Hello world, if you spend time with my kids you'll quickly clue in that they love cats.
They have stuffed cats, electronic cats,
Cat ears, cat toys, cat everything.
Whenever we see stray cats around Japan, the kids always try to play with them.
Unfortunately, we don't have cats in our family
However on our trip back to Canada this year, we heard about the catfé and it was a given that we had to visit
twice
The catfé, by the way, is the blending of the word cat in café
CATFÉ, get it? catfé.
The real unique thing about this concept, though
is that all the cats are shelter cats, cats that don't have homes.
Every single cat that you can visit is also available for adoption
Well, kind of.
Adoption is so popular. Unless you get there on a transfer day. Which is Thursday.
It's more than likely that the cat you're visiting with will have already found a home. Which is a great thing!
To learn more about what's being done to help unwanted cats in our province of British, Columbia in Canada
We visited our local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
This is how to meet cats that don't know you
First you need to wash your hands
What is this?
It's just the soap that we use with SPCA to make sure that
You gotta make sure that we don't give any cats any colds and other cats could have or any sort of germs
We then got to see the cats
-So you guys know how to introduce yourselves to animal? -No.
-what am I gonna do? I'm gonna let them... -Sniff
Yeah, so we're just sniff my hand and
My smell is his way of knowing who I am that's how he's gonna recognize me.
Well, It's one of the ways.
If we use a fist then if an animal want to bite us
There's nothing really to bite onto.
If you put your fingers out, There's something to bite onto.
when you want to play with cats, show your fists.
So they can safely sniff.
Try not to make eye contact at first
because eye contact can make cats feel really nervous, okay?
New cats don't like it if you looked in their eyes
Here you go, see here you go, nice!
Good job, Shin.
Warned huh? Well, Shin, Shin, be careful, be careful.
I think he likes your fluffy and you're next to the scratching post.
-So, Shin, are you okay? -Yeah.
So when a cat's doing something like eating or scratching or playing
That's very close to doing something else that
could be dangerous to you, so it's probably not a good time to try to pet them okay
Shin found that you don't pet cats when they're eating scratching or playing.
-And are you okay Shin? -No.
So what you did you learned? Shin?
Nothing
Nothing?
Nothing Nothing Nothing
We asked Alex about how to help cats with no homes.
do you guys know how long average cat lives usually?
So about two to five years on average.
How long do you think an indoor cat lives for?
-It's longer than... -20
That's a pretty cool. 17 years is the average
indoor cats live longer than outdoor cats because they're safe in their homes,
So, outdoor cats live less than indoor cats because they get scratched by raccoons or hit by cars
If you want to take a cat outdoors, you can use a leash or a harness to take them outside
Okay, so come over this side.
I wanted to know what to do if you find a stray cat.
we don't think that you should...
give food or support a homeless cat at first,
the first thing you need to do is try to find the owner and get the cat back to the owner
because otherwise the cat will become uncomfortable and won't stay there for food and will live out in the
Out in the streets, and it could be very dangerous
So I said to Alex what happens if you lost a cat
So we always recommend that you have two
types of ID so you have your collar and you either have a microchip or attached to your pet.
A good thing about a collar is you can read it easily, but it comes off easily.
So you want a microchip so you can scan the cat and you will know who's cat it is
So I wanted to know why some cats missing some parts of their ear
So if you spay a female animal they can't have babies anymore
And if you neuter a boy animal then it can't make babies anymore either
so you always want to spay and neuter your pets so that they don't have a bunch of babies and
and all of a sudden you have to come into the BC SPCA and say I've got all these puppies here
and I don't know what to do with them, and you have to give them away.
So, I think if there's a cat that doesn't live in a home and it has nowhere to go to.
We try to spay and neuter it and put it back into the neighborhood
But we have to know that we already saw that cat.
So sometimes they mark cats to show that what we've already seen this cat
We know It's spayed and neutered. We don't have to worry anymore about it
hum... having babies
When you cut a cat's ear, it's called ear tipping, and it doesn't hurt the cat
Here are five things you can do to help cats have homes.
If you find a stray cat, don't feed it right away.
Instead, trying to find the owner or call an animal shelter.
Try to keep your cat indoor, so they can live a long happy life
Spay or neuter your cats so that there won't be kittens without homes
Make sure you have a microchip and a collar so you can find it home again if they get lost
When you adopt a cat, make sure that you give the cat a home forever
because they can live for 20 years
Thanks for watching. See you next time, bye
How do you help homeless cats where you're from?