A cat cafà ©  © is a theme cafe whose appeal is a cats that can be watched and played. Customers pay additional fees, generally every hour, and thus cat cafes can be viewed as a form of indoor pets under supervision.
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Etimologi
Cat cafÃÆ'Â © has been officially recognized in the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English since August 2015.
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History
The world's first cat cafe, "Cat Flower Garden" (???), opened its doors in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998. Taiwanese cat cafes eventually became tourist destinations, attracting tourists from Japan as well as worldwide globes. Although the origin of cats is cafà ©  © in Taiwan, this concept developed in Japan, where the first named "Neko no Jikan" (lit. "Cat's Time") opened in Osaka in 2004. Due to the size and population of Japan, many residents live in small apartments or condos that do not allow pets, make the cafà © cà © a very popular destination for young workers looking for friendship and comfort on offer. The first cat cafe in Tokyo, named "Neko no mise" (Shop Cat), opened in 2005. After this, the popularity of cat cafes exploded in Japan. From 2005 to 2010, seventy-nine cafe cats were opened across the country.
Controversy
In the UK, the animal charity does not agree whether cafe cats are an environment suitable for cats with RSPCA, Cats Protection and Celia Hammond Animal Trust criticize them for maintaining large cats in enclosed spaces with a spinning human population. International Cat Care takes a more positive view by saying "This is a difficult environment to get right but that's not impossible by any means". However, all the charities agree that the cat cafe needs to be properly regulated.
Asia
India
The first cat cafe in India, Cat Cafà ©  © Studio, opened in 2010 in Mumbai.
Japanese
The cat cafe is quite popular in Japan, with Tokyo being home to 58 cafe cats by 2015. The first one is Kitten Shop ( ??? < span>, Neko no Mise ), by Norimasa Hanada, which opened in 2005. The popularity of cats cafà © à © s in Japan is associated with many apartments banning pets, and cats provide a relaxed friendship in what might be a stressful and lonely urban life. Other forms of pet leasing, such as rabbit cafes, are also common in Japan.
There are different types of cat cafe in Japan. Some special features of cat category such as black cat, fat cat, cat breed rare or stray cats. Every cat cafe in Japan is required to obtain a license and comply with the strict requirements and regulations of the nation's Animal Protection and Protection Act.
Japanese cat cafes have strict rules to ensure the hygiene and well-being of animals, especially to ensure that cats are not bothered by excessive and undesirable attention, such as by small children or when sleeping. Many cafà © c's also work to raise awareness about cat welfare issues, such as abandoned and lost cats and many cats from local animal shelters to help them lose human fear and advertise them for possible adoption. From 2012, cats can be displayed until 8 pm, but by 2016 guidelines from the Ministry of the Environment state that they can visit and play with customers until 10 pm.
One cafà ©  © in Tokyo adds a goat as a way of having a unique element.
Singapore
The first cat cafe in Singapore is Cat CafÃÆ' © Neko no Niwa (Japanese for 'Garden of Cats'). To this day, there are more than five cat and dog cafes in town. The cat's cafe is Neko no Niwa, The Cat Cafà ©  © s, The Cat Company, Cafe Meomi Cat and Cafà © Cuddles Cats. Neko no Niwa, The Company of Cats and The Cat CafÃÆ'  © showing the rescued cat.
Singapore's Cat Cats are regulated and licensed by AVA and are all tied to 'codes of conduct'. Individuals who have questions with the needs of their cats, can join the Cat's Welfare Society, which helps with medical expenses, sterilization fees or adopting a cat. Cat cafes usually have their own houserules.
Cuddles Cat Cafe was investigated by Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) in December 2014.
Taiwan
Cats are a popular pet in Taiwan, with cat populations increasing rapidly in recent years. The world's first cat cafe, named "Cat Flower Garden", opened in Taipei in 1998, where there is also a special "Cathy Hotel" for cats. The concept of Taiwanese cafà © spread further to Japan, and then to most other countries around the world.
Thai
Thailand has several cat cafes, mostly in Bangkok. Cafe Cat by Dome, Cat Up Cafe, Caturday, Cataholic Cafe, The Coffee Cat, Mohu Mohu Cafe, and Purr Cat Cafe Club are all located in Bangkok. Each serves baked goods with a small main course menu as well as coffee and tea. Many have special rates to familiarize themselves with certain cats. Prices are usually higher than in most cafÃÆ' © s but it does not make any sense. They all have rules about guest behavior towards cats and often have a race cat. Catmosphere Cat Cafe and Maewmoth cafà © s are located in Chiang Mai.
Europe
Austria
According to local legend, the first cat cafe in the world opened in Vienna in the summer of 1912 and ceased operations about two years later. It is said that Vladimir Lenin was an ordinary man for a period in 1913, finding a cat companion a comfort during his time of exile. The cat cafe was known to have ceased operations shortly after the start of the First World War, despite repeated stories that the closure was due to the patriotic owner donating all the cats to the factory making feather boots for war effort. maybe apocryphal. In 2012, the Neko cat cafe opened in Vienna.
Belgium
Le chat touille opened in Brussels in 2014. DreamCATchers opened in Ghent in 2017. Needed cats from shelters, rehabilitated them if necessary with the help of volunteers and cat behavior therapists, to then allow them to be adopted by customers. It runs entirely from donations and money customers spend in cafes or on products from their sponsors.
Czech Republic
Ko? KafÃÆ' Â © Freya opened in Prague in 2014. Followed by three other cafes in Prague, along with cat cafes in Olomouc, Pardubice, and other Czech cities.
Denmark
Cafe Miao opened in Copenhagen in 2014, but closed in 2017.
Estonian
Estonia's first cat cafe, Kassikohvik Nurri, opened in October 2014 in Tallinn.
Finnish
Finland's first cat cafe, Kissakahvila Purnauskis, opened in November 2014 in Tampere. This is a permanent home for seven cats.
The second cat cafe, Kissakahvila Helsinki, opened in July 2015 in Helsinki. This is a permanent home for six cats.
French
Le CafÃÆ'Â © des Chats is a cafe cafe located at 16 Rue Michel le Comte in Paris in 2013. This cafe is a restaurant that includes desserts, teas and, of course, cats.
Kafelin is a cat cafe in Montpellier.
German
Stubentiger Cafe in Hannover opened in August 2015 with a varied menu, including vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan. In Munich, there is CafÃÆ'Â © Katzentempel. Cologne has Cafe Schnurrke. In Berlin there are Pee Pees Katzencafe, BaristaCats, and Zur Mieze.
Hungarian
Cat Cafà © & amp; Galeri terletak di pusat kota Budapest decat Basilika Santo Stefanus of Rà © vay street 3. Cat Cafà © terletak of Damjanich street 38.
Italy
The first Italian cat cafe opened in Turin in March 2014; This first hosted six cats. His name is MiaGola Cafà ©  ©, which in Italian can be interpreted as a language game: literally mia gola can be translated my throat , while miagola in the first syllable: miÃÆ' gola) means (he or she) meowing .
Neko Cat Cafe opened in Turin on April 5, 2014. The resident cat was all adopted from the animal welfare organization.
Latvian
The cat cafe in Latvia, MINKA cat cafe, opened in Riga in February 2015 and closed in September 2016. MINKA Cat Cafe is located near the center of Me? Road 4a.
Lithuania
Cat cafe in Lithuania "Cat Cafe Ka? I? Kavin?" opened in Vilnius in October 2014. Cat Cafe is located centrally in Jasinskio str 1. It is one of the largest cafes with cats in the world. 15 cats live there.
Dutch
The cat cafe Kopjes opened in Amsterdam in April 2015. In Groningen KattencafÃÆ' â € <â € < © Op z'n Kop opened in February 2016 and cat cafà © à © Poeslief > opened in October 2016. Cat cafà ©  © Miespoes opened in Den Bosch in 2016, as well as cat cafà © Ã… © Katdeau in Hengelo. In August 2016 kattencafÃÆ' â € <â € < © Ditjes & amp; Katjes opened in The Hague. Shortly afterwards Pebbles opened its doors as the first cat cafe in Rotterdam. In 2017, the cat cafe Jippies opens in Haarlem.
Polish
"Kociarnia", the first cat cafe in Poland opened in KrakÃÆ'³w in June 2015. Its name is a combination of the Polish words kossia (cat) and kawiarnia (a cat) cafà N  ©).
The second cat cafe, "Miau Cafà © Å ©", opened in Warsaw in January 2016. It is a coffee and cake cafe that is also a refuge for homeless cats. It has vegan items on the human menu. Miau's cafe came alive thanks to a crowdfunding campaign on the Polish platform, wspieram.to where 1 700 Warsaw residents withdrew financial resources to make the idea of ​​the first cat cafe in Warsaw a reality.
By 2016, another cat cafe has opened in Lublin. After one day the activity has been closed by a local sanitary inspection. It launched a lot of controversy in the local media, and the general public. Affair has also been mentioned in the popular TV show "Sprawa dla reportera" ("Material for reporter"). Finally, the cafe opened at this time.
Romanian
Miau Cafe opened in spring 2015 in Bucharest. The second cat cafe in Romania, La Pisici Cafe opened in September 2015 in Timi? Oara. The coffee house named Lady Cat also opened in Cluj-Napoca in March 2016.
Russia
The first cat cafe in Europe and in Russia "Cat Republic" opened in the center of Saint Petersburg in 2011. There lived 25 cats.
Slovakia
The first cafe in Slovakia, PradÃÆ'ºce klbko (formerly "Cafe Cats club") opened in Martin in April 2015. The next one, Ma? Kafà © ©/i> opened in Bratislava in May 2015. The second in Bratislava, Ma? inÃÆ' © zy opened in October 2015. A cat cafe named M? aukafà © © also opened in Pre? ov in June 2017 as the fourth in Slovakia. A Cat CafÃÆ' © Club opened in Poprad in February 2018. Slovenia
The first cafe in Slovenia, Cat Caffe Ljubljana opened in Ljubljana in February 2015.
Ukraine
TofyCatSpace and Chetveronogiy Dom (ukr. "fourfooted house") is located in Kiev. Cat Cafe Lviv is located in Lviv.
United Kingdom
English
The first British cat cafe opened in Totnes, Devon in June 2013. It was closed in May 2014 due to staff illness and the need to maintain the health of the owners.
In 2014 the Lady Dinah Cat's Emporium is opened for significant media attention and a two-month waiting list. Newcastle upon Tyne is home to Mog at The Tyne Cat Cafà ©  ©, Catpawcino, and Willow Cat Cafe. Nottingham has a cat cafe named Kitty Cafà ©  ©. By 2015, several other UK cafes are in the planning.
The Bag of Nails in Bristol is a cat pub, and has as many as 24 cats.
A cat cafe opened in the Northern Quarter of Manchester on July 30, 2016.
Pause the cafe cat will open the door in Bournemouth later this year and will be the first on the South coast. After the crowdfunding campaign, the cafe, on Old Christchurch Road, will have 12 resident cats that roam on two floors. Saving felines will be promoted.
Scotland
Maison de Moggy is the first cat cafe in Scotland and opened in January 2015. Purrple Cat Cafe plans to become the first cat cafe in Glasgow, and will open in summer 2017
North America
The cat cafe has spread throughout North America since 2014. Its goal in North America generally is to help the adopted cat by partnering with local rescue cats.
Canada
The first cat cafe to open in Canada is Le Cafà ©  © des Chats/Cat Cafà ©  Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which opened to the public in August 2014.
Le CafÃÆ' Â © des Chats in August 2014; CafÃÆ' Â © Chat L'Heureux (also in Montreal) opened in September 2014 with 8 cats adopted from local shelters.
Saturday, October 17, 2015 sees the opening of Ontario's first cat cafe located in Guelph, Ontario.
Catfe opened in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 14, 2015 and Kitty Cat Cafà ©  © and Pet Me Meow both are planning a cafe for Toronto opened in 2015.
The Siberian Cat Cafà ©  © opened in 2015 Chelsea. This cat cafe only has a Siberian cat, making it the first hypoallergenic cat cafe in the world.
United States
In the United States, most health departments require special measures to separate the cafe area from the area where the cat is housed. In some cases, this extends even to areas where only the cat passes briefly (eg, the adopted cat must exit through a separate door without passing through the food preparation area).
Getting regulatory approval can be difficult, such as KitTea San Francisco, the first cat cafe to be established as a US business. Starting the process in November 2013, KitTea's design was finally approved in August 2014 after extensive negotiations with the San Francisco Department of Health. Oakland's Cat Town has its own honor as the first cat cafe to open its doors for customers, signing a contract in July 2014 and opened just a few months later in October. This timeline highlights not only the regulatory barriers for cat cafes that prepare food on the spot, but also the differences between local governments that are only a few miles away from each other.
In contrast to Japanese cat cafes, US cafes typically focus on adoption. Within seven months of opening, Cat Town reported that "the euthanasia rate at its partner's shelter has dropped from 41 to 21 percent, and 184 cats have made the transition from Cat Cafe zones to permanent homes". Similarly, The Cat Cafe in San Diego has facilitated the adoption of more than 250 cats (January 2015 - October 2017) and KitTea San Francisco has adopted 203 (June 2015 - February 2018).
In June 2015, Crumbs and Whiskers opened its first cat cafe in Washington, D.C., where it partnered with a local chapter of the Humane Society; this cafe provides boarding space for about 15-25 cats at once, all provided by Humane Society and available for adoption. Crumbs and Whiskers then opened their second cafe in Los Angeles, California in September 2016. In September 2015, the second cafe opened in New York City, called Koneko. This will support the felines of the Rescue Anjellicle Cats. In October 2015, Blue Cat Cafe opened in Austin, Texas, in partnership with the Austin Humane Society as a café and adoption center. It has live music. In December 2015, Seattle, Washington, opened its first cat cafe, called Seattle Meowtropolitan. In December 2015, the first cat cafe in Dallas, Texas - The Charming Cat Cafe - opened in Vista Ridge Mall, showing off a cat from Kitty Save.
In March 2016, Cat Cafe Mad opened in Madison, Wisconsin. In December 2016, Ashley Brooks opened the "Pounce Cat Cafe Wine Bar" in Charleston, South Carolina. Pounce has partnered with the largest animal shelter in South Carolina, Charleston Animal Society.
In 2017, The Cafe Meow became the first cat cafe to open in Minnesota. In 2017 The Purrfect Roast became the first cat cafe in Chicago. Since it's closed. In 2018, The Windy Kitty Cat Cafe opened in Chicago.
Mexico
Cat Cafes have been established in the capital, Mexico City, and in the State of Baja California. "Bastet Cafe" opened on August 30, 2015 in Tijuana.
Oceania
New Zealand
New Zealand's first cat cafe, The Cat Lounge, opened in November 2015 in Auckland.
Australia
The cat cafe in Melbourne, is the first in Australia, opened in 2014 as the Cat Cafe Melbourne.
See also
- Petting the zoo
References
Further reading
News stories
- Tokyo cat cafe, Global Post
- Cat cafe soothes busy Tokyo cat lover, Reuters
- The cat cafe in Tokyo offers peace in the city, Christian Science Monitor
- San Diego Cat Cafe Can Be First in Country, NBC 7 San Diego
- Open Cat Cafe In San Diego, Fox 5 San Diego
- San Diego's Very Own Cat Cafe, San Diego 6
- Cat cafe in Vancouver: The blurred face of economic diversity, The Vancouver Observer
- Edinburgh Cat Cafe gets a new home
- Is the Happy Cat Cafe suitable for Grand Rapids?
- Is Grand Rapids purrrfect for Cafe Cats?
- The First Cat Cafe opened in Helsinki
- How to open Cat Cafe?
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