Dogs are prohibited for viewing and contact, and Tianjin will standardize the operation of online celebrity shops such as "cat coffee".

In recent years, cute pet has become a necessary partner for migrant workers to heal their hearts. On weekdays, we can only see the "master" being spoiled by other "minions" at the other end of the screen, but now more and more pet experience halls such as cat coffee have made it possible for "cloud-sucking cats" to become field-sucking cats. In these cat coffees, there are not many people who care about the drawbacks: poor hygiene, inadequate pet care, and so on.

Behind this splendor lies a filth that you can't see. On February 21, the Tianjin Market Supervision and Administration Commission issued a circular on the issuance of the guidelines for the Operation of Interactive experience of Indoor Pet in Tianjin, which means that Tianjin will standardize the operation of online celebrity shops such as "cat coffee".

This "guide" makes it clear that the indoor pet interactive experience refers to the business activities that raise and provide cats, rabbits, ducks and other animals and pets for consumers to watch, touch, feed and other interactive experiences, and charge entrance fees, feeding fees and other fees. There are "Pet Interactive experience Hall", "cute pet restaurant", "cat coffee", "cute pet beverage shop" and other business models. Does not include the formal qualification of the zoo pet experience project and independent outdoor pet interactive park and so on.

It is forbidden to offer dogs to consumers for viewing and contact. The same business subject shall not operate in the form of food management and pet interactive experience store.

Food management and pet interactive experience stores with different subjects located in adjacent business places shall ensure that food business places are strictly separated from pet interactive experience places, and that food business places, facilities and equipment and employees cannot be used together and mixed. Food sales or catering services are not allowed to be provided directly to consumers in pet interactive experience places; raising poultry, livestock and other animals is prohibited in catering service places.

On Weibo, many netizens expressed support for the regulation, some netizens cited relevant examples in foreign countries, and some netizens suggested that the country introduce relevant laws on animal protection to prohibit these practices of desecrating the lives of small animals in exchange for money.

Only cafes with animal themes such as cats, puppies, pearl pigs and cole ducks cannot meet consumers' demand for novelty, and there are even some special animal-themed restaurants in many Asian countries. Hedgehogs, spiders, alpacas, deer and other animals that can only be seen on television become "employees" of businesses.

These "employees" and their "colleagues" live in narrow spaces and are subject to human pressure, and they are more or less physically and psychologically ill. The "employee" eating and excreting areas overlap with the human eating areas, and the hygiene situation is even more worrying.

When you drink a glass of clean water into your mouth, you can feel the presence of animal hair, but what you smell when you eat a piece of fragrant food is the smell of "employee" excreta. What's the difference between this and licking "employee" feces?

Such animal-themed restaurants, which are unfriendly to people and animals, have long been criticized. In 2021, due to repeated epidemics and restrictions on the epidemic, the catering industry suffered a lot. The cat-themed cafe sounded like a paradise, but a cat cafe in Chengdu became a cat hell because it had been unmanaged for half a month. the scene of smelly and dung flies in the store is unforgettable in this lifetime.

The Coffee Workshop reported in January that South Korea had completely closed the wildlife cafe. In the comment area of this article, many netizens left messages to express their support for this. The release of the "guidelines" in Tianjin standardizes animal-themed restaurants to a certain extent, preventing cute pet from becoming a wealth-gathering tool to harvest the love of consumers.

Photo source: living with a cat on Weibo account, online

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