At the beginning of July, Kivik’s market will take place again in Österlen in Skåne. It is a market for the whole family with lots of activities.
Sweden’s most visited market
The market is, according to Kivik’s own website, one of Sweden’s largest and most well-visited markets and usually has up to 150,000 visitors each year.
At the market, you can do everything from buying handicrafts, playing games, eating at various stalls, riding carousels and watching Scandinavia’s largest ambulatory fairground. On certain days, a truck exhibition will also be organized and those who want will be able to enjoy watching helicopter flights.
Kivik’s market is planning a small animal market
New for this year is that the market plans to have a small animal market, during one of the market days this summer.
During the small animal market, visitors will have the opportunity to look at small animals but also buy home a new small pet.
On Kivik’s market Facebook page, they are now looking for exhibitors who want to sell and show their small animals. Animals in demand include rabbits, birds, guinea pigs and hamsters.
The visitors rave about the initiative
Now several of the visitors are outraged by the initiative and believe that it is terrible for the animals to have them in a market in a stressful hot environment.
Many also believe that it is bad to contribute to spontaneous purchases of small animals and hope that Kivik’s market will change.
“How do you think here. What checks do you make on exhibitors/sellers? I don’t think anyone serious would put their animals through that stress in such a context. Exhibiting is one thing, but selling?! Sees a big risk that it will be an impulse purchase of a cute animal. Then reality catches up and the realization that it takes time, work, money for an animal that in many cases can live up to about 10 years. You are contributing to an imminent risk of increasing the number of rabbits that are either left alone in cages, released or just sold to anyone. A clarification about how you intended would be desirable,” writes one person in the comment field on Kikvik’s market Facebook post, and several others agree.
Archive image. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT
“For real?? In 2024, I had really hoped that the welfare and status of animals would be at least a little higher than this! Think again, think right!”.
“Damn, be mean to the animals! Should they stand there in the heat in a small cage just for people to look at them!!”.
“Sickly distasteful and terribly sorry for the animals. Think again and do the right thing”.
News24 looking for Kivik’s market for a comment.
Not the first time the market is in bad weather
It is not the first time that Kivik’s market is in bad weather. During the 2019 market, a bouncy castle collapsed in the area, after which four children flew over the edge and fell several meters.
– Fortunately, most of the visitors did not have to experience the incident, but those of us who know about it are of course appalled. That should not be allowed to happen, of course, said the festival general Dennis Nilsson to SVT Newswhen the accident occurred in 2019.
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