VIDEO: A visit to the new cat café in Chapel Hill

A new cat cafe in Chapel Hill offers visitors the chance to meet new feline friends—and adopt them.
A new cat cafe in Chapel Hill offers visitors the chance to meet new feline friends—and adopt them.

Chapel Hill has a new cat café, and it's paw-sitively adorable.

Cat Tales Cat Café opened this past Valentine's Day, and it features 12 adoptable cats for visitors to love. The café acts as a foster home for its partner, The Goathouse Refuge in Pittsboro, N.C. Cat lovers can reserve one hour with the cats for $12 each, and up to 10 people can reserve an hour slot.

Co-owner Katy Poitras said that some visitors come in with the intention of finding a cat to adopt, but others just come to enjoy cat cuddles. She added that she sometimes becomes emotional after a cat is adopted, but it's ultimately a rush to find an animal a new home.

Watch our experience at the cat café:


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Stefanie Pousoulides is The Chronicle's Investigations Editor. A senior from Akron, Ohio, Stefanie is double majoring in political science and international comparative studies and serves as a Senior Editor of The Muse Magazine, Duke's feminist magazine. She is also a former co-Editor-in-Chief of The Muse Magazine and a former reporting intern at PolitiFact in Washington, D.C.

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