'They can see the personalities of the cats': Saskatoon café helps get cats adopted in a unique way

There’s a café in Saskatoon that can prove it’s heads and tails above the rest.

There’s a café in Saskatoon that can prove it’s heads and tails above the rest.

Kira Keating loves cats but the building where she lives doesn’t allow them, so she’s a regular at The Purrfect Cup on 2nd Avenue.

“I have to come live vicariously here, but that’s fine. I come once a week,” Keating told CTV News.

For her the chance to sit and read a book while surrounded by felines is the cat’s meow.

“Somebody said they were going to the cat café and I said ‘the what?’ I was so excited because I had been to one in Japan years ago and thought it was a cool idea,” she says.

She doesn’t have to travel far for this café. The downtown business opened about a year ago, and while it lets people come in and paws a while with more than a dozen cats at a time, it partners with the Battleford’s Humane Society. All cats here are up for adoption as a result.

“All the cats are socialized all day with people and other cats, and they’re used to the hustle and bustle. People get to see them in their natural environment. At shelters they’re in their cages, it’s hard to see them when they’re couped up,” Sydney Sylvester, Owner of The Purrfect Cup said.