{"id":1742,"date":"2025-04-30T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:20:01","slug":"closing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Closing time\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten years ago, I wrote a blog on the sudden rise in popularity of cat cafes. (You can find the blog here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=251\">https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=251<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I absolutely stipulated, and one of the things I was definitely concerned about was how well these environments would factor in so many cats needs. Anyone in a multicat household knows how difficult it can be for multiple feline personalities to coexist peacefully. <br><br>It seems that leading animal welfare organisations are now voicing the same concerns,  according to this recent article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/cat-cafes-uk-rspca-welfare-protection-b2718496.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/cat-cafes-uk-rspca-welfare-protection-b2718496.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What that means for the cat cafes in existence already, remains to be seen. <br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49C46E7E-7733-4A11-83A6-4FCDA7B8FB14.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49C46E7E-7733-4A11-83A6-4FCDA7B8FB14.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49C46E7E-7733-4A11-83A6-4FCDA7B8FB14.webp 1023w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49C46E7E-7733-4A11-83A6-4FCDA7B8FB14-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/49C46E7E-7733-4A11-83A6-4FCDA7B8FB14-768x511.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Bristol Cat Cafe, You &amp; Meow in 2017<\/em>\u2026(Image Source: Bristol Live.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, I wrote a blog on the sudden rise in popularity of cat cafes. (You can find the blog here: https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=251) One of the things I absolutely stipulated, and one of the things I was definitely concerned about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}