Cat Cafe of Greensboro

Everyone is talking about the fact that Greensboro got a cat cafe. It opened this weekend with very heavy bookings. You need to have an appointment to attend and the were almost completely booked this weekend. The cost is $10 an hour, which helps cover the care of the cats. The Cat Cafe is located in the 600 block of South Elm Street, near Elsewhere Museum and across the street from Mellow Mushroom.

To enter, you must sanitize your hands and go through the entrance door and then a 3' gate. The current batch of cats is a range of adolescent kittens and adult cats; all but the house cat are available for adoption. The cats are very friendly and playful. Coffee and snacks are available for purchase in the back of the store- in a separate section.

The Cat Cafe fills the need of giving people a chance to interact with kitties, especially if the are too busy to have one at home. It also brings like-minded people together and, who knows, you just might make some new friends while admiring a grey tabby or a bi-color, short-haired orange-marmalade colored American house cat, like the one who was flirting with us in the window Or, was it sticking its tongue out at us because we didn't adopt him?

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