The Trick Behind Pet Store Cat and Dog Adoption: The Hidden Costs Behind Free Adoption

Nowadays, many pet stores in cities are giving away cats and dogs for free, which has attracted many people to consider adopting one. However, today I would like to share with you the inside story of this trick. When you decide to adopt, you will often find that the pet store has already marked a price on all the cats and dogs they are giving away. This price is usually four to five times the selling price in the flower and bird market.

Why Do Pet Stores Mark High Prices?

The purpose of marking a high price is not to expect you to really spend that much money to buy them, but to set a benchmark for you, making you feel that these cats and dogs have extraordinary breeds and noble origins, and there is a clear difference in bloodline compared to ordinary domestic cats and dogs. Since the gimmick is so noble, then imported cat food, cat treats, and various beauty and grooming services naturally have to be complete. If you think it’s expensive, they will stand on the moral high ground and refuse your adoption request on the pretext that these furry kids have noble origins and can’t bear to suffer.

More Concealed Tricks

The situation mentioned above is already relatively conscientious. The truly unscrupulous stores will directly give you the cats and dogs and ask you to sign an adoption agreement. A cursory review of the content of the adoption agreement is nothing more than requiring you to purchase cat food from this pet store every month. The fixed consumption of pet daily necessities such as cat food and cat litter is about three to four hundred yuan. If you can’t go to the store in person, they will also mail them to your home. On the surface, this seems to be a gentleman’s agreement of monthly deduction, but in fact, these pet stores have specially set up installment loans for you through various mini-programs, divided into twelve or even twenty-four installments, that is, one or two years of online loans.

What you pay to the pet store every month is not actually the shopping payment, but the principal and interest of this online loan. Once you forget to pay, it will constitute a breach of contract.

Potential Financial Risks

Delaying payment for too long will result in corresponding penalty interest and late fees. To put it simply, if you owe five hundred yuan this month and fail to pay it in time, the interest will accumulate continuously, and after a year, you may owe one thousand yuan. There are twelve installments in a year, each five hundred yuan, totaling six thousand yuan for daily necessities, and this money has already been directly transferred to the pet store’s account on the day you signed the adoption agreement.

Are You Familiar with This Trick?

Are you familiar with this trick? Is it not exactly the same as the tricks of some operators giving away mobile phones for free or some beauty salons providing free beauty services? It’s the same old story, so never be tempted by small gains.

It’s Wiser to Choose Adoption or Purchase Directly

If you really want to keep a cat or a dog, it’s better to go to the flower and bird market to buy one, or pick one up on the street by fate.