What are the risks of a famous Japanese chain cat coffee shop that killed 50 cats in three and a half years and was boycotted by their peers to open a cat coffee?

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50 cats died in three and a half years! Japanese well-known cat coffee MOCHA cat distemper operators boycotted

Cat lovers have recently visited Tokyo to pay attention. A Cat Garden Cafe in Tokyo pointed out on its Facebook page that MOCHA, a well-known Japanese chain cat cafe that killed 50 cats within three and a half years of the cat plague epidemic, opened a new branch again at the beginning of this year. In view of the previous cat plague epidemic, many cat cafes in Tokyo have boycotted the coffee shop while refusing visitors who have been to MOCHA coffee shop.

At present, MOCHA, a cat coffee shop with 15 branches in Japan, is very famous, but in 2018, because employees disclosed in Twitter that cats in the store were dying of "feline leukocytopenia" (FPLV), and due to poor management, 50 cats had died in the past three and a half years. Due to the massive spread of the revelation in Twitter, it even caused a large number of reports in the Japanese media. Under the negative reviews, MOCHA came forward to apologize. At one point, branches across the country were closed, and plans to open new stores were suspended.

▲ Cat Cafe operators in Japan issued Japanese and English announcements to boycott MOCHA.

At the end of February this year, MOCHA Cafe opened a new branch in Shibuya Park, which once again attracted the attention of other cat coffee shop operators. At the same time, it even issued an announcement that although MOCHA has improved after last year's report, due to the outbreak of cat plague in the past, the MOCHA Ichikawa store broke out 10 days after its opening. In addition, since January this year, several cat coffee shop operators have decided to boycott, while refusing visitors who have been to MOCHA to enter the store. If you plan to travel to Tokyo recently, you should pay more attention to going to the Cat Cafe.

The so-called "feline leukocytopenia" (FPLV) is the use of feces as a vector of transmission, which is highly infectious. Although it is not harmful to humans, it has a very high fatality rate to cats, with an incubation period of four to five days before it breaks out. Therefore, in cat cafes with more cats, it is more likely to cause a large number of cats to be infected.

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