Pet cafés are increasingly popular

People all over the world who like to spend time around animals, but crave a coffee along with friends, can enjoy both of these pleasures at Rabbitland, the first cafe with bunnies in the world. The café was opened on August 16 and provide the opportunity for those who cross the threshold to pet, feed and play with small ear looks, writes Daily Mail.

The international phenomenon originated in Taipei, Taiwan where the world’s first feline café, Cat Flower Garden, opened in 1998. Curious tourists soon discovered the pet paradise and brought the concept over to Japan. The first Japanese cat café opened in Osaka in 2005, and now there are said to be nearly 40 in Tokyo alone.

At Rabbitland, located on the third floor in the busy commercial sector Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, live 12 bunnies nibbling grass, while customers sip coffee and pat them. Most of the animals were rescued after their owners abandoned them. Rabbits rank third among the most neglected animals in Hong Kong, hundreds of this pets being abandoned by their owners each year, the cited source writes. The café’s owners hope that this will be able to make people - especially children - to realize what raising a rabbit involves.

In Hong Kong there are many cafes with cats, but this is the first in which rabbits are housed. The place has been open according to a similar business in Japan. Japan has now gone far beyond the original concept, and some of the trendiest places to visit nowadays have owls, rabbits and goats hanging around. Tokyo's Fukuro no Mise, which means the ‘Shop of Owls’, has full guests lists for up to two months.