Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore recently visited Vienna to check out Europe’s first dedicated cat cafe, which opened in 2012.
Just a stone’s throw away from the city’s busy shopping area in Blumenstockgasse, Cafe Neko provides a haven for the resident cats, with customers buying food and drink from vending machines and then enjoying time relaxing at tables surrounded by their feline friends, who are rescues from local shelters.
The owner is Takako Ishimitsu, originally from Nagoya in Japan, who has lived in Vienna for some 20 years and wanted to bring the traditional Japenese cat cafe idea to Europe – Neko means cat in Japanese.
The cat cafe includes aerial challenges for the animals along with cosy corners for them to hide away if they want some peace and quiet of their own!
Enjoy a heartwarming cat to brighten every single day of the year. From Larry, Downing Street’s chief mouser, to Tama, the cat hired as Station Master of a remote Japanese railway station, Battersea’s A Cat a Day contains 365 stories of fascinating felines to enjoy throughout the year. Beautifully packaged and illustrated throughout, with charming illustrations of cheeky kittens and sleepy old toms, this is the perfect book for any lover of our four-legged friends.
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