Popoki + Tea

Hey everybody, long time no see! So excited to report that after a lifetime of waiting, Gabriel (better known as “Gabe”) has found his forever home in Oregon! 😭🙌🏼 The best part is that he’s sharing a home with another Popoki + Tea alum, ! Gabe was quite a handful, and surely having a buddy at his level will greatly help stave off any boredom!

Gabe’s antics kept us in stitches! 🤣 It was never a dull day at the shop, including his hyperfixation with our sliding doors, haha! Our team also knew that Gabe was a multi-dimensional cat, and saw his cuddly and affectionate side, too.

A big mahalo to for never giving up hope on Gabe, for originally rescuing him, the entire team on supporting his care—and most of all to the Halfmans for giving this spunky guy the loving home Gabe deserves! Please keep us updated! 💖

We have an update on Sienna! 🧡 Her adoption was one of the last adoptions we helped with before our closure. After a couple of months, Jayna and family noticed that Sienna needed a friend, as she was extremely shy, but came a-running every time she heard or saw other cats! So the family adopted a second kitty from a different agency, Sky—who looks a lot like Sienna’s friend at Popoki, Smokey.

We’ll let Jayna and family take it from here: “‘The girls’ chase each other around, eat from each others’ bowls, prefer the same litter box, snuggle, look out the window together and are just adorable. We’re about to be empty nesters and someone pointed out that Sienna and Sky are our replacement daughters. They are! We love them and are grateful for them and for everything you’ve done for the cat community.”

Mahalo to Jayna, Doug, Helen, and Lucy for welcoming Sienna (and Sky) into their hearts and home! 💖

Congrats on your grand opening today during Saturday! They’ve opened up at our former location, 3424 Wai‘alae Ave. They’ve done a beautiful job with the space, and the little nods to what it used to be put a smile on our faces! Welcome to the neighborhood and we wish you only the best! 🐱🫶🏻

Hi friends, I know it’s been a while! Popping by to share an update Tonio from his family! “Tonio is such a sweetheart, he always follows people around the house and loves to play by himself. He’s also become obsessed with our cat paw chair socks haha. We miss you guys and hope you’re doing well!” Mahalo Mia and family for the update! 💖 Adopters, feel free to DM us with updates and pics of your former Popoki + Tea kitties!

We have so much gratitude for the many people in our family and community who have shown us love or helped us out in some way over the last week. Moving out is one of the most stressful things ever, so trust when we say that we so appreciate the extra hands! We’ve tackled a lot on our to-do list just in the last four days, and we’re still not done, but as we approach the home stretch, we wanted to say, once again, THANK YOU. 💖

We have a lot of random odds and ends, so help us lighten our load! 💖 First-come, first-served, so please refrain from DM-ing us about items. Our large furniture and appliances have already been sold, and we’ve donated our cat-related items to . Hope to see you on Friday!

Thank you to everyone who’s been a part of our Popoki + Tea community over the last 6 years: our team members, rescue partners, members, guests, online customers and donors, neighbors, artists, vendors, family and friends!

From a monthly pop-up at The Public Pet that started in June 2018, to the opening of our location in February 2020, and the four years since, our journey was a ride that’s been fun and uplifting, bumpy and devastating, and ultimately fulfilling.

As of tomorrow, assuming all scheduled adoptions pan out, we will have found homes for at least 576 cats—and that’s not even counting the several dozen kittens from our pop-ups! Approx 600 cats who got a second chance, thousands of guests whose days were made a little brighter, and especially for our adopters, lives changed forever. Popoki + Tea lives on through you all. 💖

We are now facing the daunting process of moving out, so if anyone is interested in our furniture, please send us a message! We have 4 coffee tables with cubbies, wire shelving, and a couple of benches. Our undercounter fridge is pending sale. I’m sure there’s more items that we’ll post about in our stories 😅

Our plan is to keep our social media accounts active—we won’t be posting or checking as much, but we still have a handful of adoption announcements to share once those adoptions have been finalized. Moving forward, we’ll continue to share post-adoption updates as we receive them!

Mahalo to for generously gifting our staff these sunflowers! 🌻

Brownie and Pandora have found their forever homes! 💖 (Adoptions #569 and #570) Brownie’s newfound guardian had been looking for the “purrfect” first cat and instantly knew Brownie was “the one.” Meanwhile, Pandora originally was with us as a kitten, so we’re happy she found her second chance home. She went home with another kitten that a couple of our longtime volunteers fostered named Lemon. Congrats to both Brownie and Pandora, and their families! 🙌🏼

After our previous post, all of our cats now have sponsors who have allowed us to waive their adoption fees, including Gabriel! 🙌🏼 He has developed a reputation for being the first cat to master opening our sliding doors by an impressive ground roll that would make jiujitsu students’ jaws drop. But here’s the thing… Gabe’s never interested in going out the front door. He’s interested in hanging out with us in the lobby, and he always targets our bench as his finish line. We really hope he finds a family who understands his quirks, can give him plenty of spots in their home to explore, and a nice napping spot by a window like he does here. Gabe is the ultimate curious cat, but don’t forget, that famous quote about curiosity and a cat has a second part that people always leave out: “Satisfaction brought it back.” We hope Gabe finds his second chance in a more-than-satisfactory forever home. 💖

Someone has generously sponsored the adoption fees for Olive, Sienna, Smokey, Mabel, Buster and Claudette… and three of our previous guests have sponsored Summer, Cruise and Carl’s adoption fees, too! 👏 Olive, Sienna, Buster and Summer are our shyest cats who are so absolutely sweet, and we trust they will fully come into their own when they find a true home where they can be comfortable and shine. We hope that these sponsored adoptions provide incentive to anyone who might have been on the fence about applying for any of these sweet kitties—outgoing or shy, they all deserve a loving, forever home 💖

Nani has gone to her forever home! 🙌🏼 (Adoption #568) She was rescued from an outdoor colony, where she had given birth to kittens very early in life—that’s why she’s so smol!—before rescued her, and got her fixed and adoption-ready. She now gets to enjoy life with her newfound human and another kitty on the Windward side! Happy “tails,” Nani! 🎉

(Update - Brownie is pending adoption!) Brownie was found in a Wahiawa colony and, I mean, look at him! 🥹 He’s taking his time being comfortable in our space and has just started coming out from our back room. He’s a big fan of laps, actually! And he’s chill about being held, too! Know anyone looking for a furry companion? Maybe it could be sweet Brownie! 💖