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Cat cafe offers a place to snuggle, with reservations
NY Times ^ | 1/15/2016 | William Grimes

Posted on 01/18/2015 12:21:42 PM PST by NetAddicted

MADELINE WEINSTEIN was reaching for the top of the shelves at Meow Parlour, New York’s new cat cafe, going for the ultimate prize: Roger, the most antisocial animal in the place. Down below, on floor level, nine other cats roamed, batting at toys, leaping exuberantly, bumping heads affectionately against the outstretched hands of customers. Roger remained aloof.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cats; kittyping
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I don't like NY Times, but I like kitties.
1 posted on 01/18/2015 12:21:42 PM PST by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted

Kitty Ping!


2 posted on 01/18/2015 12:22:42 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NetAddicted; Slings and Arrows

PING this one over to you Slings and Arrows!


3 posted on 01/18/2015 12:24:40 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Meow.


4 posted on 01/18/2015 12:24:54 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: Biggirl; PROCON; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...

5 posted on 01/18/2015 12:26:53 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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To: NetAddicted


6 posted on 01/18/2015 12:27:11 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NetAddicted

I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of people who do something like this.

An article in the NYT is worth thousands of dollars of advertising. Lucky business.

Sounds like a fun place.

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7 posted on 01/18/2015 12:30:49 PM PST by Mears
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To: NetAddicted

I got 3! Did you read about the kitty who saved the baby in Russia?

http://nypost.com/2015/01/15/hero-cat-saves-baby-from-freezing-to-death/


8 posted on 01/18/2015 12:36:49 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: NetAddicted

“I have two cats, so it’s kind of absurd that I’m here and paying for this,” Ms. Weinstein said. “But I can’t get too much cat in my life.”

You should be paying a psychiatrist.


9 posted on 01/18/2015 12:37:20 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: NetAddicted
I like THIS kitty:

and this kitty:


10 posted on 01/18/2015 12:38:13 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: NetAddicted

Copied from Japan, big-time.

Everyone is eschewing motherhood.

Where there is no child, cats fill in.


11 posted on 01/18/2015 12:38:20 PM PST by gaijin
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To: NetAddicted
Confuse-A-Cat! All in a day's work! ;)
12 posted on 01/18/2015 12:42:57 PM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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“But I can’t get too much cat in my life.”

Not quite how I'd put it but close.

13 posted on 01/18/2015 12:47:19 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: gaijin

“Where there is no child, cats fill in.”

***

That’s not a bad thing.


14 posted on 01/18/2015 12:47:52 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: NetAddicted

Started out in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_caf%C3%A9

http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,104576135001_2000212,00.html

http://www.vice.com/read/meow-meow-meow-329-v17n2

America Is Finally Getting Its First Cat Cafes (San Fransicko)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/cat-cafes_n_4719316.html


15 posted on 01/18/2015 12:48:49 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: EinNYC

16 posted on 01/18/2015 12:50:10 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: NetAddicted

OHH this so cute LOL!


17 posted on 01/18/2015 12:51:05 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

turn out be abandon baby save my homeless cat who being fed by the neighbors in the building something like that


18 posted on 01/18/2015 12:51:59 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: PROCON

Lol!


19 posted on 01/18/2015 12:56:36 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: NetAddicted
That’s when Ms. Legrand, one of the Macaron Parlour assistant chefs, began talking about cat cafes.

Let me guess, she has a restaurant next door........Hmmmmmmm, Roger had better get social real fast or else

20 posted on 01/18/2015 1:12:29 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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