“Pets are friends of human beings. They accompany their owners all their lives. After death, more and more pet owners have begun to choose a more commemorative way for funerals and memories.” Xi’an Dada Pets Wang Long, head of the Life Memorial Museum, told reporters recently.

It is understood that Wang Long founded the Xi'an Dada Pet Life Memorial Hall (hereinafter referred to as the Memorial Hall) in 2016. The reporter saw in the memorial hall that many photos of deceased pets were displayed on the walls and displayed in the window. There are exquisite and small special pet urns, as well as pendants, rings and handicrafts made from pet ashes through special processing.

The picture shows Wang Long accepting a reporter from Chinanews.com interview. In recent years, more and more people choose to keep pets to add interest in life, relieve stress, relieve loneliness, etc., and pets can often bring people's spiritual healing and spiritual companionship. Many pet owners regard them as Family Member and invest a lot of time and money. According to the White Paper on China's Pet Consumption Trends in 2021 released by iResearch, the market size in 2020 is close to 300 billion yuan. It is expected that the pet industry will continue to grow in the next three years, and the industry scale will reach 445.6 billion yuan by 2023.

With the expansion of the pet market, how to take care of pets behind the scenes and send away family members decently has become a trouble for many pet owners. It gave birth to the rise of the pet funeral industry. According to Wang Long, in the six years since he founded the memorial, he has held thousands of farewell ceremonies for deceased pets, including cats, dogs, hamsters, etc. In terms of service content, it provides body cleaning, cremation, storage of ashes, and commemorative handicraft production, etc., and also provides services of public welfare nature for stray animals in the city.

The picture shows the pet ashes avatar trinket. The emergence of the pet funeral industry has made the behind events of pets more diversified, and has been recognized by the market. I have learned about the pet funeral industry, mainly to inspect the 'next stop' for the 'pudding' in advance. Because it has been with me for more than ten years, it has become like a 'relative', and I hope its 'post-mortem' can be more decent . Li Jiang, a citizen of Xi'an, said that in the future, after the dog pudding leaves, his hair will be made into handicrafts and will accompany him forever.

But some pet owners take a wait-and-see attitude towards the industry. Post-90s Yang Fan is a pet lover who has been with Fat Dun for 11 years. Yang Fan said that the form of pet burial is still unacceptable, and he hopes that his dog can leave the world completely in the future, but he will continue to pay attention to the pet burial industry.

The picture shows the pet urn. Photo by Mei Yilong The Qingming Festival is approaching. The reporter saw in Wang Long's memorial hall that some pet owners who deposited their pet ashes in the memorial hall came one after another to pay their respects to their loved pets. Wang Long's memorial hall also provided them with soul shelter . Here you can cry aloud, or think quietly, and realize the true meaning of life. Tian Fan, who was remembering his old pet at the scene, said that he would come here to visit his deceased pet every year before and after the Qingming Festival and accompany him quietly. It, share the present life with it.

It is reported that although the pet funeral industry is gradually emerging, it is also facing many development dilemmas. According to industry insiders, at present, there are no relevant laws and regulations in the industry, and market supervision is in a grey area, resulting in an endless stream of phenomena such as non-standard industry and opaque operations.

Wang Xiaoyong, an expert from the Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, said that the market should guard against misguided consumption caused by excessive publicity by taking advantage of pet owners' loving pets. The society should pay attention to and help create a good and healthy atmosphere in the pet funeral market, and at the same time pay attention to the ethical proportion between humans and animals. It is suggested that relevant market supervision departments should also pay attention to the rapid growth of consumer demand and conduct correct guidance.