07/26/2025
Update: Thank you for the outpour of support over the last few days. 💜 We are going to try to revive and have started a gofundme as one last resort. Please share https://gofund.me/5d449348.
Important Message to Our Supporters
This message is incredibly difficult to write, and I know it may come as a surprise. My heart is heavy as I share this news with you.
Two years ago, we opened Frabjous Catfé with a dream — to be Wake Forest’s cozy, whimsical cat café, and to set out to bring more visibility to cats in need, offer an intimate space for connection and healing, increase adoptions, and help reduce the heartbreakingly high euthanasia rates of cats in our community.
Frabjous has been a true labor of love — a place where magic, rescue, and community came together. With the support of our incredible staff, rescue partner, volunteers, and each of you, nearly 100 cats found safe, loving forever homes. That is something we will always treasure.
We’ve weathered military deployments, delays in opening, unexpected health challenges, rising costs, and countless uncertainties. And through it all, we stayed committed to the cats with fundraisers, events and ways to try and continue bringing in revenue to sustain our safe haven. Even with our hardest efforts, it’s with deep sadness that I share this: Frabjous Catfé will close its doors, with this Monday as our last day open to the public. Our lease has come to an end, and despite every effort, we’ve been unable to reach a new agreement with our property manager that is financially viable.
I can’t begin to express how much I’ll miss seeing all of you — our regulars, our café family, and the incredible humans who adopted from us and gave our cats their forever homes. You are the heart of Frabjous. You are heroes.
We still have a loving group of adoptable cats in our care, and our greatest hope is to find them all homes. Please stop by in these final days — enjoy a Calico Cold Brew or a cupcake, redeem any outstanding gift cards, say goodbye, and maybe meet your next furry companion.
Our Whisker Watch pet sitting and dog walking services will continue as planned, and we’ll issue refunds for any Cheshire Lounge reservations scheduled beyond our closing date.
Thank you for every visit, every kind word, every adoption, and every purr-filled moment. You helped make this dream real. 💛
With endless gratitude,
Dawn