Other People’s Abys – Abyssinians in a Tokyo cat cafe

Catsparella posted an awesome article about a cat cafe in Tokyo today.

Cat Cafe, posted with vodpod

Of course, you know I’m posting this not just because it’s an awesome article, but because it has Abys in it! Pay close attention at 4:17 to see Nuts, a handsome ruddy/usual boy, vs an Exotic Shorthair, and then at 6:18 and 6:24 there’s a nice shot of Nuts’ sister, Coco (great name!), a lovely little sorrel/red girl.

Evidently, there are four Abys at this cat cafe: Be sure to also check out pretty blue Alice, and sweet little sorrel/red Komugi, who likes to ride on people’s shoulders. And, for you Somali fans, don’t miss Kanna, who likes the other cats more than the humans who visit the cafe, Ru~u, who “looks like a fox,” and Rin, a pretty “phone” (I think they mean fawn).

Catsparella says that one of her biggest regrets about her 2010 trip to Japan is that she didn’t get a chance to visit a cat cafe in Tokyo. I went to Tokyo in 2006, just before cat cafes started appearing (I think they started popping up in 2007), so I didn’t get to go to one, either, but I did make an express point of going to Pecos PetCity in VenusFort mall at Odaiba. That was an experience! They actually had two adorable ruddy/usual Aby kittens for sale in the shop! My biggest Tokyo regret was not being brave enough to take any photos inside the pet store. I wish I had photos of those two little Abys.

(I did buy our kitties presents from there…collars made out of kimono fabric and little catnip kitties. One of the collars was for my kitten-to-be, Gun-Hee…but when he finally grew into it, he practically chewed it in two within a day of me putting it on him)

Great post, Catsparella…now I really want to go to Japan and Korea again…

Aby-a-Day – February 8: Wordless Wednesday (Angel levels up)

More on Emmy and Allie

AbyFriend Kelli, who found her new Aby kitten Allie through this blog, sent me an update on Allie’s introduction to her new big sister Emmy:

It’s been a crazy few weeks for me. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I loved the way it all came out. Thank you so much for putting it all together. I finally introduced them to each other this weekend and it’s going pretty well. Emmy is still growling and hissing most of the time, but they’re also chasing each other non-stop, in a playful way.

Here is a pic I took of them on Saturday after Allie jumped up the cat tree, not knowing Emmy was sleeping up there. You can tell from Emmy’s face that she wasn’t very happy. LOL.

Aww! That expression is priceless, isn’t it? Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. But something tells me these two will be fast friends in no time.