Everyone here at The Cat Cafe, both human and feline, want to wish our customers and supporters a very Merry Christmas!

For four cats, they got the best Christmas present ever. Some of these cats were long term residents at The Cat Cafe, and some of them arrived fairly recently. But all of them got the Christmas present they wanted — a forever home!

Kookiez was the cat who had been here the longest. She arrived back in early October. She and Cleopatra, another long time resident calico, became friends. They would chase each other around, and play fight. It was very fun to watch Kookiez basically tackle Cleopatra to start the play fighting session. Once Cleopatra was adopted, Kookiez seemed to miss her friend.

Now, she doesn’t have to worry about that. She’s going to go to a home where she’ll get lots of attention, because one of the residents works from a home office.

And she’ll have another alumni from The Cat Cafe with her. She’s going to be joined by Willow, who arrived in mid-November. This tortie was given up by her foster because she deserved to get more attention than the foster could provide. And now she’ll get it from both Kookiez and one of her adopters.

Halo didn’t spend as much time as the other cats who were adopted at The Cat Cafe, having only joined us a few weeks ago. He was adopted by a couple who pointed out to us that his left rear leg didn’t have any toes. It only made him more adorable. The lack of toes didn’t slow him down, and that, along with his playful but shy personality is what made his adopter decide to give him the best Christmas present a cat could ever want — a forever home.

And on Christmas day, someone came in to give Zelda her Christmas present. The Cat Cafe is closed on Christmas, but since we needed to be here to feed the cats and clean their litter boxes, we were happy to allow a service member to take a cat home on Christmas. They’ll be deployed soon, and they wanted to give their family something to help them get through that deployment. And they wanted to surprise their family, who had been wanting a cat, on Christmas.

We’re so happy that Kookiez, Willow, Halo, and Zelda were able to get the best Christmas present for a cat ever — a forever home. And we’re happy that The Cat Cafe was able to be a part of this.

It’s that time of year where we’re on the last page of the calendar for 2015. We can’t believe the year has gone by so quickly! It seems like just a short time ago when The Cat Cafe was first opening.

With the year about to end, this means that a lot of you are shopping for calendars. You could go to a big box store and get a calendar, but the one we’re about to tell you about will be a lot more fun!

Some of you may know that one of the personal cats of the team here at The Cat Cafe is a diabetic cat. Bagheera the Diabetic Cat has become quite popular on Facebook and he writes blog posts on a close to daily basis. And one of the organizations that Bagheera likes to support is Diabetic Cats in Need.

Bagheera participated in a contest to raise funds for Diabetic Cats in Need. He was hoping to be one of the cats that’s featured as the diabetic cat of the month, but that didn’t happen. His photo is still in the calendar, and we have to say he looks good!

We have a limited number of these calendars available at The Cat Cafe, and we’ll sell them for our cost of $25 plus tax. If you want one of these shipped to you, we’ll charge an additional $6 for shipping, which is our cost to ship.

These cool calendars are a great way for you to keep track of 2016 while you support an organization devoted to helping diabetic cats and their people. Diabetic Cats in Need has helped rescue hundreds of diabetic cats and they have also helped thousands of people who needed a hand dealing with the challenges that come from caring for a diabetic cat.

We’re proud to support the good work of this organization at The Cat Cafe and hope you’ll support them by purchasing a calendar!

As a small business, we here at The Cat Cafe look to support other small businesses. That is why our coffee comes not from a huge multi-national corporate entity, but from West Coast Coffee Roasters and Cafe Virtuoso. It’s why our pastries come from Bread & Cie, our cookies come from The Cravory and why we’ve partnered with the Lazy Hippo.

Supporting other small businesses is part of The Cat Cafe’s mindset, and it’s one of the reasons why we’re happy to announce that we are partnering with Meowtel to cover adoption expenses for the month of December.

From now until the end of the December or eight adoptions, Meowtel will cover the adoption fee for all adult cats. It’s great that Meowtel will help The Cat Cafe send kitties to good homes!

What is Meowtel? Meowtel takes the process of finding a cat sitter, which can be difficult and require a lot of work, and makes it a lot easier. Instead of having to call vets, shelters, and other facilities, you go to Meowtel’s website, enter the location where you want to find a host and the dates that you need one, and you’ll be provided with names of hosts who will take in your cat.

It’s a hassle free stay for your cat when you can’t take care of them for whatever reason. And Meowtel believes in giving back to the animal welfare community, so they provide a free listing service for adoptable cats!

We here at The Cat Cafe are very happy that Meowtel has chosen to work with us in order to make it a little easier to find homes for adoptable cats. Hopefully we will be able to adopt eight cats between now and the end of the year, which would take us to 115 total adoptions.

Come on in to visit us here at The Cat Cafe and to celebrate the partnership with Meowtel!