Austria’s first cat cafe, where customers can have drinks while playing with cats, opens in Vienna.
An interesting new trend has cropped up in Japan: animal cafes. There are over 100 cafes where customers can have tea, coffee and pastries while petting cats, rabbits, dogs, birds, and even goats in some places. There are several reasons for the emergence of such establishments. One is the decline in the number of adults with children. Many adults in the 20-30 age range are unmarried or in a relationship without children. Visiting an animal cafe is a social, almost familiar experience without the responsibilities of taking care of a companion animal. Other customers want pets at home, but their jobs consume too much time to care for a pet. http://www.care2.com/greenliving/animal-cafes-offer-drinks-and-petting.html#ixzz1v2L9qCD
In my public library years ago, you could take you book and a guinea pig to your table to read. I don’t remember reading but I did like the guinea pig!
mountainmae 
Hi Mae! I love this! What a great idea. I think people all over the world would like this. If there was one, especially a cat one in my town, I would be there right now, petting cats, sipping tea and reading your nice blog. 🙂
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Sounds like a good time to me.
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They have such cafes in Japan. I wonder what hoops I’d have to jump through to open one in the US?
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Interesting thought- I think it would be great in big cities .
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I took my big floppy dog to nursing homes. The folks loved to just hold his leash. Sometimes that’s all they could do. Guniea pigs in the library sounds fun. I don’t know what to say about a cat cafe but achoo! 😉
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I don’t think these cafes will be in the US. Can you imagine the health review issues.
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Wow this is new and I bet it catches on.
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I have not heard of such places. This is new to me 🙂
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They are not in the US but it is an interesting idea. The nursing home my Mom was in for a while had a resident dog and I think it was wonderful for the people.
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Mountain Mae this is so heartwarming. 🙂 I love this idea. I think it’s great. I bet it could truly have an impact on people’s health. Lower blood pressure, stress levels, etc.
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