Popoki + Tea

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! 🐱🫶🏻

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! 🌻

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! 🎉