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The Cat’s Meow: La Gattara will be the first cat cafe in Phoenix

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By Madison Rutherford , College Times| ecollegetimes.com on September 9, 2016 Melissa Pruitt was 25 the first and only time she met her father. It wasn’t until after he died that she found out they shared a mutual love for cats. “He was the ‘cat guy’ in town, he saved all of the cats, he would keep…
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Opening a cat café requires purr-suasion

527Views0Reactions0CommentsJuly 7, 2016
Jul 6, 2016, 10:26am MST Revised Date/Time Publish Updated Jul 6, 2016, 4:47pm MST by Cassidy Trowbridge,  Editorial Intern,  Phoenix Business Journal Melissa Pruitt believes a cat café in Tempe would be purr-fect. Her c oncept, La Gattara, would allow customers to buy coffee, wine or beer while enjoying the…
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Happening ‘meow’: Phoenix cat cafe launches Kickstarter to find location

574Views0Reactions0CommentsJune 16, 2016
Amanda Etchison , The Republic | azcentral.com 11:23 a.m. MST June 15, 2016 A proposed Phoenix-area cat cafe has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of finding the "purr-fect" location. La Gattara Cat Cafe & Wine Bar, the feline-friendly business idea of Melissa Pruitt , 39, of Tempe, launched its Kickstarter campaign …
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La Gattara Cat Cafe and Wine Bar hosts Kickstarter launch party to raise funds for opening

497Views0Reactions1CommentJune 13, 2016
Valley’s first cat cafe hopes to find homes for cats at risk of euthanasia Article Credit Byline By Emi Kamezaki |  June 13, 2016 Long-time cat aficionado Melissa Pruitt hopes to follow in her father’s footsteps by rescuing as many cats as she can. And though she has already rescued over 300 cats on her own,…
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LaGattara Cat Cafe- By Elizabeth Parra- Guest Blogger ASU

Uncategorized492Views0Reactions0CommentsJanuary 3, 2016
They first appeared in trendsetting Tokyo, then in big cities like New York and San Francisco and now Arizona cat lovers can rejoice as cat cafes are finally making appearances in Phoenix. The history of cat cafes begins in Asia in 1998 where at that time, they only served a therapeutic purpose. In highly populated…
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The Claim Jumper Kitten

Uncategorized505Views0Reactions2CommentsSeptember 30, 2015
It was July 2011 and I saw a post on a facebook animal rescue group I was a part of that there was a kitten in terrible shape at the Claim Jumper in Tempe.  The post read: " can someone please go try to trap this kitten, you can see it's bones and just pitiful…
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Cat litter is $#&*@%$ expensive!

Uncategorized835Views0Reactions3CommentsSeptember 21, 2015
Cat litter is one of those things you just can't go without. Unless your cat is super cool and has learned how to use the toilet! When you have multiple cats, it gets even tougher to wait another week on buying cat litter. About two years ago, I just doubled my personal cats, and buying…
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I was born with the love of cats in my blood

Uncategorized325Views0Reactions0CommentsSeptember 8, 2015
Well hello LaGattara Friends!  This is my first blog post!  I'm pretty excited!  I have so many things I want to talk about (well about cats... of course) and I can't wait to share with you.  So this first blog I want to just share a little about my story with you. I always say…
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