Caffeinated cat1/9/2024 ![]() Because the mayor has ordered everybody to wear masks, we have to require you to wear a mask to come in. TAMMY: We had to limit the number of people visiting the cats at a time. Sweetwater: How is covid-19 affecting your operations? Patrick's Day we had the O’Malley - the cat from The Aristocats. We have drinks that we switch out depending on the season. The Persian is a latte with any flavoring you want. If you want decaf, you order a Neutered Tabby.Īnd then our lattes are named after cats and are kind of designed with a cat theme. If you want a cup of coffee, you say you want a Tabby. TAMMY: We decided rather than come up with something like mocha supreme grande latte vanilla bean mocha something blah blah blah, we decided to name them after cats. Sweetwater: You have interesting drink names. TAMMY: To provide a judgment-free zone that is environmentally responsible and allows for the education and welfare of street cats. Sweetwater: What is your business philosophy? And we don’t do pre-adoptions (you can’t reserve kittens). Everybody is fixed and vaccinated - we do not adopt out anything that is not fixed. Sweetwater: How much is it to adopt a cat from you? They don’t have as progressive a thought on them. TAMMY : It’s warm year round, you have more rural areas, you don’t have as progressive - oh how can i put this - up North the cats need to be fixed and they take care of them but down here, dogs take precedent over cats and people kinda ignore the cat or they don’t like them. Sweetwater: Because it’s warm year-round? You have January and February to take a deep breath, order more supplies, and rest up (as a cat rescue). In Florida, kitten season goes March through December. I know Georgia’s really bad, Florida’s really bad, it’s in the South because in the South… Well, up North you have an end to kitten season, between April and July and then you get another kitten season Sept-Oct. TAMMY: I think it’s everywhere in the South. Sweetwater: Do you think it’s unique to Jacksonville or is it everywhere? We wanted a relaxing atmosphere to make people feel comfortable and a place for our cats to chill and get better. We’d be able to keep all the funds for helping the cats, and we would be able to get our cats adopted and educate more people and just have, I don’t know, a space where people come in and we can talk to them about cats. And so I figured that if we were all one and the same, coffeeshop and rescue, that would be a greater help. We were desperately seeking a way to raise funds and educate the public, get cats adopted, there was an explosion of cats… We’d seen other cat cafes where it’s a coffee shop that partnered with a rescue group. ![]() ![]() Sweetwater: And was that easier than opening a thrift store? I’m completely ignorant when it comes to opening up a thrift store so I decided to open up a coffee shop instead. TAMMY : Basically, donations plummeted the past two years and we needed a way to continue our program helping cats. Sweetwater: How did you start the Caffeinated Cat? Her guiding light was a sense of duty toward the strays of Jacksonville the cafe an extension of her rescue organization Mayport Cats, a full-service cat adoption agency specializing in street cats that she’s been running for 17 years. When Caffeinated Cat in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., opened Labor Day weekend 2019, owner Tammy King felt like she had no idea what she was doing but knew she wanted space to adopt her cats out while serving good coffee.
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