This café wants you to take a midday kitten break
Source: PBS Newshour
On a sunny morning at the recently opened Crumbs & Whiskers, a café in the tony Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C., Monica, a regular, relaxes on one of the many cushions. She stretches, walks to the far wall and with a quick spring jumps onto a shelf almost as high as the ceiling.
She yawns, licks herself, then curls up and closes her eyes.
It’s a typical day for Monica, who is one of roughly twenty felines who reside in this cat café.
“Business has been really good,” said café owner Kanchan Singh. “We’ve had to turn people away on weekends and weeknights. It’s insane.”
Popular in Asia since the late ‘90s, cat cafés spread to Europe, then North America, and have recently found their way to the U.S., where they have veritably exploded. Since the first locations opened their doors in December of 2014, nine have sprung up across the country, with eleven more announcing their intention to open soon.
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The Cat Boat is the only animal sanctuary in Netherlands that literally floats.
http://www.kittyarmy.com/de-poezenboot-a-boat-full-of-cats/
Most cats are not fond of water. But there’s a cat sanctuary where cats are living on it and became a tourist spot in Amsterdam.
It all started back in 1966 when a woman named Henriette van Weelde rescued a feline family sheltering under a tree near her house on Amsterdam’s Herengracht canal. The lady took pity on them and decided to take them in.
They opened this year and have found homes for more than fifty kitties so far.
Kitties ... the best! 
