Cool Cat Collective help cats find their forever home

Sept. 18, 2025 3 AM PT

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Cool Cat Collective is a cat-themed boutique that fosters cats for a local trap-neuter-return nonprofit.

Once a month, the store is home to a local-favorite silent reading night that mirrors the cat cafe concept. These resident kittens at Cool Cat Collective spend most of their time in a luxury “catio” in the back corner of the store, but twice a month, they are released to roam about during after-hours fundraising events.

A popular silent reading party, co-hosted by reading club Long Beach Bookworms, mimics a cat cafe and has sold out nearly every month since its debut last November, said Long Beach Bookworms founder Martha Esquivias.

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Brenda Elizondo

Brenda Elizondo is an audience engagement fellow at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a video content creator and reporter for L.A. Times Food and De Los, the Latinidad section. She received her bachelor’s degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton.

Malia Mendez

Malia Mendez is a former Entertainment and Arts reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She previously worked at The Times as a reporting fellow. Mendez graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in journalism and began her reporting career at the Stanford Daily. Her byline can be found in Los Angeles Magazine, the Orange County Register and Peninsula Press. She is from Irvine.