"Given the foster name Soup Enhancements, the cat was one of the rescues boarding at Cool Cat Collective, a cat-themed boutique at the eastern end of Long Beach's Fourth Street Corridor. The store, which offers all manner of cat-themed merchandise from kitty treats to cat-printed coasters, doubles as a shelter for cats rescued by TippedEars, a local trap-neuter-return, or TNR, nonprofit."
"These resident kittens at Cool Cat Collective spend most of their time in a luxury "catio" in the back corner of the boutique, but twice a month, they are released to roam about during after-hours fundraising events. A popular silent reading party, co-hosted by reading club LB Bookworms, mimics a cat cafe, and according to the book club's founder, Martha Esquivias, the event has sold out nearly every month since its debut last November."
"She adored the cat; still, she worried she'd been impulsive and wasn't truly ready for the responsibility of pet ownership. But as she watched the kitten nod off in her lap, she glimpsed the future in which the pair would do this routine a thousand times over with Likins devouring a book and the cat sleeping soundly below."
A Long Beach resident adopted a long-haired black kitten, foster-named Soup Enhancements, after meeting the cat at Cool Cat Collective. Cool Cat Collective operates as a cat-themed boutique and a shelter for rescues boarded by TippedEars, a local trap-neuter-return nonprofit. Resident kittens spend most of their time in a luxury catio and are released twice a month for after-hours fundraising events. A silent reading party co-hosted by LB Bookworms mimics a cat cafe and has sold out nearly every month since its debut. Owners Jena and Matt Carr opened the boutique after moving to Long Beach, with Jena focusing on fostering and rescue work.
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