{"id":1344,"date":"2021-04-14T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/pee-pees-katzencafe-archives-uberlinuberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:04:10","slug":"pee-pees-katzencafe-archives-uberlinuberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/pee-pees-katzencafe-archives-uberlinuberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pee Pee's Katzencafe Archives : \u00fcberlin\u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October 22, 2013<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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Pee Pee’s Katzencaf\u00e9<\/a><\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Josie Thaddeus-Johns<\/a>, creator of When You Live In Berlin<\/a>, gets her fix of caffeine and cats at Pee Pee’s Katzencaf\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s allowed: stroking, cuddling, watching. What\u2019s not: restraining, disturbing from sleep, pulling of tails, flash photography. No, you\u2019re not reading the new list of rules for Berghain<\/a>, but a guide to what you can and can\u2019t do in Neuk\u00f6lln\u2019s Pee Pee\u2019s Katzencaf\u00e9<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t considered getting my own pet in Berlin for the first six months or so of my new life here. Nevertheless, I was told, by an expat older and wiser than myself: \u201cAfter you\u2019ve been living in Berlin for a certain amount of time, you\u2019ll just get this urge to get a pet\u201d. And sure enough, I\u2019ve now begun to suffer from this peculiar affliction. I guess when you don\u2019t have that just-off-the-boat pressure to discover a new club<\/a> every weekend, you have considerably more time for ensuring that an animal other than yourself is fed and cared for.<\/p>\n

Luckily, since I live in a fifth floor flat, more immediate help is at hand. Pee Pee\u2019s Katzencaf\u00e9 (despite its unfortunate name) is designed for people like me to get our stroking, cuddling and kitty-watching fix. The place is filled with a number of cat climbing frames for feline entertainment. When I visit, both cats (Pelle and Caruso \u2013 brothers!) are curled up on the top of a frame each. They pass my own personal cuteness test with flying colours, but also had to pass slightly more official tests to be sanctioned for public consumption. As did their owner, Andrea, who filled out pages of questions to show that she knew everything there is to know about cat care \u2013 yep, German bureaucracy extends to felines too. It\u2019s this bureaucracy that keeps the cats to just two in number \u2013 no more are permitted in a space of this size.<\/p>\n

Boasting WLAN (I\u2019m telling you this because, as a freelance writer\/nomad internet user, it\u2019s the first thing I look for in a caf\u00e9), it\u2019s calm and relaxing, just next to the beautiful Thomash\u00f6he, in the quiet bit of NK between Hermannstrasse and Karl-Marx Strasse. Its coffee (contrary to what Exberliner might say) isn\u2019t up to the scratch of the Neuk\u00f6lln\u2019s more trendy coffee places, but their New York cheesecake (a speciality according to Andrea) could definitely give the rest of the cheesecake brigade a run for their money.<\/p>\n

It might not be the trendiest place, but if you\u2019re having one of those days where your mood can only be improved by getting close and personal with a lil furry thing, it seems like a fair deal. #Miaow.<\/p>\n

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