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It’s the cat’s meow in a purrfectly cozy setting at Yay for Strays, the newly opened cat café on Ottawa Street.
“We really wanted like a cosy, comfy feeling. We want you to feel like you’re at home when you’re here,” stated Yay for Strays proprietor Chantelle Gaudette.
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“I am a cat lover. I truly love all animals,” Gaudette stated. “I feel like the world has some negative people in it and it’s not in a good place right now.
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“So for me, when I’m with animals … (I) feel a sense of peace that I don’t have with anything else. They’re my everything.”
Gaudette says the store is the primary bricks-and-mortar cat café in Windsor.
The quirky house — with a café and present store on the entrance and a cat lounge on the again — had it’s official opening Saturday.
A gentle stream of shoppers flooded the colorful house.
“I really actually like the décor,” stated buyer Ari Piekny, who stopped in for a cheesecake-in-a-cup dessert and a few bonding time with the café’s felines.
“I’m getting like a grandma’s house kind of vibe. Like when you would go to your grandparent’s house at like age seven.
“Everything was like cosy. That’s what I’m getting from this.”
Several felines roam the lounge — all on mortgage and up for adoption from the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society — discovering refuge within the escape room, napping on a cat apartment or sprawled throughout the carpet ready eagerly for somebody to scratch their ears.
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There’s soft sofas to lounge on, tables and chairs the place one of many many board video games may be performed and a well-stocked library.
Gaudette’s brother Cole hung all of the art work and cat perches that fill the cat café partitions.
Yay for Strays is open each day from 10 a.m. to six p.m., at 1326 Ottawa St.
Admission to the cat lounge is $7 for half an hour, $10 for an hour.
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