Earlier this year we reported on a Vancouver woman’s efforts to open a coffee shop called Catfé where cats roam freely among customers. Inspired by similar operations in Tokyo, Montreal and San Francisco, the operation would also run as a cat foster home and, in some cases, cater to the increasingly powerful demographic of coffee drinkers who insist macchiatos taste better when you’re looking at a cat’s pink starfish. We also reported on the cat-valanche of feline-related puns the future café caused in a related Metro newspaper article.
Unfortunately, the café owner’s online crowdfunding campaign fell short of its goal of raising $50,000, but according to an article in the Province this week, she’s still going ahead with the business. More importantly, the Province has continued the time-honoured tradition of employing as many cat puns as possible in any cute story involving cats, including “Catfé planner stays paws-itive,” “…it’s not a cat-astrophe,” “the ins-purr-ation,” “it will be a paws-itive environment” and “…the next step is to find the purr-fect location.”
Anyway, here’s hoping that Catfé will turn out to be a puss-sess. We’ll definitely be keeping tabbies on its progress. Seriously, somebody stop chasing this yarn.
