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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Today is National Cat Day


Your kitten will probably mark the day with a nap, a romp with a paper bag, a nibble of kibble and another nap.

But you can be as ambitious or as low-key as you like with your own National Cat Day celebrations.

Watch cat videos in a big way

Consumption of internet cat videos is bound to spike on National Cat Day. The Internet Cat Video Festival will showcase the best of the best on October 29 at 7:30 at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston.

The event, which launched in 2012 at the Walker Art Center, is a live showing of a curated collection of about 100 cat clips -- from Vine videos to short films. Admission is $8 in advance and $12 on the day of the event.

Adopt a feline or treat a cat to something nice
















National Cat Day organizers want cats to find good homes, and the occasion is a fine time to consider adopting a cat from a shelter or pet rescue organization.

Volunteering at a local shelter or donating blankets, pet food and toys are also nice ways to celebrate the kitties of the world. #!celebrate/c1x0f

Uber is delivering 15-minute kitten cuddles ($30) to offices in 50 cities, and the kitties in most of the cities are eligible for adoption.


Have a warm beverage at a cozy cat café


Cat Town Café in Oakland, California, is a non-profit rescue operating in partnership with Oakland Animal Services.


The space features a cafe and separate cat zone where between six and 20 adoptable cats roam freely. Food and beverages from the cafe can be brought into the cat zone, where up to 14 people are allowed to get to know the felines each hour.

Walk-ins are welcome, but Cat Town recommends reservations, which are available with a $10 donation.



Curl up on the couch

Revel in your role as warm furniture as you and your feline peruse cat books together.

Take some inspiration from "Artists and Their Cats,"featuring human-kitty pairings, including Salvador Dali with his pet ocelot Babou and Matisse with sleek black stunner la Puce (the flea).

Then dive into the hard-hitting "Cats on the Job", which profiles felines who don't have time to lounge around looking at cat books.

While your cozy companion is sleeping, tune in to DVRed episodes of "My Cat From Hell" on Animal Planet and catch up with the Internet's most famous felines.



Take a nap
It's been a busy day. Rest up.


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Thursday, June 11, 2015

A Customer is Suing the Denver Cat Company After She Says a Cat Bit Her Hand, and the Bite Got Infected


Denver, Colorado -  Amanda Jamrogiewicz filed the lawsuit on behalf of her mother, Sue Hodges. The two claim they visited the cat cafe back in February and a cat named "Morpheus" bit Hodges.

"[Morpheus] flipped onto his back when my mom still had her hand out," Jamrogiewicz told 9NEWS. "When she was going down to continue petting him, he bit her on her hand rather aggressively and wouldn't let go for at least 15-20 seconds."

"When she finally got her hand away it was bleeding in about 7 or 8 different spots," she said.

Jamrogiewicz said her mother was treated for the bite at the counter. But after she got home, she realized it was infected.

She went to an urgent care clinic for treatment and was charged $305. She asked the café to pay the medical bill, but the owner, Sana Hamelin, wouldn't agree to it.

The suit demands $5,920 for the $305 in medical bills plus missed work and the emotional toll for the entire endeavor.

"We wouldn't be able to survive as a business model if we were opening ourselves up to taking responsibility for a cat's behavior, because we can't guarantee that a cat won't bite or scratch," Hamelin said.

Hamelin said she did offer to pay part of the bill, but admits people get adequate warning about how unpredictable cats are with signs warning people to "pet at their own risk."

"We just let everyone know [petting] is a risk. If they're not willing to take that risk, then they shouldn't pet cats that don't belong to them," she said. "I don't think there's a cat in existence that hasn't bitten or scratched."

Jamrogiewicz said her mother missed a week of work because of the infected bite and complications from an antibiotic she was prescribed. She said her mother is the sole provider for the household after her father went on disability because of a brain tumor.

"They're under a lot of financial stress," Jamrogiewicz said. She claims the missed work hurt her parents' finances even more.

She said the day of the bite, Hamelin asked if it was Morpheus who bit her mother. Jamrogiewicz claims Hamelin knew he was a dangerous cat and should have been removed from the café.

However, Hamelin told 9NEWS Morpheus was one of the most popular cats in her shop.

"He was here for a long time and was very popular with our customers and managed to interact with a lot of people," Hamelin said.

Hamelin says after Jamrogiewicz and her mother started asking for compensation for the bite, she told the rescue that provided the cats for the café. That rescue then decided to pull all of their felines from the café for risk.

"Because of your claim, the shelter has terminated its relationship with the café," Hamelin wrote in an email to Hodges on March 11.

Jamrogiewicz said Hamelin is blaming her mother for losing that rescue, and the accusation is causing emotional stress.

Hamelin said she agreed to pay more than half of Hodges' medical bills in the beginning, but the family refused to agree to that settlement demanding the entire total.

Jamrogiewicz offered another settlement to Hamelin: if the shop paid her mother's medical bills, Jamrogiewicz would make a donation to a cat rescue for the same amount.

Hamelin turned that settlement down and instead offered to make the donation herself in lieu of paying the medical bills.

Jamrogiewicz and her mother refused and filed the $6,000 lawsuit in early April. Hamelin was served last week.

"I guess a lot of people think this is frivolous, and to us, to be honest, it is too," Jamrogiewicz said. "She should have just paid the $300."

Hamelin said she could have just submitted the claim to her insurance, but it was already close enough to the deductible. Also, she worried about her insurance rates going up.

She also said she didn't want to create a precedent for others to sue over an issue she clearly warns people about before they walk in.

"I'm just a solitary person trying to do this by myself so it's tough to be sued when you're not a big corporation," she said "We're not rolling in money here."

The case is due for a hearing in early June.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

America's First Cat Cafe Opens in Oakland


America’s first cat café opened its doors Saturday in Oakland.
At the Cat Town Café, people can buy a latte and an hour of playtime with adoptable felines.

The owners hope this new business will help find homes for East Bay cats.
Internationally, cat cafés are popular in urban areas. This new venture in Oakland was the first to master the logistics and health code approvals in the U.S.


To read more on this story, click here: America's First Cat Cafe Opens in Oakland

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Cat Café's Taking Over the World! - Kit Tea to Open in San Francisco Soon! - Purr-Fect Coffee Breaks!


It started in Taiwan a dozen or so years ago with a cafe called Cat Flower Garden, the concept was most enthusiastically embraced in Japan where today there are more cat cafes than anywhere else in the world -- around 150 at the last count.

Now the rest of the world is cat-ching on.

In April the United States saw it's first feline coffee house open in New York, albeit only temporarily, London recently opened its first too and a number of major European cities now also offer purr-fect coffee breaks.

San Francisco - A unique cafe is coming to San Francisco.

KitTea is opening up shop on Gough Street in the Hayes Valley neighborhood. It will be similar to another cat cafe named Catachino in Manhattan.

The website Curbed SF reports the cafe will team up with rescue organizations to host about a dozen cats at a time. Customers will be able to adopt them as they sip teas and lattes.

Catachino in New York is so popular there are usually lines around the block. KitTea will be taking reservations.


For more information, and scheduled opening date, visit them on facebook at: Kit Tea

Take a look Cappuccino's, the first Cat Café that opened in New York City, in April 2014

 A Cat and a Cappuccino to Go: 1st  Pop-Up Cat Café, Was The First to Open in The US

A cat is pictured sitting at the window of the Cat Café in New York, April 23, 2014. The Cat Café, organized by Purina ONE, was opened to the public April 24-27 and offered lectures on cat health, the benefits of adopting a cat and cat-friendly interior design. All cats in the Cat Café are available for adoption through the North Shore Animal League.

A pop-up Cat Cafe, open in New York's Bowery district from Thursday to Sunday, is welcoming cat and coffee lovers who need a 'paws' from the daily grind. Even better: all of the cats can be adopted, and the Cat'achinos are complimentary.

It was a beautiful day for cat lovers: When the first Cat Café in North America opened in NYC.

The Cat Café is the product of a beautiful initiative undertaken by Purina One and the North Shore Animal League, America’s largest no-kill shelter: the Cat Café will be a temporary home to rescue cats, and visitors will be able to have a good cup of coffee while spending some times with their furry friends. The most beautiful part of this initiative is that if you bond with one of them, you can even adopt it.

This Cat Café, located on 168 Bowery, is temporary and will be open till April 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

If you plan to visit the Café, you can read a nice presentation of the adorable cats you will find there on this site.

New York - Along the Bowery in Manhattan, People Waited in a Line that Would Challenge Any Fancy Art Gallery Opening or Exclusive New York City Club

But what brought these people here on a cool sunny Thursday afternoon wasn't art or exclusivity, it was cats.

Well, cats and coffee.

Cat Café opened its doors Thursday, for cat lovers and the cat-curious to enjoy complimentary "cat'achino" cappuccinos, talk cat health and learn about cat adoption with 16 cuddly cats. Pet food brand Purina ONE is hosting the café as a pop-up shop, lasting only through Sunday, but organizers hope the event encourages cat health awareness and adoption.

"The goal of what we're doing here is try to start a conversation about cat health. What better place to do that then over a cup of coffee with some friends in a café? We thought if people are going to be talking about cat health, you should be among your subjects and have cats all around you," said Niky Roberts with Purina ONE.

"It's a great thing because dogs are very publicly social -- you can take your dog out and go for a walk, talk to people at the dog park -- but that's not a luxury most cat owners have, so this is a place you can talk with likeminded people about cat health and be among cats."

As cat people sipped cappuccinos with cat faces drawn in the foam and flicked furry, feathered balls attached to sticks by string at feline guests, Roberts said the café featured a "Cat Chat" speaker series with discussions led by a cat behaviorist, a veterinarian and other cat experts.

Nearby, Valerie the cat had been camped out on Casey Schimon for about an hour, when someone came over to say Valerie had been adopted.

"I'm so excited for her, because she is seriously the most precious thing, and somebody is going to be very happy," an only slightly sad looking Schimon said.

Purina ONE partnered with North Shore Animal League, a large, no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization based in Long Island, New York, to bring 16 specially chosen cats from around the country to hang out at the café.

"So far I think we've had about four cats adopted, but on Saturday we're having an event here where we'll have our mobile unit that will have additional cats available for adoption, and we're always encouraging people to come over to the shelter in Long Island where we have over a hundred adoptable cats," said Christina Travalja, shelter director for North Shore Animal League America.

Cat coffee houses started in Asia, have gained popularity in Europe, and there are talks of opening a few in such places as California, Oregon and Canada. Bu for now, organizers say the Cat Café in New York is the first feline coffee spot in North America.

"I just want to look at cats. I really like them. I go to school here, so I'm far from my cats. I just wanted to get my fill," said Melissa Torres, who waited nearly two hours to get in the café, "You hear about them in Japan, and I always thought I would have to go to Japan to go to a cat café.

For those who weren't in New York or couldn't handle the line, scenes from inside the cat café were Livestreamed with more than 5,000 people watching around the world. The hashtag #CatCafe was used to spark conversations about the event and cat health on social media.

By mid-day there had been more than 3,000 mentions of Cat Café on Twitter, about 74 per hour, and 178 "news mentions" of Cat Café. At least 30 videos had been posted with Cat Café in the title.

For others, social media merely spread the word and would never make up for seeing the felines up close.

"I'm just really excited about the cat café -- hopefully I'll be able to pet some cats!" said Stephanie Leoutsakos, who had been standing in line for a half hour and still hadn't made it around the block.

John Tolas was waiting in line next to her and said, "I heard it on Facebook, I told her, she loves cats, so now we're here."

Take a look as some of the pictures from Cappuccino's, in New York.

Click on images to enlarge.

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