You must have heard about pet-friendly cafes around the world. For the first time ever, Abu Dhabi now has the first Owl Café in the Middle East. Nine owls live at Booma Café, where you can learn about them and hold them for 70 dirhams (about ₹1500). The birds are looked after by trainers. However, the clip now going viral was not liked by internet users. People are calling it “animal cruelty”.
The café gained popularity after several videos of this unique experience went viral online. Café owner Mohammed Al Shehhi time out “The welfare of the owls is a top priority for the café,” it said.
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He said that the café opens every day at 2 pm. This gives the owls “a chance to rest all night and all morning and when closed, they are left to roam freely”. “Some of the boobies may never survive in the wild, take Venus (the tawny owl) for example,” he told the outlet. “She hatched with one wing shorter than the other, making it difficult for her to survive at high altitude or on a long day.” While being cared for by the Boomah team, Venus is now a healthy eight-year-old owl living happily despite her disability.”
Mohammed Al Shehhi said that the idea was inspired by the Japanese Owl Café. “We expanded the idea in a way that would satisfy Middle Eastern society,” he said. Recently, a video of the cafe was shared by content creator Little Foodie on Instagram. In the clip, several owls are seen near a wooden board with their name tags and species information.
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He wrote in the caption, “The owners have said many times that Boomah opens daily from 2 pm to 10 pm (for 8 hours only) so that the owls get a chance to rest and roam freely in the AC room. “Because the welfare of the owls is their top priority, some owls cannot live/live in the wild, so they are cared for by trained staff.”
He added, “The room with the owls is divided by a glass, if you don’t want to interact with them and just watch from a distance, but if you want to get up close, it’s worth AED 70 per person.” will be.” Since being shared, the video has received over 84,000 likes and 1.7 million views on Instagram.
Commenting on the post, one user wrote, “I mean birds should be free unless these birds need rehabilitation and you are keeping them until they are healthy and then setting them free? It seems very wrong to make money from caged animals.” Another wrote: “Can we stop using animals for entertainment and money? This is wrong on every level.” A third wrote, “This is cruelty to animals.”
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