BETHLEHEM, PA - If you love cats and live in the Lehigh Valley, you’ll want to sink your paws into a new shop looking to open in 2020.
“It’s something different and unique that you don't see around here, or they’re really rare,” says Breanne Cropley of Bethlehem, “They are slowly popping up more and more but it’s something different and people are usually really excited to hang out and grab coffee and pastries and hang out with cats.”
Cropley is set to open the Lehigh Valley’s first cat cafe. The baker turned businesswoman has settled on opening the cat cafe, which she has dubbed CupCats, in Bethlehem but is still deciding on an exact location. What she does know is the cafe will be where patrons can reserve an hour in the cat lounge, grab a drink and treat and hangout with pets ready for adoption. The animal lover isn’t kitten-around when she says CupCats could be the ‘purrrfect’ spot for people to interact with adoptable cats, bringing the animals out of the shelter and one step closer to finding their fur-ever homes.
The future owner explains, “You get to just take your time and sit down and see if a cat comes to you so it’s kind of like they chose you there in a way! Rather than you going up to different cages and looking. But you get to see their personality and learn more about them beforehand instead of just seeing them quickly at a shelter and picking one up.”
Cropley is a former hair stylist and cake decorator who decided to part ways with her career in cosmetology to pursue what made her happiest; baking and animals. But for those who feel like perhaps eating and drinking near furry friends isn't the most sanitary, Cropley plans to bake and prepare tea, cookies and cakes in a separate space from the cat lounge. “There’s a separated room to keep the cats out of the cafe area and with proper ventilation and all that other stuff that’s installed to make sure that no cat hair is returning into the cafe area. But basically we work with local shelters to get them adopted and to new homes.”
The cats Cropley plans to stack her cafe with will come from local shelters and will all be up for adoption; freeing up room inside often packed shelters inundated with kittens. It’s another part of Cropley’s motivation that at 24 years old, has driven her to start her own unique business, she explains, “Since we are taking them out of the shelter, it helps the shelter take on more cats and find more homes so it’s kind of a win-win situation for everybody.”
Cropley will be holding several fundraising events in the upcoming months; more information on those events can be found on https://www.facebook.com/cupcatslv
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A Cat Cafe is coming to Bethlehem in 2020.
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