Japan; the wonderland that creates all the weirdest and wackiest. "Neko no mise" -- Shop of cats (!!!) This has got to be one of the cutest ideas that I have heard of, and so glad Japan can get away with things not so "normal" to the rest of the world! I love it! Things which arent usual rock my mind. >
Cat cafés are huge in Japan right now. As the name suggests, these are coffee shops where cat lovers go to sip overpriced lattes and hang out with an adorable smoosh pile of kitties. In the past five years, exactly 79 such cafés have popped up all over Japan. What’s weird is that the café cats aren’t expensive pedigreed felines like Persians or those other ones with the funny bendy ears, they’re just the everyday mixed breeds you might find in the back lot of your local supermarket, cats who, in the immortal words of Brian Setzer, “slink down the alley, looking for a fight/Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night.” Likewise, in the past few years, there’s been an explosion of photo books and DVDs featuring average-joe cats. If people are so fascinated by what are essentially domesticated alley cats, why don’t they just swoop one up from the legions of strays all over Japan and take them home? I’ll tell you why: because landlords in Japan are MEAN and obviously do not own a kitty!
Thirty-eight-year-old Norimasa Hanada, the owner of Neko no mise, Tokyo’s first-ever cat café, explains the problem: “Most Japanese rental apartments prohibit pets. The only ones that allow them are condominium apartments for families. This means that young, single-dwelling workers in their 20s and 30s can’t even think about getting any pets, despite the fact that they’re stressed out and are seeking comfort and companionship of some kind.”
Thirty-eight-year-old Norimasa Hanada, the owner of Neko no mise, Tokyo’s first-ever cat café, explains the problem: “Most Japanese rental apartments prohibit pets. The only ones that allow them are condominium apartments for families. This means that young, single-dwelling workers in their 20s and 30s can’t even think about getting any pets, despite the fact that they’re stressed out and are seeking comfort and companionship of some kind.”
Well, IMO..... this is yet another reason I dream of Japan living. I am the crazy cat lady after all! Lets have a tea party with the kittens, kittens -- how puuurrrfect heeh! x
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