Life's a hoot

From a Guardian article earlier this year:

"Japan’s welfare laws offer limited guidance but improvements may be on the horizon, says Sayoko Yamada, director of the Kanagawa Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Yamada predicts legislators will amend Japan’s animal welfare laws by 2020, anticipating international scrutiny accompanying the 2020 Olympics. It is believed that Japan passed its first animal welfare legislation in 1973 just in time for a visit from Queen Elizabeth II."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/03/conservationists-get-their-talons-out-for-japans-owl-cafes

I'm reasonably sure that this owl isn't hooting to attract customers. I doubt it is on a percentage of the take.

I think they both look terribly unhappy. So, good photo of a useless and cruel way to treat a lovely bird.

Disgusting and heartless. No animal should be restrained and used to for human entertainment. All these pet cafe's (zoo's and aquariums) should be banned. The true heart of a nation is displayed in the way it treats animals.

The other side of the coin... educate yourself before visiting one of these places:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/03/conservationists-get-their-talons-out-for-japans-owl-cafes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/08/outrage-over-japans-owl-cafs/

http://nextshark.com/animal-activists-want-japans-owl-cafes-shut-animal-abuse/

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/japans-owl-cafes-harmful-or-a-hoot

Angry bird

Wild animals are not toys.