Is the cat cafe cute to heal the fox? Compete with raccoons for business

Visitors can wrap slippery snakes around their arms at the Tokyo Snake Cafe "Snake Center" for 1,100 yen for a cup of coffee, the Daily Mail website quoted the Associated Press as saying.

At the Little Zoo Cafe store in Bangkok, customers can get in close contact with foxes, raccoons and auricle foxes with big soft ears.

Some stores sell animals or offer adoption, while others invite customers to bring their animals to the store for fun, or provide opportunities to interact with animals such as penguins and hedgehogs.

Wachiraporn Arampibulphol opened Little Zoo Cafe a year ago after visiting an owl cafe in Tokyo. "I wish there was a place where people could get to know animals," she said. "

After the opening of a cat cafe in the San Francisco Bay Area area in 2014, the animal-themed concept restaurant quickly spread to more than 20 cities in the United States, from New York to Los Angeles, and there are plans to open stores in many other places. The concept is also popular in Europe, and animal-themed restaurants have recently opened in the Netherlands, Finland and Italy.

The Cat Garden restaurant in Taipei, founded in 1998, is the first cat cafe in the world, although some people believe that cats were found in a Vienna cafe nearly a century ago. The trend really began in 2005 in Japan, where few apartments are allowed to keep pets.

There are now more than 100 registered cat restaurants in Japan, including 50 in Tokyo alone. But restaurants featuring goats, rabbits and birds are now joining the competition.