A chilled out Pablo at the Hobart Cat CafĂ© Cat CafĂ©s are all the rage, so on Sunday, at the insistence of my daughter and granddaughters, I visited the one in North Hobart to see what they were all about. Taiwan is officially credited with starting the first Cat CafĂ© in 1998, but the idea was so popular with Japanese tourists that they soon started their own. Since then they have flourished around the world, particularly in regions where pet ownership is becoming more problematic. Even in little old Hobart getting a rental property which allows animals – no, not so much as a goldfish, is almost impossible, as my daughter recently found out. At last count some 30 countries from Latvia to India, from Russia to Canada, from New Zealand to Denmark had Cat CafĂ©s with more being added every day. A more aloof Tiger Lily reposes on a stool Not all of them are the same. Some have cats which can be adopted offering new hope to abandoned cats; others onl...
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