USA: New York gets its first cat cafe
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SOT, Niky Roberts, of Purina One (English): Because it's a nice place to talk about it when you can have a cat in your lap that you're petting and you can head out and grab a 'Cattaccino' with a little cat face in it. It's just a great environment, it fosters conversation, I mean it's great to get all these people together in this room because you don't usually get that with cat owners. We're really happy to be a part of it.
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SOT, Niky Roberts, of Purina One (English): I think it has become very socially driven because cats are stars on the internet. People love cats. So this is the very first Cat Cafe experience in America, and so people are very interested to be in and among cats.
M/S Woman looking through cafe window
SOT, Cat owner (English): Because, I go home and make mine jealous. Watch I'll go home and they'll give me 'cattitude' because they'll smell these cats on me.
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USA: New York gets its first cat cafe
Purina One launched the first-ever 'cat cafe' in New York City Friday, complete with 'Cattaccinos' and felines lounging around sofas and arm charms. Hundreds of people stood in line, some for over four hours, for a chance to go inside and hang out with the pets while sipping coffee.
Purina One partnered with North Shore Animal League to bring 21 adoptable cats into the cafe. The cafe will be open until Sunday.
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About half the population in animal shelters in the US is comprised of unwanted cats.
In West Hollywood, a cat cafe has devised a way of making potential pet owners interact with shelter cats over a cup of coffee.
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This little guy is cosying up on one of the Crumbs and Whisker's fluffy white carpets.
He is one of several cats that roam around in the cafe as customers come in to have a coffee and pet the cats in the hope that one will be taken home.
Cat cafes continue to trend around the world but in West Hollywood, they're a bit more glitzy, a bit more stylish, and a bit cuter than others.
Crumbs and Whiskers Cat Cafe and Kitten Lounge combines illuminated pink lighting, fuzzy white carpets and pillows for kittens to roam and play.
Here, they let the visitors lounge, lie down, bond, cuddle, coo and play with the kittens.
It's a refreshing change from the normal adoption process where potential adoptees can only look at sad and lonely cats in cages and take them out for a few minutes.
Here at this cafe, cookies and iced coffee are served upon request as the kittens take centre stage.
This is the new form of pet rescue in Los Angeles.
Run by millennials, they let the kittens roam freely to allow for full human connection.
Many people come with hopes to adopt, others come to see if they even would want to adopt, while others just come to relax and get their animal fix.
Founder and CEO of Crumbs and Whiskers Kanchan Singh explains the concept :
Crumbs and Whiskers is a cat cafe and kitten lounge where we house rescue cats and kittens who are at risk of being euthanized in shelters. We give people a place to hang out with kittens and cats, drink coffee and if they fall in love, adopt and our mission is to connect animal lovers with animals, cat lovers with cats and also to find homes for as many cats as we possibly can and who are at risk of euthanasia in shelters otherwise says Singh.
Guests relax and enjoy the kittens while having a coffee, listening to music and bonding.
Staff is quick to help and keeps a close watch while kittens roam freely.
Elizabeth Osborne came to Crumbs and Whiskers to adopt a kitten.
After playing with kittens, she found 8-week old Kona.
She liked that she could interact with the cat as she normally would do at home.
It's a perfect organization because it's rescuing kittens, not only cats, but kittens. So I came in I was able to choose a cat that fit my personality and my lifestyle as well as my husband's personality and lifestyle. We were able to look at all the cats, play with them, and know that we're rescuing a kitten, says Osborne.
Singh says that shelters are not the best place for an animal to show off its personality so it needs to roam freely.
She thinks that not allowing people to see cats freely is why many cats do not get adopted.
What cat cafes do is they give people a place to really understand the personality of the shelter cats which is really not something you can get in shelters where they're in cages and their personalities are sort they get shut down and they don't really get to show what they like, what they don't like, who they are and cat cafes really allow you to see what is a cat like because you're in a homelike environment for them so it really changes it. It reinvents the way people adopt, says Singh.
Money is made by charging for appointments at the cafe.
It rescues cats from high-kill shelters, which euthanize animals to make space for newly incoming ones.
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Cats are everywhere on the internet. And now people can play with cats and sip some coffee at Mew Haven, the first cat café in Connecticut. I sat down with owner Angela Pollo to find out why she started this business with her husband, and how the day-to-day operations go.
While cat cafés have been popular in Asia for quite some time, they’re a relatively new occurrence in the United States. We discussed the many logistical issues surrounding Mew Haven: animal welfare concerns, government regulations, health issues, and more.
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Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
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Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
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Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
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For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
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