed. "Belle thought of the baby, but he was not allowed to feed them, you know?"

Push the door open, facing the bed, the TV, hey, the family in this room is quite complete.

At that time, "Belle" jumped to a cage before. In the cage, a group of furry dog babies crowded to meet the arrival of "mother".

This is the "luxury room". In Ding Chunmei's words, if a foster pet is a "woman and child" who is not yet weaning, the customer will usually choose this room because it will receive 24 hours' care a day by the manager.

It seems that Ding Chunmei's "pet foster care" has really made a name.

In fact, this is not her main business. In 2002, when she first started her business, her "pretty baby" first went to the market for pet beauty, followed by pet foster care. Later, because of the gradual increase in demand, the shop near Tian Bai was still cosmetology.

So, in 2004, she rented the store, pushing the pet foster care business with pet beauty.

Ding Chunmei said that a total of 12 puppies could be accepted in the shop, which was too busy to do so, because it also needed scientific management.

Ding Chunmei managed to keep away from risk management. He said, "now that the capital of our country specializes in pet care is our beautiful baby, and some pet hospitals and pet beauty centers will also do it, but the scale is not as big as ours."

Ding Chunmei has not considered the risk of investment. "It is a great risk to be a pet foster. It can be done because the pet industry is supporting and the training of pet beauticians."

She laughs: This is a way of crossing the river by feeling the stones, and it is a cornerstone for subsequent colleagues.

Her view is that there is a certain financial risk in pet foster care, and it may be a little difficult to do it alone, but there are also some risk factors, such as family style, small size - the old lady at home who has some experience in feeding pets, can take two or two times a month, earn hundreds of yuan a month, but the disadvantage is that there is no formal management.

It is better to build a large scale in the suburbs, separate buildings or villas, and quiet.

It does not affect the lives of the surrounding residents.

Another risk is that pets are abandoned.

Ding Chunmei has encountered this kind of situation.

"The customer brought a dog in foster care. After ten days and half a month, his owner did not want it, and the dog was not worth much money. As a result, our time and energy went all in."

Ding Chunmei improved the contract management system and minimized the risk.

People are willing to spend the money. How many dogs do you have in Urumqi now? There is no exact statistics.

However, with the improvement of the living standard of residents, the number of pets in urban areas is increasing year by year.

For pet investment projects, all pet dog families or individuals are potential consumers.

Look at the cost of foster care. Small dogs: 30 yuan per day, standard room 40 yuan / day, 80 yuan / day for luxury rooms, 40 yuan / day for ordinary rooms, 50 yuan / day for standard rooms, 90 yuan / day for deluxe rooms.

So, is the dog owner willing to raise the cost for dog flowers?

Be willing.

Because dogs are full of spirituality and loyal to their owners.

There are mainly three kinds of people who come to foster dogs: they have small income, but they already regard dogs as a member of the family, so they do not spare the money; they do not need to say that they are very rich, they think that money is taken for granted; they also like dogs very much and think that it should be spent.

In order to widen this business, Ding Chunmei has also come up with many ideas. In addition to helping dogs to deliver and weaning, the dog can also be photographed, sent to customers on a business trip or traveling outside the city. She has also launched pet photography, but eventually the technology has been stranded.

A pet cat has been introduced, but it has to be abandoned because of "incompatibility between cats and dogs".

Although Ding Chunmei has no other people's "footsteps" to look for it, he still has great confidence in the market prospect. "The market of pet economy is very big, and the service will become more and more finer.

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