Purchasing pets online has become an important way for all pet enthusiasts. If you don’t leave your home, your pet will arrive at home! However, in recent days, a express delivery company has exposed the news that "transport pets" caused the death, which has made many pet enthusiasts unexpected that their favorite pets will actually experience a life-and-death disaster on the road!
How much risk is the pet express delivery?
Pets are different from other commodities. They are living things, so many domestic express delivery companies such as Postal EMS, YTO, SF Express, Yunda, etc. all say that living things are prohibited products, including fish and amphibians, are prohibited products! Generally, pets are completed through logistics companies or consignments, or by train or air transportation!
Zhuanghuajia specially consulted about air transport. Although it is claimed to arrive on the same day, it can only ensure that the flight will arrive on the airport on the same day without delay. It is difficult to guarantee the delivery on the same day. Therefore, theoretically speaking, it is indeed possible that the day is, but it is likely to be delayed until the next day!
The above are ideal situations, and the information disclosed in the news is a bit shocking. A car carrying more than 2,000 pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, etc. was parked in a logistics park in Luohe City, Henan Province. In other words, these pets should be completed through ordinary logistics transportation, and the conditions must not meet the air transport standards. What kind of environment is it?
According to the Paper, a large number of pets in express delivery were found in Dongxing Logistics Park, Luohe City, Henan Province on September 22, but there were no vehicles involved. According to a staff member of the E-commerce Office of Zhaoling District Commerce Bureau of Luohe City, Henan Province, an unknown vehicle dumped at night. On September 29, a staff member involved in the treatment of small animals in the Luohe Utopian Animal Rescue Association said that the stranded animals include Dutch pigs, cats, dogs, rabbits, etc., with a survival rate of less than 1/3. There are many animals in express delivery boxes and pack 2 animals!
More than 200 rabbits and more than 40 cats and dogs were rescued on the spot, and about 1,074 pets survived after cleaning!
What is the risk of death from hypoxia in pet express delivery?
Data retrieved from sciencedirect, the oxygen consumption of a cat under anesthesia is about 6.0 ml/kg/min. Calculated by the air ratio and the weight of the cat (calculated in 3-5 kg of the fold cat), the air breathed per hour is about 9 liters! 216 liters are required for 24 hours, which requires an ordinary household refrigerator to store space for the cat to breathe!
Common household refrigerators are about 200 liters, and you will find that this is a huge space, and this is just the oxygen consumption under anesthesia. If you are in the mailing state, you may be excited and irritable due to hypoxia, and its oxygen consumption will increase sharply! So what about three days? It probably takes the space of a van!
Of course, many friends will point out that mailing pet cats are all open-hole cartons. We do see it from the news, but so many cartons are piled together, and the ventilation effect of the carton in the middle may be poor enough to explode, and the deaths will also be concentrated in the bottom and middle areas! Pets like this that are bigger than cats may have a worse situation, or a sick pet will have a hard time escaping the journey!
Some pets rescued
Therefore, although pet lovers are borne by the buyer before the pet is mailed (some buyers require payment first), pets are real life. Therefore, before purchasing the mailed pets, you must really consider the risks they experience during the journey, because they will be stuffed into the freight vehicle for transportation. Even if there are good ventilation conditions, it is difficult to ensure that all kinds of accidents will not occur, such as the carton collapsed due to vibration and vibration caused by pet urine, or the ventilation holes are covered, etc.! What should you pay attention to before express delivery of pets?
A pet buyer left a message on Zhihu that many pet buyers transfer to the consignment company and generally require one day in advance, so the pets will experience a very scary overnight time, but the pets he sells are delivered to the airport 4 hours before the plane takes off, and then watch them pack them before leaving! In addition, special plastic airboxes and special wooden airboxes are required, and household iron pet cages are not qualified.
Visionally, this cost can only make high-value pets, such as expensive breeds worth thousands or even tens of thousands, ordinary cats, dogs or rabbits, unable to take such transportation routes, because the value of many pets is not even enough to pay for air freight! Therefore, the way these pets may take is centralized freight, and the conditions under this state can be imagined!
If the transportation specifications are strictly followed, such as setting up independent spaces and maintaining ventilation, the conditions are still acceptable, at least to ensure the safety of pets. However, according to the situation in Luohe City, Henan, these pets are randomly arranged and transported in cartons. It is hard to say whether they are closed carriages, because they need to be protected from rain, and they are likely to be closed.
So, friends who buy pets may wish to go to the local pet market, or go directly to pick up goods when you are near, or professional air or railway consignment. If your beloved pets are transported to you through long-distance cargo, they will probably have to go through several life and death disasters. For example, in 2014, a pet transport vehicle was spontaneously ignited, and a car of pets was burned to death on the highway! Do you still have the heart to bear it?
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