I pulled over on a busy Nebraska street for a latte and walked out an hour later with cat hair on my sleeve and a very different afternoon than I planned. From the sidewalk it looks like any other storefront coffee counter, glass door, chalkboard menu, the usual hum of an espresso machine.
Then you notice the second door, and behind it a bright room where a couple dozen rescue cats climb, nap, and size you up. Every one of them is waiting for someone to take them home, and the drink you just ordered helps pay for their care.
A Dodge Street Storefront With Two Very Different Rooms
Address first: 5015 Dodge Street, Suite 101, sitting on one of Omaha’s busiest east-west corridors in the Dundee-Memorial Park area of Douglas County. If you have ever driven Dodge between the Med Center and 50th, you have passed it.
Felius Cat Cafe & Rescue splits its floor plan into two distinct halves. Walk in and you are in a coffee bar with a register, a small menu board, and pastries…