Hawaii Public Radio: Maui Humane Society’s kennels have been over capacity for more than a year.
The shelter is overcapacity due to the high surrender and stray intake rates that spiked because of the pandemic.
Workers say there’s an especially large surge of dogs.
I’m in love again! OK, maybe not love, really; more like infatuation. Kimchi is her name and she is the cranky queen of Cat Cafe Maui!
The financial burden of rising costs is hurting pet owners.
Maui’s first cat cafe opened it’s doors on Monday at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center in Kahului.
Cat Cafe Maui is already the cat’s meow. Even before its grand opening today, the “space for cats and humans” to interact has been bustling since its soft opening last week at Queen Ka’ahumanu Center. On Sunday afternoon, a steady stream of people arrived for their nearly one-hour reserved date with the felines, all of which are also available for adoption.
A first-of-its-kind space, the Cat Cafe Maui, opens at the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center. Described as “a fun and inviting space for cats and humans,” Cat Cafe Maui patrons can relax, play, sip, and shop with rescue cats–and adopt one if they find a special connection.
Maui is estimated to be home to over 40,000 free-roaming cats. Now the Maui Humane Society is implementing an island-wide “Community Cat Count.”
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Attention, cat lovers! Maui is finally getting its first cat café where you can sip a cup of coffee or tea, enjoy local-baked treats and hang out with adoptable cats. Doesn’t that sound inviting?
The Maui News: Maui Humane Society plans to implement an island-wide “Community Cat Count” this month as an effort to better understand and manage the cat population of roughly 40,000 as humanely as possible.
The Maui Humane Society plans to implement an island-wide “Community Cat Count” beginning in early August. The survey will be conducted across Maui as an effort to better understand and effectively manage the cat population as humanely as possible.
