It’s kitten season in Los Angeles, and for the next few months local shelters will take hundreds of kittens per day. There are so many kittens that, according to this article, we put some on a plane to the Pacific Northwest where they have higher demand (harsh winters make for kitten-free summers). Enter the Tiny Beans Kitten Lounge, a pop-up cat cafe (minus the cafe part) in DTLA hoping to increase the number of kittens adopted this season. And it’s a 10 minute walk from work.
Look at those tiny beans!
The pop-up looks like it’s in what is usually a clothing boutique. On the one hand, the locals on the street outside let us know that they’d rather we adopt one of them (fair point), but on the other hand my visit to Tiny Beans was as much for me as it was for the kittens. To borrow from the article I linked above, “Is there really a better antidote to the sad dumpster fire of post-capitalist life than petting a god-damn kitten? IS THERE?”
And speaking of the article I linked above, this is one of the cats featured in it. Meet Sushi.
This daredevil is one of a litter of five brought in recently.
A sister to the wall climber above. Someone has already submitted an application to adopt her.
This little guy posed so nicely for the photo because he was about to fall asleep.
The kittens had just been fed, so while most of them were sprinting across the room when I arrived, all of them were snoozing by the end of my 50-minute visit.
Tiny beans in action!