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Red Door

Red Door Animal Shelter is a no-kill shelter that rescues dogs, cats and rabbits Since the Middle Ages, a red door has been the symbol of a safe haven.
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This is what Red Door Animal Shelter provides for the animals in its care. In the Chinese art of feng shui, a red door brings luck to those who live behind it. This is what Red Door wants for the animals in its care. Red Door Animal Shelter is a no-kill shelter committed to helping animals in need. Its primary focus is on the rescue, shelter and adoption of cats, dogs and rabbits—the three most po

pular pets in the United States. Red Door provides a cageless environment for its animals, giving them the closest-to-a-home experience that a shelter can provide. While our emphasis is on re-homing the animals through resourceful adoption programs, the shelter does offer permanent residence for those few animals not placed in homes. Furthermore, Red Door is one of only five no-kill, multi-species shelters in the country that admits rabbits as well as cats and dogs, spays/neuters them and places them up for adoption. Every year, Red Door rescues and finds homes for hundreds of abused and abandoned animals. Red Door is a 501(c)(3) organization. We receive no federal, state, county or city money. We are funded by private donations and grants from private foundations. Red Door was founded in 1998, under the name Chicago Community Humane Center. In January 2000, an adoption center was opened on the far north side of Chicago, in the West Ridge/Rogers Park neighborhood. In June 2002, the shelter's name was officially changed to Red Door Animal Shelter to better reflect the vision of the organization. In February 2003, Red Door expanded its adoption center; the address of the new adoption center is 2410 W. Lunt, Chicago.

11/16/2024

One week!🎅
Saturday Nov 23rd 11am-3pm
Oakton Community Center
4701 Oakton, Skokie

Santa Charlie is coming to our Winter Bazaar and will be delighted to pose with your pets and little hooms. You can also enjoy holiday shopping 🎁 and an irresistible cookie walk🍪Details with Link in Bio

11/15/2024

It’s Bunny Butt Friday!
Look at the glorious b***y of Enoki. This girls milkshake is bringing all the buns to the yard! (Photo credit to the amazing )
Cookies go great with a milkshake, so you should stop by our Winter Bazaar on Saturday, November 23rd! We’ll have cookies, crafts to buy, and of course pictures with Santa. We hope to see you there!

11/15/2024

When you’re so excited to go to your furever home that you forget to watch where you put your feet.

To Baby Bella’s new family: if she seemed a little… damp… when you got home, this is why.

11/11/2024

🐈🐈‍⬛We are in need of cat food donations for our kitties and those who benefit from our pet food pantry. If you can spare a dime for Puff and her feline friends, please check out our and wishlists with link in bio. Or click here: https://tr.ee/s443jffCqB

We'd be ever so grateful❤️

11/04/2024

😃Good news: 6 rabbits were adopted out yesterday!
😩Bad news: 7 strays came in this week.

if you watch our stray rabbit count, you'll see that the numbers are insane. More than 300 rabbits on our waitlist and more than 300 rabbits rescued by the Dumped Bunny team.

The handful of rabbit rescues in Chicagoland are overwhelmed. And there is not enough money, time, space to save them all. We need help from the large rescues who mainly focus on dogs and cats.

The best way to end this insanity is to stop the sale of pet rabbits in pet stores. We desperately need Illinois to add rabbits to the pet sale ban.

11/01/2024

Happy furever home Friday!
Meet Echo (formerly Kermit) and Shadow. Echo may look familiar because last week he was featured having an epic battle with the Roomba. As you can see his antics don’t stop there. This is not a one time pose, Echo will regularly decide that Shadow is the perfect pillow. Shadow is a sweetheart though and doesn’t mind at all. In this case X marks the spot for some bunny love, and the best furever home ever!

10/30/2024

Who can guess how many different cats are in this video?

10/28/2024

Fall is here and you're gonna need a warm furry friend to cuddle up on the couch with. These are just some of the gorgeous kitties available for adoption at Red Door. Fun fact: cats and rabbits can be friends.

10/26/2024

It's Puff knows the best way to spend the day is napping like a boss.

10/24/2024

This Sunday October 27 3pm
join us for an intimate benefit concert with Her songs about animals will benefit the animals at How cool is that?🎶🐈🐩🐇🐐🐒🦆🐓🐬🦌🐎🦔🦇🦜🦒🐁🦘🐄🐪🦓🎶

10/23/2024

Cinnamon has checked 12 times and can confirm that this is, in fact, NOT cake.

10/21/2024

❤️🐇🌈
It breaks our hearts that another angel has left this world too soon. Lattice had been abandoned on the streets of Chicago, spent time at animal control, then transferred to us. She became a shelter favorite due to her outgoing personality, but always overlooked by adopters due to her size and ruby eyes. Imagine our joy when her foster family fell in love and decided to keep her. After only a few months in a loving home, she suddenly passed in a matter of minutes.

"We had a normal morning with salad, a catch-up on Housewives on the couch, and some carpet snuggles, but she experienced a seizure and passed immediately a bit after 9 AM. While our hearts are shattered, we're comforted knowing she wasn’t in pain leading up to this and spent her last few months with us surrounded by love.

"She was the perfect fit for our family, like a missing piece we didn’t even realize we needed. Friends would visit and she immediately found her way onto the couch and into their lap— I’ve really never seen a pet be at home so instantly.

"Lula had her own room downstairs but had free roam of the first floor during the day and supervised access upstairs. She spent her days cuddling (I cannot reiterate enough how much this sweet girl loved to cuddle and give kisses), birdwatching, and pulling toys from her basket to hurl. She loved being in the kitchen, always right in the middle of things. Our cat, Fifi, was especially fond of her, and they could often be found curled up together on the couch or birdwatching side by side."

Thank you for giving this beautiful soul the loving home she always deserved. May she Binky free and fields of Clover until she can meet you again. 🌈

10/20/2024

RABBIT ACTION ALERT!
3412 w Augusta Blvd and 1000 N Trumbull Ave
We are organizing a search team for 5:30pm today. Please comment if you can assist later today.

10/19/2024

We made a boo-boo yesterday. We posted a story calling for vendors for our Winter bizarre. Unfortunately, we got the date wrong! How scandalous!
Our winter bazaar is on Saturday, November 23 in Skokie. If you would like information about having a vendor booth at our event, please send us a DM or email us at [email protected]

10/18/2024

Happy furever home Friday!
Not all bondings go smoothly. Sometimes it can take a lot of time and patience. This was the case for Oswaldo (formerly Argyle) and Rosa. They had potential, but kept fighting. Love prevailed though, and now these two are a happy pair. We love a nice happy ending!

10/17/2024

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We'd like to give a big shoutout to our 2024 runners on Team Red Door Running:
Julie Dorion
Hunter Gaias
Jeff Cannon
Kari Grinya
Lauren Dennis
Michaella Schaszberger
Miller Gougneour
Shawn Thompson

Their hard work and perseverance helped us raise nearly $13,000 for our little shelter.

If you'd like to join our marathon team next year and help us raise even more money for the animals please send us a DM or email to info@reddoor shelter.org

10/17/2024

who would you give a handshake to?

10/15/2024

It's been whirlwind of intakes this past week:

ENOKI- female white lop picked up by animal control in Marquette Park

MOREL & BUTTON- a father/son duo picked up as "wildlife" in North Lawndale

GOBLIN & FAERY- a male/female pair of Dutch dwarf mixes found in a yard in West Ridge. Likely from The Animal Store.

CHIMERA & MERMAID- Dutch mix strays brought to Anti Cruelty Society after being rescued by Dumped Bunny

LERECHAUN - harlequin dwarf dumped at PAWS shelter with two cats. He's got digestive issues we hope to clear up.

UNICORN- female rabbit rescued by dumped bunny and the Lentino family (long time Red Door adopters)

Address

2410 W Lunt Avenue
Chicago, IL
60645

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12pm - 5pm
Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+17737642242

Website

http://www.reddoorshelter.org/, https://linktr.ee/RedDoorShelter

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When you’re so excited to go to your furever home that you forget to watch where you put your feet. To Baby Bella’s new family: if she seemed a little… damp… when you got home, this is why. #chicago #buzzfeedanimals #dailyfluff #bunny #petoftheday #bunnylove #chicagorabbits #houserabbit #chicagobunnies #adoptdontshop #rabbit #rabbitsofinstagram #bunnylove #petlovers #chicagopets #shelterpets #shelterpetsofinstagram #chicagogram #chicagononprofit #fureverhome #fureverlove #fureverfamily

Adoptable Flamingo and Button want to know: are you making a plan to come to our Winter Bazaar on Saturday, November 23rd?? We’ll have vendors selling a variety of wares, photos with Santa, and our famous cookie walk! 🎅🏻🛍️🎁🐕🦮🐩🐕‍🦺Join us from 11-3 at the Oakton Community Center at 4701 Oakton in Skokie on 11/23b! 🍪🍪🍪 Interested in baking 3 dozen cookies for the cookie walk? Email is at [email protected] ❄️❄️❄️ Interested in adopting Flamingo or Button? Send us a DM or fill out an application directly on our website!

Calling all bakers! We need volunteers to bake at least 3 dozen cookies to sell at our Winter Bazaar on November 23rd at the Oakton Community Center in Skokie. From classic sugar cookies to elaborately decorated gingerbread men and cupcakes, we welcome all kinds of baked treats, including vegan and gluten-free options.To contribute, simply bake at least 3 dozen of one kind of cookie and email us at [email protected] to let us know what kind of dessert you will be bringing.Don't worry about packaging or pricing, as we will be selling them by the pound in baker's boxes. You can bring your cookies in shirt boxes or disposable containers, and it would be helpful to label them, especially if they are vegan or gluten-free.You can deliver the cookies to the shelter, 2410 W. Lunt, Chicago, on Friday Nov 22nd bewtween 11:30am- 4pm. Or you can drop off the cookies at Oakton Community Center on Saturday Nov 23rd before 12 noon.

Benny the Bunny has a lot of energy, so it’s no surprise he had an absolute blast at yoga last Sunday. He’s super friendly and active but has a chill side as well. Interested in adopting Benny the Bunny? Send us a DM or fill out an application directly on our website! #TakeMeHomeTuesday

The humans at Red Door may have gotten an extra hour of sleep this morning, but rabbits don’t understand daylight saving time. They are wondering why their breakfast salads are “late.” 🥬🌿 Thankfully they always have fresh Timothy hay on which to graze while they wait “patiently“ for their greens. Did anyone else wake up to some very confused pets this morning?? ⏰🤔 #SundayBunday

Who can guess how many different cats are in this video? #chicago #petoftheday #cat #cats_of_instagram #catsofinstagram #chicagosheltercats #catsofchicagoland #catoftheday #blackcats #blackcatsofinstagram #blackcatsrule #sheltercat #shelters #adoptdontshop #adoptme #halloween #halloweenpets

Eclipse is a young silver fox girl, found left to die in a grain bin in Central Illinois. This girl is very lucky to have been rescued by the Dumped Bunny team. She’ll be even luckier when she finds an adopter who understands that animals aren’t disposable. PInterested in adopting Eclipse? Send us a DM or fill out an application directly on our website! #TakeMeHomeTuesday

Tickets are still available for our last bunny yoga class of the season on Sunday, November 3rd at 10:30am. Meet adoptable buns at our Harebnb facility and enjoy a gentle yoga flow. Head to the link in the comments to get your 🎟️ before they sell out!

#thingstodoinchicago This Sunday October 27 3pm @clarachicago join us for an intimate benefit concert with @lizpearse Her songs about animals will benefit the animals at @reddoorshelter How cool is that?🎶🐈🐩🐇🐐🐒🦆🐓🐬🦌🐎🦔🦇🦜🦒🐁🦘🐄🐪🦓🎶

Porcini was brought to our door by good sams that new he didn’t belong with the wild buns in their backyard. He was wet, dirty, matted, and scared when he arrived. After a makeover and time to decompress, he’s finally the fancy bun he was born to be. Interested in adopting Porcini? Send us a DM or fill out an application directly on our website! #TakeMeHomeTuesday

Is running a marathon on your bucket list for 2025? The good news: you have a whole year to train for it! The better news: You can secure a bib for the @chimarathon by running for Red Door! 🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏼‍♀️Register between 10/22 - 11/21 before fundraising minimums increase. Send us a DM or email us at [email protected] for all the details about a guaranteed entry into the #chimarathon while helping the animals at the shelter! 🐱🐰🐶