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Hintonburg is about to become the cat’s meow.

Feline Café, the first daily cat café in Ottawa, will open at 1076 Wellington St. W. on the main floor of a two-storey red brick building. The space is about 2,500 square feet.

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It joins The Purrfect Café at Kind Space in Centretown, which holds a cat meet-up with coffee and tea every second Thursday of the month.

Josée Cyr, a 25-year-old Centretown resident who studied commerce at Laurentian University, said she’s in the process of applying for a building permit, but hopes to have the café ready to go in April.

“I’m not getting a lot of sleep but it feels really good,” Cyr said with a laugh. “It feels like it’s the right thing for me and I’m seeing so much encouragement from the public. I’ve had so many people reach out to me and say they want to help me or just that they’re so excited and can’t wait and that really fills me.”

Cyr envisions her café as a cozy coffee shop that includes a separate “cat zone” with six to eight roaming felines. The cat zone, which is admission by donation, will be decorated with custom shelving, bridges and hammocks.