About rescue
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About rescue
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What you can do if an animal needs help
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Brooklyn’s first cat cafe
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Serving our friends and neighbors since 2007
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]At Brooklyn Cat Cafe, we are proud to be one of the earliest cat cafes in the US, and the first to launch in New York City’s most populous borough. We’re the only cafe in the city run by a non-profit animal rescue organization. Our mission is to save our city’s cats, and we advance it by offering a hip and inviting destination where cat lovers of all ages can interact with adoptable animals – and one another – while learning about pet rescue and care together too.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][/qode_elements_holder_item][/qode_elements_holder][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”72px”][vc_separator type=”normal” color=”#d0cdca”][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” el_class=”row-margin” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1612656203133{padding-top: 0px !important;}”]
History
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1612656403561{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition (BBAWC) was founded by a group of animal rescuers in 2007 with a focus on improving the welfare of abandoned animals in Brooklyn. The organization began working with individual animal rescuers to provide low cost veterinary services, adoption listing and screening services.
Finding foster homes for rescued cats and those accepted from city shelters became the organization’s top priority — but it was a major struggle without a central facility where rescuers, foster families and potential adoptees could meet together. The organization launched The Brooklyn Cat Cafe to address this need.
The cafe opened in May 2016 at a storefront location in historic Brooklyn Heights.
Brooklyn Cat Cafe is 100% volunteer-run, managed by the Director of BBAWC who oversees the business affairs, cat care regimen, and daily operations at the cafe. A team of volunteers serves at the cafe during open hours and prepares and cleans after hours. A supervisor certified in aspects of cat care is on site during all open hours.
We also operate as a resource center for animal rescuers, providing educational workshops and holding space for newly-rescued cats. We began conducting Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) services in December 2016.
By our one-year anniversary in May of 2017, the cafe had welcomed over 35,000 visitors — an average of over 95 visitors cuddling with our cats per day — and placed over 250 cats in permanent adoptive homes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_single_image image=”481″ img_size=”large” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1612056349583{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
