Nine Lives Cat Lounge & Adoption Center
Joplin, Missouri
Nine Lives Cat Lounge & Adoption Center is a cat lounge and cafe at 2201 East 7th Street in Joplin, Missouri, and the city's first cat lounge. Owner Tiffany Buck opened it on March 1, 2021. Its adoptable cats come from the Joplin Humane Society after being vaccinated, spayed or neutered, microchipped and tested. The cafe is separate from the lounge and serves coffee, tea, smoothies, slushes, soups and sandwiches, and drinks can be taken into the lounge, but food other than cat treats cannot. At opening, a 30-minute lounge visit cost $5, and monthly cat passes were also sold. It is temporarily closed.