The Great Catsby, a local Cat Café, to open on October 17

SPRING, Texas - The Great Catsby, a pop-up Cat Café is opening in Old Town Spring on October 17th and 18th, to coincide with PetFest.

Cat Cafes are an exploding international trend. They started in Japan and have spread to London, Copenhagen, New York and Los Angeles. A Cat Café is designed to be a relaxed setting where adoptable cats can roam free and people can play with them or just hang-out for a small cover charge. Helen Caddock, Cat Adoption Team Lead for Operation Pets Alive, was excited to spear-head this project: “For customers, we hope it will be a fun and unique experience and for our cats, it gives them a chance to show-case their personalities to potential adopters.”

Due to licensing restrictions, food cannot be served on the premises but Operation Pets Alive has teamed up with a nearby restaurant and customers can order food and beverages, which will be delivered to them at the Café. If it is successful, The Great Catsby hopes to open at its current location, The Spirit Quest Center, 303 Main Street, Old Town Spring TX 77373, on select weekends throughout the year. However, as a ‘pop-up’ café The Great Catsby can ‘pop-up’ anywhere - schools, colleges, businesses.

For more details about the stars of The Great Catsby - the cats - and the opening dates, follow The Great Catsby on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheGreatCatsbyTX or contact Info@operationpetsalive.org if you would like more information about hosting The Great Catsby.

Operation Pets Alive (OPA) is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to working with people and government to provide life-saving, no-kill programs to our community. Since its formation four years ago OPA has rescued over 4000 cats and dogs and adopted over 1450 of these to the local community through their Foster/Adoption programs. For more information about these programs and how you can get involved go to www.operationpetsalive.org or follow them on Facebook: Facebook.com/OPATexas.

The Great Catsby is named after one of Operation Pets Alive’s bottle-fed kittens, adopted and renamed by Dr. Sarah Goodyear, a local veterinarian.