Goats attract animal-lovers at Tokyo café

We "kid" you not, a café in Tokyo is upping the wow factor with some star employees: goats.

At Sakuragaoka Café, customers can get up close and personal with Sakura and Chocolat, two goats belonging to cafe owner Rena Kawaguchi.

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Kawaguchi bought the animals three years ago, but only found success with them recently — after she starting taking them for daily walks throughout the city.

"Back then animal cafés were booming, places where you could play with cats or dogs," Kawaguchi tells Reuters. "But we reckoned a normal animal like that wouldn’t have the wow factor of a goat."

Customers can pet the goats in their pen or book time to take them for walks.

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"When you live in the city like I do, places where you can meet animals are so far away and you rarely get the time to go there," Kotaro Nakazato, a 21-year-old university student, explains. "Having them nearby like this makes it easy to commune with nature."

A goat café requires a little more work than a cat café. Employees frequently have to muck out their pen and feed them special protein-rich pills that prevent foul-smelling droppings. Still, the extra effort isn't stopping Kawaguchi from dreaming about an even more daunting undertaking: an elephant café.