Internet Cafés: Soooo 1999. Check Out a Cat Café Instead!
Forget Internet Cafés. The newest rage in Japan is the Cat Café. For just $10 an hour, you can drop by and hang out with a cat. The concept has proved to be very popular in urban areas. The regular customers are mainly 20- and 30-somethings who seek healing by cats, or who simply cannot afford to have pets full time. Some visiters come to the Cat Café three times a week. These photos are from the Nekorobi Cat Café in Tokyo:
Watch the cats and patrons in action:
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[PHOTO CREDIT: Junko Kimura/Getty Images AsiaPac]
Hi skeezy, That is a unique idea. Maybe we should open up one of those shops together. We’ll charge an even $20./ hour to make things interesting!! Your good friend Bosco.
Hey, Bosco, I had that same idea. I’m gonna open one up in my house. There are plenty of us to go around, and maybe I can earn some big bucks to buy cat stuff!
WOO HOO!!!!
They should have some Japanese Bobtails in there!
I like this idea much better than the who pet renting businesses that are popping up. Cute!
You and your feline loving friends can drop by my cat house any time for free and we serve really good double creme catpuccinos!
Good idea,wonder if this concept catches up in India, especially the urban cities like Mumbai which is akin to Tokyo in population density as well as “pet Maintenance cost factors”.
Thanks catster.
Mom wants to put the kitties to work…we need some extra income and we could do it cheaper than 10 an hour. If people want the true pet owning experience without the longterm cost and commitment, they can also come feed us and scoop our boxes for an extra buck or two.
Pay $10 to hang out with the cats for an hour in Japan? They are pretty cute – take a look! http://tinyurl.com/btmp8p
They have the right idea!!!
The place mommy shops at for us (Cat Connection, Dallas, Texas) has cats in residence. She often shops thare after work and when she’s had a bad day she spends a littel xtra time petting the kittties who live thare. It makes her calmer and we like sniffing her when she gits home.
Japanese paying $10/hr to be with cats: http://bit.ly/h7Jy while Kitten Rescue is offering the same for free http://bit.ly/qWQQ
y not a kitteh Intarwebz cafe? teh h00minz can plais wif kittehs and look @ cute overloadz & ichcb & stufs! kthxbai. =^..^=
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