The Cat Lounge Rescue and Adoption Center in La Jolla has been quietly doing its job since it first opened in 2019.

One might even say it’s purring right along.

The organization, which is the only nonprofit cat cafe in San Diego, just passed its 6,000th adoption as it rounds out its sixth year in operation.

“It was a huge milestone,” said founder and executive director Renee Shamloo, the Cat Lounge’s founder and executive director. She is also a lawyer who specializes in – among other things – animal welfare cases.

That work, as well as her great love of animals, was what initially led her to open the Cat Lounge, which originally only aimed to reduce the rate of euthanasia of adoptable animals across the region.

“When we first opened we only pulled cats from high kill shelters through

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