COVINGTON, Ky. — Chuck Patton said he’s no stranger to entrepreneurship. He’s the former owner of an advertising business and wanted to do something with more purpose. He and his wife now run the Purrfect Day Cat Café, something Kentuckians can find in both Covington and Louisville.

“That’s what this is all about, really being able to give back and really be able to use my business skills and give back to my community,” Patton said.

Louisa Bosler is a manager at the café's Covington location, helping Patton make this a reality. Besides serving up a good drink, she said the job goes deeper than that.

“I volunteered at a shelter a year before we opened and I really love the idea of rescuing kitties and getting them off the street,” Bosler said.

She said cats on the street are an issue she’s noticed in Kenton County over the years. Patton’s business has several animal shelters working with him. He said his Louisville location did about 1,700 adoptions in the last year, and he also mentioned that location does more adoptions than any place in the country.

And Covington’s numbers are starting to follow suit.

“This one is pacing for number two. So we feel like we’ve got the right formula, yeah we’re right at about one thousand adoptions. That’s what we’re trending towards is a thousand adoptions a year,” he said.

It’s a chance to use his skills to give these cats a home. But he said people don’t come in just to adopt—they come in to hang out with and socialize with the cats. It can be very therapeutic.

“It’s just, I don’t know. It’s a real, real happy place.”

Patton said they are expecting to receive kittens as Kentucky heads into warmer months.