Meeting the Cats at Nottingham Cat Cafe

This is another post for lovers of cats. In August, I made my way over to Nottingham's Cat Cafe (Nottingham Cat Cafe), located in the west part of the city and not too far from the castle. This cat cafe is particularly large and has several resident cats, all of which are available for adoption. Unlike the other cat cafes that I have been to (Lady Dinah's in London, Cat Village in London, and Manchester Car Cafe), Nottingham Cat Cafe does allow smaller children and also provides a large range of tea, cake, drinks, and even cooked food.

I did not have a reservation, and it was very busy inside, but they did have room for us. The cafe actually takes two buildings joined together, plus a restaurant. I counted over twelve resident cats during my visit, and I know some of them were hiding. My partner's favourite was a silver tabby Maine Coon, which had a similar appearance and disposition to our young cat Lancelot. The largest cat was an orange Maine Coon cross (named Heathcliffe) as large was our cat Merlin, and he sat above me on a shelf in the cafe.

While it was nice to hang around the cat cafe where the cats were, I had a couple of minor issues. For one, some of the children were chasing the cats and some of the cats clearly wanted to be left alone. There were places for them to hide, but there were not many places for them to hide. Even those who wanted to be left alone tried to 'hide' under sofas but were then bothered by other people. The result of this was a couple harrassed-looking cats running around the cafe. However, other cats were chilled out and sleeping or dozing off inside cat furniture or high on shelves. The only other issue was that there wasn't anything printed up about the cats. I understand that they are adoptable, but a binder on each table with removable sheets would help learn about the resident cats and probably help them become adopted.