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Animal cafe

An animal cafe, also known as a pet cafe, is a place where people can see and interact with various animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits. goats, owls. sheep etc while they enjoy the food and drinks.The first animal cafe in the world was established in Taiwan in 1998. The concept of this cafe was a cat which is very popular and familiar. Since cat cafe was established, a number of various animal cafes are showed up. People can learn and understand more about animals and feel the sense of closeness with animal through animal cafe.

History

As mentioned earlier, the first animal cafe in the world was created in Taiwan in 1998 which has the concept of a cat.Despite the origin of animal cafe was from Taiwan, the popularity of animal cafe began in Japan. There was one Japanese tourist who visited Taiwan and discovered the potential of animal cafe. Then he came back to Japan and established the first animal cafe in Osaka in 2004.Nowadays, Japan is known as the country which has the most animal cafes in the world. Although there are some countries in Europe and America which also have animal cafes such as Spain, Germany, France, United States, Australia. United Kingdoms etc, animal cafes are still more popular in Asian countries yet.When the animal cafe was created first time in Taiwan and Japan, it was mainly for people who just want to spend the time with animals. However, there are also several animal cafes for abandoned or lost these days as well. Such animal cafes are used as a way to help these abandoned or lost animals by providing them not only home and food but also opportunity to be adopted by customers of the cafe.

Types of animal cafe

As individuals prefer different animals, there are a number of various animal cafes in the world.

Cat cafe

Laika ac Cat Cafe

Due to the fact that the first animal cafe was a cat cafe in Taiwan, cat cafe is one of the most common animal cafe. Cat café is like a basic animal cafe which can be found easily especially in Asian countries South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. A number of different types of cats can be found at the cat cafe. Normally it separates the play area where people can play with cats and regular area where people just drink and eat food without cats.

Some of cat cafes create a good interaction between cats and humans. some of cat cafes look after and feed cats who were stray cats or abandoned by people.Cat cafes provide those cats home, food and affection. Also, customers who visit a cat cafe regularly and are interested in raising cats can be potential adopters of cats. Cat cafe's staffs try to find a perfect adopter for cats.

Dog cafe

Dog cafe is another really common animal cafe. People who like dogs would enjoy their time with many different kinds of dogs at the dog cafe. Like a cat cafe, dog cafe also provides a adoption system to customers who have an ability to raise them. The dog cafe can be seen as a sanctuary providing a good experience for customers to make a connection with abandoned dogs, and probably adopt dogs.

There is a dog cafe in Los Angles which has the goal of finding perfect home for shelter dogs. Customers enjoy the time with dogs and, potentially, become a new owner of shelter dogs.

Raccoon cafe

Raccoon

An unusual animal cafe can be found as well such as a raccoon cafe. There is a raccoon cafe in South Korea which people can play with raccoons while they drink and eat the food. Because this cafe is divided into two rooms, people can choose to play with raccoon or just enjoy their food and drinks.

Sheep cafe

There is a sheep cafe in South Korea which is established in 2011. It has two sheep named Sugar and Honey and it is allowed to feed them some food.However, sheep cannot stay at the cafe during the summer season due to the weather issue.

Rabbit cafe

Rabbit cafe is located in Japan. Mostly rabbits are not wandering around like other cats and dogs at cafes but they are often kept in their cages. However, This cafe sometimes provides a chance to walk around a nearby place with rabbits.

Bird cafe

There are a few different kinds of birds cafe in Japan such as owls, parrots, falcons, hawks etc.They are not dangerous and do not attack people because they are well trained by the staff. The staff shows customers the way they handle and feed the birds in a safety way. Also, people can take a picture with birds if they have a permission from the staff.

Furthermore, there are still more various animal cafes including reptile cafe , snake cafe, alpaca cafe, goat cafe etc in the world.

Controversy

Because the animal cafe is closely related to the animal issues, there has been some constant controversies about animal safety. Some animal experts say that animal cafes might provide some positive effect to animals but they are more likely to encourage people to buy animals than pay attention about animal welfare. Some people argue that the way the animal cafes operate their business is really harmful for animal safety because some animals are not quite suited for the life style at the cafe. Some visitors of animal cafe in Japan express their concerns for the safety and welfare of the birds. They argue that there is a natural daily routine for birds but this animal cafe does not care about it, cafe has to be aware of the welfare and safety of birds. In addition, the owner of cat cafe in Thailand was arrested by police due to the disobedience against the Animal Protection Law. Seven cats died at his cafe due to the poor safety care. Also, such welfare and safety problem of animal cafe can be found in South Korea as well. For example, animals in cafe are constantly fed by people, they cannot sleep until the cafes shut the door late at night. Furthermore, safety problem is also subject to the customers who visit animal cafes. Some customers who gained injuries by animals at the cafe complained about the safety policy when the person in charge of cafe argues that they do not take any responsibility for injuries.

As a result, Japanese government had made much stricter Animal Protection Law which strengths the new rules and restricts trading hours of animal cafe in order to release controversies. The stricter regulations are intended to make sure that those animals at the cafes have appropriate human treatment and care.