...meanwhile at the cat cafe...
Last Saturday, we finally made it to a cat cafe - with a lot of help from Phone....who booked us a reservation...
This Cat cafe was not to far from Akihabara [秋葉原]...but we happened to walk from a completely different station...our 'appointment' was from 2pm to 3pm...The cats lead very busy lives and were booked out for 4pm...
We entered a small fortress, with the feline equivalent to an air-lock system, presumably to prevent the cats from escaping...(or being sucked forcibly into the outside world-THIS would have been great to watch!) Shoes off then hands washed (Personally, I think they should have washed the cats before I petted them... but I guess the cats wouldn't think that that was fair), we were ready to pet cats! hurrah!
....'Hurrah' probably wasn't the concept passing through the cats in the room...most of them were busy trying to hide from the annoying humans who were demanding a lot of attention and diligently getting on with the very important business of sleeping. Particularly, one sandy coloured friend...
Rick-kun, despite the sign on his basket, didn't seem to mind being disturbed for a bit of petting...in fact he seemed to like it so much that he left his little basket, by-passing Greg's lap and headed for my lap for a better pet. After a mere minute of having Rick-kun, happily nestled in my lap, I started sneezing...It was not a good sign... the longer Rick-kun stayed on my lap, the worse my new cat allergy was getting... Ignoring my cat allergy, Rick-kun stayed on my lap, much to the surprise of the cat cafe owners...who told me that he never usually sits on peoples laps...and so went on to congratulate him for being such a clever cat...
The rest of the cats were mainly hiding, the favourite places being behind the curtain or in the window. I assume the window was the prime location, on account of it being quite out of the reach of the paying customers and the glorious warmth of the sun.
By the time our appointment with the cats was up, there was already a QUEUE of people outside waiting to come in! The cats only had a little time to try and inspect the stuff the humans left behind... in the hope of finding some more interesting things to eat that dry cat nibbles. The poor little grey cat looked a bit bewildered when the owner removed the mug of interest...
An interesting afternoon, listening to humans miaow at cats and play with cat toys only for the cats look at them blankly or just outright ignore them.
