St Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mad Catter Cat Cafe
Mad Catter closed permanently on September 27, 2026.
Mad Catter Cafe was a cat cafe at 124 Duckworth Street in downtown St. John's, and the first in Newfoundland and Labrador. Colin Williams and Josh Eddy opened it in September 2018 in the former Bird House space. It had a take-out coffee bar at the front, selling coffee and snacks, and a cat lounge where all the cats were adoptable and came from the City of St. John's Humane Services, which handled adoptions. A 50-minute lounge visit cost $10 plus tax per person, and the cafe opened seasonally from late spring, Tuesday to Sunday. Almost 700 cats were adopted through it before it closed permanently on September 27, 2026, at the end of its 2026 season.
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