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Reuben's Room Cat Rescue (Grand Rapids)


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Reuben's Room Cat Rescue is a non-profit cat sanctuary/rescue in the greater Grand Rapids Michigan area. Reuben's Room is an alternative cat rescue founded in 2003 by Jeanine Bucker. The purpose of the rescue is to help fill the need for re-homing domesticated cats who might otherwise be surrendered to a shelter where they may be euthanized. We adopt cats to both single people and families who have a track record of being responsible and loving companions, and who understand a commitment to an animal is for a lifetime.


PO Box 140201
Grand Rapids, MI 49514-0201
Email: [email protected]

Jeanine Buckner

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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Okay so here's the situation. these people died they had 15 cats. these other people bought the house for the property. they gave us a little bit of time to get the cats out. some of them are feral others are half feral and there are two kittens.... The time frame that I'm working with is 2 weeks to a month ..then they're going to do something with that something is not probably...... I'm fostering the two kittens myself but I do not have the manpower to deal with everything else or the equipment to trap them. if someone could help that would be awesome it is in the Allegan area in Michigan
posted by Cloud Soul Slayer 121464, on 2021-11-10 04:12:40
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Don't mind my name it's my gamertag for some reason when I made an account to decided to put that in there I don't know why
posted by Cloud Soul Slayer 121464, on 2021-11-10 04:24:42
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My wife and I have an orange tiger cat that is 6 years old, fixed, very playful. Problem is we think he needs a new environment because he sprays in the house and we have tried everything. We have used calming spray, plug-ins, etc. Nothing works.His name is Cheeto.
posted by Terry, on 2021-11-05 13:45:12
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Hi I tried calling several times but only get answering machine. My brother died a couple weeks ago and left 2 cats which I have been trying to get homes for. Mister I believe is a maine coon cat born 02/15/2008 He is Neutered & Front Declawed Have had all Shots and never been outside. Lady is a Calico cat born on 08/19/2010 She is Spayed & Front Declawed Have had all Shots and never been outside. I am trying to do everything I can to get them a good home. But I am running out of time to avoid taking them to the shelter. Please Help Larry ([email protected]) (616)947-0742
posted by (empty name), on 2015-05-11 17:26:15
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Are you still in possession of Mister? If so could you send me a photo, nothing special just a quick pic.He sounds like what we are looking for. You can e-mail me at [email protected]. Have a great day.
posted by (empty name), on 2019-03-01 22:18:33
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Urine * not iron
posted by AmandaAllen, on 2018-11-26 18:28:31
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I have a 3 year old main coon cat he is amazing. He just has a iron problem I have taken him to a vet multiple times first time he had a bladder infection got pills to help the infection that worked for a while. And then he started to pee everywhere again then I took him back and bought a pharamone diffuser and that helped for a little while then he started to go everywhere again then I bought another diffuser and he stopped but my female calico don’t like male cats and so I found a good home my neigbor and they took him I still got to see him anytime I wanted but now he’s peeing on stuff at their house and they are out of options as one of them lost their job and are telling me they are taking him to the pound. I can’t live with myself if he goes to the pound. Is there any medical program you can help me get him figured out and helped with his iron problem or help me find him a good home I don’t want any animals in the pound if I can save them all I would. I’m just financially in able to take him to a vet and do all that they can do to figure out just exactly is causing him to iron everywhere. Please help a fellow animal lover.
posted by AmandaAllen, on 2018-11-26 18:27:50
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We need to re-home a big ole cat (likely Maine Coon) because someone dropped her off near us. She's beautiful, a tuxedo cat. We foster care for her, but she doesn't like our calico at all; she wants to be an only child! I can't have them fighting...so please help! She loves: people, being brushed, being fed, and sleeps a lot. I'd guess her to be elderly. Can you help us? Can you message me or, check on facebook? I posted a picture recently. 269 672 5628 thanks!
posted by JanWestendorp, on 2018-11-09 19:08:26
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Hi. Do you have an exact address that I can I find? Also, do you accept volunteers?
posted by Krista, on 2013-07-20 18:09:11
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The email is [email protected]. We are located in the Walker area. Give us a call.
posted by (empty name), on 2018-03-18 15:37:04
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