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We seriously love our cats in our house and have visited cat cafes in several countries. They don't make any sense to us and we're pretty good with them all goi
by poulsbohemian 6y ago
We seriously love our cats in our house and have visited cat cafes in several countries. They don't make any sense to us and we're pretty good with them all going away.
The primary problem is that in each of them, the cats have all been overly stressed out - far worse than what the cats at our local humane society experience even! Each one we've visited has had weird rules of engagement made by humans rather than cats, that clearly weren't working for the cats.
On the human side - it's a total con. I get that the funding is necessary to make these places work, but frankly I'd rather continue to donate to my local humane society as it feels as though the funding is more clearly put to the benefit of the cats. $50 for a cup of coffee and a 30 minute visit where you might not even be allowed to pet the cats (!!!) makes no sense to me.
I'm not meaning to condemn all of these places - and I haven't been to any in SFO - but having gone to a handful, I've been disappointed.
- mastermojo 6y agoI've been to a couple cat cafes where I've noticed the cats are a little anti-social. Instead of forcing interaction, most of my time is spent observing the cats. I imagine part of it could be a stressful environment, but my hypothesis is that in the cat-cafe-shelters that allow for adoption, the most personable and social cats end up getting adopted. This is probably the case with regular animal shelters as well.
- poulsbohemian 6y agoI think a lot of it is the cat to people ratio --- too many people for the number of cats.