A sneak peek into pet owners' lives

Although rising disposable income is responsible for making pet raising increasingly popular, people's eagerness to have pets has much to do with the changing social situation and population structure. Rapid GDP growth, an aging society, urbanization and large-scale migration of population all have promoted the social trend of pet raising.

Mao Xiaomei, who has adopted a 6-month-old cat born to a feral cat on an online cat adoption forum eight years ago, perfectly fits the description of a typical cat owner in contemporary China in the China Pet Industry 2018 White Paper: female white-collar worker with a high academic background.

As an employee of a Shanghai-based multinational enterprise, she started to raise the cat soon after she got her first job in Beijing. Her white cat named Maorong is almost a 9-year-old "elderly" cat today.