According to incomplete statistics, purebred dogs and cats are the main petmarket, which is growing at an annual rate ofMore than 20%. According to one study, the number of pets in China increased by nearly 500% in the nine years from 1999-2008. In the U.S., spending on pets jumped from $28.5 billion in 2001 to $40 billion in 2008, while pet lovers in Japan spent 1 trillion yen on their precious pets. According to some researchers, the pet market will enter a period of rapid growth in regions with a GNP per capita of more than $3,000.
With the increasing improvement of people’s living standards, pets are gradually becoming more and more close companions, the number of families with pets has increased dramatically, and why veterinarians have become a popular industry?
Late development of the pet industry
The development of the pet industry is relatively late, are only in recent years the rise of the industry, the future to be unlimited development, belong to the sunrise industry. Domestic pet medical is a virgin landThe space is big; the company accelerates to run a horse, chain operation is the trend.
Annual Growth Rate of Pet Medical IndustryAt around 25%, there is room for at least twice as many pet hospitals.
Domestic market fragmentationNo foreign giants have entered the market. At present, mainly small private stores, chain management is the development trend. With the landing of the leading enterprises in the capital market, the industry to accelerate the run, the future will rely on the expansion of the number of stores to achieve rapid growth.
“vet“job scarcity
up (a time)In 2010, although there were close to 100 million pet-owning families in China, there were only 91,000 doctors licensed as veterinarians.
American Association of Veterinary Surgeons(AVMA)The stats show:
The United States has a total of84,946 veterinarians, of which 56,092 (66.0%) are self-employed, 13,789 (16.2%) work in companies and government departments, 13,083 (15.4%) whose employment status is unknown, and 1,982 (2.3%) others; according to a population of 300 million people, the United States has an average of one veterinarian for every 3,532 people, with a rate of 0.283 per 1,000 population. 1.3 billion people in our country, according to the United States of America per 1,000 population of veterinarians 0.283 calculation, our country should be 367,900 veterinarians.
Veterinarians, not only save the lives of pets, but more importantly, guard the bond and love between owners and pets. They use their profession and devote their whole body and mind to saving animals, which is their love for their career, for the critters, and for the world.
“young people with empty nests“the“emotional support“
be known asPost-90s are “empty nesters”, which makes most of them adopt pets as an emotional support.
If you want to say what is the most profound feeling of young people in the metropolis, one item must be loneliness. Seems like the lights of the metropolis, with their own no relationship at all, drifting in the sea of people, in the subway home to be drowned. After the vacation, the door is closed, and then closed with their own restless heart!…… And just beneath this surging wave of loneliness comes a well-developed pet industry ……
It is very common that many young people nowadays are interested in keeping pets, and there are even more pet bloggers. One reason is that people nowadays have better living conditions, and another reason is that single young people get a sense of companionship by owning a pet.
