NC gets another cat café, and others are in the works

A café that opened Friday offers coffee, tea and baked goods, and also a space for hanging out with adoptable cats.

Crooked Tail Cat Café is one of a few cat cafés in the state. Kosmic Kittens Cat Lounge in Selma, offers a work lounge, meeting space, gift shop and cofee spot with feline friends.

Cat cafés, as Crooked Tail describes them, are places “to grab a sip and enjoy the company of felines.” They are intended to be therapeutic for visitors and a means for matching cats with potential future families.

The concept is said to have originated in Taiwan and grown in popularity in Japan before reaching the U.S. in 2014, when the nation’s first cat café opened in Oakland.

Some pointers about the Greensboro cat café:

▪  Don’t take your own cat – they have plenty.

▪  The café has two sections, a “Kitty Lounge” separated from the food and drink area.

▪  An entry fee of $10 for the Kitty Lounge gets you “one hour of as many cuddles and snuggles as you can get.”

▪  All of the cats at Crooked Tail are up for adoption through its partnership with Red Dog Farm.

Several other North Carolina cat cafés are in the works, in Raleigh, Wilmington, Charlotte, and Kernersville.

Purr Cup Café hopes to open in Raleigh the spring of 2018.

The Stratching Post Café in Wilmington, Mac Tabby Cat Café in Charlotte, and Waffles and Whiskers Café in Kernersville have all expressed hopes of opening this fall.

This story was originally published November 4, 2017 at 1:07 PM with the headline "NC gets another cat café, and others are in the works."