Whisker Lounge
Home to 28 resident cats - specifically recruited and raised together to be part of the most relaxing catxperience. Sit, sip, and let them decide whether you are worthy. Most days you will be.
Sound Gallery · Art Space · Cat Lounge
The Frisky Whisker
A hi-fi sound gallery, an art space, and Atlanta's only cat therapy lounge. We lost our space in 2025. We left the building, but we didn't leave the dream! We found a home for us and the cats! They are safe, together and cared for. Now follow us as we build the next chapter.
28 cats. +50,000 visitors. A place worth rebuilding.
What we are
Four experiences, one frequency
Sound, art, cats, and a cafe all live in one space. They overlap, and that is on purpose.
Sound Gallery
Hi-fi listening on a system built to be taken seriously. Records, live sets, and the kind of quiet that lets you actually hear.
Art Space
Rotating shows, hands-on workshops, and walls that change with the season. Come for one thing, leave thinking about another.
Cafe Gadget
A Conscious Cafe & Botanical Bar. Plant-forward bites and low-proof pours. Order a CATpurrcino and mean it.
An ordinary Saturday
Inside
What it looked like in there
Cat yoga under green light. A record on at the right volume. Cats asleep on a floor while strangers talk quietly around them.
Our story
What happened, and where we are
We do not have a public address right now, but we are excited to find our next location! Here is why.
Since 2017
We built something the world hasn't seen
A therapeutic cat lounge in the heart of Atlanta, and a truly healing experience. More than 50,000 people came through our doors. Young people, families, folks of every age. They came for the joy of spending time with our feline therapists or to experience our hi-fi sound system.
July 2025
We had to close our doors
We lost our space at Underground Atlanta. We were forced to close suddenly, and found ourselves without a home or a plan. For a couple of weeks we could not believe what just happened and we were hoping every day to re-open our doors to the public.
November 2025
The eviction was finalized
Despite months of communication with the City to understand why our case was not moving forward, Underground Atlanta ultimately evicted us. In the end, all charges were dropped or dismissed, and we were not required to pay the outstanding rent that had accumulated while we were closed and unable to generate income.
December 2025 to February 2026
Three months in our garage
Cats moved into our garage while we were finding a new home for all of us. Our staff kept showing up unpaid. It was the hardest stretch we have been through.
March 2026
A real home again
We moved into a new home where all 28 cats live with us. They have room, light, and their own space back. They are safe, and they are together.
Now
Building it back
We are planning the next Frisky Whisker: the sound, the art, the cafe, and the cat lounge. A place where the cats can do their work again, for whoever wants to experience their wonder.
The Whisker Lounge
28 residents = 28 furry therapists
These 28 cats are not guests, they are family. We have raised and loved them for more than eight years, and today they live at home with us. Betty runs the place. Techno judges from above. Come say hello when we reopen, or keep up with their antics until then.
- Madame Baset
- Betty
- Cuddle
- Feta
- Fibi
- Fibo (Fibonacci)
- Gauda
- Mr. Gadget
- Guava
- Master Korin
- Lila
- Miriam
- Moomoo
- Nathaniel
- Nova
- Sir Oreo
- Princess Pearl
- Pebbles
- Pipa
- Pipi
- Lady Shala
- Miss Sekhmet
- Sydney
- Techno
- Toot
- Venus
- Mommy Wilma
- Zoe
The Whisker Lounge Cat Research & Therapy Center is our 501(c)(3). It is the part of this that puts cats and people in a room together on purpose.
Why we do it
Sound, art, and animals are not separate pleasures. Put them in one room and something opens up in people. We watched it happen 50,000 times. That is the whole idea, and it is why we are building it back.
What we are building back
Support the cats
Help us build it back
The hardest part is behind us and the cats are home, but 28 of them still eat, still see the vet, and still need care we put off during the move. Your support covers that, and it gets us closer to opening the doors again.
Don't miss the reopening
Be the first through the door
No spam, no noise. Just a note when we announce the new space, and a few cat photos to tide you over.
Keep me posted