Compared with traditional pets that require a lot of time and money, static pets like pet yeast are low-cost and easy to care for. There is no need to take on responsibilities such as walking and bathing it, which is in line with the increasingly popular “lazy healing” lifestyle. Du Hemin, a psychotherapist at Wuhan Wudong Hospital, added that static pets provide owners with “secure attachment”. They are not going to get sick, and they don’t need constant attention.


“They are not like real pets that may get sick or make trouble, giving people a small but certain sense of pleasure,” Du said.