[Now News Channel] The tide of immigration is reappearing. Some people want to immigrate with their pets, and they don’t hesitate to spend 200,000 yuan to take a private jet. The pet immigration company’s inquiries have increased by 50% compared with last year. The number of immigrants abandoning pets has increased by 40% in recent days.

Ms. Qiu will immigrate to the UK and will leave Hong Kong in May to June at the earliest. After her daughter studied abroad, she has been living with the squirrel dog Cally. If she wants to leave, she hopes to take him with her.

Cally is 13 years old. She has a lot of physical problems, including spleen tumors, cholangitis, and trachea. It is very difficult to take her away.

Ms. Qiu: “The doctor said don’t think about it, because the risk of freight is high, and it is dangerous if no one takes care of it, so I started to read information about using private jets last year.”

Ms. Qiu decided to seek help from a pet immigration company.

Ms. Qiu: “I really think it is a family member. I don’t think that when parents can leave, they will leave their children behind. People will only refer to leaving for their children, not leaving their children and leaving on their own. .”

Monthly inquiries from pet immigration companies have increased by 50% compared to last year, and many of them are transporting elderly pets.

Liang Wenyun, consultant of a pet immigration company: “Maybe (freight) the fare is 80,000 to 90,000 yuan, but the private jet fare is 208,000 yuan, but it is not only calculated for the transportation of the dog, but also includes the fare of the guests.”

Once the pets cannot be taken away, or they decide to keep them, the Abandoned Pet Center may be a shelter for them. Recently, the number of pets abandoned by the organization due to immigration has increased by 40%.

Huang Huixian, founder of the Center for Rescuing Abandoned Pets: “Generally, those owners usually leave Hong Kong in a hurry within a month. They will call us to ask if we can accept them, because they are immigrating in a hurry. They are very honest.”

Pets have different emotional problems in the face of environmental reversals, and sometimes they even go on hunger strike.

Huang Huixian: “Older dogs are generally more stubborn. They are used to living at home, so when they come to the dog farm, it is a difference between heaven and earth. We can only say that (the owner) is irresponsible. What? If you can’t do it, what else can you do?”

The founder of the center is worried that the center will always be saturated one day, so if there are owners who want to immigrate and decide to transfer their pets to the center, the staff will persuade them to think twice. After persuasion, about 2 to 3% of the owners change their minds.

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