Purrs and Pours | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: We have joining us in studio. We have Star and

0:03 Speaker 1: Taylor from Pers and Pores. Welcome, Hello, thanks for having us.

0:08 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely Now, well all right let's start here and

0:12 Speaker 1: then you know, you did bring us a couple of

0:14 Speaker 1: gift bags, which where we're going to show for the

0:16 Speaker 1: video of viewers. But what is person Pores?

0:22 Speaker 2: Person Pores is a cat cafe. There's cat cafes are

0:30 Speaker 2: a cafe half and then there's a sally way that

0:33 Speaker 2: you go inside and the other half is where you

0:36 Speaker 2: get to hang out with all the cats. Oh okay,

0:39 Speaker 2: so and they're all adoptable cats. Really yeah, you don't

0:42 Speaker 2: want to bring your own cats there?

0:46 Speaker 1: Okay, that's interesting. I wondered about that part. Okay, so

0:49 Speaker 1: the idea, so, so the cats are adoptable, so it

0:52 Speaker 1: kind of gives you a chance to go and almost

0:57 Speaker 1: like like you know, in the mall, for example, they

1:00 Speaker 1: have what is it, I forget the name of the place,

1:02 Speaker 1: but yeah, the pet story there where you can go

1:06 Speaker 1: and you know, they have dogs and they have cats

1:07 Speaker 1: and whatnot. But but the only way you get to

1:10 Speaker 1: actually hang out with the cats is if you go

1:11 Speaker 1: inside one of the cubicles or whatever. I don't know

1:14 Speaker 1: it's not a cage technically, but but so, but at

1:18 Speaker 1: person Port, so you get to actually hang out with

1:20 Speaker 1: the cats and it's.

1:21 Speaker 2: A free room, like the cats hang out in that area, okay,

1:25 Speaker 2: and they can come sit on your lap, hang out,

1:27 Speaker 2: drink a coffee. Yeah, they shouldn't drink the coffee.

1:31 Speaker 1: Probably not, Yeah, I don't know. Can you give cats caffeine?

1:33 Speaker 1: You probably don't know. Probably not. No cream? Oh okay, no,

1:38 Speaker 1: that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah, because I like

1:43 Speaker 1: the idea of being able to go into a room

1:45 Speaker 1: and you know, maybe they'll come over to you and

1:46 Speaker 1: sit on you, you know, because you know, we like

1:48 Speaker 1: to think that we choose them, but in truth, they

1:50 Speaker 1: choose us, right, you know, cats have a way of

1:52 Speaker 1: choosing their their humans. So, oh well, let's do this

1:57 Speaker 1: before we go any further. So I'm gonna put the

1:58 Speaker 1: camera back on me. So for those of you watching

2:01 Speaker 1: it is a radio show first and foremost, but if

2:03 Speaker 1: you are watching the video, so, they brought us these

2:05 Speaker 1: lovely gift bags. Let's see, he's got the person pors.

2:09 Speaker 1: Oh wow, candles mm hmm. Those are nice. So you've

2:13 Speaker 1: got so you sell these at person Poors. I assume.

2:16 Speaker 3: Yes, we partnered with Candle Tree soy candle okay, and conquered.

2:21 Speaker 3: It's on Main Street and conquered.

2:23 Speaker 1: Oh, very nice.

2:24 Speaker 3: The owner's name is Ross and he's he loves what

2:26 Speaker 3: he does.

2:27 Speaker 1: Yeah.

2:29 Speaker 3: This month our sense are New Hampshire themed and it's

2:33 Speaker 3: for maple months. So we got New Hampshire maple syrup.

2:36 Speaker 3: We got cedarn balsom for like the White Mountains. Yeah,

2:41 Speaker 3: we got white birch for the National the State Tree.

2:46 Speaker 1: Got some citrus perfection sweet orange handcrafted soap. That's very cool.

2:53 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:53 Speaker 3: So Chrissy at the soapre off Main and conquered New Hampshire.

2:58 Speaker 3: She made those two and she's out of all the names.

3:00 Speaker 3: She's very creative. She loves what she does.

3:03 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, thank you for bringing those.

3:05 Speaker 1: Oh there's a magnet two looks like for very cool.

3:10 Speaker 1: We love all things kitty. We're both Yeah, we we

3:13 Speaker 1: love we love cats. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely wonderful. Thank you

3:17 Speaker 1: so much. So. So, what's what's the current status of

3:20 Speaker 1: person pores in Manchester?

3:23 Speaker 3: So right now we're looking for a building. Okay, it's

3:26 Speaker 3: been kind of hard for us because a lot of

3:29 Speaker 3: the kind of within our budget isn't like compatible for

3:34 Speaker 3: a cafe. Okay, it's not really the cats they're turning

3:38 Speaker 3: us down. We thought our number one like issue would

3:40 Speaker 3: be people are like, oh, we don't want cats in

3:42 Speaker 3: our location, right, but it's just they don't want like

3:46 Speaker 3: the the dishwashers set up and all the Oh.

3:50 Speaker 1: Interesting.

3:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, So if we're trying to find like the perfect

3:53 Speaker 3: building for us.

3:55 Speaker 1: We're trying to find the perfect had to do it

4:00 Speaker 1: to do it? Are you so, are you committed to

4:04 Speaker 1: being in Manchester or are you maybe looking at you know,

4:08 Speaker 1: outside of Manchester.

4:10 Speaker 3: Or we really want to do Conquered New Hampshire.

4:12 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Okay, yeah, just because it's.

4:14 Speaker 3: The state capitol in their Chamber of Commerce is like awesome. Yeah,

4:19 Speaker 3: I don't know. Conquered seems like the location for us,

4:22 Speaker 3: and it's closer to us. Okay for her, Manchester would

4:25 Speaker 3: be like an hour drive from her house.

4:26 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, okay, yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. So you're

4:30 Speaker 1: looking at Conquered, are you also looking like outside of

4:34 Speaker 1: because I just wonder if you know, like maybe outside

4:37 Speaker 1: of Conquered around you know, sort of Conquered adjacent. Yeah.

4:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, we just extended our search like two weeks ago. Okay,

4:44 Speaker 3: we've been looking for two months and conquered and then

4:47 Speaker 3: we're like, hey, we should probably, you know, extend the

4:49 Speaker 3: search because slim pickings.

4:52 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, now is is person por is? Is it

4:57 Speaker 1: a franchise or what is it? Is it your own thing?

5:01 Speaker 3: It's our own it is Okay. We created our own

5:03 Speaker 3: LLC August of last year.

5:06 Speaker 1: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah yeah. I wasn't sure if it

5:09 Speaker 1: was like a like a franchise and you and you

5:11 Speaker 1: were buying a location and you just needed somewhere to

5:13 Speaker 1: put it or something like that. But so so this

5:15 Speaker 1: is you, this is.

5:16 Speaker 3: You started from the ground up.

5:17 Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. Excellent, No, good for you. No, we

5:21 Speaker 1: love talking to entrepreneurs and so what uh whose idea

5:25 Speaker 1: was it?

5:26 Speaker 2: It was a mix?

5:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, so kind of like what inspired us is we

5:30 Speaker 3: both went on vacation in Hawaii. Oddly enough, different times

5:34 Speaker 3: we went to a lot okay, and she saw the

5:37 Speaker 3: cat cafe. I went on vacation. I saw it too,

5:40 Speaker 3: and then randomly, because we worked together, we're like, hey,

5:42 Speaker 3: like that would be awesome to do a cat cafe.

5:44 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:45 Speaker 3: That was like two years ago and then just randomly

5:48 Speaker 3: one day, I like messaged here and I said, we

5:51 Speaker 3: gotta do this, Like, yeah, I want to do this.

5:53 Speaker 3: I want to wake up every day to be like

5:55 Speaker 3: inspired by my work and help like orphaned cats like

5:58 Speaker 3: to feel good about us, like this is our time.

6:00 Speaker 3: We're almost thirty, Like let's do our own thing.

6:04 Speaker 1: So, so there are other cat cafes that you've like,

6:09 Speaker 1: like have you have you traveled around and seen a

6:12 Speaker 1: lot of different ones and.

6:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen about like ten fifteen okay, and follow

6:18 Speaker 2: other cat cafes. Yeah, we're trying to see all of them, honestly, Yeah,

6:23 Speaker 2: and make some new ones.

6:25 Speaker 1: Are they all the ones that you've been to? Are?

6:28 Speaker 1: Are they? Are they all similar? Or do you see

6:30 Speaker 1: variations and business models or I'm really curious, like what

6:36 Speaker 1: you know if they all kind of operate in a

6:38 Speaker 1: similar fashion or if some of them are unique or yeah.

6:41 Speaker 3: So for the typical, like for the listeners to understand

6:44 Speaker 3: what a cat cafe is. For the typical cat cafe,

6:48 Speaker 3: patrons come in and they pay a nominal amount to

6:51 Speaker 3: go into the cat cafe and into the cat lounge

6:55 Speaker 3: where adoptable cats are and the cats are free roaming

6:59 Speaker 3: cage free. It allows them to see the cats in

7:02 Speaker 3: their natural environment, almost in like a homey experience, so

7:06 Speaker 3: that they can learn the cats personalities. And then you

7:10 Speaker 3: can get food and beverage and that just helps people

7:13 Speaker 3: stay longer and you feel more comfortable. So we're planning

7:18 Speaker 3: on picking up like that business model. And a lot

7:21 Speaker 3: of people also have a problem with paying the amount

7:26 Speaker 3: of money to go into the cat lounge, but honestly

7:29 Speaker 3: that money goes towards like rent, the cat care things

7:32 Speaker 3: like that. So a lot of people are like, oh,

7:34 Speaker 3: why do we have to pay to go see the cats,

7:36 Speaker 3: But all of that money goes towards the care for

7:39 Speaker 3: the cats because while they're in our care, we have

7:43 Speaker 3: to take care of everything to do with them. We're

7:45 Speaker 3: helping the shelters too by helping them be fed the

7:49 Speaker 3: cat litter, so it's giving the shelters a break as well.

7:52 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so ideally does does the cafe then sort

7:58 Speaker 1: of team up with the shelters and okay, okay, yeah.

8:04 Speaker 2: There's also like other types that's more what we're going for,

8:08 Speaker 2: like set of wise two separate areas. There are some

8:14 Speaker 2: where they just bring the food in and like from

8:18 Speaker 2: a commercial kitchen and sell it there and then they

8:22 Speaker 2: don't really have like a sitting area and you just

8:24 Speaker 2: go hang out with the cats. I went in one

8:25 Speaker 2: in Florida that was weird. It was kind of cool though.

8:29 Speaker 2: It was literally just a straight up cat room, and

8:34 Speaker 2: then they had like a little small area where they

8:36 Speaker 2: just major drinks and brought it out to you, so

8:39 Speaker 2: you wouldn't even go over in there.

8:40 Speaker 1: Oh interesting.

8:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we kind of wanted to have the cafe

8:45 Speaker 3: so we have multiple like revenue streams and can offer

8:48 Speaker 3: people food and drink while they're there. We're also going

8:52 Speaker 3: to do events there like yoga, trivia and I have

8:56 Speaker 3: vandcing there.

8:58 Speaker 1: Cool. You'll have to have the turbocat.

9:01 Speaker 3: That would be pretty sweet.

9:04 Speaker 1: I'm curious too, as you've gone around and you've looked

9:07 Speaker 1: at these different cat cafes, have you seen anything that

9:10 Speaker 1: where you kind of thought, Wow, they're doing something really

9:15 Speaker 1: strange here, that's not something we would do, or I

9:18 Speaker 1: don't see how that. I don't see how what they're

9:20 Speaker 1: doing is going to work long term. You see anything

9:22 Speaker 1: like strange that where you go really, I haven't.

9:28 Speaker 2: Well, I was looking up other ones. There was one

9:30 Speaker 2: in Main. I'm not sure if they're still open. It

9:33 Speaker 2: was temporary closed. And they have like a dispensary style

9:37 Speaker 2: which is really interesting. It's only for eighteen and up,

9:40 Speaker 2: so I was like, oh, that's kind of crazy.

9:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's different. Different, that's different.

9:43 Speaker 2: Well, but I don't think they actually have like the

9:48 Speaker 2: dispensary things.

9:49 Speaker 1: Oh.

9:49 Speaker 2: I think it's just like the style of it. It's

9:51 Speaker 2: more for cats. Oh okay, but it's in Main, so yeah,

9:54 Speaker 2: it's a little different.

9:55 Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Kind of a weird question. But how

9:58 Speaker 1: do you keep the cats from getting out? That's a

10:01 Speaker 1: great question.

10:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, we will have like a sallly way, which is

10:05 Speaker 2: like a hallway with a door on each side. Okay,

10:08 Speaker 2: that makes only like one entrance for people to go in.

10:11 Speaker 1: That makes sense.

10:11 Speaker 2: You have to like walk into the sallyway, shut the door,

10:15 Speaker 2: and then make sure there's no cats near you at

10:18 Speaker 2: the other door.

10:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the TSA.

10:21 Speaker 2: You go in the one door and when that door closes,

10:23 Speaker 2: then the other door opens.

10:25 Speaker 3: That makes sense already.

10:26 Speaker 1: That cool. Yeah, yeah, no, that does make sense. How

10:30 Speaker 1: many cats ideally would there be on premises at any

10:34 Speaker 1: like you must have a there must be like a

10:36 Speaker 1: maximum capacity or maybe it depends on the size of

10:38 Speaker 1: the space. Ultimately, I don't know, but right like, how

10:41 Speaker 1: many is manageable?

10:42 Speaker 3: We're going to plan between ten to fifteen. Okay, yeah,

10:47 Speaker 3: more than fifteen might.

10:48 Speaker 2: Be a little too much. Yeah, depending, that's a really

10:50 Speaker 2: big space. What else?

10:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, all the cats have different personalities too, so that's

10:54 Speaker 3: a law to manage. And it comes down to the

10:57 Speaker 3: shelters rules too, kind of how we're of created agreement

11:01 Speaker 3: with them. Okay, right now, we're kind of in talks

11:03 Speaker 3: with Pope, Memorial, SPCA and Conquered and we're kind of

11:08 Speaker 3: just trying to figure out how that relationship would look

11:10 Speaker 3: like because they've never done anything like this, and obviously

11:14 Speaker 3: they're nonprofit, so there's multiple people they got to discuss

11:17 Speaker 3: this with. Oh yeah, we got to come to terms

11:19 Speaker 3: of how to take care of the cats because ultimately

11:21 Speaker 3: it's their cats. We're just fostering them, right, So yeah,

11:25 Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of training and hands on

11:27 Speaker 3: and kind of like we got to create terms that

11:29 Speaker 3: make sense.

11:30 Speaker 1: For yeah, both of us, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

11:35 Speaker 1: So what why I mean? I assume you both obviously

11:39 Speaker 1: love cats. If either of you have you done, like

11:43 Speaker 1: you know, if you worked in a veterinarian's office or

11:46 Speaker 1: anything like that, or I'm curious if it like prior

11:49 Speaker 1: professional experience involving cats or do you or do you

11:53 Speaker 1: just love cats? Which is a great reason too, but.

11:56 Speaker 2: Well I love cats, have had them my entire life.

12:00 Speaker 2: My neighbor that lived down the street, they had like

12:04 Speaker 2: a hundred cats.

12:04 Speaker 1: I feel like yeah all the.

12:06 Speaker 2: Time, and we're like, oh, we need to feed them,

12:07 Speaker 2: Moms like stop feeding them.

12:09 Speaker 1: They have a home.

12:11 Speaker 2: And then I went to like my uncle's house. He

12:14 Speaker 2: had a farm, a bunch of stray animal or like

12:16 Speaker 2: barn cats. YEA, loved it, hung out with them, volunteer

12:21 Speaker 2: with animals. Were actually getting ready to start volunteering at

12:25 Speaker 2: the Pope Memorial as well. Okay, just mostly out of

12:28 Speaker 2: fun because we both love hanging out with animals. Volunteer.

12:32 Speaker 2: I absolutely love volunteering. I've been doing it since I

12:35 Speaker 2: was like five.

12:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you, good good? What about you? Star?

12:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, not so much experience professionally. Taylor and I don't

12:43 Speaker 3: have experience, like professionally dealing with animals, but we've grown

12:49 Speaker 3: up around them. We've always loved animals. Growing up, I

12:52 Speaker 3: always wanted to be a vet. I don't really know

12:55 Speaker 3: what happened with that, you know, you know, life happened

12:57 Speaker 3: and I didn't become a vet. Like, you know, this

13:00 Speaker 3: is a way to incorporate animals and our dreams, you know,

13:04 Speaker 3: into our business.

13:07 Speaker 1: What's something that people don't know about about cats that

13:10 Speaker 1: that you think would surprise them.

13:14 Speaker 3: That's a good question.

13:15 Speaker 1: Yeah.

13:17 Speaker 2: I actually was recently talking about this that cats like purring,

13:22 Speaker 2: like the vibration from it actually can help heal bones,

13:26 Speaker 2: like even in people. I don't know how much research

13:30 Speaker 2: they have them like that part, but it actually helps

13:33 Speaker 2: them heal faster and like do better. So I have

13:37 Speaker 2: a cat at home that hurt himself and I'm just like, oh,

13:39 Speaker 2: I need to get you to PERR. And I was

13:41 Speaker 2: like do this. I was like, come on, motivational speaking

13:44 Speaker 2: to this cat. He is doing better.

13:46 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, maybe it worked. Yeah yeah maybe maybe. You know,

13:53 Speaker 1: we talked to about the shelters, like how big of

13:55 Speaker 1: a problem is that? I bet it's I bet it's

13:58 Speaker 1: a bigger problem than people realize. How many cats end

14:00 Speaker 1: up in shelters.

14:02 Speaker 3: Not so much in New Hampshire, New Hampshire really outsources

14:06 Speaker 3: it from places like Florida. Florida has like a kitten

14:10 Speaker 3: season all year round, Like spring is like the kitten season. Obviously,

14:14 Speaker 3: our springtime is very short in New Hampshire. So yeah,

14:19 Speaker 3: so they usually take them from kill shelters and places

14:22 Speaker 3: in Florida.

14:23 Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yeah, I didn't know that.

14:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we really want to partner with a place

14:28 Speaker 3: that will take them from kill shelters to kind of

14:30 Speaker 3: help them get off the euthanasia list.

14:32 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hm. Oh that's good. Yeah, yeah, I had

14:35 Speaker 1: no idea. No, that's interesting. That's interesting. And then what's

14:40 Speaker 1: kind of the I mean, once, once you find a

14:43 Speaker 1: place and you're open and everything, is there a long

14:46 Speaker 1: term plan to open, like like do you like thinking,

14:49 Speaker 1: you know, five ten years down the road? I mean,

14:51 Speaker 1: do you want to have multiple locations?

14:53 Speaker 3: We want a franchise for sure.

14:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's great. And do you have investors?

14:58 Speaker 1: You have people who are now or.

14:59 Speaker 3: Is it no it's just us you're just.

15:03 Speaker 1: Yet not yet.

15:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure about taking on investors because a

15:08 Speaker 3: lot of the times you got to give up a

15:09 Speaker 3: percentage of your company, and we kind of want full

15:12 Speaker 3: creative control and kind of what we do. Yeah, if

15:16 Speaker 3: tough times happen, we can get some angel investors and stuff,

15:19 Speaker 3: But as of now, I think Taylor and I just

15:21 Speaker 3: want to be like, you know, the leaders of this.

15:25 Speaker 1: And no, that's great, full control.

15:26 Speaker 2: It's a lot easier talking to one person than trying

15:29 Speaker 2: to convince a whole group to do the same thing.

15:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, that's interesting. And how about like,

15:35 Speaker 1: are your families supportive of this?

15:37 Speaker 3: Very good? Yeah, my family. You know, the last seven

15:42 Speaker 3: years I've worked in the state prison, which my family

15:45 Speaker 3: was not very happy kidding that I worked there. And

15:49 Speaker 3: now that I'm like, oh, now I'm working with cats

15:51 Speaker 3: and doing my dream because they've always known I want

15:53 Speaker 3: to be a veterinarian work with animals, like that's, you know,

15:56 Speaker 3: my personality type. And they're like, good for you for

15:58 Speaker 3: finally like, yeah, you know, stretching your wings out and

16:02 Speaker 3: doing what you want.

16:03 Speaker 1: No, that's great. Yeah, you worked at the prison at

16:05 Speaker 1: the state prison.

16:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, I still work at a prison.

16:07 Speaker 1: You do what do you do there?

16:08 Speaker 3: I'm an officer there, no kidding? Oh wow, yeah, so

16:12 Speaker 3: different different career field, right.

16:14 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, you've been there seven years yeah, seven years. Yeah.

16:17 Speaker 1: I had a good friend who did that job, who

16:20 Speaker 1: I think lasted maybe a year and he just couldn't

16:24 Speaker 1: just couldn't hack it. Yeah, because it's you know, yeah,

16:27 Speaker 1: it's hard, right.

16:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, not the best place to be in New Hampshire.

16:32 Speaker 1: I just saying, well, it could be worse. You could

16:34 Speaker 1: be on you know, behind bars and the.

16:37 Speaker 3: Exactly. I'm not complaining.

16:42 Speaker 1: How about how about you? Taylor.

16:44 Speaker 2: So I've worked a lot of like cafes, I've worked

16:48 Speaker 2: in restaurants.

16:50 Speaker 1: Oh that's good. You have good experience for what you're doing,

16:53 Speaker 1: what you're going to be doing.

16:54 Speaker 2: I recently last year just bought a coffeehouse at the

16:57 Speaker 2: Deerfield Fair.

16:58 Speaker 3: Oh love it.

17:00 Speaker 2: The guy that I bought it from, he's basically like

17:02 Speaker 2: a mentor to me. It was great. We also have

17:06 Speaker 2: cats a nursing home that I work at, Okay, and

17:10 Speaker 2: like their amazing residents love them. I'll actually like carry

17:13 Speaker 2: them around on the floor with me. I'm not supposed

17:15 Speaker 2: to have them on my carts. It was like, oh, everybody,

17:18 Speaker 2: they're hanging out with me.

17:19 Speaker 3: Taylor and I actually worked there together and that was

17:22 Speaker 3: the highlight of her day. We'd go up chairs and

17:24 Speaker 3: be like, oh, did you see one of the cat's

17:26 Speaker 3: names was Skeeter? Did you see Skeeter today? And we

17:28 Speaker 3: just like talk about it. That was like the highlight

17:31 Speaker 3: over day.

17:34 Speaker 2: Sometimes I'd bring like a laser with me to play

17:36 Speaker 2: with them. It was like the best thing in the

17:38 Speaker 2: whole world. And then there's another cat there, she's still there,

17:41 Speaker 2: name of Saber. She likes to be spun around on

17:44 Speaker 2: the floor, so you sit there, you keep peddner, she

17:46 Speaker 2: like goes in a circle. I absolutely love it.

17:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

17:50 Speaker 3: Taylor also has a degree in culinary so this will yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:55 Speaker 2: And then my family thinks that I'm very much like

17:58 Speaker 2: a restaurant type of person. I've worked in hospitality a lot. Yeah,

18:02 Speaker 2: like it goes together, but I absolutely am there for

18:06 Speaker 2: the animals.

18:06 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because I.

18:08 Speaker 2: Just there's so much fun, Yeah, so much personality.

18:11 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. What's a misconception that that people have about

18:17 Speaker 1: cats that you want to knock down today while you're here.

18:22 Speaker 3: Well, cats are cat cafes. There's two different things. So

18:25 Speaker 3: the cats. A lot of people are like, I hate cats,

18:28 Speaker 3: and yeah, it seems like a lot like by.

18:30 Speaker 1: The way, you never hear anyone just say oh, I

18:32 Speaker 1: don't like cats. Uh. They they'll tell you that I

18:35 Speaker 1: hate cats.

18:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're so avid about it. Yeah yeah, what your

18:38 Speaker 3: cat ever do to you?

18:40 Speaker 1: It's weird, right yeah.

18:42 Speaker 3: I mean they all have their different personality types, and

18:45 Speaker 3: they're not as like affectionate as like dogs. Well, they're

18:48 Speaker 3: not as obedient, they're not.

18:49 Speaker 1: As expressive, That's how I think of it.

18:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had very oh yeah affectionate cat.

18:55 Speaker 3: Mine will literally like just sleep on my face all night.

18:58 Speaker 1: The cat Jenny and I have is very affectionate.

19:00 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. But it seems like a lot of the

19:03 Speaker 3: male population too. I don't know if it's like a

19:07 Speaker 3: like a tough guy thing like cats, like you know

19:10 Speaker 3: this a little cute, fluffy thing, like I can't show

19:12 Speaker 3: my soft side. But like it'd be nice to see

19:15 Speaker 3: a lot more males be like, oh I love kitty cats.

19:18 Speaker 3: You know, I'll open up because you can see most

19:19 Speaker 3: of them if they like them. But they're just trying

19:21 Speaker 3: to be like a right hat, right, Like what a

19:24 Speaker 3: little frery thing do to you? Right?

19:26 Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? Yeah.

19:28 Speaker 3: And then cat cafes there's a misconception people people think

19:31 Speaker 3: it's going to be dirty, like the cats are separate

19:34 Speaker 3: from the food prep the cafe area exactly exactly, and

19:40 Speaker 3: like at the same time, it's like do you not

19:42 Speaker 3: eat around your cats at home? Too? Like you know, like, yeah,

19:47 Speaker 3: it's just an interesting thought. Like we've seen a lot

19:50 Speaker 3: of things on social media. People are like that that's

19:52 Speaker 3: disgusting things like that. Yeah, it's like, do your research

19:55 Speaker 3: on it, and it's will keep it clean, we promise.

19:58 Speaker 1: Yeah. If somebody doesn't want to go, nobody's forcing. Yeah,

20:02 Speaker 1: just don't come right right exactly.

20:05 Speaker 2: They get forced they can go sit in the cafe

20:07 Speaker 2: while everyone hangs out with the cats.

20:08 Speaker 1: Okay, mm hmmm, there you go. There you go. So,

20:12 Speaker 1: you know, if people want to want to learn more

20:14 Speaker 1: and keep up with what you're doing as you're searching

20:16 Speaker 1: for a place and whatnot, or you know, we might

20:18 Speaker 1: have listeners who have ideas and suggestions, or maybe they

20:21 Speaker 1: just want to help in some way. Where should they

20:23 Speaker 1: go online? Where's the best place for people to go

20:25 Speaker 1: online to keep up with with this whole project?

20:27 Speaker 2: I would say Facebook and Instagram are like our most popular.

20:30 Speaker 2: We're on a lot of social media, okay, but we

20:33 Speaker 2: also have like a link tree which has like all

20:35 Speaker 2: of our social media on there, and I believe our

20:38 Speaker 2: website is on there as well.

20:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, our website's ww dot person porscatcafe dot com Okay,

20:44 Speaker 3: and we have a contact us link and it's pretty straightforward.

20:48 Speaker 3: Put your information in and put any comment you want

20:51 Speaker 3: and it goes straight to us. We love suggestions. We

20:54 Speaker 3: love talking with our customers. Usually like weekly, we get

20:58 Speaker 3: people just like rooting for us, like with enthusiasm, So

21:01 Speaker 3: that makes us happy. You know, somebody took the time

21:03 Speaker 3: another day just to log in and you know give

21:06 Speaker 3: us a little pep talk like that's awesome.

21:08 Speaker 1: Oh, that's really cool.

21:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, And we're just very transparent, So follow us on

21:12 Speaker 3: social media all the way through all of our collaborations

21:15 Speaker 3: with local businesses, all of the steps like even finding

21:19 Speaker 3: our real estate agent. We're very very open. I think

21:22 Speaker 3: that's important for businesses to be pretty transparent, and like

21:25 Speaker 3: we want to build a community with people as well,

21:28 Speaker 3: so like yeah, yeah, the more followers, the more conversations

21:31 Speaker 3: we can have, like it could be their business too.

21:33 Speaker 3: We're very open to like doing the best for our

21:36 Speaker 3: customers and the animals.

21:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually use social media to fire find our

21:41 Speaker 2: real estate agent too, like a bunch of people were

21:44 Speaker 2: sending us so many oh, which is great. That was

21:47 Speaker 2: really helpful.

21:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's excellent. That's excellent.

21:51 Speaker 3: Shout out to Sarah Lang. You're awesome.

21:53 Speaker 1: Is that? Oh? Very good? Very good? Well listen, I

21:58 Speaker 1: thank you both for coming in today. This is this

22:00 Speaker 1: is wonderful. We'll have to have you on again in

22:02 Speaker 1: the future because once you know, once you've got a place,

22:04 Speaker 1: you know, we definitely want to have you back. And

22:07 Speaker 1: you know, Jenny and I we both love cats, and

22:09 Speaker 1: so we're very uh, we're very encouraged to see what

22:12 Speaker 1: you're doing. I know when you're when you're ready and

22:13 Speaker 1: you're up and running, and you know, she's excited to go,

22:15 Speaker 1: so definitely I want to see how it all turns

22:18 Speaker 1: out too. So so good luck to you both, of course, Uh,

22:22 Speaker 1: Star and Taylor appreciate you coming in.

22:25 Speaker 3: You thanks for having us all right, you.

22:26 Speaker 1: Got it, And I think we should close out the

22:28 Speaker 1: segment with we'll play another Turbook Cat song. This one

22:31 Speaker 1: is called My Senior Lady and it's all about his

22:34 Speaker 1: his Senior Lady Cat