Fort White, Florida, United States
Purradise Springs Cat Sanctuary
Purradise Springs is a free-roaming cat sanctuary and private retreat on a nine-acre rural property in Fort White, a few minutes from Ichetucknee Springs State Park in Columbia County. It is run by Denise and Thom Howard through their nonprofit Purrapy Inc. and is home to more than 150 cats, mostly abused, abandoned and legacy adult cats, with no kittens or unneutered cats. The sanctuary funds itself by renting out four air-conditioned glamping tents on Airbnb, so guests can stay overnight among the cats, and some visitors use a stay to bond with a cat before adopting. It is a private property rather than a drop-in venue, and visits have to be arranged in advance or booked as a stay. The owners warn that a working sanctuary has smells and mess, so it suits committed cat lovers.
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Purrs and Pages
Ocala, Florida64 mi / 102 km
Purrs and Pages is a used bookstore and cat lounge on East Silver Springs Boulevard, just east of downtown Ocala, Florida, and the city's first cat cafe. It opened in June 2026. The front of the shop sells books, many of them cat-themed, along with gifts, pastries and bottled drinks, and visitors can watch the cats from there for free. In the separate cat lounge at the back, guests book timed hangout sessions with around 18 cats, a few permanent residents and the rest adoptable cats from House Meow, a local rescue. Each adoptable cat has a QR code that links to its profile and the adoption application. A waiver and house rules apply in the cat room. The shop also holds cat yoga, meditation, painting nights, bingo and reading events for children, and is open every day.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking required
Bold Kitty Cafe
Jacksonville, Florida68 mi / 110 km
Bold Kitty Cafe is a cat lounge inside the City of Jacksonville's Animal Care and Protective Services shelter on Forest Street, west of downtown Jacksonville. The shelter opened the room, together with a community cat room, in July 2026 as a place where visitors can relax with adoptable shelter cats, not only meet a cat they plan to adopt. Guests are encouraged to bring their own coffee or a book and settle in among the cats; the lounge does not sell food or drinks. All the cats are in the care of the city shelter and are waiting for homes, and adoptions are handled by shelter staff on site. The lounge follows the shelter's public hours, every day from noon to 7 PM. It is one of the few places in Jacksonville to spend time with cats since the Caffeinated Cat in Jacksonville Beach closed in April 2025.
- Adoptable cats
Pink Paws Cat Café
Jacksonville, Florida79 mi / 127 km
Pink Paws Cat Café is a cat cafe and bakery in the BJ's shopping plaza on Atlantic Boulevard in east Jacksonville. It opened in October 2026. The front cafe serves coffee, ceremonial matcha, boba drinks, imported French croissants and other pastries and breakfast items, and guests can then go into a pink, storybook-themed cat lounge to spend time with the cafe's resident cats. Unlike most cat cafes in the area, the cats are pedigree residents rather than rescues waiting for adoption, with breeds such as Maine Coons and Savannahs among them. The cafe is aimed at coffee dates, family outings and groups of friends, and it is open every day.
Frisky Cat Cafe
St Augustine, Florida85 mi / 136 km
Frisky Cat Cafe is a nonprofit cat and kitten rescue with a cafe on South Ponce de Leon Boulevard (US 1) in St. Augustine, just across the San Sebastian River from the historic district. The cafe serves locally roasted coffee, smoothies, boba, tea, beer, wine and pastries, including macarons, and has windows onto the lounges. Behind it is a 2,000-square-foot space with a Nordic-styled cat lounge for adult cats and older kittens and a main kitten lounge for guests aged eight and up, plus a room for very young kittens in kitten season for adults only. More than 50 cats and kittens live there, all of them adoptable. Visits are an hourly donation per person that funds the cats' housing and medical care through Small Lives Matter Kitten Rescue. Walk-ins are always welcome, and visits can also be reserved online or by phone. It is open every day.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome
The Witty Whisker Cat Cafe
St Augustine, Florida85 mi / 137 km
The Witty Whisker Cat Cafe is a cat cafe in a Victorian-era house on Old Mission Avenue in uptown St. Augustine, across from the Mission Nombre de Dios and the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, beside the Limelight Theatre. It moved here from North Ponce de Leon Boulevard. The cafe serves coffee, wine, cupcakes and snacks and is free to enter, with views of the cats. The cat lounge spans two floors of the house, and an hourly admission fee per person covers the cats' care. Reservations are recommended; walk-ins join a waiting list. Everyone signs a waiver, the lounge is shoe-free, so guests wear grip socks, and children 12 and under need an adult, with no more than three per adult. The cats come from Feline Canopy of Care, a local nonprofit rescue, which handles adoptions. Events include painting nights and sound baths.
- Adoptable cats
- Booking recommended
Fat Cat Cafe
Tallahassee, Florida96 mi / 154 km
Fat Cat Cafe is a nonprofit cat cafe and feline adoption center on East Park Avenue near Governor's Square Mall in Tallahassee, the city's first cat cafe. It opened in August 2017 and is run by Feline Advocates of Leon County, which also runs the Fat Cat Books bookstore. The cafe side is small, with pod coffee, bottled sodas, tea, water and snacks, and Betty's Boutique sells work by local artists and makers. Most of the space is the adoption room, where visitors pay an hourly entry fee to spend time with cats from several Tallahassee rescues, all spayed or neutered, tested, vaccinated and microchipped. Walk-ins are always welcome. Children under 12 must stay with an adult, and children under two enter free. The cafe had found homes for more than 1,900 cats by 2026. It is open Wednesday to Sunday.
- Adoptable cats
- Walk-ins welcome