Hmmmm. This was an odd one. While, even though I am a parent myself, I feel lots of people can love their pet as much as a child (that is, instead of a child). Nevertheless, there was something bizarre about paying for an hour of "commitment-free" pet companionship. I think it must be the ownership element that's strangely missing. If you're not owned by the cat, where's the joy? The joy of never having a hairless black sweater? The joy of the "you haven't fed me yet" Death Ray Gaze? The joy of the tummy rub that only YOU are allowed to give, not cheap faceless strangers?
I admit, even though I have plenty of cats at home, I'd probably choose to go to a cafe or coffeehouse that has pleasant resident cats over one that doesn't - as long as I'm getting something good to eat/drink as well as "cat companionship".
If I'm getting charged just to sit there and pet cats... um, no.
But the really bright side to all of this is that if the idea catches on in the U.S., I'll have something useful to do with my mother's 29 cats when she shuffles off this mortal coil...
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Date: 2009-06-30 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-30 05:06 pm (UTC)If I'm getting charged just to sit there and pet cats... um, no.
But the really bright side to all of this is that if the idea catches on in the U.S., I'll have something useful to do with my mother's 29 cats when she shuffles off this mortal coil...