Dog Cafe

    It is stereotyped that Japan is crowed and cramped and has no space.  Of course, that's pretty much true.  People don't have big homes in comparison to the US and they work a lot more due to the group mentality of the culture.  The lack of space and time in Japan means it's difficult for a lot of people to keep pets.  Thus: the Pet Cafe's were born.

    Claire informed me of their existence via cat cafe's but when discussing this phenomenon with my host mother she promptly told me she had been to a dog cafe and printed out directions for me.  No offense to cat-lovers, but why would I pay to be ignored by egotistical cats when I could go get some puppy love for 5$ an hour?

This guys is hanging out with the target dog.  I love his smile!

This dog was so freaky it didn't know what to do with me

and I had no clue what to do with it.

Doggies!

Some of the dogs were wearing diapers.

One of them crawled into Sara's lap.

It promptly went from kind of gross to adorable.

PIC OF THE DAY.

This little guy looks like he is ready to die from happiness.

Notice:  There were three doggies that all looked like this so

the cafe dyed their tails to tell them apart (blue, green, pink).

Basically the Pet Cafe's are a win-win-win situation.  Dogs and cats get love and a home, people get fill their pet-quota and the cafe makes a bit of money.