Recently, at a courier station in Chengdu, a courier transport vehicle was intercepted by volunteers from an animal rescue center. The neatly coded express boxes on the truck have all been packed and labeled with express delivery notes. They are obv...
Recently, at a courier station in Chengdu, a courier transport vehicle was intercepted by volunteers from an animal rescue center.
The neatly coded express boxes on the truck have all been packed and labeled with express delivery notes. They are obviously on the way to be shipped. However, these simple boxes contain no ordinary express delivery, but live small animals!
When volunteers intercepted this batch of "express delivery", the whines and groans of kittens and puppies could be clearly heard.
They are almost all cats and dogs that are only one or two months old. They are randomly packed into cartons, plastic boxes, and sacks, and are treated as lifeless "cargo" for transportation.
During the entire transportation, they could only huddle in a small cage in the dark, without water, food, or even a little light.
Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, they are already kept in a closed space. If the door of the warehouse transporting express delivery is closed again, the air will not circulate even more. How can their young bodies withstand such torture?
Many kittens and puppies were suffocated to death bit by bit in this darkness, and the pain was so painful that they could not even utter a weak scream.
Volunteers used flashlights to check the dehydrated, hungry, and dying animals in the boxes one after another, and used syringes to feed them water and glucose to help them regain some energy.
Some dogs that still have strength can flap and bark excitedly after seeing light and people, but no matter how they bark or jump, they cannot escape the small "cage" that confines them.
Looking around, there were dead animals put directly in bags and thrown to the roadside. Under the dim night, there were packaging boxes and sacks all over the floor.
People's voices were very quiet, and only the whining of animals from the box could be heard clearly.
This seems to be their hell.
They may not understand what is happening, but they can still feel the darkness, pain and fear.
These kittens and puppies packaged as cargo for transportation are the “pet blind boxes” that are becoming more and more popular on the Internet.
Many people may be familiar with "blind boxes". This process of "you don't know what the item is when you buy it, and you only get the answer after opening the box" has firmly captured people's curiosity, from getting into the trap to becoming addicted.
You may be unlucky and get a gadget you don't like.
It is also possible to be very European and draw the most valuable limited editions and hidden editions.
This is largely like gambling. Everyone thinks they will have good luck, so they buy more and more, but in fact they are just stepping into the merchant's routine.
In recent years, the popularity of blind boxes has become more and more fierce. Naturally, some people have taken a fancy to the dividends behind this huge market. However, what ordinary people do not expect is that some businesses are no longer satisfied with selling blind boxes for toys, but have extended their claws to pets.
It is also a "living blind box" or a "pet blind box".
What the seller sees in them are real financial benefits, while the buyer enjoys the excitement of opening a "living blind box".
The "pet blind box" that buyers have in mind when placing an order may be a beautifully packaged box filled with lively, cute, and milky cats and dogs, preferably breed cats and breed dogs.
Perhaps in their fantasy, the perfect little animal can pass through any door and arrive without any harm.
But the reality is that they are all kept in the same express box that was intercepted by volunteers at the beginning. Their bodies are covered with dust and fleas, they are severely dehydrated, sick and even dead.
In addition to cats and dogs, these little lives that are treated as goods include birds, turtles, hamsters, etc.
On some e-commerce platforms, as long as you search for "live blind boxes", many merchants selling live dog blind boxes will appear. (Some of them have been taken off the shelves now)
Inside, it says in bold letters, "No local dogs", "Live blind boxes", "Not sick dogs"...
The photos of dogs posted are all of cute breed dogs, such as Shiba Inu, Golden Retriever, Corgi, Pomeranian...
Looking at the price again, it is 35 yuan, 30 yuan after the coupon.
The labels, keywords, prices, descriptions, photos...
at every step are inducing consumers to place orders, telling them that as long as they spend thirty yuan, they can take home expensive and cute cats and dogs.
As a consumer, anyone with normal thinking ability should not take it for granted that thirty yuan can buy a breed dog. However, the transaction volume of this type of blind box reaches thousands, which shows that there are still many people who are lucky.
"This is a blind box. What if I have this kind of luck?"
They don't really want to raise cats and dogs, let alone love cats and dogs, but they are just looking for a cheap thrill.
Businesses and consumers who can accept "pet blind boxes" basically do not regard pets as a living life.
Some merchants’ titles are full of gimmicks about buying varieties at low prices, and describe “living transportation”, but in fact they use ordinary express delivery.
What is the difference between the two?
We usually do online shopping through express delivery, because these things are dead objects and transportation is relatively hassle-free.
The transportation of living animals is different. As the name suggests, it is specially used to transport living animals. The living animals themselves must be taken into consideration. They must not be thrown around during transportation. There are many restrictions.
Of course, the freight will be much more expensive and the procedures will be more complicated.
Unscrupulous merchants who make money by exploiting small animals will not sympathize with the suffering of small animals during transportation, so will they pay the extra money?
Definitely not, so all we send are ordinary express delivery.
