meow!
Two news stories have caught my attention.
My friend Kathy messaged me with a link to the first story. Catpurrcinos Cat Cafe opens in Huntington
If you go to the website you learn that:
a cat cafe is pretty much a giant living space for foster cats and kittens - that also happens to serve craft food and beverages. Picture your own living room, a furry friend in one hand, and a delicious drink in the other. For the cats, this atmosphere provides a life of luxury while they wait for their forever home. For the people, our environment gives you the opportunity to meet your potential new family member and get a real feel for their personality - or simply just relax with a furry companion!
So now Huntington has TWO cat cafes -- the other being The Shabby Tabby, which opened last year. The competing cafes are just a mile apart.
And the second story?
Interesting news from North Shore Animal League, the largest pet shelter on Long Island. There is now a Billy Joel room at their new adoption center. Joel donated the proceeds of one of his Madison Square Garden concerts to the animal shelter to help build the center. (The adoption center was the project of Howard Stern's wife Beth. Rachel Ray was also involved.)
But a whole room devoted to Billy Joel!
The Billy Joel Room is a cage-free, two-gallery space allowing adoptable cats and kittens to roam freely. Designed by cat-environment architect Mario Arbore of Melbourne, Florida's Square Paws, one gallery includes a custom-designed player piano performing Billy Joel songs. Additionally, cat beds resemble Fender-brand speakers, with the famed logo redone as "Feline." The other gallery, unofficially called the New York State of Mind Room, after the Joel song, contains cat furniture modeled after such landmarks as the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as a cutaway subway-car shelf.
A plaque in the room quotes from Joel's "And So It Goes" — "In every heart there is a room / A sanctuary safe and strong" — and dedicates it to Joel "in honor of his brilliance as an artist and his compassion as a human being. His generosity saves lives and heals hearts."
Lucky cats!
My friend Kathy messaged me with a link to the first story. Catpurrcinos Cat Cafe opens in Huntington
Not many cafes come with a sentinel, but a marbled gray-and-white cat named Apollo will give you a bold once-over as you take a first step in his lair at Catpurrcinos Cat Cafe in Huntington. Then, he will mostly ignore you as you settle in to an easy chair with a latte and a croissant.
Apollo is one of 29 cats who dart around the enclosed backroom of Catpurrcinos, playing with stuffed mice and scratching posts, dozing on towers or watching flat-screen televisions placed at cat-friendly heights. All are up for adoption, having been rescued by the nonprofit Feral to Family, but their space is separated by glass from the working part of the cafe. There, in an immaculate space with a Rational oven, a bakery case and a few tables, manager Christopher Cafiero bakes most pastry fresh each morning, from muffins to flaky puff pastry filled with varying blends of eggs, cheese, sausage, bacon and turkey.
If you go to the website you learn that:
a cat cafe is pretty much a giant living space for foster cats and kittens - that also happens to serve craft food and beverages. Picture your own living room, a furry friend in one hand, and a delicious drink in the other. For the cats, this atmosphere provides a life of luxury while they wait for their forever home. For the people, our environment gives you the opportunity to meet your potential new family member and get a real feel for their personality - or simply just relax with a furry companion!
So now Huntington has TWO cat cafes -- the other being The Shabby Tabby, which opened last year. The competing cafes are just a mile apart.
And the second story?
Interesting news from North Shore Animal League, the largest pet shelter on Long Island. There is now a Billy Joel room at their new adoption center. Joel donated the proceeds of one of his Madison Square Garden concerts to the animal shelter to help build the center. (The adoption center was the project of Howard Stern's wife Beth. Rachel Ray was also involved.)
But a whole room devoted to Billy Joel!
The Billy Joel Room is a cage-free, two-gallery space allowing adoptable cats and kittens to roam freely. Designed by cat-environment architect Mario Arbore of Melbourne, Florida's Square Paws, one gallery includes a custom-designed player piano performing Billy Joel songs. Additionally, cat beds resemble Fender-brand speakers, with the famed logo redone as "Feline." The other gallery, unofficially called the New York State of Mind Room, after the Joel song, contains cat furniture modeled after such landmarks as the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as a cutaway subway-car shelf.
A plaque in the room quotes from Joel's "And So It Goes" — "In every heart there is a room / A sanctuary safe and strong" — and dedicates it to Joel "in honor of his brilliance as an artist and his compassion as a human being. His generosity saves lives and heals hearts."
Lucky cats!
Hmm...interesting, I think (grin). I would be worried about hair everywhere (we have a German Shephard who sheds ALOT and hair gets everywhere!!!). I am allergic to long hair cats, don't know why, but I am.
ReplyDeleteWe're nursing the last two cats we intend on owning -- after 42 years of cat ownership, during which time we at one point had twice as many as sane people have, this is it: I'm handicapped and Mary's tired of dealing with them. We love cats, but a place like the cat cafe would be too much trouble...
ReplyDeleteThis sound so cool.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of places like these. I think I heard rumblings on one opening locally, but I can't be sure of that.
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