We will be holding another volunteer orientation on Wednesday, June 30, from 5-6pm. Please see the link below for more details and to reserve your spot. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old and able to assist guests in the lounge as well as work with the cats. As we get more guests visiting the lounge, and more cats, volunteers are essential to keeping things running smoothly and calmly. We hope you’ll join us!
Reading with the Cats – TIME CHANGE
NOTE: Time has been changed to 1:30-2pm to better match the nap time of the cats!
We invite younger kids (10 and under) to come to the lounge with a parent or guardian and read to or with the cats! They can bring a favorite book or borrow one from us. The special time for this event is 1:30 – 2pm on Thursday, June 17. The cost is $5/child, and parents/guardians are free. If this goes well we will add future reading dates! Please sign up below, and only add children as attendees (but be sure there is at least one parent or guardian attending as well).
Volunteer Orientations
We are offering a volunteer orientation session later this month on Saturday, June 19th. If you would like to volunteer in the lounge as a host (answering questions, keeping things clean, interacting with cats and people, etc.) you will need to attend an orientation session. If you can’t attend this one, more will be held over the summer. To volunteer in the lounge as a host, you must be at least 16 years old. We hope to add more volunteer opportunities for younger people down the road.
The orientation is scheduled to last an hour, from 10 am – 11 am. Please sign up below.
Increased Hours, Volunteer Opportunities
We have 4 delightful cats in the lounge now and have increased our available hours. By mid-June we aim to offer regular days and hours for both reservations and walk-ins, and we hope to be able to bring in more rescued kitties for visits and adoptions. Right now you can come meet Bettie, Michael, Missy, and Mittens. All four are friendly. Missy isn’t a lap cat but the other three definitely are. Bettie is the shyest of the bunch but loves human attention. All four are estimated to be between 3-6 years old and will make wonderful companions to their lucky adopters. In the meantime, they are happy in the lounge and being well taken care of. You can what availability we have at any time by going to the Reservations page and checking the calendar at the bottom of that page.
We will be scheduling some volunteer orientations later this month. Once you’ve gone through an orientation you’ll be able to volunteer in the lounge and will receive access to our online sign-up. If you’ve already submitted a volunteer application you’ll be getting an email about the orientation sessions. Volunteering in the lounge as a host will involve socializing with the cats, welcoming guests, answering questions, gently but firmly enforcing policies when needed, cleaning litter boxes, cleaning/sanitizing the lounge, and anything else that might need to be done. If you volunteer to help open or close additional duties will be involved such as heavier cleaning, feeding the cats, taking out trash, etc. If you want to help in other ways (photography, marketing, special events) we will have opportunities for that too.
Hope to see you at the lounge soon!
Limited Visits Now Available
We are going to offer some *very* limited lounge visits over the next 5 days. We have one super sweet cat living there now named Bettie, and we would love to have some visitors for her! 
Visits will be limited to just 2 people at a time and the price will be $5 per person for 30 minutes. You can see a very nice kitty and get a sneak peek at the lounge too! Reservations are required, as are masks. You can sign up for a visit here: https://www.cassiescatsandkittens.org/reservations/ Come say hello to Bettie (and help us work out any bugs in our systems, ha ha!).
