T'chat Bar
Chapelle Lez Herlaimont, Hainaut
T'chat Bar is a small cat bar on Rue Wauters in Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont, between La Louvière and Charleroi, opened in November 2021 in a former flower shop. It works with Cat'z Hope, a local cat rescue association founded in 2020 that takes in several hundred cats a year through a network of foster families. Around six of the association's cats live in the bar at a time, in a cosy, cushioned room where they have space to retreat, and they can be adopted through Cat'z Hope under its contract. Visitors come for coffee, hot drinks and homemade sweet treats and snacks, with no entry fee, and money spent in the bar helps cover the cats' care. It is open from Wednesday to Saturday in the afternoon.