
Oliver is joined by Brittany Rapone, PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, to discuss attitudes towards pets and animal cafĂ©s in Japan. Brittany walks us through the cultural commonality of human-animal relationships and the ârent-a-petâ model of animal cafĂ©s in Japan, providing the iyashi, or âcomfortâ, of animal interaction at an hourly rate.
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IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS
Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com
[L] Cat café photo provided by Brittany Rapone.
[R] "Enticing for an owl cafe" by neil.dalphin is marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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