SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Adopting a pet requires a personal touch where a bond is formed between human and animal, but the coronavirus pandemic has taken that away. One San Jose cat rescue has been ...

A cluster of cats nap in a cat cave bed as another checks out the situation at the Mini Cat Town kitten lounge at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto on Jan. 6, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.

One of Mini Cat Town’s kittens, Papaya, playing on a couch in the store. Photo by Nathan Chiochios Mini Cat Town, the nonprofit that invites the public to pet and adopt kittens, will be leaving its ...

Erielle Bernardo, animal care associate at Mini Cat Town, was having a typical day at work when a woman walked into the cat shelter with her dog. Bernardo’s first instinct was to politely inform the ...