“I thought (cat cafe) owners would reach out to me – now it looks like I need to take the initiative and send the (cat’s) resume out,” she lamented to CNN.
Xin says Zhang Bu’er spends her days sleeping and “parkours” at night, making a racket and disturbing her and her husband’s sleep.
More annoyingly for Xin, Zhang Bu’er would always curl up on her laptop when she was working overtime.
“He just lounged around, watching me hustle away like a workhorse,” she said, jokingly.
“(My husband and I) want him to be a working cat to get a taste of the grind and earn his own food.”
Xin said she spends about 500 yuan ($71) per month feeding her two cats.
“I think (Zhang Bu’er) gets too bored during the day,” she said. “A job would help him burn off some energy.”
China’s first cat cafe opened in the southern city of Guangzhou in 2011.
The number of similar establishments has grown by 200% per year in the country, according to CBNData, China’s state-linked financial paper.
As of 2023, there were more than 4,000 cat cafe-related companies in the country.
Editor’s Note: CNN’s Joyce Jiang contributed reporting.
