Business is good right meow at Denver Cat Company, a cat cafe on Tennyson that opened in late 2014.

But owner Sana Hamelin thinks her feline-based small business will be more sustainable if it expands. So she’s launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund “America’s First Cat Bar! Wine & Felines.”

“We’ve been thinking about this for quite a while, and it seemed very ambitious, but I think it’s time,” Hamelin said.

Plus, her customers at the cat cafe have been asking for it.

“We have a lot of the young female demographic, and they want to be able to come out and drink wine with their friends and hang out with cats.”

There’s another good reason to open a bar — cats are active at night. Afternoon visitors to the cat cafe might be eager to see the acrobatics playful cats can perform, but instead find all of the feline inhabitants dozing the daylight hours away.

“That’s been a hilarious outcome of cat cafes in general …” said Hamelin. “You see these reviews of people saying, ‘well I went there and it was great but all the cats were sleeping.’ ”

(On the first page of the Denver Cat Company’s Yelp page — there are 64 reviews total — no one complained about napping kitties, but there are plenty of pictures of zonked-out cats. One reviewer did note “There were 2 cats that I was very fond of but they were sleeping in the window…”

The Kickskarter page for the cat bar notes that if they exceed their $60,000 goal by $5,000, they’ll build an outdoor patio; $15,000 over, and they’ll build an outdoor “catio” that the felines can enjoy, too.

This won’t be a boisterous late-night destination, Hamelin said. That’s not good for the cats.

“People have asked me if I’m worried about drunk people harassing cats, and I am not,” said Hamelin. She’ll have more staff on hand at the bar to keep an eye on people and cats — putting the cats first is important, not just because she cares, but it’s also essential to her business model, she noted. Plus, people who want to come to a place like a cat cafe or bar are respectful of cats in the first place, she said.

Denver Cat Company works with five Denver-area shelters to bring in cats that are healthy and ready for adoption; they also screen for kitty personalities that are a good fit for the cafe environment. So far, Hamelin said the cafe has facilitated adoptions for about 150 cats. If crowdfunding works and she opens a bar, they’ll adopt cats there, too.

Which Denver neighborhood is enough of a cool cat to host this bar?

“I’m looking at RiNo and South Broadway and Colfax — just places that have foot traffic, places that have a similar vibe to Tennyson Street, and that demographic that’s attracted to it already,” she said.

“Denver is growing and doing so well in so many areas right now that there’s a lot of different spots that would work.”