Paying for Petting Time in Japan's Cat Cafés [video]

Time Video ^

[Slings and Arrows]

In Osaka, Japan, where many apartment dwellers aren't allowed to keep pets, cat fanciers spend time with their favorite felines at the Cats' Time Café

[blueunicorn6]

They tried this with different animals in Japan. The Croc Time Cafe just didn’t work out. They never could get any repeat business.

[coydog]

It looks to be cheaper than drugs or therapy anyway.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Another kind of cat house.

[BenLurkin]

I’m fortunate to have my own little guy right here...plopped on my lap as I surf the net.

[Intolerant in NJ]

As soon as you get rid of that damn cat - was it Angie Dickinson or Jane Fonda?......

[Slings and Arrows]

Check please!

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Was it Zsa Zsa?

[memyselfandi59]

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.

[CORedneck]

LOL ! This can be so misconstrued !

Actually this is a cool concept though but hard telling if it would catch on. One advantage is people can enjoycats without having to deal with the maintenance such as shots, litter box cleaning and having to find someone to take care of it when leaving town.

> So what would one name such a place?

> The Heavy Petting Cafe

> Rent a Pussycat Emporium

[Twotone]

We use to have many businesses with a cat mascot. Lots of fun to go buy some item & stop to pet the cat. Now the county health department is involved & has banned the cats. More like Amerikka than America, I’m afraid...

[martin_fierro]

[9YearLurker]

You’re right—and it’s a shame.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I enjoy that show. Not sure why I don’t watch it more often.

Sheldon Cooper is possibly the most socially inept sitcom character ever. But at least he likes kitties. :)

[Vigilanteman]

True story. When my family lived in Japan, my daughter wanted a cat in the worst way, but it was forbidden where we lived. A friend told her about a cat that lived in a local park. Nobody owned it, but all the cat lovers in the neighborhood looked after it and brought it food. One even took care of its shots. I didn't believe my daughter until she took me to the park one day. She called the cat and it came running to her. Very nice tempered feline. It lived under the tool shed in the park by night and interacted with the public by day.

Fast forward to today and she married a young man who also loves cats. They recently adopted one for my grandson, age 22 months. Who allows him to play pretty rough without any retaliation except walking away when it gets to be too much.

Most of the time, they are the best of pals.

[Vigilanteman]

True story. When my family lived in Japan, my daughter wanted a cat in the worst way, but it was forbidden where we lived. A friend told her about a cat that lived in a local park. Nobody owned it, but all the cat lovers in the neighborhood looked after it and brought it food. One even took care of its shots. I didn't believe my daughter until she took me to the park one day. She called the cat and it came running to her. Very nice tempered feline. It lived under the tool shed in the park by night and interacted with the public by day.

Fast forward to today and she married a young man who also loves cats. They recently adopted one for my grandson, age 22 months, who allows him to play pretty rough without any retaliation except walking away when it gets to be too much.

Most of the time, they are the best of pals.

[Vigilanteman]

I heard it was Raquel Welch. Can’t remember if I was in junior high or high school when it happened, but the boys laughed about it for days.

[Slings and Arrows]

Fortunate indeed.

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Might have been Zsa Zsa or Angie - I always remembeed it as Hanoi Jane, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen it, my memory dims - this week a local PBS station repeated an old “American Masters” two hour show on Carson - I waited with great hopes for the entire time, but while they showed some of his “risque” stuff (to one woman guest “I always go for any opening I can find”) they never did show the pussycat bit - guess the censors caught up with it, but it really was one of the funniest lines of a consistently funny show......

[Titan Magroyne]

What a pleasant place. Domo arigato!