Amazing Acro-Cats Glide into Gainesville

For Immediate Release
Contact: Samantha Martin, info@rockcatsrescue.org

The Amazing Acro-Cats Glide into Gainesville
The Acro-Cats, featured in the Netflix series Cat People, are coming to Gainesville, FL!
The Acro-Cats will appear at The Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville, FL, 32601, from Oct 7 to Oct 9, 2022. This troupe of trained domestic house cats, all former orphans, rescues, and strays, give a one-of-a-kind “purrformance” that includes cats riding skateboards, jumping through hoops, ringing bells, balancing on balls and performing other feats of agility and entertainment. The show finale is the only all-cat band in the world: Tuna and the Rock Cats. The Rock Cats play guitar, drums and piano, and they’ve recently been joined by the Jazz Cats on saxophone, trumpet and clarinet.

How do you train a cat to do complex stunts? Chief Executive Human (CEH) Samantha Martin uses clicker training, a technique involving only positive reinforcement, to train her troupe. Samantha and her assistants, and the Acro-Cats, tour the U.S. in their “catified” bus, which often is also home to a litter of foster kittens.

In addition to being on Cat People, the Amazing Acro-Cats have been featured on national TV shows including The Late show with Stephen Colbert, Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl, CBS News Sunday Morning and PBS Nova’s Cat Tales.

Tickets range in price from $50 to $60. For show dates and times, and to purchase tickets, visit www.rockcatsrescue.org.

The Acro-Cats tour to support Rock Cats Rescue, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Rock Cats Rescue is focused on saving cats “One Click at a Time” through cat welfare, rescue, and adoption. The Acro-Cats show promotes the importance of bonding and training cats with positive reinforcement, while also finding homes for rescued cats. Rock Cats Rescue has found homes for 309 kittens since 2009. For more information, visit rockcatsrescue.org.

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