Chico Cat Cafe

Chico Cat Cafe Chico's Furrst Cat Cafe!: A 1910s-1920s French-inspired foster space for rescue cats & kittens. Chico's first Cat Cafe! The best part? Ailurophiles Unite!

A 1910s-1920s French-inspired foster space for rescued cats and kittens...We are Chico's Cat Curiosity Shop! Curl up and cuddle with wonderfully sweet kitties in a relaxing, themed cafe-style environment. These are all adoptable cats and kittens from local rescues who need a forever home! If the cuteness overload works up your thirst, we’ve partnered with a cat-tastic coffee roaster to provide you

with a delicious custom roast that you will love. Since we don’t prepare food or drinks inside our space, you don’t have to worry -- our place is clean, safe, and all about the kitties. As Chico’s only cat cafe, we at Chico Cat Cafe are incredibly delighted to bring the cat experience concept to the North State for the first time! Any occasion is better celebrated with cats (mais oui!), so whether it’s date night, you need a quick kitten snuggle fix, you’re out for a special occasion, or looking for your new BFF (best furry friend), our staff and kitties can’t wait to welcome you soon - xo Miaou, Babette

Meet Smokey! Smokey is a former stray and street-savvy mama of many, many litters in her young almost 5-year-old life. R...
03/20/2025

Meet Smokey! Smokey is a former stray and street-savvy mama of many, many litters in her young almost 5-year-old life. Rescued just last week from the literal streets of Chico VERY pregnant and miserable-looking, Smokey is still tucked away at the moment, unsure of her new lounge mates and surroundings BUT she welcomes pets and responds to gentle caresses of her stunning long gray fur. This sweet mama needs a home where she can get some much needed R&R from her former life as a street cat trying to make her way in the world and care for her kittens without getting starved, abused or discarded like trash. Come in and spend some time with this sweet floof - she might just surprise you 😻🐈‍⬛

Meet Richie! We've had some fluffs in here that were fluffy but MAN Richie's fluffs have fluffs! This outgoing always-up...
03/20/2025

Meet Richie! We've had some fluffs in here that were fluffy but MAN Richie's fluffs have fluffs! This outgoing always-up-for-a-romp guy is about 1.5 years old has a sad story that he's hoping to turn into a fairytale. He was found as a stray back in November by a person who was having some medical procedures done and had him boarded and cared for. The foster's medical condition was too extenuating for them to properly care for him, so our rescue partner took him in and now he's showing off his gloriousness and making the other cats look bad with his playfulness and eagerness to make new friends Will you help give his story the fairytale ending it deserves? 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION # 278: Wren! Cutie patootie little Wren did not last long here! It took her a few days to fully warm up to the ...
03/20/2025

ADOPTION # 278: Wren! Cutie patootie little Wren did not last long here! It took her a few days to fully warm up to the bustling lounge and new lounge mates who were asking her to play when she wasn't ready. BUT when she WAS ready to play, queue the butt wiggle as you see her adorable little smooshed triangular face launch forward and grab your shoe or the wand toy she loved to wrestle with. Make no mistake - she rests as hard as she plays and loves to invite head scritches as she purrs contentedly away in your lap. Enter Alexis, who loved her play/rest surges so much that she had to make her hers. Thank you for falling in love with little Wren and adopting her in your life! 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTIONS  #276 & 277: Ghost & Rider! Just 2 fun dudes hanging around the Harley Davidson store in Chico....until one of...
03/20/2025

ADOPTIONS #276 & 277: Ghost & Rider! Just 2 fun dudes hanging around the Harley Davidson store in Chico....until one of our rescue partners was alerted to their presence and whisked away into their awesome foster home.Did they have a penchant for Harley's? Did they enjoy people watching? Were they offering unsolicited driving advice? Who knows - but whatever they were doing there they did here at the lounge: talking in motorcycle language talk and in general making themselves known to be fun, easy-going guys who love to annoy each other, show off in front to the girls and pretend to spook birds on TV. They also managed to catch Andres' eye and before any of them knew it (including Andres!), the duo found themselves adopted with one very happy human waiting to love them. Thank you for adopting the two boys - you are all in for the ride of your lives! 😻😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION  # 275: Pandora! Another sweet house panther has been snatched up into her forever home...this makes her the 32...
03/20/2025

ADOPTION # 275: Pandora! Another sweet house panther has been snatched up into her forever home...this makes her the 32nd black cat that has been adopted to date 🐈‍⬛ This little lover, who was rescued out at Scotty's, who has been hiding out and quietly observing the activity here in the lounge, waiting for her chance to be heard and seen, WAS both heard and seen by Amber, who heard her whispers of her secret desire - to find a place and person in which to unwind her heart and open up to. We don't know what mysteries lay in Pandora's box, but one thing is for sure: her new human is ready to explore them with her and embrace the adventures of a new life together. That's all anyone asks for. Thank you for adopting this wonderful girl 😻🐈‍⬛

Happy St. Patrick’s Day AND St. Gertrude’s Day, cat lovers! 🍀😻🐈‍⬛
03/17/2025

Happy St. Patrick’s Day AND St. Gertrude’s Day, cat lovers! 🍀😻🐈‍⬛

Meet Pandora! Pandora is such a perfect name for this shy and quiet panther girl. Found as a stray (most likely dumped) ...
03/16/2025

Meet Pandora! Pandora is such a perfect name for this shy and quiet panther girl. Found as a stray (most likely dumped) out at Scotty’s in the outskirts of Chico, Pandora’s searching gaze makes you pause and think about what wonders - and horrors - she has seen and lived through in her short 1.5 years on Earth. Has she known late-night treats? Warm and cuddly laps with fluffy blankies? Mid-day kisses after air biscuits? Or has she known searing grief, seen unspeakable abuse or aching hunger? Her gorgeous green eyes don’t tell us but, she really WANTS to be a part of things in the lounge and makes appearances briefly with guests but high tails it back to safety when she gets stressed. Pandora says she’d love a home where she can further rest and relax from her former homeless life and maybe seek refuge in a hidey hole near a window or a calm space where she can get her bearings before she starts to unwind her heart . Will you be the one she confides in and opens her heart to? 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION # 274: Bonnie! Little Bon Bon became our fifth ginger female that we have had the pleasure of adopting here in ...
03/13/2025

ADOPTION # 274: Bonnie! Little Bon Bon became our fifth ginger female that we have had the pleasure of adopting here in the lounge. What an adventurous life she has lived in such a short time! can you believe that she was the Counter Countess at Pape Machinery's shop in Willows? She seems to have been one of many cats either born or abandoned there and fostered lovingly by their staff. Let's face it - If it were not for them these cats would have met a very different fate. They reached out to our amazing rescue partner, Catnip & Cattitude, who, as always, sprang into action and helped tuck this little lover of a girl away safely into her equally awesome foster home. It is obvious that she was well-cared for there: Bon Bon loves to be held and kissed on like a baby BUT makes no qualms about telling you when she's has enough of the kisses 🤣 Not much of a mischief-maker like most gingers, she instead works the room staring lovingly into everyone's eyes, willing them to stop and pay attention to HER, now. Because, why not? She's sweet and cute and cuddly and that's why you're here (at least, that's what she thinks in her mind).Stephanie picked up on those not-so-subtle subliminal messages and they made a beeline for each other. Done and done...love struck and Bonnie chose her human right then and there! Thank you for seeing her light and bringing her into your home. We'll miss you Miss Bon Bon but we know you'll be loved and cherished just how you want to be! 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTIONS  #272 Cherry &  #273 Hazel! Once upon a time 4 little abandoned kittens were found hungry and mewing in a carr...
03/13/2025

ADOPTIONS #272 Cherry & #273 Hazel! Once upon a time 4 little abandoned kittens were found hungry and mewing in a carrier downtown on a soon-to-be blistering hot Chico summer day. our rescue partner whisked them away to their vet, who gave them exams and secured a loving foster home for them where they could grow and learn how to be big cats. Once they came to us, their personalities were in full swing and BOY these two took on the lounge like they owned the place! Cherry on Top (his full name) delighted in springing onto unsuspecting guest's shoulders at any given moment, thankfully to most people's joy and surprise. He was the liveliest of the bunch and ALL BOY. His absolute favorite pastimes were (other than claiming guest's shoulders like a parrot) being held like a baby and kissed on and torturing his sister, Hazel. Hazel, on the other hand, was the quietest of the group, always on the periphery but keeping a close eye on things, including NOT taking any guff from her brothers, or anyone else for THAT matter. Growing up with 3 brothers makes a girl resilient - she had to learn to stand up for herself and lean in to her strength of watching and waiting - she was a master observer and could sniff out any potential shenanigans or mischief before the making.Along came Devon and Sam, who were seasoned foster parents and had cats themselves. They quickly fell in love with the two and after each recovered from kitty colds, they just knew they would fit right in. Now Cherry and Hazel can be together and live full, adventurous lives with an awesome family that now includes new-to-them kitty siblings to grow up and bond with. Thank you for welcoming this sweet sibling pair into your hearts - please kiss them for us and tell the black guy he will always be our Cherry on Top (of our hearts) of his 3 siblings and tell Hazel that she is our sweet little Hazely Girl😻😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Meet Wren! Wren is one cutie patootie - just look at her little squished face and her big, soulful eyes! She was rescued...
03/07/2025

Meet Wren! Wren is one cutie patootie - just look at her little squished face and her big, soulful eyes! She was rescued with her friend Lacy, although it is unknown if they are siblings. This frisky little thing (she's even more petite than Lacy!) has been out and about chasing mice and flinging herself at wand toys, something her gal pal Lacy dissaproves of (LOL) - she plays and rests equally hard. Wren is also about 1 year old and although small, her pint-sized body comes with black tabby racing stripes and a Let's Play! attitude. There's no sitting around much when she's in play mode - visit with her and discover that butt wiggle for yourself! 😻🐈‍⬛

Meet Lacy! Little Lacy girl, while holed up in the cat tree in the student lounge at the moment with her buddy Wren, is ...
03/07/2025

Meet Lacy! Little Lacy girl, while holed up in the cat tree in the student lounge at the moment with her buddy Wren, is an absolute sweetheart of a girl with a capital S - she has the sweetest insta-purr and soft meow and, even though she acts like "Oh! They saw me!" and hides her head, she is quick to convince that pets are actually pretty nice and laps are even better. Lacy is almost 1 year old and was rescued via the Cat Distribution System that seems to be prevalent everywhere these days. You have to meet her - she has the most beautiful gray tabby stripes and her white chest (and the cute snippet of white on her nose)! She is very cuddly and petite - the perfect lap-sized girl for lazy afternoon Spring snuggle sessions 😻🐈‍⬛

Meet Mr. Snuffles! This petite yet very cool dude was found when our rescue partner was working a feral colony in Willow...
03/07/2025

Meet Mr. Snuffles! This petite yet very cool dude was found when our rescue partner was working a feral colony in Willows. When rescued, he was a sweet and playful little boy but he soon took a turn for the worse, wracked with a sudden and nasty URI that took his dedicated foster mom and her friends over 3 weeks to nurse him back to health. it was touch and go for a long while and they did everything in their power to keep him at home and out of the hospital! Snuffles enjoys life best when he can follow your every move (gotta keep an eye on these humans!) and batting toys around the place to his heart's content 😻🐈‍⬛

Meet Bonnie! Bonnie is one of many kitties that seem to have been born or abandoned at Pape Machinery in Willows. The em...
03/07/2025

Meet Bonnie! Bonnie is one of many kitties that seem to have been born or abandoned at Pape Machinery in Willows. The employees have done a fantastic job of socializing the cats and looking after them there! They reached out to our rescue partner to see if they could lend them a hand with finding this little s***ky gal her forever home. As friendly and social as can be, Bonnie quickly became their shop cat, hanging out on their counter and demanding pets (and payment for services rendered) LOL. In the short time our rescue has been caring for her in foster care, Bonnie has been nothing but a total love bug! She matches your hugs and squeezes with her own and greets you with stepping air biscuits, purrs and small meows. Do you get lost easily? She will follow you around and roll over at your feet, in case you need some cheering up. Our rescue asked their vet to clean the black grease spot on the top of her head - their response was "NO! It is a beauty mark!" Doubly unique little sweetheart: one for being a ginger female and one for her smudge of a beauty mark! Come down and meet this sweet and smudgy girl 😻🐈‍⬛

Here is our Adoptions Ameowncement for the last few weeks - 8 sweet and sun-shiny kitty souls found their forever hearts...
03/07/2025

Here is our Adoptions Ameowncement for the last few weeks - 8 sweet and sun-shiny kitty souls found their forever hearts in their humans

Blossom #264
It’s not hard to fathom why this tender-hearted girl wouldn’t be the center of attention – while slightly shy, Blossom really DID blossom here and slowly unfurled her true nature to show up as the sweetest little tiny-meower with the curious face who couldn’t bear to see someone sitting alone. She quickly melted hearts, especially that of Sara, who couldn’t stand the thought of leaving without applying to add this little love nugglet to her life. Good job, you two!

Biscuit #265
Stunning long-locked Biscuit is perhaps one of the most aptly named cats we have had the pleasure of caring for here. She patted the most tiny and softest biscuits on people’s arms, being very careful to not dig her claws in and sweetly sniffed the arm first almost giving tender kisses. Never one to shy away from the offer of luxuriating in a lap, Biscuit spied a heart and lap in Chase, who happily bought up the order of biscuits he was being given and decided to take her home and make her his own.

Aeries + Arya #266 & #267
These two sister-brother fluffernutters know how to serve up their own version of down-home charm, born on a farm out in Hamilton City. Mostly keeping to themselves when they first arrived, their quick purrs and gorgeous floof preceded them – hey you can’t hide well when you have 5 pounds of fluff sticking out from under your chosen cabinet! Their reclusiveness and easy-going super-purrs got Finn and Broderick’s attention, who felt like they already belonged in their life the moment they met.

Ollie #268
Sweet and social snugglet Ollie didn’t let the fact that his kitty mama abandoned him when he and his 3 siblings were newborns interfere with his quest to find his forever humans. Ollie loves cozying up to guests and charming his way into laps, so much so that when Ashley and Jonathan met him, they just couldn’t let him go.

Ivy #269
What Ivy lacks in stature, she more than makes up for in s***k. She is always front and center, little miss personality – the feline personification of the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, if Ivy wasn’t there, it didn’t happen LOL. Her trade secret? Eye contact, as Grace quickly discovered when she visited. This little spitfire wouldn’t let her advert her eyes, and once she was locked and loaded, it was a done deal.

Sunny Boy #270 and Smoky $271
Instant brothers-from-other-mothers, their strengths and weaknesses play off of each other well: Sunny’s sunny and goofy ginger cat personality (a trait we ALL love here) coupled with Smoky’s more quietly reserved way of seeing the world. Two different kitties, one heart and when Issaah visited them, they caught his heart and with a swish of their tails and a slow blink at each other, they knew they snagged their forever person.

Thank you, each and every one of you, who chose to add these special babies to your lives - two (or more) lives were made better today!
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Thank you to Ronnie and his daughter Mia! They came from Red Bluff to bring the kitties some sweet toys 😻🐈‍⬛  These babi...
03/02/2025

Thank you to Ronnie and his daughter Mia! They came from Red Bluff to bring the kitties some sweet toys 😻🐈‍⬛ These babies plied them with purrs and tail shakes 🐾

ADOPTION  #263: Jumper! If it's possible for a cat to razzle-dazzle his way into a home -and heart- Jumper did just that...
02/21/2025

ADOPTION #263: Jumper! If it's possible for a cat to razzle-dazzle his way into a home -and heart- Jumper did just that the other day. In his classic ginger fashion, with that unmistakable Ginger Gene that we adore, Holly and Brady (who, by the way, also adopted sweet girl Shell last year from us) caught his sparkle and fell in love with his outgoing personality and thick racing stripes. Stripes that he used to race right into their heart. Thank you for finding room in your heart and home for another sweet baby - he will be blessed with fantastic kitty parents and you will be blessed with all of the ginger razzle-dazzle that can fit into this little dude that has stolen the show around here since his arrival! 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION  #262: Daisy Mae! When she first came into the lounge back mid-January, she, like most of the younger more skit...
02/19/2025

ADOPTION #262: Daisy Mae! When she first came into the lounge back mid-January, she, like most of the younger more skittish babies hid and swiped at the other cats. Lo and behold, a few weeks later it was SHE who swiped and pounced on the older cats (!) and from then on, little Daisy Mae made herself known as THE center of the show, insisting on cuddles and pets and demanding the other cats bow to HER now 🤣Steven came in to visit with the cats and she decided that HE was hers right then and there. It just happens, folks, more times than we can recount! Thank you for finding room in your heart and busy school life to add this sweet and feisty little spot of a girl. Have fun sweet baby girl! 😻🐈‍⬛

ADOPTION  #261: Boots! Who can, after all, resist the charms of a ginger with that special je-ne-sais-quoi quality we ha...
02/19/2025

ADOPTION #261: Boots! Who can, after all, resist the charms of a ginger with that special je-ne-sais-quoi quality we have all come to love about these orange angels on Earth? Not Thomas, apparently. All Boots had to do was sit on his lap and encourage him to play and snuggle and B-O-O-M! Disneyland Fireworks show, followed by an all-knowing shake of the ginger tail, which meant he stole a heart that day, and forever more will have a loving and fun home with new humans and many, many new and wondrous adventures! Thank you for adopting this fun guy! Only here for a week and he has found his pouncy and bouncy self showered with love and kisses, just like we love 😻🐈‍⬛

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1725 Esplanade
Chico, CA
95926

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Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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