‘My Kitty Cafe’
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Ontario’s first ever cat cafe has just opened in Guelph.
My Kitty Cafe sells food and drinks in the front of the store but behind a glass panel, it’s a kitty cat haven. Owner, Min Kim, has installed all the comforts of home, “the best place for kittens and cats are the living room. where sofas are there. Where everybody sits on the floor. And that’s exactly what we’ve recreated. A living room.”
Like many cat cafes, which were first popularized in Japan, the kittens and cats are all adoptable. The Guelph Humane Society will provide up to ten kittens and cats at a time. So far, the partnership has been a great success. In their first weekend, My Kitty Cafe found homes for 13 kittens. Lisa Veit, associate director at the Humane Society says the interaction with customers lets cats show their personalities, “people who are visiting here might not come to the shelter to look at the cats or really be seriously considering adoption. And then they interact with the cats here and hopefully that opens their hearts and minds up to bringing one of the cats home.”
Patrons, like Liz Homer who has already been twice since they opened this past weekend, also find it theraputic, “I don’t have any pets at home right now so it’s nice that I can just come here and hang out with them for half an hour or an hour if I get the chance and then I can go back to doing school work.”
The cafe has mostly hosted kittens so far, but Min wants to welcome more senior cats who are harder to find homes for. He says cats who aren’t adopted can just call My Kitty Cafe home.
