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Bunny Hug Cafe (GNW 14/9/09: Strange But True)

A Japanese café is offering stressed customers the opportunity to cuddle up to a rabbit. Unfortunately, the café only serves carrots.

The Usagi-to Café also features rabbit decor, rabbit-shaped toys, dishes moulded to look like rabbits, and tiny little customer-hutches.

Girls love to go and pat the fluffy bunnies, guys love to go and perv on all the girls, and the bunnies – well, they’re basically prisoners. But ever-so fluffy!

There’s nothing finer than watching a bunch of young Japanese women fluffing their bunnies. God knows how long I’ve spent on that website.

The rabbit cafe is popular since strict housing restrictions often ban Japanese people from owning pets. And most Japanese magicians have to pull iPods out of their hats.

Just don’t ask what’s in the lunchtime special. You may have helped prepare it.

Due to housing restrictions, many Japanese people can’t own pets, so have to visit pet cafes. Unfortunately all that caffeine just keeps them awake, yearning for a pet of their own.

It’s good for the rabbits. A good home, loving attention, and regular carrot-cake with bunnycinos.

It’s $1.10 per minute to cuddle a bunny. Don’t get too attached, if you stay all day you could be up for more than a grand. And then who’s the bunny?

It’s $1.10 per minute to cuddle a bunny. But it’s a lot more expensive if you want to get to home base.

That’s a pretty expensive rabbit. For that price, I hope you at least get a few chocolate eggs.

Sure, they’re pretty expensive bunnies, but you do get to eat their tiny chocolate eggs. At least, they LOOK like chocolate.

And when you’re suitably relaxed, maybe you’ll have less of a problem with having your bunny fricasseed.

Cuddling a soft bunny may encourage you to order vegetarian, but be careful – if they see your carrots, they can go feral.

You get to pat and hug the rabbits. It’s the only real way to gauge the tenderness of the meat. / the rabbit’s succulence. / what size pot you’ll need.

It’s a great fun place for most of the year, but the tone really changes in Rabbit Season.

People seem to have a real attraction to the place. Let’s hope none of them have a fatal attraction…

They also encourage you to “BYO bunny”. But they do charge corkage.

They also encourage you to “BYO bunny”. Particularly if you want to enjoy your own strain of myxomatosis. / calecivirus.

It’s easy to find the place. It’s just next door to “Harry’s Cheap Good Luck Charms”…

The rabbits are not only cuddly and relaxing, but lucky too! At least if you chop off their feet. / At least, their feet are…

Frankly, the whole idea’s pretty harebrained.

And I thought “fluffing the Japanese bunny” was a euphemism.

We’ve got a similar thing here, but instead of cuddling the bunnies, you blow them away with a shotgun.

The rabbit café is much more popular than their previous businesses – monkey dry-cleaning, and wild-dog childcare.

There are plenty of cafes offering animals in Japan, but they mostly feature cats. Less successful has been the café “Cuddle-a-Cobra”. / “Get Boa-Constricted”.

With their slogan “touch the bunnies”, they’ve attracted a wide range of customers: primary school groups, old folks homes, and sorely disappointed buck’s nights.

Rubbing yourself on rodents has never been so café-friendly!

By Wok and Mat

Warwick Holt and Mat Blackwell are long-time writing partners, who created the mega-award winning web series Bruce, and wrote loads of jokes for TV shows including Good News Week, The Sideshow and The Glass House. Several years of their raw material for those shows is posted right here on this blog.

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