I’ve fallen behind on updates because we were busy sightseeing and spending time with family in Korea, but I’ll try to catch up now that we’re in Indonesia. To start, I’ll tell you about visiting the Bau House Dog Café in Seoul with my cousin and his family a couple of days ago.
The café had 20+ dogs – permanent and temporary boarders – plus the doggie visitors who came with their owners. It felt a little gimmicky at times, and I suspect some of them may have been overfed dog treats, but it was still fun to hang out and drink shakes with a bunch of dogs. And the cleanliness factor wasn’t too bad – they had a ton of workers around with cleaning supplies to get rid of any accidents at a moment’s notice.
They also had a list of the dog’s names and ages – this big hairy guy was 14 years old!
On the car ride over, my 9 year-old cousin’s daughter proclaimed that dogs were her favorite animal. Of course, as soon as she saw all the dogs in the café, she kind of freaked out, and it took a lot of coaxing to get her to come inside. Then she would set her eyes on a particularly cute dog and say that she wanted to pet it, but as soon as it came near her, she would back away and jump up on a chair. Eventually she got used to the first section of the café, where mostly the little dogs hung out, and even pet a few of them.
It took a half hour to convince her to enter the second area of the café where most of the big dogs were, and then only if her dad would carry her in. You can see in the picture that when they came in they were immediately attacked by a ferocious beast. I think (hope?) that she eventually had fun.
Of course, if you know Scott at all, you know that he had a blast. I often caught him petting multiple dogs at the same time.
Don’t they look like good buddies?
It was neat to see dogs of all shapes and sizes interact with each other, too. This little white dog with the pink tail was a social butterfly who roamed around constantly, greeting everyone – dog or human – with enthusiasm.
So if you like dogs and don’t mind forking over the money for the required overpriced drink, it’s a fun place to hang out and certainly not something you see every day (unless you happen to live by a dog café).
Oh. My. God.
i love this!! hope i can go here during our trip this autumn. hope i can find it in hongdae.
would u be able to give like landmarks around the area to make it easier for us to locate this cafe? appreciate it greatly. thanks.
my korean cousin drove us there and he had some trouble finding it (even after he called them on his cell phone), so to be honest we circled around the area so much i don’t remember any particular landmarks to help. be careful if you find directions online because i think they fairly recently moved locations (the old place was on the third floor and now they’re on the ground floor at a different building). you can try calling their number at 02) 334-5152 to ask for help with directions.
Yes I can confirm that they moved recently. I just went today but had not know they changed locations, so I could not find it for the life of me. I hope to find the new location and go back again when I get the chance. I was afraid that they had just closed for good.