LAFAYETTE, La. — A new pet cafe is coming to Lafayette's northside that will give orphaned dogs and cats a home-like environment while they wait for adoption.

Amy LeBlanc is working to open meowWOOF Animal Collective and Cafe on East Simcoe Street, combining her passion for animal rescue with community building. The non-profit organization will focus specifically on animals who have lost their owners.

"I had an idea to do a coffee shop that was going to be able to house animals that are displaced from their humans dying because those are calls that we get often," LeBlanc said.

LeBlanc has been doing foster care in Lafayette for over four years and has taken in over 60 animals. Just five months after conceiving the idea, she turned it into a non-profit organization, meowWOOF. Leblanc and

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