It’s always a little sad for us to say goodbye to cats when we adopt them out. We’ll admit it. We get attached to the cats who join us at The Cat Cafe. Some of them all but demand we do it, because they hop on our laps and purr up a storm. Others are a little more aloof, but they give us the slow eye blinks when we walk into the room and talk until we come over to pet them.

But we know that this is something we have to do so that we can be successful at achieving one of the goals at The Cat Cafe — sending cats to good homes. And we always enjoy bringing new cats in to our venue.

Grey is the first cat we will introduce you to. He is a little younger than most of the cats we get in, at only seven months. And he’s a very friendly cat. He greeted us immediately with head bonks and purrs. But this 10 pound boy is a little shy around people he’s not familiar with. He’s starting to come out of his shell and interacts with people in the playpen more. We still need to be respectful of his shy nature, however. Please give him the space he needs to feel comfortable.

Kitty is a little more reserved than Grey is with her affection. In fact, you have to work to get this four year, four month girl to interact with you. She probably needs to lose a few pounds, because at 13 pounds, she’s carrying a little more weight than she needs. She also needs to go to a home where any children respect her boundaries and where little love bites are okay.

Stella and Tigger, who are a bonded pair, also arrived at The Cat Cafe recently. These two came to us from San Diego Humane Society‘s Oceanside facility. They weren’t too happy on the ride to The Cat Cafe, but once they arrived they started to fit right in.

Stella is quieter and more reserved than her brother. Both of these cats are one year and two months old. She is also smaller, weighing in at nine pounds. When she gets to know you, she’s very affectionate, and will leap up to give you head bonks. And she purrs like crazy when she likes you.

You will likely see Tigger, who is the larger of these two cats at 13 pounds. out in the playpen more. And he’s very entertaining! Tigger has discovered the scratching poles in The Cat Cafe playpen also make for great climbing poles and he uses them as such.

Stella and Tigger must go home together because they are a bonded pair.

Come on by to meet some of your old favorites and see the new cats who have joined us at The Cat Cafe!

We here at The Cat Cafe have multiple goals. We enjoy serving award winning coffee from local roasters. And we are proud to serve cookies and pastries from locally based companies. We love giving people the chance to enjoy a little purr therapy with San Diego Humane Society cats.

But the thing that makes us the happiest is when we send cats to good homes.

In October, we were able to send eight cats to good homes. We started the month off by sending Blondie, who had raised a bunch of kittens before arriving here, to her forever home. Then we adopted out a couple of bonded pairs. Smokey and Tiger had been here for about five months before finding an adopter. Dean and Deluca, who have since been renamed Max and Milo, spent about a month here before they went home.

Next up was another long term resident, Sammy. And then we closed the month out by adopting out another sibling pair, Noah and Cora.

These adoptions bring the total number of cats that we have adopted out at The Cat Cafe to 203. We’re really proud of how we’ve been able to find homes for all of these animals, and hope to continue to send animals home at this pace.

In addition to adopting out eight cats, The Cat Cafe raised $218 for San Diego Humane Society. We’re glad that our customers choose to support this wonderful organization in its mission to Inspire Compassion.

As we here at The Cat Cafe move into November and holiday season, we want to thank all of our supporters and customers. We wouldn’t have been able to send these cats home without your support. We look forward to seeing you back in here to meet our adoptable cats from San Diego Humane Society and to enjoy our award winning coffee!

We wanted to let everyone know what is going on with our sidewalk seating area and also to let you know that we would love to host holiday parties here at The Cat Cafe.

We’ve submitted all the paperwork for the sidewalk cafe to the City of San Diego, and we should have the permit we need to build things out soon. We couldn’t have done this without your support. The Cat Cafe is grateful for all of you who supported us, whether it was with a small contribution, large contribution, or by sharing our crowdfunding campaign.

The sidewalk cafe will allow us to provide more seating for customers who are waiting to get into the playpen. In addition, it will allow us to host holiday events. Events will have to comply with our limits on the number of people who can be in the playpen.

But that doesn’t mean they won’t be fun! If you are interested in having a holiday event at The Cat Cafe, let us know. We will work with you to make it a great event. With the sidewalk cafe, we can have food catered. And we won’t break any laws prohibiting serving food where animals are present.

We can’t serve alcohol at these events because we don’t have a liquor license. But you don’t need a drink to enjoy spending time with your friends or coworkers during a holiday event!

If you’re starting to plan for holiday events, we’d love to talk to you. Email is the best way for you to get a hold of us. Please send us details on what you’d like and how many will attend. We will work with you to make things happen.

Thanks for your support of The Cat Cafe and we hope to host your holiday party!