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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInside D.C.’s first cat cafe, where you can cuddle by the hour
Source: The Washington Post, June 19
You probably wont get a chance to pet Olivia. The gray-and-white spotted kitty is the current favorite at Crumbs & Whiskers, the Georgetown cat cafe that opens Saturday. But because Olivia is so friendly making her way from lap to lap, purring and mewing and begging for a scratch behind the ears she may well be adopted before then. And if that happens, the cafes 24-year-old owner, Kanchan Singh, will burst into tears. Not for the first time.
Olivia and I had a moment the first day, she says. We were both on the pillows, and Olivia and I had a moment, and then I cried to her. She was in pain, and I could tell. Im going to cry again. Oh my gosh, Im such a baby.
Singh has a big heart. Her fans have big pockets. Those two things came together via a nearly $36,000 Kickstarter campaign to create this bright two-story space at Wisconsin Avenue and O Street NW, where people will pay $12 an hour ($10 on weekdays) to pet cats.
Yes, you can do the same thing at the Humane Society free of charge.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/inside-dcs-first-cat-cafe-where-you-can-cuddle-by-the-hour/2015/06/19/ae9dba84-1249-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Selling the services of cats...would require some guarantee that the cats will comply...I've had a fair amount and haven't met one yet that did what I wanted it to...
Liberal_in_LA
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(25,252 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Sayoko rents out cats. Every day she walks along the banks of the river towing her animals in a little handcart, with a parasol to shade her against the heat and a megaphone over her mouth, calling out "Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?" Sayoko's cat rental helps lonely people fill the emptiness in their hearts. But Sayoko is also lonely--ever since her grandmother's death she has lived with her cats in an overgrown haven in the midst of the big city where all she hears--apart from the cats' meowing--are her eccentric neighbor's insults. One day, a young man turns up from Sayoko's past. He follows her home and all at once Sayoko's life seems to fall apart
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