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The first Rabbit Cafe opened in Hong Kong-there is a wide range of customers.

Published: 2024-09-17 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2024/09/17, Rabbits don't interact with people as much as other pets, Shirley Tong, president of the Hong Kong Rabbit Friends Association, said in an interview with the Hong Kong Economic Journal. They see you as a friend rather than a master, so they rarely follow your instructions. Part of the reason why Chui opened this rabbit cafe is to make it known to parents and children who have the ability to raise rabbits.

"there is not as much interaction between rabbits and people as other pets," Shirley Tong, president of the Hong Kong Rabbit Friends Association, said in an interview with the Economic monthly of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. "they will see you as a friend, not a master, so they rarely follow your instructions."

Chui opened the rabbit cafe in part because it wanted parents and children who could afford to raise rabbits to know how to take care of them. "if children want to buy rabbits, many parents will bring them here, so they will understand that raising rabbits is not just to play with them, you have to take care of them and take responsibility. "he told AFP.

Although the rabbits look cute, Chui told AFP that taking care of them can cost a lot of money. The Hong Kong Rabbit Friends Association, an animal welfare organization, said rabbits ranked third among the most abandoned animals in Hong Kong, with an average of 200 pet rabbits abandoned each year. In Hong Kong, it costs only about 400 Hong Kong dollars (about 340 yuan) to buy a rabbit, so many people like to give rabbits as holiday gifts, but rabbits like to bite furniture and wires, so many people who receive rabbits will abandon them.

There is a wide range of customers who come to spend in the store, from parents with children to teenagers. Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Most Hong Kong people have apartments just enough for their families to live in, and there is no room for pets at all. Who can resist seeing these fluffy rabbits, not to mention their own names-sesame seeds, mung beans and marshmallows?

Chui's cafe, which serves sandwiches and French fries at lunchtime, keeps a total of 12 rabbits, most of them stray rabbits abandoned by their owners. Customers who are positioned in advance can play with the rabbits and feed them, but only in cages, and it is stipulated in the store that they must not pick up the rabbits or pull their ears.