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Nothing sounds better than snuggling up to a cute animal while enjoying a cup of coffee.
But while you may be an animal lover and it might make an adorable picture, we need to stop giving animal cafes our money, activists say.
This week Thai authorities and animal rights organisation Watchdog Thailand, launched an investigation into a popular cat and dog cafe in tourist hotspot Bangkok following extraordinary claims of animal neglect, Asian news service Coconuts reports, reports News.com.au.
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Police have filed a report against Kitties & Bears Cafe after it surfaced the cafe's owner was allegedly convicted this year for failing to comply with licensing conditions when he ran a cat cafe in Singapore, where seven cats died due to poor health.
It has been alleged that animals at Kitties & Bears Cafe were also being neglected and a veterinarian from Watchdog Thailand has collected blood and saliva samples from them.
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Unfortunately this story isn't a lone one. One of Japan's popular cat cafes - a country famed for its animal cafes - was closed down last year for violating animal cruelty laws.
City authorities said The Cat's Paw cafe in Tokyo's Sumida district ordered the cafe to close for a month.
The 30sq m cafe was home to 62 cats, The Guardian reports, many of them elderly and in bad health.
