Meow Parlour Cats, Inc is a 501c(3) organization dedicated to working in tandem with New York's first Cat Cafe,
Meow Parlour, to adopt out cats and to use our resources to create educational opportunities
for the public to convert cat lovers into cat warriors.

Our mission

Our space serves as their home while our team works to find placement for all of the cats in our care. Guests are able to come in and interact with the cats in order to find the right cat for their lifestyle. Since inception in 2014, we have dedicated our resources to help over 2,000 cats find homes. This has included cats with physical disabilities, cats from unusual backgrounds, orphaned neonatal kittens, senior cats, and cats who need a special advocate in their corner due to their behavior.

With incredible lifesaving investments by the Petco Love, starting in February 2018, we became our own rescue and adoption group. Through our New Hope Partnership with the Animal Care Centers of NYC and partnerships with rescues across the South and with the help of our dedicated staff and foster homes, we take in and adopt out about 400 cats a year. We believe that we can do even more for not just the cats in our care, but cats everywhere. We are excited by our opportunity to use our platform to support animals beyond those in our immediate care through education.

EDUCATING THE PUBLIC

Nearly 100,000 unique visitors have come to Meow Parlour since inception. We have discovered that we have the great opportunity to share our wealth of knowledge through every day casual conversation. To stay up to date on the latest research, we invite leading industry experts to use our space to educate both our team and our fellow cat lovers. We use our resources and connections to get the message out to support community cats, help cats get adopted and to keep them in homes.

#ThanksToMaddie, Meow Parlour has been able to bring Kitten Lady talks to NYC to educate people on how to help neonatal kittens. These talks are available to the public so that volunteers and employees at groups all over the tri-state area or people who are curious about learning more are able to connect to the information and each other in a helpful and supportive environment (and often surrounded by cats!). At our last event, 72% of attendees surveyed reported that they have never fostered kittens before and 35% said that they definitely will start fostering within the next 6 months, 31% said they are likely to foster, and 23% were unsure. We were ecstatic to find that we had reached an entirely new audience of people who wanted to learn how to get involved.

Also #ThanksToMaddie, Meow Parlour has been working with Beth Adelman, certified Cat Behavior Consultant, to help rescue organizations learn how to tackle behavior related issues that arise both with cats in our care and post-adoption.

In 2018, with an investment from Petco Love, the Meow Parlour team was able to help organize Jackson Galaxy's Cat Camp. The funding was used to create an adoption space that housed 14 adoption groups and over 150 cats, many who were seniors or had special needs, and to provide educational seminars to the public to help cats everywhere. The topics included Trap-Neuter-Return programs, viruses that affect cats, and how fostering saves lives.

2022 Numbers

In 2022, we took in 392 and adopted out 398 cats. We started the year with 45 cats in our care and ended with 35. In total, we cared for 436 cats in 2022. On average, our cats spent 40 days in our custody.

Our live release rate is calculated by dividing the live outcomes (401) by the total outcomes (401) for a 100% live release rate. Our save rate is our intakes (392) - deaths/euthanasia (0) divided by intakes (392) for a 100% save rate.