GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – They celebrated a grand opening on the Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary in Green Bay on Saturday, and the re-imagined area contains one thing distinctive: a bookstore.
When you first step foot on this sanctuary, you’ll see a lot of issues to do, and an excellent larger variety of cats to fulfill.
“Me and my roommate, we miss our cats at home,” stated UWGB pupil Eden Weis. “So this is a really nice place to come and like hangout and sometimes I’ll just sit here and crochet.”
Some cats there are kittens and others are adults with disabilities. But with their latest add-on, it provides another excuse for cat lovers to swing by.
“Now we have this used bookshop, so it’s kind of just an addition to what we already have going on,” stated Elizabeth Feldhausen, the founder and CEO of Safe Haven Sanctuary. “Where people can come in, walk around, pet the cats. They’re all available for adoption. Only now we’ve got this bookshop and it makes it a little bit more cozy. A little bit more fun. Helps us a little bit more with our medical bills.”
They used to make use of this area for issues like neighborhood occasions, however quickly after it grew to become a ebook retailer as soon as they began taking donations for used books. With 10s of 1000’s of followers on social media, of us got here out in numbers to indicate some love.
”It truly simply got here up on Facebook and I noticed that they opened up the ebook aspect of the Safe Haven,” stated Julie Miller, one of many clients on the grand opening. “So I wanted to support knowing that the proceeds go back to the support of the cats.”
Speaking of Facebook, social media has been considered one of their largest belongings of protecting this retailer going. When in want, the social media workforce will submit on all of their platforms for issues that Safe Haven may have and the neighborhood responds gracefully. It can vary from meals to blankets or simply easy issues for folks to get pleasure from.
So when you’re on the lookout for a brand new spot to hold, or simply want some love from some pleasant cats, this place may very well be for you.
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