It appears Basat, the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess of warfare, has heard our lonely sniffles in the night.
According to Metro, a Vancouver woman is applying for a business licence to open a cat café, or “catfé,” where customers can chill with an assortment of onsite felines while doing what one normally does in a café with the addition of pulling stray hairs from one’s mouth.
Popular in Tokyo, the concept is also apparently spreading to Montreal and San Francisco.
The woman behind the prospective Vancouver cat café, the appropriately named Michelle Furbacher, says her business will also act as a foster home for cats from animal shelters.
“People will meet the cats, fall in love with them and maybe want to adopt them,” Furbacher told Metro, where in a rare instance the reporter didn’t resort to such cat puns as “pawssibly,” “lapping up lattes” and “catmosphere.”
Personally, we’re all for cat cafés, especially since our landlord won’t allow cats. Downstairs neighours who put broken fluorescent lights in the food scraps and yard waste bin and who listen to Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” at 2 a.m. on a Thursday night? Sure. But a tiny, quiet cat? Not on your life.
So with that in mind and inspired by Metro’s love of a good cat pun, we’d like to suggest possible names for the café:
• The Kitty Ranch
• Fur-ever Young
• Pussy Galore
• Cat Albert
• Whisker 3000
• Blurred Felines
• Litter Perfect
• Tail End
• Catatonic
• C@
• Paws for Effect
• Cat Scratch Fever
• The Purrrfectionist
