Happy Cat Cafe

Happy Cat Cafe Come find your new best friend. Revue's Best Small Scale Attraction 2026 🌟 Happy Cat Cafe is a coffee shop combined with a cat adoption center.
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Sip Coffee, Save Cats. ☕🐱 Grand Rapids' original cat café & adoption lounge, home to free roaming rescue cats, specialty drinks, and cute gifts. 1,000+ cats adopted since 2017. Our number one goal is to help cats find loving homes while giving the community a cozy place to relax.

Crash getting a sneak peek at the adult model 🐾😍
08/28/2026

Crash getting a sneak peek at the adult model 🐾😍

We’re hiring a Purrista ☕️🐈Daily Tasks:☕️ Making drinks and running the bar👯 Hosting guests in the lounge🐈 Cat care and ...
08/27/2026

We’re hiring a Purrista ☕️🐈

Daily Tasks:
☕️ Making drinks and running the bar
👯 Hosting guests in the lounge
🐈 Cat care and cleaning the cat room
🧼 Restocking, dishes, hauling supplies
⏰ Opening and closing on your own

This job can be fast and physical, and you’re usually the only one on the floor. Coffee or food service experience helps a lot.

Cat experience not required- trainability, adaptability and a good attitude are.

$15/hr+ tips. Most shifts land around $19-20. Part time to start with room to grow.

Please email [email protected] and tell us a little about yourself + attach a resume.

Applied before? Reply to your original email and we’ll take another look ❤️

The Litter Throne ⚔️ 2,000 pounds 🐉 Mother of Cats 🐈World’s Best has sent us over 10,000 pounds of litter over the years...
08/26/2026

The Litter Throne ⚔️ 2,000 pounds 🐉 Mother of Cats 🐈

World’s Best has sent us over 10,000 pounds of litter over the years through their and programs.

Litter is one of the biggest ongoing costs of running a cat lounge, so that’s money we get to put into the cats instead.

It’s corn based. Renewable crop instead of strip-mined clay, and way less dust, which matters for 16 sets of lungs in one room.

It holds the line against all of them.

Thank you World's Best Cat Litter 👑

So I just blinked and it's already August 25th and now 9:19pm and too late for the algorithm. Happy Cat's birthday was l...
08/26/2026

So I just blinked and it's already August 25th and now 9:19pm and too late for the algorithm.

Happy Cat's birthday was last Monday the 17th and I didn't even post about it. I've been too busy with 8000 other things it's been put on the back burner. Every year we've had a party with cake, last year was quite an event with a food truck and vendors. No party this year, at least not yet.

So much has changed in 9 years.

When we started we had 6 cats, and I can still remember all of their names, now I barely know a cat before it gets adopted. When we started, I worked 9am-9pm 6 days a week, we were closed on Mondays. I would scoop every box, be there for every adoption photo, greet every guest. Now I spend most of my time answering emails, training, doing payroll and bookkeeping, putting out fires.

When we started, the first day we opened, my first son was 7 months old and crawled for the first time on the counter, he was chasing a decorative ball of yarn, so we jokingly would say he thinks he's a cat. His dad would bring him up several times a day to spend time with me on the long days. Now I have 3 children, 9, 4, and 2, whom I homeschool, and we spend our time hiking and learning about animals. They spend only a fraction of time at the cafe as my first son, who pretty much grew up there.

When we started we had days without a single customer, now in 9 years we've had tens of thousands of people come through our doors. When I started Happy Cat Cafe, as just an idea, a website and a page, scrolling on facebook, I was 25, now I'm 37. When we first started, I almost adopted the first cat, Noxie, and now we've had well over 1000 adoptions and almost stopped counting.

I don't know why I am writing this sounding sad going into our 10th year of running. Maybe it's because what used to be pure passion, connection, has turned into a lot of taxes, paperwork, and managerial decisions. I miss the simplicity of having nowhere to go but up. This year has been harder than the ones before it, and there's too many factors to place it on any one thing.

The other day I was in the cafe with the kittens and I felt that spark again, the feeling of being overwhelmed with happiness at these wonderful beings that connect with us on an almost metaphysical level.

I put my heart, soul, house, blood, sweat, too many tears into this project and it's become bigger than me and it's my small but scrappy staff now who make you and the cats feel cared for every day.

A lot of rambling to say that I am so thankful for every single person that has walked into our doors. I feel sincere gratitude that you gave up your hard earned money to visit my little shop, or opened your home to one of these special cats.

A lot of things change, especially in 10 years, but one thing that doesn't is the feeling of holding a baby kitten in your arms and feeling it purr.

Happy 9 years Happy Cat Cafe a week and day late.

Share your memories of Happy Cat in the comments, I would love to see them!

Kitten Photo (adopted): Jenna Rose Photography

Ray is taking his role of stewarding the next generation very seriously, although the kittens have complaints 😹(swipe to...
08/23/2026

Ray is taking his role of stewarding the next generation very seriously, although the kittens have complaints 😹(swipe to last slide with audio).

Happy “Kitten Week” Caturday! We still have 9 kittens after so many adoptions, let’s finish the week strong!

ATTENTION ALL COFFEE LOVERS! We have some exciting news! We now are using Stovetop Coffee Roasters coffee!!! Roasted in ...
08/21/2026

ATTENTION ALL COFFEE LOVERS! We have some exciting news!

We now are using Stovetop Coffee Roasters coffee!!! Roasted in Holland, these beans add a whole new level to your coffee experience. Sweet, complex, rich, your coffee doesn’t get better than this!

Come on down, get a drink, and get a free 15 minutes in the cat room!

08/20/2026

One kitten… two kittens… three kittens….
So many kittens! It’s kitten week! Come on down, get a drink, and see some kitties!! 🐱

It's Kitten Week and we have 8 kittens in the lounge right now! I actually teared up when I came in 🥹Three already got a...
08/19/2026

It's Kitten Week and we have 8 kittens in the lounge right now! I actually teared up when I came in 🥹

Three already got adopted THIS MORNING because they are that cute!

Which is why I can't believe we still have 10 seats open for Tarot Reading Night tomorrow at 6pm 🙀

You get a reading AND a kitten in your lap. This is one you don't want to miss!

https://www.happycatgr.com/tarot-card-reading-night

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08/18/2026

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Ray personally made sure the water cups were up to his standards 😂 (No worries, there was no paint in the water!)Thank y...
08/16/2026

Ray personally made sure the water cups were up to his standards 😂
(No worries, there was no paint in the water!)

Thank you to everyone who spent the evening creating with us and giving our cats plenty of attention along the way. There’s something pretty magical about making art with a cat casually walking across your workspace🥹

Missed this one? 👀 Our next Cats & Canvas is September 19th at 6:30 pm! Book right meow through link in our bio! 😸

Address

447 S Division Avenue
Grand Rapids, MI
49503

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 7pm
Sunday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

+16162024750

Website

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