Connecticut has one of the nation's best cat cafés, according to USA Today. It's called Mew Haven Cat Cafe in New Haven, and it came in at No. 9 out of 10 on the media outlet's list of the "best cat ...

After starting in Taiwan and Japan in the 1990s and early 2000s, cat cafes now play an important role in U.S. towns by fostering stray cats and adopting them out to cafe patrons.