Cat cafés have been popular globally among travellers and youngsters in recent years. Two locals have put a twist to this trend by combining the café with a cat shelter, so that money earnt from the café could be poured in to save the city’s feline waifs, strays and abandoned.
This cat shelter café, “Catfee”, is co-owned by Michelle Cheung Pek Ieng and Agostinho Jesús Liu do Castro.
“We started this café to provide a shelter for stray cats, allow people to interact with them, and eventually break the usual perception of stray cats being ‘anti-human’,” Cheung told MPD Weekender during an interview at their shop located in Rua dos Cavaleiros near Camões Garden.
Michelle Cheung Pek Ieng (right) and Agostinho Jesus Liu do Castro and their dog pose at their coffee shop Catfee in Rua dos Cavaleiros, near the Camoes Garden, on Wednesday.
