This seems incredibly underpriced. Make it $50 and target office parties, add another $50-100 for catered cupcakes and they'd make a ton of money for shelters.
Uber and Cheezburger will deliver you 15 minutes of kitten playtime for $20
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#12This is kitten prostitution
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#14This does feel a bit weird - short-term rental of petting animals? I'm worried about mishandling, animal cruelty and the whole concept - pets form an attachment with you, doing it as a short-term rental isn't an acceptable way of building a relationship...
I've seen volunteers walk shelter pets down the street and take them to the park, where dozens of strangers (hopefully!) stop to pet and play with them for a few minutes.
Sounds harmless to me as long as the animals have long-term support too.
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#15Now do it with puppies!
"National Dog Day" appears to be August 26.
Of course, every day is a good dog day. Perhaps Uber will consider doing something like this quarterly.
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#16The internet is leaking again...
Seriously, this is a great way to get some kittens adopted from shelters. I am in the UK, and very jealous.
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#17What does this have to do with HN?
Uber is a company from the San Francisco Bay Area, and HN is a site about companies from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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#18This does feel a bit weird - short-term rental of petting animals? I'm worried about mishandling, animal cruelty and the whole concept - pets form an attachment with you, doing it as a short-term rental isn't an acceptable way of building a relationship...
There is actually a lot of value in this in that it helps the animal socialize. Animals with a lot of human contact and contact with other animals (assuming all such contact is positive) form fairly pleasant dispositions. Those animals which "don't play well with others" generally grew up with a lot less human contact and/or contact with other animals, or that had negative experiences with other humans and animals.
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#19This seems incredibly underpriced. Make it $50 and target office parties, add another $50-100 for catered cupcakes and they'd make a ton of money for shelters.
Kittens at office parties seems cruel. Cats can't stand crowds of people and will try to hide, not want to play.
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#20I know it's fun, but I honestly think they're testing the waters with this sort of thing - same goes with the "Call an Ice Cream Truck" campaign from this summer. Uber = On-Demand... anything?
Eels on wheels?