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While cats and rabbits are observed in the cafe, dogs are available for rent.

Pet shop “Candy” in Yokohama has a rental dog service. This kind of service is familiar to me as we have “Puppy the world” in Odaiba, Tokyo. Anyhow, the pet shop Candy offers the following price.
1050yen per hour
10500yen for 3 nights

Hmmm…this is quite reasonable when it’s compared with the one from Odaiba, I think. But the difference is that the Odaiba’s rental dogs were the specialists. (I once tried to rent a dog from them before I keep a dog.) They work as a rental dog, so they are not basically for sale. They are the selected dogs who can be friendly to any “customers”. They are well trained. But the dogs from Candy are basically for sales. Just like the old woman in the video, users who once rent a dog from this pet store will be likely to have a special attachment to the dog, and eventually they will decide to buy it. Wow, what a business!?

Whatever it is…I think it’s good to try something before we make a big decision. When we decide to live with a dog, we have to be committed to walk him or her everyday, and we have to take a great care of it no matter how we are tired or busy. Renting 3 days may not be enough to get all these things, but far better than without, if we cannot get the image of keeping a dog. Well, I may want to rent one from the store and see if she can be compatible with Pi-chan.

What do you think of rental dogs?
Are you familiar with such service in your country?