East Dallas nonprofit A Voice for All Paws to open cat café - Lakewood/East Dallas

2022-08-20 02:23:56 By : Mr. Landy ou

Nigel, who belongs to Advocate photographer Jessica Turner. (Nigel was not adopted from A Voice for All Paws.) Photography by Jessica Turner.

An East Dallas cat rescue is expanding with an adoption and boarding center, an area offering veterinary services and a coffee shop.

A Voice for All Paws was founded by former East Dallas resident Nancy Stephenson, who now lives in Oregon, in 2018.

Caroline Stovall is the current president of A Voice for All Paws. She and Stephenson met in South Dallas while they were picking up kittens from a transport; they realized they had the same passion for rescue.

Thanks to a donation from Stovall and her husband, the nonprofit purchased two buildings near Garland Road and Easton Road, according to a press release. One, located at 10320 Garland Road, is a 1,600-square-foot space for cat boarding. The other, a 3,500-square-foot space at 1211 Casa Vale, will have an adoption center and cat café.

Both buildings are being renovated and are expected to open later this year.

“Our team, along with volunteers, will run the cat café and adoption center,” Stovall says. “We will run it like a business with a coffee shop where people can work. We see [the coffee shop] as a means of funding our non-for-profit organization, too.”

A Voice for All Paws provides medical treatments such as spaying/neutering, deworming, medications, shots and veterinary check-ups to all rescued cats. Then, the nonprofit works to socialize the animals around other animals and humans, and gets them ready for adoption. These new spaces will be a place where people can visit animals ready to be brought home.

Neighbors Libby Cooley, Shelley Dai and Gail Bushur-Irwin are all board members who have helped the nonprofit take the next step in achieving its goals.

For more pet content, keep an eye out for our September issue, which will be out soon. Or, here’s a story we wrote about the cats at Walton’s Garden Center in 2020. Or, here’s how much money East Dallas residents spend on pets.

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