What affects us affects cats
A prominent pink notice stuck onto the front door of Boston’s yet to open and brand-new Purr Cat Café was embarrassingly unfortunate. It sent the wrong signal to the public and the reason why it was there is because somebody made an allegation of animal cruelty and reported it through the city’s 311 system. …
His name is Jonathan Tan Wei-De (aka Jonathan Tan). He opened a cat café in Singapore called ‘Cuddles Cat Café’. He broke several animal welfare laws and regulations in Singapore during the short tenure of ownership of his business and as a consequence he was convicted and fined $3,500 in lieu of a two …
This story unfolded in Singapore. The former owner of the Cat Cuddles Café, Jonathan Tan Wei-De was convicted of being in breach of the Agri-Veterinary Authority (AVA) licensing conditions in failing to keep the cats at the café in good health; seven of the thirty cats died before the café opened. A poor record …
Atlanta’s first cat cafe opened for business in March and is already a hit in the cat community. Located at 415 Memorial Drive SE, Suite C, in Grand Park, cat lovers can now mingle with 12 adoptable cats, courtesy of PAWS Atlanta (Georgia’s oldest no-kill shelter). Hadyn Hilton has had a love for animals …
This is a great success story for cat cafés and cat rescue. I must say that I am surprised to read that the Pounce Cat Café in Charleston has adopted out 150 rescue cats and kittens in three months; a fantastic rate. I’ll speculate and suggest that this cat café is the most successful …
A Canadian cat café, Catfé, has run out of cats! They’ve all been adopted. Great. Success. But you can’t have a cat café without cats so they had to shut temporarily. The café is in Vancouver and it the city’s first (and only?) cat café. The owner is Michelle Furbacher. She has to be …
This public house in Bristol, UK, is the only cat pub in the UK as far as I am aware. There are 15 cats in pub (there were 24 but that was too many the landlord said) and they lounge around just as they would if they were in a cat café. The pub …
It is ironic or is that the wrong word. It is certainly a bit bizarre when a vandal or vandals daub across the shutters of London’s most famous cat café, Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, the words “Free the Cats”. Somebody thinks that the cats at the cat café are prisoners. Or they believe that …
