Erin Cahill & Paul Campbell Bonded with 15 Cats In-Between Takes on ‘Christmas at the Catnip Café’

Paul Campbell and Erin Cahill star in Hallmark Channel‘s new movie Christmas at the Catnip Café and they got to work with over a dozen cats during the making of the movie!

The co-stars opened up about filming the holiday movie while appearing at Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas launch event in Nashville back in October.

“I don’t have a cat, but I grew up with one, so in between takes I was in the ‘catio’ pretty much half the time,” Erin said. Paul chimed in to clarify that the catio is a “patio full of cats.”

Paul added, “There were like 15 cats just hanging out in the catio at any given time.” Erin said, “And they all had moods!”

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Christmas at the Catnip Café airs on Hallmark Channel on Sunday night (November 30) at 8pm.

Here’s the synopsis: “Olivia Pierce (Cahill) is a marketing executive from Oakland, California who is this close to realizing her dream of purchasing a condo, but she’s a bit short on the down payment. When she learns that her late great aunt left her half of a cat café in upstate New York she thinks it’s the Christmas miracle she needed – as long as she can sell and close the deal before the holidays. Olivia’s plan hits a bump in the road when she meets Dr. Ben Kane (Campbell), the veterinarian who owns the other half. The café serves an important role in the town – helping homeless cats find forever homes – and he has no intention of closing up shop. Christmas is the most important time of the year as they plan many activities to help raise funds and get them into the black. Olivia and Ben strike a deal – she agrees to help him plan the fundraising events at the café over the next three weeks in exchange for Ben promising not to drag his heels on selling at the end of that time. Unless, Ben notes, she ends up changing her mind – a lot can happen in three weeks, after all. As they work together and a spark between them grows, Olivia becomes part of the neighborhood, gains an appreciation for the café’s adorable feline inhabitants and what it means to Ben, as well as to the entire community. And when she learns the surprising reason her great aunt opened the café in the first place, that just might be the cat-alyst for change that will give them all a Merry Christmas.”