Giant ginger cat built like a retired wrestler rules over Japanese cat café with an iron paw, until one visitor who just came in for coffee wins his heart and gets handed adoption papers

Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager

Oct 21, 2026 9:30 AM EDT

When a cat adopts you, resistance is futile. Especially if it's a gigantic orange cat that bites French people.

I have mixed feelings about cat cafés. On the one hand, I love having a place outside my own home where I can be surrounded by cats, and on the other hand, I feel bad for them.

The good news is that cat cafés have improved a lot in the last couple of years. When they first started, they were basically a petting zoo for cats. No one really cared for the cats' needs, as they were merely a means to bring customers into the café. Now, the purpose of most of these cafés is for cat adoption instead of being entertainment for people while they dine or sip on a cup of mediocre coffee. Of course, there are still some cafés that use them as a tool, so always do your research before visiting a cat (or any animal) café.

Sometimes, people go there for the purrpose of finding a cat to adopt, while others, like the visitor in our "story" today from Japan, actually end up getting adopted. Simply coming in for a cup of coffee, they were warned about a purrmanently grumpy orange cat who had serious cattitude. He was notorious for knocking drinks off of tables and apparently biting French people. How he knew they were French, we have no idea, but apparently, he knew.

After a fair amount of warning, the menacing ginger cat actually climbed into their lap and started purring. Needless to say, the staff were shocked. They demanded the visitor take him home, even to the point of practically shoving adoption papers into their hands before leaving.

Even if this story is a well-written joke, there's still a lesson in there that we could all take home with us: don't judge cats by their appearances. Some of the "grumpiest" cats I've ever met have been the biggest snuggle bugs as soon as they meet their purrson and find a place they finally feel safe. And, as always, when a cat chooses you, your fate has already been decided for you. That's just the way the Cat Distribution System works.

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Maybe this story is too purrfect to be real (how can you really tell on the internet these days?), but even if it isn't, it's still a story that I would want to see popping up on my feed. One of the things I love about cat adoption stories is that, with cats, it always feels like the cat is in control. With dog adoption stories, it's always the hooman doing the adopting. The doggos are always so tentative about being chosen, maybe it has something to do with their ever-purresent desire to be liked.
Cats don't care what you think about their choices. If they want you, they will claim you and be an absolutely adorable nuisance until you submit and do what they want. As someone who struggles to make decisions a lot of the time, it's nice to have someone make the choice for me.
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Purrhaps they truly were surprised, or purrhaps they were just trying to get that ginger menace out of their café! It can't be good business to have a purrmanently grumpy cat that bites patrolling your café all day, every day. Either way, the cat chose to leave with that visitor, so who are we to stand in his way? Not like we could if we wanted to, seems like what he says goes.
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