ANIMAL CAFES AROUND THE WORLD

In business, pet cafes are starting to take off in major cities with a variety of money-making opportunities and happy breaks time for people. Animal cafes have become popular because people like to take pictures and upload them to their social media accounts. People use animals to run businesses. People want to stay in these cafes, not only cute animals, and there are food supplies and comfortable places for people to rest. Around the world, lots of cafes shop is for animal lovers. The original cat cafe went to all kinds of animals, offering people happiness and cuddling them.

A search for #animalcafe on social media apps like Instagram brings up tens of thousands of photos, and a wide variety of pictures with animals have slowly become popular activities. In terms of visual effects, media communication is associated with the animal business. The image and environment of animals are used to provide human services, and then consumption is increased.

These photos convey a lot of happiness and people want to visit these places when they see these photos. Therefore some coffee shops may initially offer to upload to their selfies to social accounts in exchange for free drinks, which is a kind of publicity. That gives people a chance to see the information brought by the shop and the animals.

This kind of visual communication not only enables more people to understand the content behind the photos information. But also allows businesses to use animals to attract the attention of the public, and then consumers use media to release their information. This kind of interaction lets the media visual display function fully.

The animal cafe has a variety of animals that are attractive. For example, genet, meerkats, mini kangaroo, coati, raccoon, owl, and other animals, it not only allows people to have a close touch with them but also allows them to take photos with them.

Many pet cafes are also popular. I saw a lot of people go to a coffee shop to take photos. It is called TrueLove cafe in Bangkok. There are many cute dogs, huskies, and the store also provides dogs around you so that you can take photos and upload them. Due to the reason of being too popular, some people visit there not only for relaxing and looking at animals but for the purpose of taking photos and uploading to their social media account.

At my time of 2016, I once went to the dog and cat cafe, and I liked it very much. Not only to enjoy the foods with your friends, but the animals also stay with you, which is a healing feeling. And then I wanted to document it all in photographs. Nicholas Mirzoeff stated, "visual images are dense with information, allowing successful performances to convey much more than the basic text message, whether in a single image or short video." And I agree with the ideas. The information that visual images convey can provide me with memories, and when I look at these pictures, I can also remember the joy of interacting with animals at that time. When I upload the images to my online media account, and my other friends asked me about the address of the cafes, which can form an animal visual business. People like the feeling brought by animals and the spread of modern media also brings a lot of informations.

Citation：

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. How to See the World: an Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More. Basic Books, 2016.