Pawareness Podcast # 60 | Cafe for Homeless Cats | Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center

In this episode, we welcome Nikki Ruhl, founder of the Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center. Based in Camarillo, California, Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center aims to provide forever homes and loving families to stray and homeless cats in their community. As a cafe, their coffee drinks and treats complement their homely ambience where cats are sheltered.

As a veterinary technician, Nikki splits her time between managing the cafe and helping animals get medicated in animal clinics. Her passion in helping cats has inspired her to start this cafe. She explains that addressing cat euthanasia is one of the issues that the cafe aims to resolve. Today, Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center works with non-profit organizations that go into shelters to pull adoptable cats. The non-profit organizations will then find homes for the cats. The cafe provides a temporary home for at least 15 of these cats that remain unadopted until they find suitable owners for them.

“Black cats don’t really get adopted often. We try to get rid of that stigma.” - Nikki Ruhl

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Official website: http://www.thepurrfectcat.com/

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Episode Timeline

[01:19] Introducing Nikki Ruhl, founder of Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center

[02:34] The inspiration behind the cafe

[03:58] Issues with cats in Southern California

[04:48] The biggest issue with feral cats

[05:42] Services that the Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center provides

[07:53] Treating differently abled cats

[09:51] Business design of Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center

[11:12] How Nikki manages time between her day job and the center

[12:40] The future plans of Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center

[14:05] How many cats can the Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center take in?

[16:03] Connect with Purrmaid Cafe and Adoption Center