There's a cat Cafe in my town and they do it exactly as you should. The cats are all fostered and the cafe is meant to have people interact with the cats, and if they like the cat, they can start the adoption process! If a cat is uncomfortable after a week or so they return it to the shelter. So if there's a cat that particularly dislikes being around other cats or too many people, it doesn't have to. It's a lovely place that I honestly feel good about supporting
Same girl my cat cafe is absolutely amazing they have this little flap and the cats seem so happy they are all rescued and around 435 have been adopted there’s also this long bridge for the cats to walk along and loads of toys and beds it’s called Java whiskers in Westfield choose the kitten lounge
Japan has a huge problem with the trafficking of exotic animals for cafes and the pet trade. Most of the animals are either taken from the wild or come from terrible breeders who pump out large numbers of exotic animals, not unlike puppy mills. Domestic animals in cafes can be ok if done right, but exotic animal cafes are always unethical and should be avoided.
I think it can be done right depending on the Species, but the Problem is that many don't seem to really want to go through the necessary Effort to do so. The Animals definitely need to come from a good Breeder though. Luckily a Cafe with bad Animal Care most likely couldn't exist for long where I live. I guess a Fox Cafe or a Butterfly Cafe might work fine if it's done right. Maybe even Stuff like a Deer or Goat Cafe if it is inside a proper Stable with a fenced off Guest Area and Rules on how to interact with the Animals
Yeah, I think you could do a snake (or reptile) cafe. Appropriately sized enclosures with appropriate care and very showy animals that don't mind being stared at with information about the species and snakes in general. Educational and fun, I would probably run it if I didn't need to make a profit because I love snakes and coffee. Like imagine drinking coffee with a brazilian rainbow boa chilling in a huge zoo grade enclosure next to you while you can read facts about the species. I already have a snake and can drink coffee with him, so I don't need a snake cafe xD All I need is a zoo grade enclosure and a brazilian rainbow boa
@@idiotically-everything 🙃 in a Ball Python Cafe the Snakes could probably even be free roaming (probably not the whole Day though) because Ball Pythons seem to be the least aggressive Snakes that exist. Even wild ones can be picked up without becoming aggressive. Some Owners even let their large Snakes free roam from Time to Time. I think though for a Place like that to exist, there would definitely need to be Rules regarding Interactions with Animals. Or Snakes could only free roam during special Events 🤔 🤔 But many Humans are also Idiots, so one Person would probably find a Way to ruin the Fun for all the other Guests
@@Firestar-TV Oh yeah, most snakes are chill when used to humans. I am just worried about snake safety since humans are not really all that chill, considering I end up relocating snakes that the caller threatened to kill if I wasn't there in 30 minutes Edit: Also Ball pythons aren't social animals so they would not vibe together and the males and females would most likely mate
@@idiotically-everything that's why I wrote someone would probably manage to ruin the Fun for everyone. Also what the Hell is that Story? Someone who threatens to kill Snakes, shouldn't be allowed to keep them. I know that Ball Pythons aren't really social Animals (it's interesting though that their Babies will stay together if given the Opportunity. Perhaps a Defense Strategy?) But maybe it might work in a big enough Room and with only a small Number of Pythons. Maybe 3. Could be all male or female to prevent unwanted Reproduction. Hope to keep one myself someday 😊🐍
i'm a bird lover and the owl café to me was the most disturbing one by far, the way the owls were chained up and couldn't fly around, the small room, the bright lights and how the flyer had the audacity to advertise the owls as "free range" when they chain them up in a small apartment taking away their ability to fly, which mind you, is absolutely a bird's most defining qualities. glad they've closed down and hopefully the owls are now in either in a sanctuary that takes good care of them or back in the wild.
Definitely sick to do something like that. I think I've saw one on CZcams once though that was done right. But that was Years ago so I probably wouldn't find the Video anymore. Definitely a good Thing that it was closed. Hopefully the Owls got good new Homes where they are being cared for properly
It's bad when they close means that vs the hurt wild owl be saved and helped back to being well and able there will just be euthanasia. Is that what you want to euthanize them all? So happy you all wanna see animals put down vs people give a care. Makes perfect sense. Can't imagine why her country is almost out of kiwi and she wants to judge people her country have given the birds to help them save the damn things.
A cat cafe in my country brings in cats from a shelter, and those cats are all available up for adoption, this is such an amazing way to go meet those cats and get to know them before going through with an adoption! Ones with wild animals though... I cannot possibly agree with. I can't believe some people advertise these as "if you're an animal lover, go to this cafe full of wild animals". It's crazy.
I remember going to a reptile cafe years ago and I will say it did seem really good. The reptiles there didn’t seem stressed, all had the right housing (their boa in particular basically had a room to itself for example with plenty of enrichment) and the animals where given long breaks and rotated around to avoid them getting stressed by it all. The walls and tables all had little enrichment options so if you are given a reptile they can entertain themselves a bit while you are chilling, everything had protective layers and the entire cafe was heated to their needs, not yours. There’s a fair few rules too as expected so it’s pretty fair to say they care for their animals. I remember having a decent time there, being handed a milk snake that just happily explored on and around me as I had a drink. As someone with snakes myself I could tell that it wasn’t really stressed at all and just had a decent time wandering. The other reptiles they had where bearded dragons, blue tongues, rankins dragons, corn snakes, a boa and a few others I couldn’t really see, so a lot of reptiles that are much more on the chill side. All in all, that one I’d recommend, and I do think animal cafes with something weird like reptiles can work but it does break my heart that bad ones exist,.
I can see it working with reptiles, especially with the setup you described. Of course it works great as a cat shelter alternative too. I can't think of many more aloof and easygoing animals that could tolerate that type of life well.
Oh dope. I was thinking of massive and appropriate enclosures with a reservation system for "coffee with a reptile" where you agree to rules beforehand and reserve a time to hang out with a reptile of your choosing that is available for a "coffee date" while you can order drinks and snacks.
Most, if not all exotic animal cafes are bad, owl cafes are some of the worst though. They're strictly solitary animals (minus burrowing owls) and can literally break your shoulder. They're immensely IMMENSELY stressed at those sorts of places, and is torture
I also fell for the owl cafe - a different one but in Tokyo (there are a lot unfortunately). Went at night as well, hoping that was best for the owls but there was bright lights everywhere. They had a separate incredibly small room for the owls and at least at this one there was only 6 owls in total you could meet. You schedule an appointment and they talk to you about the owl and you get to actually hold them (now being a volunteer at a wildlife rehab, I realized is horrifying to do). They were chained and pulled off the chain when held. Here is the worst part - there where two great horned owls, two barn owls, and two different pygmy species. They literally had two owls that are prey to four of them all crammed in a tiny room. A barn owl missed it's perch and fly over to the two pygmy owls and scared them half to death. It was horrible and I can't believe I gave them money. 😭
I wouldve asked them if I can buy the owls right away or would call a lawyer to sue them idk..and def make bad pub for their business...anything so I can get the owls out of there to be checked by a vet and wouldve worked hard to find them a waaaay better place to live forever happy. Fuck humans srly...
I used to manage a very popular cat cafe, and when the owner wanted to expand I had to explain to her why her dream of a rabbit cafe was a terrible idea. Rabbits can and will off themselves at the slightest inconvenience, I can't even begin to imagine what that could have been like. Especially since the operations were very not animal focused.
I went to a pug cafe in England, before we went in they gave us a flyer about the pugs and how we should treat the pugs and respect their boundaries! It was really great and there was a limitation on how many people can go in at a time The pugs seemed really happy
I'm in the UK. Went to a cat cafe in Sheffield which, yeah, has lots of toys and a room for them to withdraw and a bunch of climbing stuff suspended from the ceiling so the cats could climb up and survey the guests without interacting with them if they wanted, so I guess that's all cool. I'm still not 100% convinced though. There was this one cat that would really aggressively take treats out of your hand so it almost bit your fingers. I just don't know if cats like having that much of a constant stream of random strangers. A cat *PUB* has recently opened in Bristol. As in, you can go and get beer while surrounded by random cats. This feels like an incredibly bad idea to me.
Some cats are just like that from my experience. I have a pet cat who's like thaggressive. Just lil food agressive. At cafes that adopt out shelter cats, being at the cafe seems like it's better for some of them imo bc they get more attention than they would at the shelter. There are definitely some cats that aren't suited for cafe life though, and at the cafe I work at we make sure the cats we bring from the shelter are social and enjoy seeing people. A cat pub sounds like a disaster waiting to happen tho
We have one specific cat who LOVES attention and will climb on our backs when we scoop their litters bc he wants us to pet him lol. He's incredibly needy and loves to sit on people's laps
@@witchyemofurbs8623 Yeah, I guess I'm only going by one experience of one cat at one cafe I went to once, so hardly a scientific sample! I know some shelters are run in direct collaboration with cat charities, who will have very dedicated cat behaviourists personally giving the OK. That implies there have got to be ways to do it right.
I am a New Zealander and I'm actually visiting Japan right now. When I was looking at stuff to visit I saw there was a capybara Cafe in Tokyo and I will admit it tempted me. But I thought about it later and realized they most likely will not be kept in conditions comfortable to them. I also love sea life and want to visit an aquarium in Osaka as I know they have a whale shark. I'm not sure how humane keeping a whale shark is tbh so I don't know if anyone has thoughts on that. I find keeping cetaceans pretty gross. There are also a lot of dog cafes in Kyoto and one cat Cafe specializing in Bengal cats so no way they are rescues. I also saw a couple of pet stores where puppies were kept in individual small glass boxes with no toys which made me sad.
I feel like a guinea pig or chinchilla café could work if you have big enclosures, quiet sanctuary areas for the animals to hide away, and safe free-roam areas where the animals can choose to interact with people. Could be a good way to find new homes for Guinea pigs too. 🤔 I could see there being hay everywhere in order to keep these kinds of fibrevores happy though.
i think bug cafes would be way cooler, it's a lot easier to provide comfortable enclosures to bugs like spiders, beetles, millipedes, roaches, etc. they are happy with small areas to hide, and usually take to handling well! i know it sounds kinda gross to have bugs in a cafe, but think how cute and fun it would be to feed your extra melon or cucumber to a millipede!! 🥺
omg that sounds so cool! i’d love to eat with a millipede since they’re so sweet and gentle 🥰 maybe some inch worms too and praying mantises. stag beetles are also super cute. now i wish it was real
@@emmaanderson6451 oooh good idea! sawfly larvae are my favorite wormys, they're sooo cute... there's something just so magical about watching bugs eat, they just seem so content so grateful 🥹
Yay butterfly or mantis cafe would be cool, although mantis cafe would not work due to mantises being cannibals, so nope, forget about that one :D But roach, milipede, isopods etc would be cool!
we have a cat cafe in Australia and all the cats there are rescue cats it's a really nice place and its such a shame that other countries don't treat there animals with the respect they deserve.
I think, much like cat cafes, there are some exotic animal cafes that handle things better than others. I actually went to a different owl cafe in Japan (it was a local one to my jurisdiction and definitely more of a hole in the wall place) and all of the critters there were rescues that couldn’t be reintroduced to the wild for one reason or another - they worked in tandem with a wildlife center nearby. You had your tea and snacks in a separate room to avoid the owls eating anything they shouldn’t. Then after having your snacks you went to hang out with the owls. You were specifically instructed on how to handle them and which ones are human friendly at the moment vs which ones to leave alone because they were showing signs of being tired or annoyed (those ones just hung out and vibed). They all had free access to the area and you just got to chill with the owls for an hour (you paid for the hour and only a certain number of people was allowed in at a time). I had a chill barn owl hang out on my shoulder for a bit and it was a good time. Basically, I think there are ways it can be done right, but it definitely needs to be done in tandem with a wildlife reserve or rescue and put the wellness of the animal at the forefront.
Those owl cafes are still not good. They are extremely solitary and should not be pet at all, or even held without proper protection. They get extremely overstimulated, and go into a state of learned helplessness
Owl cafe is a complete trashfire that shouldn't exist at all. No proper places with natural branches to sit on (so their claws won't shorten naturally and their weight won't be distributed properly), different owl species housed together which is just dangerous, because they'll kill each other, no flight so say hi to Aspergillosis. Also, no healthy owl acts chill around people. Chill = sick, so every owl cafe is literally a death factory.
The worst wild animal experience I've ever had also happened to be in Japan, specifically at a place called Okinawa World. I went there not knowing there even would be any animals, I was aiming at seeing a cave and some folk stuff - that's how the place was being advertised after all. But when I got there, I saw that one of the attractions was "showing endemic snakes" in a specific building. I thought that would be interesting and went in there, however it turned out to be more like some sort of a circus - there was a lady that had a snake in front of her on a stage, she was constantly saying that the snake is dangerous (I understand Japanese) comparing the snake to some kind of monster which just made it look bad and then suddenly she HIT the snake in the head! For no reason! Of course the snake got upset and the kids were screaming. I was speechless and quickly left. And when I left, I saw that down the corridor there was a "children's" corner - in the middle of that corner there was a plastic box full of little lizards and there were children ages around 5-7 sitting around the box just freely grabbing those LIVING lizards and throwing them wherever! And next to them there was a sort of a cat tower with two snakes that looked like pythons on it and they had their mouths tied with a rope! There was no separation between the reptiles and the children, they were grabbing them as they pleased and the facility worker was just standing there and looking. So I stormed out the place and the worst site was yet to come - there was an outdoor area with yet other types of animals, ie. gigantic tortoises, crapmed in tiny places, no plants around them, no way to move, they looked so malnourished, their legs were all twisted, claws overgrown, no water around, that's where I actually started crying seeing how cruel it all was and left the entire Okinawa World. This has left me speechless to this day. I can't believe it was a real place and it was allowed. In a country that everybody considers "advanced" and some people even believe Japanese people "love the nature". No, they don't, they try to forcefully turn it into entertainment by making those cafes, circuses and what not 😢
🤢 it still exists according to Google. I hope they've at least improved since then or maybe even completely stopped keeping Animals. Also why did CZcams delete my other Reply for no Reason?🤦🏻♂️
@@Firestar-TV I don't know I only see one of your comments :< I was there in December 2019, so I doubt anything has changed. But it is weird that none of the pictures in Google are those of the animals. There's only a photo of the building (the one that says Habu show - habu is the name of the endemic snake species). And based on Google opinions it seems like organized trips avoid that part of the facility, nobody mentions any animals...
Sounds like Japan really needs better animal safety laws. Such a shame and sad to hear the animal safety is so horrifying in a rich, developed country like Japan.
So glad someone spoke up about this - I see capybara ones, a lone capybara when they are highly social (it doesn’t count if they are surrounded by cats they need same species company) and they are semi aquatic with nothing to swim in… hate
Why only have cafès in the daytime? A night cafè would be cool. - maybe not the most active, but a night cafè for nocturnal animals, maybe like a sanctuary connected to a Cafè, where you could watch the animals in their habitats and enjoy a nice cup of tea. That’d be nice.
I think that’s just when most people go to them, they are open like most food places. Some close at 6 but I’ve seen some that are open until 9. Depends on the cafe really
Most of the cat cafes here on Oahu are partnered with the Hawaiian Humane Society! So all of the cats you interact with are actually adoptable, and they usually have a range of ages from kittens to oldies, so the experience is kind of customizable on who you want to interact with. It’s been a great project to get more cats into good homes instead of euthanized, which has been at a high rate since there are just SO many feral cats around the island (and they’re like the top invasive species to the already devastated native wildlife) so the shelter is always full and unfortunately having to make space on their own :/ Animal cafes like that I think are awesome, and they’re slowly sprouting up more here. But using non-domesticated animals or even solitary/mixed animals seems sketch AT BEST. I agree with you that they should be in sanctuaries or elsewhere.
I was going to mention this, too, as someone living on O'ahu! Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so I've never been, but I fully support our cat cafés. ❤
hey soda, i have volunteered at a bird of prey display team in the uk for over a year and ive done research on falconry and bird of prey keeping and husbandry for a lot longer, i have also done a year course on managing animals in captivity :) so i would consider to have some knowledge that would be helpful to speak on the subject of the owl cafe you encountered. what you described as the owls being 'chained up' is a process called tethering, this is a practice that has been done for thousands of years in falconry, which traditionally uses falcons and hawks (accipiters) as well as eagles in some areas. HOWEVER not all tethering is good tethering, as seen with the northern white faced owl at 7:21. the clip on that branch that is used is not falconry standard and where it is pressed up against that branch like that it doesnt have full range to swivel and could lead to tangles. tangles can be life threatening for a bird and with a proper quality system they very rarely to never occur. that red water dish is also abhorrent, water bowls should be big enough for the bird to bath in comfortably even if they never do they should always be given the option. that perch seen in the shot is also horrible. smooth surfaces like that can cause bumblefoot if they have no other option for perching, birds of prey need differing points in pressure on their feet, so wrapping the perch in spiky astroturf is actually a lot better. that owl could also go under the perch and then hop over, tangling the leash and when they try to hop to other area, they could become suspended, cause injury, and/or break feathers. if these owls are tethered permanently, that is simply unacceptable. owls, unlike other birds of prey, have smaller brains because of how massive their eyes are (fun fact: their eyes are actually tube shaped, not spherical, meaning they cannot move them in their sockets!) and how large their hearing organs are, their brains have shrunk to deal with the deficit of space in their skulls. this means that owls dont understand tethering like other birds of prey and can continue to bate and bate, not understanding that they wont go anywhere (bate means to jump off the perch or glove and flap.) owls, at night, should be free lofted. free lofted means that they have a space where they can move around freely. if they have sixty owls as you said the leaflet you were given suggested, they would need a LOT of space for each and every owl. because these birds are interacting with humans, these owls are imprints, meaning that they were raised by humans as a chick (other birds of prey dont need to be imprints to interact and work with humans comfortably, owls, however, do. this comes down to the smaller brain thing again) and this means that they cannot be kept together (not that you should intermix owl species, they will just kill each other) even with a member of their own species that is the opposite sex because they dont recognise their own species as their own, so they would ALL need separate mews (rooms for birds of prey.) i highly highly doubt they are providing this and im glad that they have closed, i hope that the owls all ended up somewhere that they are actually cared for correctly. not all owls are nocturnal either, that is a misconception, some are crepuscular and some are diurnal too (examples in this video are the snowy owl which are diurnal). from what i have gathered, having nocturnal owls awake during the day doesnt cause them any harm, if thats apart of their routine and as long as they have time to actually rest. another misconception is that birds of prey fly all the time, they dont, they only fly to hunt, find a mate, or avoid danger. flying for any other reason is a waste of energy and, in the wild, wasting energy can kill you quickly. the reason why the owls werent moving much is probably because theyd been fed. also you shouldnt really stroke owls, it is alien to them and the oils on your hands can damage their feathers. there are ways you can do it to help them though for example if they have irritating pin feathers, then in that case it is a benefit. i hope this cleared up some things, feel free to ask for any questions that you might have :)) i will probably do some edits later adding a bit more information but ive gotta be somewhere in a mo so ive gotta leave you here.
There was a local cat cafe that unfortunately shut down that did adoptions. It was a boba place and it was somewhat popular, especially for college students(as this is a college town). The reason for the shut down was that the owners owned the majority(or at least quite a few) of the cats that resided there and apparently it was super common for one of thier owned cats to get ill- and said illness easily spread to the few cats that were up for adoption through shared litter boxes.
As long as they are not wild animals and they are regulated (animal welfare/safety, animals from ethical places, etc) I think they're fine. I saw a cafe where they had alpacas inside and an art aquariams with fish in small enclosures. Japan seems to not havd strict regulations for these things, I hope it changes.
I actually work at a cat cafe in North Western Pennsylvania (the US), and as long as the cats are from shelters, the amount of space is adequate for the amount of cats they have, and they follow FDA guidelines, I see absolutely no problem with cat cafés. We've been open for a little over a year, and we've had 15/16 adoptions so far! Cat cafes also give opportunities for folks like a few of our regulars who rent and can't have cats. There's one girl and her mom who specifically come in to see the cats bc of that. Wild animal cafes or "designer" pet cafes (like the one that someone in the comments said has a bunch of bengal cats), however, I have a big problem with. Its hard enough for the 4 of us to keep tabs on all 8 of our strays and make sure they're healthy bc of communal litterboxes and such, plus we have to give the de-wormer, flea treatments, and other meds from time to time, so I can only imagine how difficult if is to keep tabs on all the different animals and make sure they aren't stressed. Not to mention that *domestic* cats are meant to be inside. Most of those wild animals shouldn't be. It would be one thing if its like an aviary where the birds are being rehabilitated, but even then, seeing all the ppl come and go has to be SUPER stressful. Also, about the bengal cat cafe specifically. My family has had two bengals that were rescues, one from a shitty neighbor and the other from a lady a few states away. Bengals are VERY uptight about EVERYTHING. They want their litter boxes spotless, they want specific food and wont eat is you don't slowly weign them, they're LOUD, they're emotional, they're stubborn. They're like, the hardest domestic cats to deal with bc theyre just plain picky. I cant begin to fathom how stressful running a cafe full of them must be 😬
Hi Soda, I was on Tiktok and I came across a video and I thought I would inform you! Basically, I found something called Bali Sea Turtle Society. They catch baby sea turtles from the ocean, and then people pay money (I think they pay money, I might be wrong!) to release the turtles back into the ocean, where they are caught and sold again. The video had over one hundred million views and ten million likes, so it seems that a lot of people don’t know the truth.
Theres a hospital near where I live. They have a large area fenced off. Theres a man made stream in there and they have ducks, turkeys, and geese. All of them are very well taken care of. Theres an outdoor area for them too
I think cat cafés are a brilliant idea to get cats socialised, adopted and give elderly cats a place to stay. Also, great for people, who love cats but can't keep them. But there need to be very harsh rules (especially for kids). Other animals that could work are insects, reptiles or aquarium fish. Things take a nosedive the most shy and sensitive the animals are and the more complicated their care is.
I just visited Thailand and they had a great small petting zoo. You can only go in small groups for four time slots a day and the animals were kept pretty well (in my opinion). The owner seemed to have a lot of knowledge and was very calm. The encolsures were spacious and the animals looked well fed.
Here in Brazil it's a crime to own some exotic animals, especially if it's belongs to our own fauna, which includes capybaras. And I'm totally ok with that legislation! That's the right thing to do. But, and then, I see our animals being freely adopted and taken to be exposed (in places that aren't zoos or sanctuaries) by people outside Brazil and I feel kinda frustrated with that. 🙃
My brother actually owns a cat cafe and it’s amazing! The restaurant is 2 floors and the second one is only for the cats, and all of them are rescued !
If you ever come to Niagara Falls theirs this thing called bird kingdom, it’s not a cafe but it’s a huge free range bird indoor aviary and they have many rescued birds !
A lot of these animal cafes are so small to. Like these animals need so much space. I refuse to go to them. Except rescue cat cafes of or something similar
I think a good owl cafe would have an outdoor fenced enclosure with lots of space, and there would be a glass barrier between the enclosure and the cafe. It would be more like a zoo, where people can simply observe them. However, the owls may be brought out into the cafe if they are tame and sitting on the worker’s shoulder, but only in the late evening. The cafe itself would be big enough for the owls to free-fly if safety precautions are taken. There should be perches for them to rest on and little hides if they do not want to interact with people. The tables should have umbrellas to prevent droppings from falling on them, and there should be plenty of rules in place.
the main cat cafe in my area is run by the local shelter network, so all the kitties are the sociable ones that like people and are all up for adoption. the shelter network is really great too, they're minimal kill, do all required vaccinations, spay/neuter, and microchip animals before adopting them out. they also partner with the human society for raids of hoarding and puppymill situations, as well as TNR groups that work on feral cats. i got my baby girl, dasha, from them and all i had to do when we got home was wash the flea/tick treatment off of her and she was good for vet stuff until her annual vaccinations.
Cat cafes are the ones I've seen done properly the most and I mean it does make sense since Cats are social animals. I think Guinea Pig Cafes and Rat cafes could probably done as well if done correctly as they are also social animals. Probably any social domesticated animal that can be free-roaming could be in a cafe setting if given proper care, space, and enrichment. But yeah, it's clear that a lot of those wild animal cafes seem to be more set up as "ooo look, animals that you don't normally get to interact with, look at them be like pets". It's definitely meant to be more of an attention grabber and being 'unique' rather than being beneficial for the animals themselves :T
A cat café from my country (Argentina) has the same experience. All cats are rescues and up for adoption, and there was a pet shop where the money gained went to the shelter the cats came from. You had to make a reservation during morning or afternoon, because cats would sleep during noon. It was obvious how much they cared for the cats- there was always a coordinator around enforcing the rules (which had rules like no yelling or not waking up the cats- which I think are somewhat unheard of in animal cafés?) or just watching over making sure everything was alright. They provided toys and wet food to interact with the cats, and it was all a relaxed situation and it was obvious the animals were taken care of. They'd even tell you to leave the cat alone if the cat wanted to lay around but not interact with anybody, which I thought was neat instead of the cats being forced either to interact or being taken away from their napping spot. Those wild animal cafés don't show even an ounce of the same care for the animals I experienced in that place. It's very upsetting.
A cat cafe in my area brings in cats from shelters to be adopted and they have a set of rules on the wall in regards to interacting with the cats, and the setting is very cat friendly ie lots of little hiding places, comfy beds, cat trees etc all to make the cats more comfortable so they can come out of their shell and hopefully get adopted.
I've been to a few (well researched) cat cafes in different countries, and I can say they've all shown proper care and welfare. All (minus on in japan that was not my pick!) acted as temporary homes for socialised shelter cats, which is how it should be done. I don't think any wild/exotic animal cafes can be done right. Its a flawed concept to begin with, given that these are not domesticated animals meant to be around humans and often need far more space and care than they are given. They're simply not made to be around us in this capacity. I feel especially bad for prey animals as I can't imagine how scary it must be to spend the majority of your day surrounded by noise, eyes, and grabbing hands.
I went to a cat cafe, but it was basically someone’s house that they had open for money? But it didn’t seem like a bad place all of the cats were super nice and friendly, didn’t seem stressed. Some of them were even purred, I went for my birthday. The where four cats there :D
the only wild animal cafes i think could be done right might be something like capybaras because they actually do enjoy attention but the habitat they would need would need to be much larger than most cafes would be.
Any place that uses petting of wild animals as their special thing and a way to make money is automatically on my black list. They are always horrible...
i work at a bar and am basically nocturnal because of it (i go to bed at about 6am and wake up at maybe like 2pm) and id love an owl cafe, like open at night only. on one hand, you could probably keep owls in a cafe ethically that way, on the other, imo it doesnt even need real owls, i just want places that are open at night in general too.
I went to a monkey cafe in Mexico and I think it was okay, but I’m not sure. The building was open almost completely except for a roof, posts, and walls around the bar. The monkeys were allowed in whenever they wanted to. They had a big house-like thing nearby so you could watch the monkeys because there was food in there. (To lure them away directly away from the visitors to avoid harm) It was a pretty nice experience and the monkeys weren’t trapped in any way because they were native to the little section of jungle. So, what do you think?
Since 2 years we have a cat cafe in my town in Oostende, Belgium. They work with a cat rescue to provide their cats. There is also a room in the back where the cats can go through a cat door if they don't want to interact with people. There are also a bunch of rules... most important were that you let the cats come to you and you can't pick them up. Every table also has toys because some cats don't want to be petted but might enjoy to play.
We have a dog cafe near my work place that is really good. There are two dogs at a time, they dont come with the same dogs everyday for their comfort and they are to be adopted. They have an outside and a "non-human" place to rest if they want to. I think as dogs are more likerly to want interactions from humans it is a very good choice. I remeber playing with the dogs outside after having a tea. So cool.
For me this animal cafe is similar in how bad it is for animals to petting zoo. Maybe it can be good in case it takes cats from shelters and helps to adopt them. But if cats personal space is neglected its similar to how it is to wild animals. So in most cases it is animal cruelty. Animals are not toys to touch, hug or pet, they have boundaries
Just want to explain what I’m seeing on TikTok- I’ve been seeing more of those hamster live streams- I’ve been screen recording them and then reporting so yeah ;-;
Thank you for making this video I love capybaras and I saw the capybara cafe on some TikTok videos and I thought they must look after there animals or they wouldn’t be allowed to do what they do but so publicly and hoped to go there one day but knowing this I’m staying away from capybara cafes because I don’t want to give them money and encourage this
I agree that cat cafes can be done right, unfortunately I have been to a cat café here in Manchester (England) that I was not a fan of at all. It was way too busy, incredibly loud, there was young children running around, chasing after and harassing cats etc. It was a bad enough environment for me (I am autistic), so I can imagine how stressful it must have been for the cats. I honestly do think cat cafes can be done right, especially when they are helping facilitate the adoption of rescued cats, however there needs to be standards in place e.g., limited number of people, limited number of cats, perhaps even an age restriction, like no children under 12 or something. I agree that owl café is not appropriate at all. I honestly am not a fan of people keeping birds of prey inside like pets, this seems to be becoming a bit of a trend especially with owls because they are "cute". But in my opinion birds of prey should be kept outside in a large enclosure, in as natural of an environment as possible. So it naturally follows that I don't agree with owls being kept in a café environment at all. Here's a couple other notes I wanted to make: 1. Large owls such as eagle-owls are predators to smaller owl species. It is so stressful for them to be forced together constantly like that. 2. As you mentioned, some species (not all!) of owl are nocturnal. This includes barn owls, and they should not be forced to be out during the day for such long periods of time. 3. Owls are not particularly social birds, at most they will stay in pairs so it is stressful for them to be forced together like this. 60 birds in the same room is ridiculous and beyond inappropriate. 4. Birds should not be tethered for hours at a time. I feel like its obvious why this is bad for psychological reasons, however it can also lead to them developing conditions such as bumblefoot. 5. Owls are wild animals that are usually, at best, tolerant of human presence. They are not domestic animals and they don't tend to enjoy being pet.
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In Poland we have really great bunny cafe. There is a big sign with what you can or cant do. Not everyone can go to pet bunnys. They have there safe spaces so people domy touch them. So its so great. Oh and they are rescude🌸
Just like humans animals need to have the physical needs met ( like porper food, porper environment, porper cleaning) and there emotional needs met ( porper lighting, less noise, less touching ect. ) I've been to a cat cafe and it was a good place, the cats where happy, they had rooms to themselves, toys to play with them, you can adopt them. it was a good cafe
There is a sloth encounter near me that has a similar vibe to a cat cafe. Its a small building with no real space for these animals, I know sloths don't move much, but it's so crowded. They also sell Sloths and have a kangaroo for sale as well as a koala bear and I just cant understand how it is legal for them to do that!
I have an irrational fear of owls--dumb, I know. But I definitely don't want them to suffer. It's sad and gross to chain raptors up (or any animal, for that matter) and force nocturnal animals to be awake and under bright lights for human enjoyment. Not to mention the horrific "care" and little to no enrichment at these less than savory cafés. Anyone who goes to these cafés and sees nothing wrong with them are not animal lovers. Do I want to pet an otter? Yes. But I know it's wrong to keep them in the setting, and that in general, I shouldn't touch an otter because they're wild animals. And yeah, from what I know, Japan's animal welfare laws are abysmal and animal trafficking and unethical exotic animal trade is a huge problem (like pretty much everywhere, unfortunately).
No fear is irrational, except maybe the fear of breathing I suppose. I have a fear of squirrels falling from trees and landing in my hair! Owls can be scary, but they are beautiful and deserve to be protected as all animals do! They protect our buildings where I live, each store has an owl statue on top of it. No animal deserves to be chained up like this 😠
@@Theravingranter 100%. I almost wish I could just free them all and take them to an animal refuge, but that's pretty much impossible (and probably highly illegal).
I have always been confused how people don't seem to see any problems with them and how stressful it specially would be for wild animals to constantly meet new people. I'm only okay with cat cafees with rescue cats where you can adopt them.
Owl cafe sounds extremely disturbing and problematic to me, I didn't even know something like that existed. 100% abuse and created by people with zero empathy for animals, pure evil imo. A cafe is not a place for wild animals like owls but torture, they don't like to spend time with lots of nasty humans.
Pet café with real pet animals like cats, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc might be ok, maybe even nice, but wild animals like fox, otter, owl, idk.... wolf shouldn't be in such places, they should live in the wild or animal sanctuaries. That's the right way, because they might see humans as scary big things and if a wild animal sense fear on any side it can be harmful. Real pets mostly live close to us, so they are ok. 🤔
I guess they aren't as ferocious and big as wolves, but still not the most ideal pets. The only wild mammal I tried to keep for a while was a wounded hedgehog and it wasn't permanent, I kept him only as long as he became healthy and I realeased him back to the wood then. I personally think we, I mean humans should not go further than this with wild animals, only because mother nature knows what is best for them.
I don't think animal cafes are cruel... I mean it all depends on how some people treat those animals. Like if treat them good or bad. That's just my opinion. I've never been to a animal cafe before lol. But I would definitely love to go to one some day!✨🐈⬛🩷🦉✨ I just love watching all your videos BTW!💕🦋✨
where do you think those animals go at the end if the day? i’m sure they go into cages where they’re sad and wishing they were somewhere spacious and with their own kind. did you see those owls that she showed? they looked miserable and were there as a spectacle and nothing else. they were chained up! they were treated like a novelty and not like living breathing creatures. it’s cruel
Every time I see people abroad with pet capybaras, I get extremely worried about where people get these animals. In Brazil (where I live) it is absurdly easy to find capybaras as they are a native species, but we cannot raise them as pets, or the environmental institute will take action in accordance with the legislation.
When I read the title I presumed it was some sort of place that would let wild animals, from, the wild, hang out in it. Like an open space and bird perches or something. **This** sucks
Honestly if you want to be surrounded by animals who are taken care of and loved and have habitats befitting them but also you want to eat there’s this wild new thing called…a ZOO or THEME PARK. Quite a lot of these places let you feed the animals some might even let you touch one depending on what animal it is. If you want a slightly less expensive option go on a nature trail or park. Odds are you will see some type of animal. There is where I live a Seabird Sanctuary which is completely free, there are flyers and guides there to tell you all about the birds, they all have proper habitats and are well taken care of and almost all of them are rescued from the beach or surrounding area. There are some that are flying about freely or walking around so I wouldn’t advise eating there, the seagulls will steal your cheese crackers lol they also do have owls because believe it or not there are owls near the ocean. So yeah if you want to see the majestic owls up close and you happen to be in Florida, drop by. Other than that I implore people to stop doing wild animal cafes, the only cafe that works is reptile or cat, most animals even domestic ones need lots and lots and lots of space and care!
case by case and species by species. i think cat and dog cafes are very nessacary partners to shelters. most other animals have good reason why its not well built to tolerate handling by more then one person or 3. (im also pretty against all aquariums, thats just human ego / god complex nonsense)
If they had a sufficiently big area with natural habitat for the animals connected to the café so the animals could choose whether they wanted to interact I'd happily go to such a café. But forcing the animals to interact is just wrong.
Cat cafes and bunny cafes etc are specifically so awesome because they help the animals find homes, enable people who cant have pets to get some animal therapy, drive business for the cafe, and help shelters with overcrowding! If its a wild animal that shouldn’t be a pet, then its cruel.
The cafes with domestic animals for adoption (and with very good and solid adoption process) it's possibly the ONLY way I can find kind of acceptable a place like that. The rest of the cafes that exist (including the ones with dogs or cats) are just unethical. We center ourselves all the time, our pleasure, our demands, so animals just exist for our entertainment. A lot of people, for example, it's not even interested in having wild animals as pets for the purpose of conservation or to help them in any way, many want to keep them just bc pretty or exotic or "weird" and "I need to have it", that's it. It's infuriating. If you go to drink a coffee or to eat something WHY is that important to have animals to entertain you?, WHY you have to use them as a "tool" to lift up your mood?, WHY we believe we have the right to use them in the first place? Recently, I saw this format of yoga with puppies, like for WHAT and WHY 😐 I hope more strict policies, restrictions and penalties are adopted in many countries over time.
My main thoughts / issue with cat cafes is the risk to the cats welfare... We have three cats at home, all rescues, who don’t really get along, and it’s a lot of work creating a space where they can feel comfortable and be their naturally solitary selves. They are lovely and cuddly with us, but will hiss at and fight with one another if trapped together or left alone for too long. Only one can happily be picked up, the others will go crazy if you try to restrain them in any way, there’s just too much unknown past trauma. One girl will also toilet in the house sometimes if she gets too stressed out. We love them all but it takes a lot of time, patience and feliway diffusers to keep them all happy. I could not imagine having any more cats to add to the mix so I have no idea how these cafes can happily have that many cats living together, especially when they claim the cats are rescued. Being picked up and chased and petted by strangers and random children everyday must be exhausting and stressful too. Sure, they normally have lots of hides and wall / ceiling climbers to explore and stay entertained, but I still find it hard to imagine that is actually an okay environment for their health and welfare... 🤷♀️ But wild animals cafes are a huge nope from me. Keep animals wild ffs!! 😡
The owl cafes should ideally have good and quiet/enriching conditions for their owls while they should ideally get all of their owls from rescue shelters or have had rescued those owls themselves. They should also be a place where owls that cannot survive in the wild because of permanent disabilities/life altering debilitating injuries can be cared for.
Those owl cafes are still not good. They are extremely solitary and should not be pet at all, or even held without proper protection. They get extremely overstimulated, and go into a state of learned helplessness.
I dont believe any animal but service animals should be in where people eat food. Have always thought that is the most disgusting idea ever conceived around food service.
There's a cat Cafe in my town and they do it exactly as you should. The cats are all fostered and the cafe is meant to have people interact with the cats, and if they like the cat, they can start the adoption process! If a cat is uncomfortable after a week or so they return it to the shelter. So if there's a cat that particularly dislikes being around other cats or too many people, it doesn't have to. It's a lovely place that I honestly feel good about supporting
theres a cat cafe just like that in my city
Same girl my cat cafe is absolutely amazing they have this little flap and the cats seem so happy they are all rescued and around 435 have been adopted there’s also this long bridge for the cats to walk along and loads of toys and beds it’s called Java whiskers in Westfield choose the kitten lounge
Japan has a huge problem with the trafficking of exotic animals for cafes and the pet trade. Most of the animals are either taken from the wild or come from terrible breeders who pump out large numbers of exotic animals, not unlike puppy mills. Domestic animals in cafes can be ok if done right, but exotic animal cafes are always unethical and should be avoided.
I think it can be done right depending on the Species, but the Problem is that many don't seem to really want to go through the necessary Effort to do so.
The Animals definitely need to come from a good Breeder though.
Luckily a Cafe with bad Animal Care most likely couldn't exist for long where I live.
I guess a Fox Cafe or a Butterfly Cafe might work fine if it's done right. Maybe even Stuff like a Deer or Goat Cafe if it is inside a proper Stable with a fenced off Guest Area and Rules on how to interact with the Animals
Yeah, I think you could do a snake (or reptile) cafe.
Appropriately sized enclosures with appropriate care and very showy animals that don't mind being stared at with information about the species and snakes in general. Educational and fun, I would probably run it if I didn't need to make a profit because I love snakes and coffee. Like imagine drinking coffee with a brazilian rainbow boa chilling in a huge zoo grade enclosure next to you while you can read facts about the species. I already have a snake and can drink coffee with him, so I don't need a snake cafe xD All I need is a zoo grade enclosure and a brazilian rainbow boa
@@idiotically-everything 🙃 in a Ball Python Cafe the Snakes could probably even be free roaming (probably not the whole Day though) because Ball Pythons seem to be the least aggressive Snakes that exist. Even wild ones can be picked up without becoming aggressive. Some Owners even let their large Snakes free roam from Time to Time. I think though for a Place like that to exist, there would definitely need to be Rules regarding Interactions with Animals. Or Snakes could only free roam during special Events 🤔
🤔 But many Humans are also Idiots, so one Person would probably find a Way to ruin the Fun for all the other Guests
@@Firestar-TV Oh yeah, most snakes are chill when used to humans. I am just worried about snake safety since humans are not really all that chill, considering I end up relocating snakes that the caller threatened to kill if I wasn't there in 30 minutes
Edit: Also Ball pythons aren't social animals so they would not vibe together and the males and females would most likely mate
@@idiotically-everything that's why I wrote someone would probably manage to ruin the Fun for everyone.
Also what the Hell is that Story? Someone who threatens to kill Snakes, shouldn't be allowed to keep them.
I know that Ball Pythons aren't really social Animals (it's interesting though that their Babies will stay together if given the Opportunity. Perhaps a Defense Strategy?) But maybe it might work in a big enough Room and with only a small Number of Pythons. Maybe 3. Could be all male or female to prevent unwanted Reproduction.
Hope to keep one myself someday 😊🐍
i'm a bird lover and the owl café to me was the most disturbing one by far, the way the owls were chained up and couldn't fly around, the small room, the bright lights and how the flyer had the audacity to advertise the owls as "free range" when they chain them up in a small apartment taking away their ability to fly, which mind you, is absolutely a bird's most defining qualities. glad they've closed down and hopefully the owls are now in either in a sanctuary that takes good care of them or back in the wild.
Definitely sick to do something like that. I think I've saw one on CZcams once though that was done right. But that was Years ago so I probably wouldn't find the Video anymore. Definitely a good Thing that it was closed. Hopefully the Owls got good new Homes where they are being cared for properly
It's bad when they close means that vs the hurt wild owl be saved and helped back to being well and able there will just be euthanasia. Is that what you want to euthanize them all? So happy you all wanna see animals put down vs people give a care. Makes perfect sense. Can't imagine why her country is almost out of kiwi and she wants to judge people her country have given the birds to help them save the damn things.
Exactly.
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A cat cafe in my country brings in cats from a shelter, and those cats are all available up for adoption, this is such an amazing way to go meet those cats and get to know them before going through with an adoption! Ones with wild animals though... I cannot possibly agree with. I can't believe some people advertise these as "if you're an animal lover, go to this cafe full of wild animals". It's crazy.
It’s so cool to hear other the adoption cat cafes are a thing all around the world!
@@sodapetsyesssss
I remember going to a reptile cafe years ago and I will say it did seem really good. The reptiles there didn’t seem stressed, all had the right housing (their boa in particular basically had a room to itself for example with plenty of enrichment) and the animals where given long breaks and rotated around to avoid them getting stressed by it all. The walls and tables all had little enrichment options so if you are given a reptile they can entertain themselves a bit while you are chilling, everything had protective layers and the entire cafe was heated to their needs, not yours. There’s a fair few rules too as expected so it’s pretty fair to say they care for their animals.
I remember having a decent time there, being handed a milk snake that just happily explored on and around me as I had a drink. As someone with snakes myself I could tell that it wasn’t really stressed at all and just had a decent time wandering. The other reptiles they had where bearded dragons, blue tongues, rankins dragons, corn snakes, a boa and a few others I couldn’t really see, so a lot of reptiles that are much more on the chill side.
All in all, that one I’d recommend, and I do think animal cafes with something weird like reptiles can work but it does break my heart that bad ones exist,.
I can see it working with reptiles, especially with the setup you described. Of course it works great as a cat shelter alternative too. I can't think of many more aloof and easygoing animals that could tolerate that type of life well.
I also went to a reptile cafe in Japan and it was great. They took good care of the animals and they didn't seem stressed. It was very enjoyable.
Oh dope. I was thinking of massive and appropriate enclosures with a reservation system for "coffee with a reptile" where you agree to rules beforehand and reserve a time to hang out with a reptile of your choosing that is available for a "coffee date" while you can order drinks and snacks.
I'm so curious about animal cafes, but I worry about it from an animal standpoint and a culinary standpoint, as someone with experience in both.
Most, if not all exotic animal cafes are bad, owl cafes are some of the worst though. They're strictly solitary animals (minus burrowing owls) and can literally break your shoulder. They're immensely IMMENSELY stressed at those sorts of places, and is torture
I also fell for the owl cafe - a different one but in Tokyo (there are a lot unfortunately). Went at night as well, hoping that was best for the owls but there was bright lights everywhere. They had a separate incredibly small room for the owls and at least at this one there was only 6 owls in total you could meet. You schedule an appointment and they talk to you about the owl and you get to actually hold them (now being a volunteer at a wildlife rehab, I realized is horrifying to do). They were chained and pulled off the chain when held. Here is the worst part - there where two great horned owls, two barn owls, and two different pygmy species. They literally had two owls that are prey to four of them all crammed in a tiny room. A barn owl missed it's perch and fly over to the two pygmy owls and scared them half to death. It was horrible and I can't believe I gave them money. 😭
I wouldve asked them if I can buy the owls right away or would call a lawyer to sue them idk..and def make bad pub for their business...anything so I can get the owls out of there to be checked by a vet and wouldve worked hard to find them a waaaay better place to live forever happy. Fuck humans srly...
I used to manage a very popular cat cafe, and when the owner wanted to expand I had to explain to her why her dream of a rabbit cafe was a terrible idea. Rabbits can and will off themselves at the slightest inconvenience, I can't even begin to imagine what that could have been like. Especially since the operations were very not animal focused.
I went to a pug cafe in England, before we went in they gave us a flyer about the pugs and how we should treat the pugs and respect their boundaries! It was really great and there was a limitation on how many people can go in at a time
The pugs seemed really happy
There's such thing as a PUG CAFE??? Pugs are one of my favorite dog breeds I'm definitely gonna have to check it out
@@Emily-oy2nq yeah! It's called CuppaPug
I'm in the UK. Went to a cat cafe in Sheffield which, yeah, has lots of toys and a room for them to withdraw and a bunch of climbing stuff suspended from the ceiling so the cats could climb up and survey the guests without interacting with them if they wanted, so I guess that's all cool. I'm still not 100% convinced though. There was this one cat that would really aggressively take treats out of your hand so it almost bit your fingers. I just don't know if cats like having that much of a constant stream of random strangers.
A cat *PUB* has recently opened in Bristol. As in, you can go and get beer while surrounded by random cats. This feels like an incredibly bad idea to me.
Beer and cats? Drunk ppl? possibly harmful to both people and animals? Wdym so smart!
Some cats are just like that from my experience. I have a pet cat who's like thaggressive. Just lil food agressive.
At cafes that adopt out shelter cats, being at the cafe seems like it's better for some of them imo bc they get more attention than they would at the shelter. There are definitely some cats that aren't suited for cafe life though, and at the cafe I work at we make sure the cats we bring from the shelter are social and enjoy seeing people.
A cat pub sounds like a disaster waiting to happen tho
We have one specific cat who LOVES attention and will climb on our backs when we scoop their litters bc he wants us to pet him lol. He's incredibly needy and loves to sit on people's laps
I agree with hazel, intoxicated people can't hardly be responsible/bothered as is so I wouldn't do anything like that, just wow
@@witchyemofurbs8623 Yeah, I guess I'm only going by one experience of one cat at one cafe I went to once, so hardly a scientific sample!
I know some shelters are run in direct collaboration with cat charities, who will have very dedicated cat behaviourists personally giving the OK. That implies there have got to be ways to do it right.
I am a New Zealander and I'm actually visiting Japan right now. When I was looking at stuff to visit I saw there was a capybara Cafe in Tokyo and I will admit it tempted me. But I thought about it later and realized they most likely will not be kept in conditions comfortable to them. I also love sea life and want to visit an aquarium in Osaka as I know they have a whale shark. I'm not sure how humane keeping a whale shark is tbh so I don't know if anyone has thoughts on that. I find keeping cetaceans pretty gross. There are also a lot of dog cafes in Kyoto and one cat Cafe specializing in Bengal cats so no way they are rescues. I also saw a couple of pet stores where puppies were kept in individual small glass boxes with no toys which made me sad.
Whale sharks are fish, not mammals
@piretiris8223 oh yes I know this, I can see why you would think I didn't know. Fish can still suffer in captivity if not kept well
@@Raggles22 yeah I know, that's probably why we can't keep Great White Shark's in aquariums for long periods of time.
Holding wild animals captive can't be done humanely tbh
there should be strict rules for the creation of animal cafes no exception
I feel like a guinea pig or chinchilla café could work if you have big enclosures, quiet sanctuary areas for the animals to hide away, and safe free-roam areas where the animals can choose to interact with people.
Could be a good way to find new homes for Guinea pigs too. 🤔
I could see there being hay everywhere in order to keep these kinds of fibrevores happy though.
A snake café could be pretty cool too.
i think bug cafes would be way cooler, it's a lot easier to provide comfortable enclosures to bugs like spiders, beetles, millipedes, roaches, etc. they are happy with small areas to hide, and usually take to handling well! i know it sounds kinda gross to have bugs in a cafe, but think how cute and fun it would be to feed your extra melon or cucumber to a millipede!! 🥺
omg that sounds so cool! i’d love to eat with a millipede since they’re so sweet and gentle 🥰 maybe some inch worms too and praying mantises. stag beetles are also super cute. now i wish it was real
@@emmaanderson6451 oooh good idea! sawfly larvae are my favorite wormys, they're sooo cute... there's something just so magical about watching bugs eat, they just seem so content so grateful 🥹
Yay butterfly or mantis cafe would be cool, although mantis cafe would not work due to mantises being cannibals, so nope, forget about that one :D But roach, milipede, isopods etc would be cool!
this is an excellent idea! it would also be a great way to maybe help turn public opinion around on certain bugs :>
THIS OMGGGG, i keep tarantulas, millipedes, isopods, roaches and various spiders and legit this would be so fun!
we have a cat cafe in Australia and all the cats there are rescue cats it's a really nice place and its such a shame that other countries don't treat there animals with the respect they deserve.
I think, much like cat cafes, there are some exotic animal cafes that handle things better than others. I actually went to a different owl cafe in Japan (it was a local one to my jurisdiction and definitely more of a hole in the wall place) and all of the critters there were rescues that couldn’t be reintroduced to the wild for one reason or another - they worked in tandem with a wildlife center nearby. You had your tea and snacks in a separate room to avoid the owls eating anything they shouldn’t. Then after having your snacks you went to hang out with the owls. You were specifically instructed on how to handle them and which ones are human friendly at the moment vs which ones to leave alone because they were showing signs of being tired or annoyed (those ones just hung out and vibed). They all had free access to the area and you just got to chill with the owls for an hour (you paid for the hour and only a certain number of people was allowed in at a time). I had a chill barn owl hang out on my shoulder for a bit and it was a good time.
Basically, I think there are ways it can be done right, but it definitely needs to be done in tandem with a wildlife reserve or rescue and put the wellness of the animal at the forefront.
Those owl cafes are still not good. They are extremely solitary and should not be pet at all, or even held without proper protection. They get extremely overstimulated, and go into a state of learned helplessness
Owl cafe is a complete trashfire that shouldn't exist at all. No proper places with natural branches to sit on (so their claws won't shorten naturally and their weight won't be distributed properly), different owl species housed together which is just dangerous, because they'll kill each other, no flight so say hi to Aspergillosis.
Also, no healthy owl acts chill around people. Chill = sick, so every owl cafe is literally a death factory.
The worst wild animal experience I've ever had also happened to be in Japan, specifically at a place called Okinawa World. I went there not knowing there even would be any animals, I was aiming at seeing a cave and some folk stuff - that's how the place was being advertised after all. But when I got there, I saw that one of the attractions was "showing endemic snakes" in a specific building. I thought that would be interesting and went in there, however it turned out to be more like some sort of a circus - there was a lady that had a snake in front of her on a stage, she was constantly saying that the snake is dangerous (I understand Japanese) comparing the snake to some kind of monster which just made it look bad and then suddenly she HIT the snake in the head! For no reason! Of course the snake got upset and the kids were screaming. I was speechless and quickly left.
And when I left, I saw that down the corridor there was a "children's" corner - in the middle of that corner there was a plastic box full of little lizards and there were children ages around 5-7 sitting around the box just freely grabbing those LIVING lizards and throwing them wherever! And next to them there was a sort of a cat tower with two snakes that looked like pythons on it and they had their mouths tied with a rope! There was no separation between the reptiles and the children, they were grabbing them as they pleased and the facility worker was just standing there and looking.
So I stormed out the place and the worst site was yet to come - there was an outdoor area with yet other types of animals, ie. gigantic tortoises, crapmed in tiny places, no plants around them, no way to move, they looked so malnourished, their legs were all twisted, claws overgrown, no water around, that's where I actually started crying seeing how cruel it all was and left the entire Okinawa World. This has left me speechless to this day. I can't believe it was a real place and it was allowed. In a country that everybody considers "advanced" and some people even believe Japanese people "love the nature". No, they don't, they try to forcefully turn it into entertainment by making those cafes, circuses and what not 😢
🤢 it still exists according to Google. I hope they've at least improved since then or maybe even completely stopped keeping Animals. Also why did CZcams delete my other Reply for no Reason?🤦🏻♂️
@@Firestar-TV I don't know I only see one of your comments :<
I was there in December 2019, so I doubt anything has changed. But it is weird that none of the pictures in Google are those of the animals. There's only a photo of the building (the one that says Habu show - habu is the name of the endemic snake species). And based on Google opinions it seems like organized trips avoid that part of the facility, nobody mentions any animals...
@@LovelyAngel. Really hope this means that they might have stopped this. Really didn't know how bad japanese Animal Welfare Laws are until today
Sounds like Japan really needs better animal safety laws. Such a shame and sad to hear the animal safety is so horrifying in a rich, developed country like Japan.
So glad someone spoke up about this - I see capybara ones, a lone capybara when they are highly social (it doesn’t count if they are surrounded by cats they need same species company) and they are semi aquatic with nothing to swim in… hate
Why only have cafès in the daytime? A night cafè would be cool. - maybe not the most active, but a night cafè for nocturnal animals, maybe like a sanctuary connected to a Cafè, where you could watch the animals in their habitats and enjoy a nice cup of tea. That’d be nice.
I think that’s just when most people go to them, they are open like most food places. Some close at 6 but I’ve seen some that are open until 9. Depends on the cafe really
Most of the cat cafes here on Oahu are partnered with the Hawaiian Humane Society! So all of the cats you interact with are actually adoptable, and they usually have a range of ages from kittens to oldies, so the experience is kind of customizable on who you want to interact with. It’s been a great project to get more cats into good homes instead of euthanized, which has been at a high rate since there are just SO many feral cats around the island (and they’re like the top invasive species to the already devastated native wildlife) so the shelter is always full and unfortunately having to make space on their own :/
Animal cafes like that I think are awesome, and they’re slowly sprouting up more here. But using non-domesticated animals or even solitary/mixed animals seems sketch AT BEST. I agree with you that they should be in sanctuaries or elsewhere.
I was going to mention this, too, as someone living on O'ahu! Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so I've never been, but I fully support our cat cafés. ❤
hey soda, i have volunteered at a bird of prey display team in the uk for over a year and ive done research on falconry and bird of prey keeping and husbandry for a lot longer, i have also done a year course on managing animals in captivity :) so i would consider to have some knowledge that would be helpful to speak on the subject of the owl cafe you encountered.
what you described as the owls being 'chained up' is a process called tethering, this is a practice that has been done for thousands of years in falconry, which traditionally uses falcons and hawks (accipiters) as well as eagles in some areas. HOWEVER not all tethering is good tethering, as seen with the northern white faced owl at 7:21. the clip on that branch that is used is not falconry standard and where it is pressed up against that branch like that it doesnt have full range to swivel and could lead to tangles. tangles can be life threatening for a bird and with a proper quality system they very rarely to never occur. that red water dish is also abhorrent, water bowls should be big enough for the bird to bath in comfortably even if they never do they should always be given the option. that perch seen in the shot is also horrible. smooth surfaces like that can cause bumblefoot if they have no other option for perching, birds of prey need differing points in pressure on their feet, so wrapping the perch in spiky astroturf is actually a lot better. that owl could also go under the perch and then hop over, tangling the leash and when they try to hop to other area, they could become suspended, cause injury, and/or break feathers.
if these owls are tethered permanently, that is simply unacceptable. owls, unlike other birds of prey, have smaller brains because of how massive their eyes are (fun fact: their eyes are actually tube shaped, not spherical, meaning they cannot move them in their sockets!) and how large their hearing organs are, their brains have shrunk to deal with the deficit of space in their skulls. this means that owls dont understand tethering like other birds of prey and can continue to bate and bate, not understanding that they wont go anywhere (bate means to jump off the perch or glove and flap.) owls, at night, should be free lofted. free lofted means that they have a space where they can move around freely. if they have sixty owls as you said the leaflet you were given suggested, they would need a LOT of space for each and every owl. because these birds are interacting with humans, these owls are imprints, meaning that they were raised by humans as a chick (other birds of prey dont need to be imprints to interact and work with humans comfortably, owls, however, do. this comes down to the smaller brain thing again) and this means that they cannot be kept together (not that you should intermix owl species, they will just kill each other) even with a member of their own species that is the opposite sex because they dont recognise their own species as their own, so they would ALL need separate mews (rooms for birds of prey.) i highly highly doubt they are providing this and im glad that they have closed, i hope that the owls all ended up somewhere that they are actually cared for correctly.
not all owls are nocturnal either, that is a misconception, some are crepuscular and some are diurnal too (examples in this video are the snowy owl which are diurnal). from what i have gathered, having nocturnal owls awake during the day doesnt cause them any harm, if thats apart of their routine and as long as they have time to actually rest. another misconception is that birds of prey fly all the time, they dont, they only fly to hunt, find a mate, or avoid danger. flying for any other reason is a waste of energy and, in the wild, wasting energy can kill you quickly. the reason why the owls werent moving much is probably because theyd been fed. also you shouldnt really stroke owls, it is alien to them and the oils on your hands can damage their feathers. there are ways you can do it to help them though for example if they have irritating pin feathers, then in that case it is a benefit.
i hope this cleared up some things, feel free to ask for any questions that you might have :)) i will probably do some edits later adding a bit more information but ive gotta be somewhere in a mo so ive gotta leave you here.
There was a local cat cafe that unfortunately shut down that did adoptions. It was a boba place and it was somewhat popular, especially for college students(as this is a college town). The reason for the shut down was that the owners owned the majority(or at least quite a few) of the cats that resided there and apparently it was super common for one of thier owned cats to get ill- and said illness easily spread to the few cats that were up for adoption through shared litter boxes.
As long as they are not wild animals and they are regulated (animal welfare/safety, animals from ethical places, etc) I think they're fine. I saw a cafe where they had alpacas inside and an art aquariams with fish in small enclosures. Japan seems to not havd strict regulations for these things, I hope it changes.
Well, alpacas are domesticated!
Is it just me or other people love to watch her videos at 3am
I actually work at a cat cafe in North Western Pennsylvania (the US), and as long as the cats are from shelters, the amount of space is adequate for the amount of cats they have, and they follow FDA guidelines, I see absolutely no problem with cat cafés. We've been open for a little over a year, and we've had 15/16 adoptions so far! Cat cafes also give opportunities for folks like a few of our regulars who rent and can't have cats. There's one girl and her mom who specifically come in to see the cats bc of that.
Wild animal cafes or "designer" pet cafes (like the one that someone in the comments said has a bunch of bengal cats), however, I have a big problem with. Its hard enough for the 4 of us to keep tabs on all 8 of our strays and make sure they're healthy bc of communal litterboxes and such, plus we have to give the de-wormer, flea treatments, and other meds from time to time, so I can only imagine how difficult if is to keep tabs on all the different animals and make sure they aren't stressed. Not to mention that *domestic* cats are meant to be inside. Most of those wild animals shouldn't be. It would be one thing if its like an aviary where the birds are being rehabilitated, but even then, seeing all the ppl come and go has to be SUPER stressful.
Also, about the bengal cat cafe specifically. My family has had two bengals that were rescues, one from a shitty neighbor and the other from a lady a few states away. Bengals are VERY uptight about EVERYTHING. They want their litter boxes spotless, they want specific food and wont eat is you don't slowly weign them, they're LOUD, they're emotional, they're stubborn. They're like, the hardest domestic cats to deal with bc theyre just plain picky. I cant begin to fathom how stressful running a cafe full of them must be 😬
Hi Soda, I was on Tiktok and I came across a video and I thought I would inform you! Basically, I found something called Bali Sea Turtle Society. They catch baby sea turtles from the ocean, and then people pay money (I think they pay money, I might be wrong!) to release the turtles back into the ocean, where they are caught and sold again. The video had over one hundred million views and ten million likes, so it seems that a lot of people don’t know the truth.
Theres a hospital near where I live. They have a large area fenced off. Theres a man made stream in there and they have ducks, turkeys, and geese. All of them are very well taken care of. Theres an outdoor area for them too
I think cat cafés are a brilliant idea to get cats socialised, adopted and give elderly cats a place to stay. Also, great for people, who love cats but can't keep them. But there need to be very harsh rules (especially for kids).
Other animals that could work are insects, reptiles or aquarium fish.
Things take a nosedive the most shy and sensitive the animals are and the more complicated their care is.
I just visited Thailand and they had a great small petting zoo. You can only go in small groups for four time slots a day and the animals were kept pretty well (in my opinion). The owner seemed to have a lot of knowledge and was very calm. The encolsures were spacious and the animals looked well fed.
Here in Brazil it's a crime to own some exotic animals, especially if it's belongs to our own fauna, which includes capybaras. And I'm totally ok with that legislation! That's the right thing to do.
But, and then, I see our animals being freely adopted and taken to be exposed (in places that aren't zoos or sanctuaries) by people outside Brazil and I feel kinda frustrated with that. 🙃
My brother actually owns a cat cafe and it’s amazing! The restaurant is 2 floors and the second one is only for the cats, and all of them are rescued !
They chained up the owls on their feet?!?! That is horrible. My jaw dropped when she said that. 😭
If you ever come to Niagara Falls theirs this thing called bird kingdom, it’s not a cafe but it’s a huge free range bird indoor aviary and they have many rescued birds !
A cat cafe near me allows the kitties to be adopted and they do this promotion thing so more people will adopt the kitties :)
A lot of these animal cafes are so small to. Like these animals need so much space. I refuse to go to them. Except rescue cat cafes of or something similar
I think a good owl cafe would have an outdoor fenced enclosure with lots of space, and there would be a glass barrier between the enclosure and the cafe. It would be more like a zoo, where people can simply observe them. However, the owls may be brought out into the cafe if they are tame and sitting on the worker’s shoulder, but only in the late evening. The cafe itself would be big enough for the owls to free-fly if safety precautions are taken. There should be perches for them to rest on and little hides if they do not want to interact with people. The tables should have umbrellas to prevent droppings from falling on them, and there should be plenty of rules in place.
the main cat cafe in my area is run by the local shelter network, so all the kitties are the sociable ones that like people and are all up for adoption.
the shelter network is really great too, they're minimal kill, do all required vaccinations, spay/neuter, and microchip animals before adopting them out. they also partner with the human society for raids of hoarding and puppymill situations, as well as TNR groups that work on feral cats.
i got my baby girl, dasha, from them and all i had to do when we got home was wash the flea/tick treatment off of her and she was good for vet stuff until her annual vaccinations.
Cat cafes are the ones I've seen done properly the most and I mean it does make sense since Cats are social animals. I think Guinea Pig Cafes and Rat cafes could probably done as well if done correctly as they are also social animals. Probably any social domesticated animal that can be free-roaming could be in a cafe setting if given proper care, space, and enrichment. But yeah, it's clear that a lot of those wild animal cafes seem to be more set up as "ooo look, animals that you don't normally get to interact with, look at them be like pets". It's definitely meant to be more of an attention grabber and being 'unique' rather than being beneficial for the animals themselves :T
A cat café from my country (Argentina) has the same experience. All cats are rescues and up for adoption, and there was a pet shop where the money gained went to the shelter the cats came from. You had to make a reservation during morning or afternoon, because cats would sleep during noon. It was obvious how much they cared for the cats- there was always a coordinator around enforcing the rules (which had rules like no yelling or not waking up the cats- which I think are somewhat unheard of in animal cafés?) or just watching over making sure everything was alright.
They provided toys and wet food to interact with the cats, and it was all a relaxed situation and it was obvious the animals were taken care of. They'd even tell you to leave the cat alone if the cat wanted to lay around but not interact with anybody, which I thought was neat instead of the cats being forced either to interact or being taken away from their napping spot.
Those wild animal cafés don't show even an ounce of the same care for the animals I experienced in that place. It's very upsetting.
A cat cafe in my area brings in cats from shelters to be adopted and they have a set of rules on the wall in regards to interacting with the cats, and the setting is very cat friendly ie lots of little hiding places, comfy beds, cat trees etc all to make the cats more comfortable so they can come out of their shell and hopefully get adopted.
I love the bird tree behind you ❤
I've been to a few (well researched) cat cafes in different countries, and I can say they've all shown proper care and welfare. All (minus on in japan that was not my pick!) acted as temporary homes for socialised shelter cats, which is how it should be done. I don't think any wild/exotic animal cafes can be done right. Its a flawed concept to begin with, given that these are not domesticated animals meant to be around humans and often need far more space and care than they are given. They're simply not made to be around us in this capacity. I feel especially bad for prey animals as I can't imagine how scary it must be to spend the majority of your day surrounded by noise, eyes, and grabbing hands.
I went to a cat cafe, but it was basically someone’s house that they had open for money? But it didn’t seem like a bad place all of the cats were super nice and friendly, didn’t seem stressed. Some of them were even purred, I went for my birthday. The where four cats there :D
the only wild animal cafes i think could be done right might be something like capybaras because they actually do enjoy attention but the habitat they would need would need to be much larger than most cafes would be.
Any place that uses petting of wild animals as their special thing and a way to make money is automatically on my black list. They are always horrible...
i work at a bar and am basically nocturnal because of it (i go to bed at about 6am and wake up at maybe like 2pm) and id love an owl cafe, like open at night only. on one hand, you could probably keep owls in a cafe ethically that way, on the other, imo it doesnt even need real owls, i just want places that are open at night in general too.
Maybe you can have an owl house outside so people can watch wild owls nesting and hunting
I went to a monkey cafe in Mexico and I think it was okay, but I’m not sure. The building was open almost completely except for a roof, posts, and walls around the bar. The monkeys were allowed in whenever they wanted to. They had a big house-like thing nearby so you could watch the monkeys because there was food in there. (To lure them away directly away from the visitors to avoid harm) It was a pretty nice experience and the monkeys weren’t trapped in any way because they were native to the little section of jungle. So, what do you think?
Oh wow! one of the cat cafes u showed have a cat that looks like mine and also shares his name (Pippin)! ❤
Since 2 years we have a cat cafe in my town in Oostende, Belgium. They work with a cat rescue to provide their cats.
There is also a room in the back where the cats can go through a cat door if they don't want to interact with people. There are also a bunch of rules... most important were that you let the cats come to you and you can't pick them up. Every table also has toys because some cats don't want to be petted but might enjoy to play.
I think a snake cafe could work. Just leave the enclosure door open, and have an adult reticulated python chilling there
We have a dog cafe near my work place that is really good. There are two dogs at a time, they dont come with the same dogs everyday for their comfort and they are to be adopted. They have an outside and a "non-human" place to rest if they want to. I think as dogs are more likerly to want interactions from humans it is a very good choice. I remeber playing with the dogs outside after having a tea. So cool.
Ok so honestly animal cafes that have wild animals are cruel
For me this animal cafe is similar in how bad it is for animals to petting zoo. Maybe it can be good in case it takes cats from shelters and helps to adopt them. But if cats personal space is neglected its similar to how it is to wild animals. So in most cases it is animal cruelty. Animals are not toys to touch, hug or pet, they have boundaries
Just want to explain what I’m seeing on TikTok- I’ve been seeing more of those hamster live streams- I’ve been screen recording them and then reporting so yeah ;-;
The hamster disco stream? I tried to report it too but tiktok doesn't seem to care about it :/
Could you do a video on Fishing Garrett I don’t really know what to think about his treatment of animals.
Kiwi North: Museum, Kiwi House and Heritage Park up in Whangarei. its a nice place to go
Thank you for making this video I love capybaras and I saw the capybara cafe on some TikTok videos and I thought they must look after there animals or they wouldn’t be allowed to do what they do but so publicly and hoped to go there one day but knowing this I’m staying away from capybara cafes because I don’t want to give them money and encourage this
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I agree that cat cafes can be done right, unfortunately I have been to a cat café here in Manchester (England) that I was not a fan of at all. It was way too busy, incredibly loud, there was young children running around, chasing after and harassing cats etc. It was a bad enough environment for me (I am autistic), so I can imagine how stressful it must have been for the cats. I honestly do think cat cafes can be done right, especially when they are helping facilitate the adoption of rescued cats, however there needs to be standards in place e.g., limited number of people, limited number of cats, perhaps even an age restriction, like no children under 12 or something.
I agree that owl café is not appropriate at all. I honestly am not a fan of people keeping birds of prey inside like pets, this seems to be becoming a bit of a trend especially with owls because they are "cute". But in my opinion birds of prey should be kept outside in a large enclosure, in as natural of an environment as possible. So it naturally follows that I don't agree with owls being kept in a café environment at all. Here's a couple other notes I wanted to make:
1. Large owls such as eagle-owls are predators to smaller owl species. It is so stressful for them to be forced together constantly like that.
2. As you mentioned, some species (not all!) of owl are nocturnal. This includes barn owls, and they should not be forced to be out during the day for such long periods of time.
3. Owls are not particularly social birds, at most they will stay in pairs so it is stressful for them to be forced together like this. 60 birds in the same room is ridiculous and beyond inappropriate.
4. Birds should not be tethered for hours at a time. I feel like its obvious why this is bad for psychological reasons, however it can also lead to them developing conditions such as bumblefoot.
5. Owls are wild animals that are usually, at best, tolerant of human presence. They are not domestic animals and they don't tend to enjoy being pet.
Our cat came from that cat cafe. We havent been back since... lol.
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Cats are creatures of a. habit and b. whimsey, you gotta set things up properly when you want them to meet a lot of strangers.
In Poland we have really great bunny cafe. There is a big sign with what you can or cant do. Not everyone can go to pet bunnys. They have there safe spaces so people domy touch them. So its so great. Oh and they are rescude🌸
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Oh my God, please tell me from where did you buy those reptile plushy’s behind you?
Just like humans animals need to have the physical needs met ( like porper food, porper environment, porper cleaning) and there emotional needs met ( porper lighting, less noise, less touching ect. ) I've been to a cat cafe and it was a good place, the cats where happy, they had rooms to themselves, toys to play with them, you can adopt them. it was a good cafe
There is a sloth encounter near me that has a similar vibe to a cat cafe. Its a small building with no real space for these animals, I know sloths don't move much, but it's so crowded. They also sell Sloths and have a kangaroo for sale as well as a koala bear and I just cant understand how it is legal for them to do that!
I have an irrational fear of owls--dumb, I know. But I definitely don't want them to suffer. It's sad and gross to chain raptors up (or any animal, for that matter) and force nocturnal animals to be awake and under bright lights for human enjoyment. Not to mention the horrific "care" and little to no enrichment at these less than savory cafés. Anyone who goes to these cafés and sees nothing wrong with them are not animal lovers. Do I want to pet an otter? Yes. But I know it's wrong to keep them in the setting, and that in general, I shouldn't touch an otter because they're wild animals.
And yeah, from what I know, Japan's animal welfare laws are abysmal and animal trafficking and unethical exotic animal trade is a huge problem (like pretty much everywhere, unfortunately).
No fear is irrational, except maybe the fear of breathing I suppose. I have a fear of squirrels falling from trees and landing in my hair! Owls can be scary, but they are beautiful and deserve to be protected as all animals do! They protect our buildings where I live, each store has an owl statue on top of it. No animal deserves to be chained up like this 😠
@@Theravingranter 100%. I almost wish I could just free them all and take them to an animal refuge, but that's pretty much impossible (and probably highly illegal).
I have always been confused how people don't seem to see any problems with them and how stressful it specially would be for wild animals to constantly meet new people. I'm only okay with cat cafees with rescue cats where you can adopt them.
Owl cafe sounds extremely disturbing and problematic to me, I didn't even know something like that existed. 100% abuse and created by people with zero empathy for animals, pure evil imo. A cafe is not a place for wild animals like owls but torture, they don't like to spend time with lots of nasty humans.
Pet café with real pet animals like cats, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc might be ok, maybe even nice, but wild animals like fox, otter, owl, idk.... wolf shouldn't be in such places, they should live in the wild or animal sanctuaries. That's the right way, because they might see humans as scary big things and if a wild animal sense fear on any side it can be harmful. Real pets mostly live close to us, so they are ok. 🤔
Foxes are pets somewhat
I guess they aren't as ferocious and big as wolves, but still not the most ideal pets. The only wild mammal I tried to keep for a while was a wounded hedgehog and it wasn't permanent, I kept him only as long as he became healthy and I realeased him back to the wood then. I personally think we, I mean humans should not go further than this with wild animals, only because mother nature knows what is best for them.
on an unrelated note, do you have any tips for keeping dogs and birds together? (by together I mean In the same house)
As an owner of unusually kept exotic animals, no they do not belong or will never thrive in this kind of setting.
I don't think animal cafes are cruel... I mean it all depends on how some people treat those animals. Like if treat them good or bad. That's just my opinion. I've never been to a animal cafe before lol. But I would definitely love to go to one some day!✨🐈⬛🩷🦉✨ I just love watching all your videos BTW!💕🦋✨
But having a lot of these animals in these situation IS treating them badly - you can’t have them in these situations and have them be happy
where do you think those animals go at the end if the day? i’m sure they go into cages where they’re sad and wishing they were somewhere spacious and with their own kind. did you see those owls that she showed? they looked miserable and were there as a spectacle and nothing else. they were chained up! they were treated like a novelty and not like living breathing creatures. it’s cruel
Every time I see people abroad with pet capybaras, I get extremely worried about where people get these animals. In Brazil (where I live) it is absurdly easy to find capybaras as they are a native species, but we cannot raise them as pets, or the environmental institute will take action in accordance with the legislation.
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When I read the title I presumed it was some sort of place that would let wild animals, from, the wild, hang out in it. Like an open space and bird perches or something. **This** sucks
Honestly if you want to be surrounded by animals who are taken care of and loved and have habitats befitting them but also you want to eat there’s this wild new thing called…a ZOO or THEME PARK. Quite a lot of these places let you feed the animals some might even let you touch one depending on what animal it is. If you want a slightly less expensive option go on a nature trail or park. Odds are you will see some type of animal. There is where I live a Seabird Sanctuary which is completely free, there are flyers and guides there to tell you all about the birds, they all have proper habitats and are well taken care of and almost all of them are rescued from the beach or surrounding area. There are some that are flying about freely or walking around so I wouldn’t advise eating there, the seagulls will steal your cheese crackers lol they also do have owls because believe it or not there are owls near the ocean. So yeah if you want to see the majestic owls up close and you happen to be in Florida, drop by. Other than that I implore people to stop doing wild animal cafes, the only cafe that works is reptile or cat, most animals even domestic ones need lots and lots and lots of space and care!
The thing is foxes aren’t even from the same family as cats they are canines
You can have pet fennic foxes but they do bond with someone having them in a caffe is sad they are not toys no animal is
case by case and species by species. i think cat and dog cafes are very nessacary partners to shelters. most other animals have good reason why its not well built to tolerate handling by more then one person or 3.
(im also pretty against all aquariums, thats just human ego / god complex nonsense)
If they had a sufficiently big area with natural habitat for the animals connected to the café so the animals could choose whether they wanted to interact I'd happily go to such a café. But forcing the animals to interact is just wrong.
This owl Café is like the worst Cafe ive ever seen o.0
I think the only animal café I would want to go to would be a cat café anyways
I really wanna go to a cat cafe, but i don't think there are any where i live :(
There’s a capybara opening quite locally to me soon so I’ll see how it is
No animal should be forced into a cramp unnatural environment. Especially since they're wild and need a lot of space
Cat cafes and bunny cafes etc are specifically so awesome because they help the animals find homes, enable people who cant have pets to get some animal therapy, drive business for the cafe, and help shelters with overcrowding! If its a wild animal that shouldn’t be a pet, then its cruel.
The cafes with domestic animals for adoption (and with very good and solid adoption process) it's possibly the ONLY way I can find kind of acceptable a place like that. The rest of the cafes that exist (including the ones with dogs or cats) are just unethical. We center ourselves all the time, our pleasure, our demands, so animals just exist for our entertainment. A lot of people, for example, it's not even interested in having wild animals as pets for the purpose of conservation or to help them in any way, many want to keep them just bc pretty or exotic or "weird" and "I need to have it", that's it. It's infuriating.
If you go to drink a coffee or to eat something WHY is that important to have animals to entertain you?, WHY you have to use them as a "tool" to lift up your mood?, WHY we believe we have the right to use them in the first place? Recently, I saw this format of yoga with puppies, like for WHAT and WHY 😐
I hope more strict policies, restrictions and penalties are adopted in many countries over time.
My main thoughts / issue with cat cafes is the risk to the cats welfare... We have three cats at home, all rescues, who don’t really get along, and it’s a lot of work creating a space where they can feel comfortable and be their naturally solitary selves. They are lovely and cuddly with us, but will hiss at and fight with one another if trapped together or left alone for too long. Only one can happily be picked up, the others will go crazy if you try to restrain them in any way, there’s just too much unknown past trauma. One girl will also toilet in the house sometimes if she gets too stressed out. We love them all but it takes a lot of time, patience and feliway diffusers to keep them all happy.
I could not imagine having any more cats to add to the mix so I have no idea how these cafes can happily have that many cats living together, especially when they claim the cats are rescued. Being picked up and chased and petted by strangers and random children everyday must be exhausting and stressful too. Sure, they normally have lots of hides and wall / ceiling climbers to explore and stay entertained, but I still find it hard to imagine that is actually an okay environment for their health and welfare... 🤷♀️
But wild animals cafes are a huge nope from me. Keep animals wild ffs!! 😡
Nocturnal animals and cafes don't mix
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The owl cafes should ideally have good and quiet/enriching conditions for their owls while they should ideally get all of their owls from rescue shelters or have had rescued those owls themselves. They should also be a place where owls that cannot survive in the wild because of permanent disabilities/life altering debilitating injuries can be cared for.
Those owl cafes are still not good. They are extremely solitary and should not be pet at all, or even held without proper protection. They get extremely overstimulated, and go into a state of learned helplessness.
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I dont believe any animal but service animals should be in where people eat food. Have always thought that is the most disgusting idea ever conceived around food service.
Personally I don't favor them. Birds in a Cafe like that especially is a big no for me
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Wonder what a robot animal cafe would be like?
With robot animals or robot operated?
@@Theravingranter either one
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