A Michael Broad Blog
The answer can be found by balancing and comparing the negatives of cat cafés in terms of cat welfare against the positives. The answer turns on cat welfare. It had nothing to do with the profitability of a cat café. It’s about whether it is ethical to build a business model using captive animals. …
The answer surely depends upon the location of the cat café. You can gauge the success of cat cafés to a certain extent by how many of them there are. Apparently, they are popular in Asia. Japan has at least a 150 cat cafés 20 years after the first one was created. That is …
This is an embedded video. It may stop working for reasons beyond my control. If it has stopped I am sorry. You have to be impressed with this video which I like. I don’t like all the cat videos on the Internet because some of them are, in my opinion, slightly abusive of the …
It’s a point worth making: in the UK the coronavirus pandemic may end up permanently closing cat cafés because of the ongoing lockdowns and Tier 3 semi-lockdowns resulting in their temporary closure. Temporary closures for a significant time can lead to permanent closures for obvious reasons. One possible victim of the coronavirus pandemic is …
This is a cool cat café in Japan. What I really like about their operation is that they combine a cat café and a small hotel which allows guests to spend time alone with a cat that they might want to adopt. They can take the cat to their room and live with their …
This is a cool fusion of three things you’ll like and indeed need if you like to socialise with friends, like coffee or tea, enjoy the company of cats and understand the advantages of a bit of yoga to maintain balance in your life. I have a friend who does yoga to slow his …
A cat café in Bangkok was run by a veterinarian who appears to have been an amateur cat breeder as well. He was trying to breed a cat called the “tiny Sphynx”. Perhaps he was trying to breed a dwarf or miniature Sphynx cat. The report comes from the Bangkok Post. Thirty-eight cats were …
Cafe: Catfe (now called a ‘Bunny Bar’) Place: Vancouver Issue: Ran out of cats Solution: Replace cats with bunnies Strange word in audio file: ‘pivots’ meaning ‘change’ Do you like this?! Do you understand the story? It is recited by a robot (well actually software). Here is a video in case you didn’t understand …
