Chico Cat Cafe

We've been a little quiet over here — but behind the scenes, we've been busy tending to some meaningful (and very exciting) projects that we can't wait to share more about soon. 🥰

In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more of this work on a few national podcasts — which feels like a really special step in bringing these ideas into a broader conversation. More on that soon.

In the meantime, we wanted to share something we're genuinely excited about closer to home. 🐾

Our friends at Purradise Ridge Cat Lounge are preparing to open their doors — just 20 minutes away — and we've been cheering them on as they bring this vision to life. It is something really special.

Spaces like this carry forward something we believe deeply: that connection, care, and community matter — and that cats deserve to be met in environments where they can truly be themselves.

Please show them some love as they get ready to open:
👉 Purradise Ridge Cat Lounge
👉 https://www.purradiseridgecatlounge.com/

More from us soon — and thank you, as always, for being part of the cat café magic 😻🐈‍⬛💫

www.purradiseridgecatlounge.com 1. Book a reservation online or walk in and get your ticket when you arrive. We strongly recommend booking ahead of time before the slots fill up. Reservation fees help pay for things like cat food and litter, rent, utilities, and staffing costs. Please do not bring any pets with you! 

Meet Marmalade!

He came into the world quietly—one small orange kitten among a few others, surviving together on scraps near a school. Even then, there was something different about him. He was shy, yes, but never sharp. Never defensive. Just watching. Waiting. Hoping.

When gentle hands reached out, he answered immediately.

Marmalade is a cat who feels with his whole body. Touch is his language. Affection is his oxygen. Once he trusts you, he doesn’t simply accept love—he seeks it out with devotion. He will climb into your space, press his face against yours, lightly paw your cheek or hand, and remind you (softly, insistently) that connection matters. He gives kisses. He leans in. He stays.

He does not like to be alone. At night, if separated, he’ll sit outside the door and reach his paw underneath, quietly asking to be near you. Not out of fear—but because companionship is where he feels safest.

1-year-old medium hair Marmalade thrives with other cats. He was found among them, and he still carries that communal spirit. With his current feline companion, an older female, he play-wrestles, grooms, cuddles, and coexists in a constant, affectionate rhythm. He would be happiest in a home with another friendly cat—someone to chase, curl up with, and share the quiet hours.

Playfulness lives right beneath his tenderness. Headphones, cables, stray objects left on the floor—nothing escapes his curious paws. He is endlessly entertained by the world and eager to engage with it.

When he settles in for affection, the reward is extraordinary: deep, resonant purring that can last hours. He arches into your hand, presses his body against yours, and welcomes touch everywhere—chin, chest, belly, back—each stroke met with gratitude and trust. He doesn’t enjoy being picked up and prefers to stay grounded, but once settled beside you, he is all in.

Marmalade has never shown aggression. He hasn’t been exposed to dogs or children, but his gentle, social nature suggests a home that understands respect, softness, and patience will be the right fit.

He is not a cat who wants to simply live near you.
He wants to live with you.

If you’re looking for a companion who bonds deeply, loves fully, and believes—at his core—that life is better when shared… Marmalade is already reaching for you.

**Note: Chico Cat Café is currently closed and does not have cats onsite. All cats listed on our website (including Marmalade) are in foster homes and are available for adoption. Please contact us for all adoption and meet-and-greet inquiries.**

✨ Chico Cat Café: A New Chapter Is Taking Shape ✨

For a while now, we’ve been quietly working behind the red curtain — listening, learning, and letting something new take shape.

And we’re finally ready to share a little of what’s coming.

Yes… Chico Cat Café will be reopening this year, and right now we’re aiming for spring. 🌸

Our nonprofit paperwork is moving forward, we’re weighing our options between a few locations next week, and the new version of Chico Cat Café is beginning to reveal itself.

But this isn’t just a reopening.

It’s a new chapter.

One of the most meaningful things to share is that Chico Cat Café has been accepted into a prestigious, nationally respected shelter-medicine and community-care program through UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine and Maddie’s Fund— a place where shelters, rescues, and changemakers from across the country gather to imagine better, kinder, more sustainable ways to care for cats.

To our knowledge, no cat café has ever been part of this program before — and that feels exactly right for Chico. What this means for our town is that the café you love is being gently re-imagined with the very best thinking in modern feline care, foster support, and adoption science guiding the way.

We’ll still be doing what we do best: curating quiet moments, soft paws, purring hearts, and the slow magic of cats and people finding each other. But we’ll be starting with weekend-focused hours, creating calmer, more intentional, more cat-centered experiences.

This year also brings something new: a big partnership with Chico State — with local programs, classes, and collaborations designed to bring students and the community into deeper connection with cats, care, and each other. The kind of programs that make ears swivel and tails twinkle. 🐾✨

And yes… there are a lot more surprises waiting in our whiskers, things we’ll share when the timing is just right.

We’re also honored to be launching this next phase — Chico Cat Café 2.0 — alongside Neighborhood Cat Advocates, whose work through Pawprints Thrift Boutique and the Pawprints Spay & Neuter Clinic has already changed so many lives in our region. Together, we’re building something that blends adoption, education, and community in ways Chico hasn’t seen before and we want you to be a part of it 🥰

Because we’re becoming a nonprofit, another door is opening too: VOLUNTEERS! Soon we’ll be inviting cat lovers, helpers, and dreamers to step inside and be part of this story — with training and onboarding details coming very soon.

Thank you for waiting with us.

Thank you for believing in us.

We can’t wait to welcome you — and the cats — back into this next chapter.

Are you ready for it? Hang tight – grab our paws – and HOLD ON Chico! 💛🐾

ADOPTIONS #354 & #355: Bobby Batman & beloved sister Brown Toes (aka Gertrude)

✨ A Double Happy Ending for Bobby Batman & Brown Toes! ✨

Some adoption stories feel like destiny finally clicking into place… and this one is pure magic.

Bobby Batman and his beloved sister Brown Toes (affectionately known as Gertrude) have officially gone to their forever home together — two hearts that have never lived a day apart will continue their story side by side. 💛🖤

Bobby Batman began life shy and unsure, a gentle little soul in rough shape who needed time, medication, and steady love to remember the world could be kind. Slowly, sweetly, he transformed into the softest-hearted shadow-cat — loyal, tender, playful, and endlessly endearing. His tiny white fang tips gave him a bat-like grin, but it’s his quiet affection that truly steals hearts.

His sister Brown Toes blossomed too — a warm, honey-toned tabby girl with a freckled cheek and a spirit that radiates comfort. She is grounding, cuddly, curious, and steady… the kind of cat who can calm a whole room simply by stretching out in a sunbeam. She and Bobby have been a pair since kittenhood — playmates, nap buddies, and inseparable companions through every chapter of their lives.

Their bond is something rare and beautiful. They understand each other in ways only siblings do. They check on each other, curl around each other, and share the kind of trust forged over a lifetime of growing up side-by-side. And now, thanks to their wonderful adopters, they get to keep that connection forever. 🌟

Today, they step into a new home filled with love, windows to watch the world, soft laps to curl up on, and humans who saw their magic instantly. Their foster family — who loved them into the confident, thriving cats they are — is overjoyed to see them begin this next adventure together, exactly as it should be.

💛 Congratulations, Bobby Batman & Brown Toes.
Your forever has finally found you — in stereo, just the way you were meant to be 😻😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION #353: White Toes (aka Twinkle Toes)

✨ Twinkle Toes Has Found Her Forever Home — And a Heart in Need of Healing ✨

Some adoption stories feel written by fate, and Twinkle Toes’ is one of them. 💛🐾

Our sweet White Toes—affectionately known as Twinkle Toes—has officially gone home with a loving woman who recently said goodbye to her cherished elderly cat. Her heart was still tender, still adjusting to the quiet that follows loss… until she met Twinkle Toes.

In that soft, gentle way that only certain cats possess, Twinkle walked right into the quiet and filled it with warmth again. She pressed her velvety head into her future mom’s hand, purred her soft, steady purr… and yes, she even gave one of her signature drooly love showers that she saves only for people she truly trusts. That was it—two hearts recognized each other. A perfect, quiet bond was formed.

Twinkle Toes has come such a long way from being left behind during an eviction to becoming a cuddly, affectionate girl who melts into laps, watches the world through sunny windows, and brings a little sparkle wherever she goes. She is loving, playful, busy, sassy in the sweetest way, and deeply connected to her people. Once she feels safe, she gives her whole heart—and her new mom felt that instantly.

Today, Twinkle begins the next beautiful chapter of her life in a home filled with tenderness, memory, and brand-new love.

And her new mom begins hers with a companion who understands quiet moments, shared healing, and the gentle re-opening of a heart.

Shine bright in your forever home, Twinkle Toes.
You were meant for each other. 💫🐾

✨🐾 CAT STORIES: Adoption Faire Preview — Volume XVI🐾
Each of these sweet souls carries a story…
and this Saturday, you might meet the one who chooses you.
(See pinned post for all event details.)

💛 Meet the kittens of Volume XVI — a curated collection of playful spirits, cuddle bugs, shoulder-jumpers, biscuit-makers, and old souls in tiny bodies. Each has blossomed in foster care, each has a personality all their own, and each is ready for a forever home where their next chapter can begin.

Scroll through their portraits + stories below…
and if one tugs at your heart, trust that little pull. That’s how the best matches begin.
We can’t wait to see you Saturday, December 6th from 10a-3p!🫶🐾