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 cafés in Japan. Brittany walks us through the cultural commonality of human-animal relationships and the “rent-a-pet” model of animal cafés in Japan, providing the iyashi, or “comfort”, 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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