Only in Japan
Last week, SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll made some suggestions on how to improve Starbucks (in response to their "retraining" marketing ploy). One of his suggestions was to have a "stable of older lap cats, the kind that stay put on any warm human" to lend out to customers.
In today's column, he reveals that it's already been done. It shouldn't come as a big surprise to hear that it's happening in Japan. There are cat tea houses where you can sip tea and enjoy the company of numerous resident cats, for around $7 an hour. Teahouses like this were apparently created because cats aren't allowed in most apartments in Tokyo.
I'll have to put this one on my to-do list when I finally make it to Japan!
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Awww... how sad not being able to have a cat in the house. What a cute idea (but I'm not so sure about that last "cat" in the photo block. ;-) )
Since I live in a socialist-style flat (i am hungarian:P) I can't keep a cat either...but around December, a beautiful black cat settled itself in the cellar:) Initially she was quite shy and did not let anybody too close, but since I fill cigarettes down there every day, she got used to me...now it is like owning a cat.. As a child I would always dream about having one and now I have:)