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A regular pub conversation I have with anyone who’ll listen is how London really needs a cat cafe. I went to one in Tokyo four years ago, and had to be physically pulled out over there after my allotted time (and tea had been drained).
Maybe you’ve been to a cat cafe, and know first-hand the pleasure of fondling cats (usually kittens — which kind of begs the question of where the adult cats are sent to)? If not, back this IndieGoGo campaign and start planning a trip to East London from March.
Lauren Pears, who wants to open the cat cafe as Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, is using crowd-sourcing site IndieGoGo to raise the funds needed — £108,000 is the goal, apparently. There are 45 days left, so if fondling kitties over a cuppa is your bag, get involved now while there are incentives along the lines of VIP membership and venue hire on offer.
Giz UK cat cafe party, anyone? [IndieGoGo via DigitalSpy]
Image Credit: Kat Hannaford
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Hi Kat, welcome back (assuming you aren’t posting this from the antipodes) The Giz UK cat cafe party sounds like a good idea and maybe a way to secure funding for the cafe. Charge for tickets, get a tech company to stump up the rest, job done.
But the Health and Hygiene inspector will have a field day. If this does somehow manage to open I’m taking a bag of catnip in with me.
I have enough with the two cats we have here
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although a velociraptor cafe would be interesting
(which also might be a solution to where the old cats go
Kittens and cats, in a cafe, in East London, with MY reputation?
These are not the kittens I am looking for
I’m going to turn up with a bucket of catnip and see just how crazy things get in there…
I was tempted to hire this place for the weekend but ‘cat’ering isn’t included ZING!
I have to say that kitty-fiddling isn’t really my bag.
I hope they have legal stuff all sorted out, there is one in Vienna which had all sorts of animal rights problems. Looks like it’s still open though – http://www.cafeneko.at/