[Thanks to Gefn for the link!]
/johnny
Very nice! I’m not a cat fanatic but I would like to have one, except that I travel a lot and it’s hard to make arrangements for kitty. It’s nice to see how this entrepreneurial Japanese cat lady has managed to find a niche. (Beautiful cats, too...does she audition them?)
I love this concept, and I wish it would catch on here in America. The result would be more cats with a place to live, and more people with lower blood pressure. Win-win. :)
Brings to mind Angie Dickinson on Johnny Carson oh so many years ago.
If they were a tad younger, I would want very badly to play with their...kitty.
Ahem.
So what would one name such a place?
The Heavy Petting Cafe
Rent a Pussycat Emporium
StarKatz
etc ... etc...
Pussy Galore
They tried this with different animals in Japan. The Croc Time Cafe just didn’t work out. They never could get any repeat business.
Another kind of cat house.
We spent a couple months in Guangzhou China, back in the late 90’s (hubby’s job assignment and since it was extended time, the company sent us too.)
They had cat cafes too, only they served cats as the food. In the local market there were cats and dogs for sale, and in front of restaurants, you could see cats in a cage, or skinned cats hanging. advertising the restaurant’s specialty.
In the Guangzhou zoo they had a cage with a wolf in it, and in the next cage was a German Shepherd We decided they had to lock him up to keep him from being eaten.
We had two cats we’d picked up in the paddies when we lived in Japan. Named them Chip and Dale and took care of them lovingly for almost four years then we were to be shipped back stateside. We had to adopt them out because of the costs to get them back to the US (E-4’s in the military back in the late 1950’s were way below the poverty level). Living in the rice paddies post WWII Japan was quite the experience too. The Japanese were not as honorable as we would like to believe...they’d rob we military dependents blind at every turn.
What a pleasant place. Domo arigato!