Cat Cafes in Rhode Island

Tiverton, Rhode Island

Bajah's ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌⁠Cat Cafe is a coffee shop and cat adoption lounge on Main Road in Tiverton, near the Fall River line. Opened in 2021 by Amanda Souza-Viera as Rhode Island's first cat cafe, it serves coffee drinks, breakfast sandwiches, pastries and light lunches, and the cafe is open to everyone without a reservation. The separate cat room, called Bajah's Villas, holds adoptable cats of various ages from partner shelters, and several hundred have been adopted since opening. Cat room time is charged per half hour in a shared room, and private sessions can be booked on weekdays. Reservations are required at weekends; on weekdays walk-ins are accepted when there is space. Visitors remove their shoes or wipe them on a treated mat before entering. It reopened in January 2025 in partnership with the Rhode Island SPCA after a closure in December 2024.

• Adoptable cats

Coventry, Rhode Island

Mad ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌⁠Cats and More is a family-run cat lounge and shop on Tiogue Avenue in Coventry, next to Borrelli's Bakery. Opened in April 2024, it combines a boutique selling handmade shirts, leashes, collars, keychains and cat toys with a separate lounge where visitors spend time with the cats. Two resident Maine Coons, Zeus and Athena, live there alongside adoptable cats and kittens from the rescue Angels Caring for Animals, which handles applications, vet care and spay or neuter, so the cats change as they find homes. Visits are walk-in and charged by the half hour or hour, with lower rates for visitors aged 17 and under. Bottled drinks and snacks are sold, but there is no cafe. Staff know each cat's history and can explain adoption. The lounge opens daily, from midday on weekdays and from the morning at weekends; occasional closures are posted on Facebook.

• Adoptable cats
• Walk-ins welcome