Purrrlandia Cat Cafe Helps Best Friends Adopt Out Over 200 Cats

The cat cafe in Thousand Oaks, California provides a cozy, home-like environment for adoptable felines to thrive.

Mar. 20, 2026 at 12:00pm

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A partnership between Best Friends Animal Society and Purrrlandia Cat Lounge & Cafe in Thousand Oaks, California has helped place over 200 cats in loving homes. The cat cafe provides a relaxing, home-like environment for adoptable cats from Best Friends to interact with potential adopters, helping the cats showcase their true personalities and increase their chances of finding forever families.

Why it matters

The collaboration between Best Friends and Purrrlandia is an innovative approach to pet adoption that helps expand capacity beyond traditional shelters and foster homes. By creating an enriching, cafe-like setting for cats, the partnership is making the adoption process more accessible and appealing to the local community, ultimately saving more animal lives.

The details

Purrrlandia is a cat cafe that opened last summer in Thousand Oaks. The cafe provides a cozy, living room-style space where guests can relax and interact with adoptable cats from Best Friends Animal Society. The cats have access to quiet rooms, high perches, and plenty of toys and enrichment to help them feel comfortable. Purrrlandia staff, known as 'purrristas', help match cats with potential adopters and facilitate the adoption process, which is the same as it would be through Best Friends directly.

  • Purrrlandia opened in the summer of 2025.
  • As of March 2026, the cat cafe has placed over 200 cats in homes.

The players

Purrrlandia Cat Lounge & Cafe

A cat cafe in Thousand Oaks, California that provides a home-like environment for adoptable cats from Best Friends Animal Society.

Best Friends Animal Society

A national animal welfare organization with the goal of making all shelters in the U.S. no-kill, working to find homes for homeless pets.

Kat Killoran

The owner of Purrrlandia Cat Lounge & Cafe.

Jennifer Nann

A staff member at Best Friends Animal Society in Los Angeles who selects which cats will go to Purrrlandia.

Gus Gus

A brown tabby cat who was severely injured, likely from being hit by a car, and recovered at Best Friends before being adopted from Purrrlandia.

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What they’re saying

“People love the ability to come and relax with cats if they had a stressful day, and they just seem so transformed when they leave. They even say as much — that this was just what they needed.”

— Kat Killoran, Owner, Purrrlandia Cat Lounge & Cafe

“It's such a good experience for the cats to be in a home-like setting. I think it really sets them up for success going to a home.”

— Jennifer Nann, Staff member, Best Friends Animal Society

What’s next

Best Friends and Purrrlandia plan to continue their successful partnership, with the goal of placing even more cats in loving homes through the innovative cat cafe model.

The takeaway

The collaboration between Best Friends and Purrrlandia Cat Lounge & Cafe demonstrates how creative, community-based approaches to pet adoption can make a meaningful impact, helping to save the lives of homeless cats and connect them with caring families.