Austin’s first cat cafe opens today!

I’ve read all about these places in Japan and then larger American cities (NYC, LA) starting them and now we finally have one. I think it’s awesome but I won’t make it there today, probably within a month since east side requires a little planning to visit (I’m not super familiar with its geography). On the surface, as the article mentions, I would agree, Austin does share the over Texas bias toward dogs…all the parks for them play and publicly shit in despite the rule saying owners need to pick up after them. Yet under the veneer, Austin does make accommodations for felines yet all the original local shops which used to have shop cats are fading away as gentrification pushes them out. This cafe is nice compensation since the only shop cats I see anymore live at Dragon’s Lair.