By ERICA EARL | Stars and Stripes | Published: April 8, 2021
The pigs are in your lap and not on your plate at Mipig Café in Tokyo, one of Japan’s several animal cafés.
Mipig Café is home to a variety of piglets and micropigs, a term for small breeds of domestic pigs, that guests can pet, cuddle and watch play while enjoying coffee and dessert.
The pigs range between 2 months and 2 years old, and, despite the term micropig, can get as big as around 90 pounds when fully grown. Most of the pigs are babies, but a few adult pigs roam the cafe.