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Marsha’s Original Story:

July 11, 2021 This 5-6 month old kitten is absolutely stunning!  Long haired gray girl with WHITE whiskers and a white spot on the end of her tail.  Taming up really quickly and has  been totally vetted.  Very calm kitty and I can already pet her and pick her up.

Willy’s Original Story:

July 2, 2021 Gray Lady’s 2nd tiny kitten (Lucy’s sibling) – PRECIOUS long haired fuzzy male gray with white and ear tufts that are just tooooo cute!  All of these long haired cats and kittens have these extra extra unusually long ear tufts!  Willy is doing great, but still under weight.  I would like to wait until he gets a little bigger and stronger before putting him up for adoption.  WILLY is so freakin’ cute.  

For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab rescue facility to meet this kitty, please email FURR’s President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to the Charlotte and surrounding area only and to approved homes.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.

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February 2026 Percy is adopted! Check back soon for his adoption story!

September 2025 Updated feature photo of handsome Percy above! He’ll be so happy to have a new FURR-ever home.

July 3, 2025 – PERCY, one of the two FURR cats adopted 4 years ago, however we’re very sad to report that his loving owner, Carol, recently died, so it became necessary for his family to return him to FURR. Lucy and Percy need to stay together as they were adopted together as kittens 4 years ago. They are both sweet as can be and need a new FURR-ever home as soon as possible!

January 2023 – Great news Percy is adopted! The beautiful black & white PERCY boy was adopted by a wonderful couple!  This big kitty, although quite shy, has a lot of love to give & has waited WAY too long for his dream to come true!

His new mom, Carol, is extremely patient & spends a lot of time with PERCY giving him love & play time!

PERCY is one of the last Topsail colony rescued cats now with only Charlie & Lucy left to be adopted.  Dozens of cats and kittens were rescued from the Topsail colony over the last couple of years & now, all but 2, have “furrever” safe indoor homes.  It has been a journey.  Al, Sherry, Rick & Deb ALL came together & worked with me to make it all happen.

I am so thrilled for PERCY!  Lucy is more than ready for her opportunity and Charlie is still a work in progress but coming along nicely!

Our work is never done!

July 2022 If you want a big laid back boy, I could be the one for you! PERCY is my name and FURR rescued me from a colony of cats living at Topsail Beach!  I am about a year old now and what a handsome boy I am!  My fur is super soft and I love to be rubbed.  I have a very quiet nature and can be a teensy shy, but after petting me for a moment, I can purrrrr to beat the band!  My favorite thing is kitty treats and playing with all my buddies!  Why don’t you come meet me and see for yourself!  I am fully vetted & ready to go!

Meet all FURR kitties available for adoption on PetFinder!

For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab rescue facility to meet this kitty, please email FURR’s President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to the Wilmington/Hampstead NC and surrounding area only and to approved homes.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.

March 2024 Gray Lady’s Mom recently sent us an update that this kitty “thrives on her daily routine” in her FURR-ever home for the past couple of years. What a great success story after all the suffering and life-threatening health issues she had, as described in her amazing history below. Her Mom says she enjoys morning head rubs, treats, naps in her cat tree and afternoon playtime. We at FURR are thrilled to hear Gray Lady’s news and wish her continued good health and happiness!

June 2022 Gray Lady is adopted! Check back soon for her adoption story.

Feb 4, 2022 This gorgeous long haired beauty has been through hell and back, but now she is ready for love! This amazing girl is very quiet and gentle and just wants a quiet home and belly rubs! Gray Lady has the softest fur you have ever felt and she would love to be the only kitty and the center of your universe! She is one amazing girl nd just under 2 years old. Her eyes are nothing short of amazing emerald green!

Aug 4, 2021 WHAT A JOURNEY!  Gray lady goes to the vet every 2 weeks to recheck blood work.  She went week before last & had her feeding tube removed!  Her blood work at that point was remarkably improved, except for liver values, but at least she was eating on her own (not a lot), and was able to have her feeding tube removed … whew!  Poor kitty had that tube in her esophagus for over 3 weeks while I fed and medicated her.

The last checkup visit last week showed continued improvement in blood work and liver values were improved, but not quite within normal range.  The vet said that she thought, however, that Gray Lady was well enough for her spay surgery and during that surgery, she would take a liver biopsy.

Yesterday, Gray Lady had her spay surgery and liver biopsy.  BUT, during the surgery, the vet felt something very hard in her stomach that was not normal.  She decided to do exploratory surgery while Gray Lady was under anesthesia, and low and behold, her stomach had a HUGE hairball inside!  The hairball was removed, but I was told it was too big to have ever passed normally!  Gray Lady would not have been able to pass it NOR would she have been able to throw it up due to its size!  Thank goodness the vet discovered this mass and was able to free her from it!

BUT…….the vet wanted Gray Lady to be on quite a few medications after this extensive surgery, so she kept her overnight to monitor her and give her meds.  I had mentioned to the staff that Gray Lady was NOT a fan of getting oral medications and to beware!

Today, I got a call that they could NOT medicate Gray Lady and that I had my work cut out for me with her being on FIVE medications!

It was decided to re-insert a feeding tube for the medications……….poor kitty!  During the SECOND surgery to insert the feeding tube, Gray Lady had a HUGE bleed out that was concerning, but the vet finally got the bleeding to stop!  This poor cat……………my gosh!

I brought her home this afternoon and will continue to tube medicate her for the next ten days & watch for any bleeding.  Hopefully, for her next recheck appointment and blood work, she will be able to get the tube removed and FINALLY GET TO BE A NORMAL KITTY!

Throughout this entire ordeal, this kitty has remained very sweet and humble.  I believe she knows that I am doing everything I can to save her.  It is hopeful that she will one day be a normal cat with no medical issues, but we will see what the liver biopsy says in a few days.

Meanwhile, please pray for this kitty! Please also consider making a donation to help cover her medical costs! Every visit is $150-$200 and her surgery yesterday AND today was over $1,100.  

July 11, 2021 – Update on gray Lady: Just wanted to let you all know that GRAY LADY is steadily and slowly improving (the 6th cat trapped & rescued in the Jenkins colony @ Topsail Beach)!  I am still tube feeding her several times a day, but she is starting to eat a little bit on her own also.  She is almost finished with her MANY medications and I feel like we have turned the corner.  I really think she is going to recover and hopefully move on to the adoption floor!  

GRAY LADY is a beautiful cat with long silky blue/gray colored hair.  She has huge round green eyes and she looks like she is smiling from the side.  I just love her especially knowing how much she has been through and how she came so close to death.  She deserves a life of leisure with lots of love, brushing and comforts of inside safety!
Here are a few pictures to catch you up to date on her progress.  She is definitely looking a lot better!  It has been a tough road.

July 2, 2021 I was called about another colony at Surfside Beach.  That is about 40 minutes away from me.  I have trapped, so far, about 9 cats and am only about half way done. There is a lot of time and travel involved.  All of the cats have to be taken to the S/N clinic or my vet.  

“GRAY LADY” is the Mama of an older set of kittens, Spot, Charlie, Percy, Marsha and Sara, herself a young, but very beautiful, adult female – GORGEOUS long haired Russian Blue color with no white.  Trapped her and after examining her, discovered that she was NURSING!  (All of the older kittens above where hers!), but this must mean that she has ANOTHER new litter.  I was devastated.  Had to release her to make sure the babies survived.

After a few weeks, Gray Lady showed up with TWO little kittens, Lucy and Willy!  With the caretakers’ help, managed to trap the 2 kittens, but even using the kittens as bait, Gray Lady would NOT go back into the trap.  Lots of time spent driving, waiting, praying but with no success.  The kittens were about 4-5 weeks old, but safe.  The kittens had a hard time and back and forth to the vet with them, but finally started coming around.  Gray Lady still at large………….

.GRAY LADY above was finally retrapped with the help of the caretakers and my drop trap.  By the time we re-trapped her, she was very skinny and emaciated, BUT she had a huge protruding belly.  I couldn’t believe that she was pregnant AGAIN with her THIRD litter! Gray Lady was feral, but tolerant of being handled, medicated, etc.  I took her to the vet and got her rabies (no distemper when preggo) and blood work done.  She was very very thin and weak.  At only a little over a year old and being pregnant again for the 3rd time, she needed emergency care.  I set her up in my bathroom with all the needed prescription food, fluids given IV and kept her quiet. Unfortunately after a harrowing ER visit, poor Gray Lady lost her third litter of kittens but still clinging to life herself!

The next day after the ER visit, I took her to my vet and they did ultrasound, xrays, bloodwork and thorough exam.  Gray Lady was fading and her organs were shutting down.  She was anemic, emaciated and just giving up.  She was prescribed a lot meds, probiotics, antibiotics, fluids, etc.  My vet (who was absolutely wonderful, caring and completely aware of what I had also been through) put her under anesthesia and inserted a feeding tube in her esophagus to make it easier for me to feed her and medicate her.

It has now been almost 2 weeks.  Gray Lady has slowly improved each day.  It has been a nightmare.  Every sign of something positive just lights me up!  She was becoming jaundice, but now her color is back.  She just started eating a little bit on her own YESTERDAY!  She seems more alert and “almost” picked up her tail when I brushed her back.  I am very hopeful that she will survive.  Please say a prayer for this beautiful kitty.  She has been through many of her 9 lives in her short life.

If anyone wants to donate, we NEED money.  Caretakers have given, neighbors have given, but a lot of our old donors have stopped giving since we moved.  I don’t know why since the work continues every single day and there is no bottom to that bucket.  Thank you all for helping with the bills for all these cats including Gray Lady (more news to come………this is just the beginning of what I have been doing).

For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab rescue facility to meet this kitty, please email FURR’s President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to the Wilmington/Hampstead, NC and surrounding area only and to approved homes.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.

July 2021 – Holly tells her story!

December 1, 2021 Holly is adopted! Details soon!

I was rescued from living in the woods! A person saw me coming up to their house in the middle of the night on their security camera! They put food out for me and I was HUNGRY and skinny and thirsty! Soooooooooo, I came back and the person got me! I was put in a kennel and FURR was called! FURR took me and as soon as I started getting lots of LOVE, I turned into mush! I am so sweet that you wouldn’t believe it! I will start purring as soon as you look at me! I am a beautiful buff/orange tabby girl with lots of white! I just LOVE to be petted and held! FURR has had me completely vetted including my spay surgery, blood tests, shots, etc. I am just the most humble kitten ever and I really want a family! FURR thinks that I am extremely special and I need a “purrfect” home with lots of attention! You won’t be able to help yourself when you meet me………you WILL want me!!!

For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab rescue facility to meet this kitty, please email FURR’s President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to the Charlotte and surrounding area only and to approved homes.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.

2022 Lilac is re-rescued and re-adopted! Check back soon for her adoption story!

April 2021 – Lilac is adopted!

September 2020 – New kitten at FURR! A kitten showed up at the Hampstead colony of cats. I have been trying to catch (trap) it for WEEKS, but it was very feral and would not go near either my regular trap or my drop trap! I stayed out there many nights trying to get it to no avail.

I finally caught it!!! It was really scared and seemed very very anxious to escape. I was amazed at how BEAUTIFUL this kitten was when I got it up close and personal in the trap. I have NO idea who the father is because this kitten is a lynx point/lilac point Siamese mix with BLUE eyes! The kitten is a girl and I have named her “LILAC”. I took her to get fixed, shots, tested, etc., and she has now recovered well.

She is very healthy and low and behold, she LOVES for me to hold her! Once I got her, handled her every day and fed her regularly, she tamed up amazingly fast! This 5 month old kitten is just DROP DEAD gorgeous! I think she is almost ready to be put up for adoption, but I would like her a little more comfortable first. I am sure she will go FAST! She is very very sweet, purrs to beat the band, but runs if I put her down on the floor. As long as I am holding her and petting her, she is very content.

For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab to meet them, please email FURR’s President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to approved homes only in the Hampstead/Wilmington and surrounding area.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.

Hold on to your tissues for this one!

BREVARD was only a kitten herself living a horrible life out on her own when she became pregnant. She was probably about 6 months old when she was looking for a quiet, dark, safe place to give birth. She found an abandoned house in Waxhaw, on Brevard Street, and she snuck in there to have her babies. BREVARD was a feral cat, skin and bones, with no regular food, nutrition, water or care of any kind. She was completely on her own.

BREVARD had her kittens in the abandoned house. That SAME day, contractors showed up at the house ready to demolish part of and rebuild the house. The workers tore off part of the flooring and LOW & BEHOLD, there was BREVARD with her newly born babies!

BREVARD took off, scared to death, and the babies were left alone with umbilical cords still attached. I can’t imagine how BREVARD must have felt; exhausted, hungry and completely overwhelmed at having to abandon her new babies.

One of the contractors looked on the Internet and found my number. He was compassionate about saving the little family. I got the call, but I was in Wilmington at the time. I left Wilmington as fast as I could and told him to please watch out for the new born kittens while I traveled about 4 hours to come and get them. Of course, BREVARD was nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, during my 4 hour trip, another contractor at the site had called animal control. The babies, in his mind, were just a hold up for the work that needed to be done on the house that day. He was not willing to wait 4 hours to have them removed.

Animal Control showed up. The animal control officer took the new born babies. When I called to check in, about half way through my trip, the contractor that had originally contacted me, said that he was sorry, but that the Animal Control guy had taken them. I was just devastated, but continued my trip and immediately called the Animal Control in Wingate. When they answered the phone, they knew the babies that I was speaking from Brevard Streetabout and told me that they had already been euthanized.

Through flooding tears, I knew what I had to do now. I gave Animal Control AND the officer (who I called) a good piece of my mind. They BOTH knew I was in route, but chose death anyway for those innocent babies. Now, I had to save mama!

I set traps every single day at the house. I would wait until the contractors left and then I would go out and set several traps all around the house. I knew mama would be back to find her babies. I sat out there for all hours of the night and I would see mama. She was lurking around and seemed confused. She was slinking down low to the ground trying to find a way inside the house, but she would give up and run away. She came back night after night while I watched in tears from my car. I just couldn’t imagine her pain.

Finally, after TWO weeks, she went into the trap! Thank you GOD!

I took BREVARD straight to the vet to be checked out, get her shots, deworming, spay surgery and to make sure that she was OK after this birthing. The spay surgery helped her milk dry up faster and removed all of those hormones that cause postpartum depression. BREVARD did well through the surgery and came home to FURR to be cared for and loved……….the best we could seeing that she was EXTREMELY scared and confused.

BREVARD lived at FURR for three years. Over the years, she slowly made progress and would let us pet and love on her. She developed several mouth issues including gingivitis and stomatitis. We had to take her back to the vet for several dental appointments, but over time, most of her teeth were pulled and she finally had a healthy mouth. After that, she actually starting eating really well and became ALMOST a little pudgy!

BREVARD was always scared of new people. She got very comfortable with me because she saw me every day, but our FURR volunteers were relentless in working with her and BREVARD became more and more trusting. She finally raised up her back and tail when being scratched, but the possibility of a “real furrever” home was still slim.

BUT! MIRACLES do happen!

An amazing couple, who had adopted 2 cats from FURR years before, called me to say that one of their FURR kitties had passed away. They had adopted CANE KITTY and STEFFAN from FURR several years earlier. I will never, ever, ever, ever forget what Lu & Earl said to me when they came to FURR:

WE WOULD LIKE TO ADOPT 2 KITTIES FROM FURR. WE WANT TO PICK OUT A BEAUTIFUL ONE THAT WE REALLY CONNECT WITH AND WE WOULD LIKE TO RESCUE ONE THAT NEEDS A HOME!

Can you imagine how wonderful those words were to hear? As a rescue person, that just rarely happens. Most adoptions are based on the cat’s looks, personality, age, etc., and hardly ever on the fact that some cats just need a home in the worst way! These cats are NOT the most trusting, the most beautiful or the youngest………….they are the most desperate & deserving ones. So, Earl and Lu took Steffan and Cane Kitty home. Cane Kitty had been rescued by me at Cane Creek Park. I had received a call that there were a bunch of feral cats living out a the park and that campers were feeding them. Someone complained and animal control went out and trapped & killed ALL of the feral cats………all but one that they couldn’t catch. By the time I got the news about these cats, it was too late, but I went out there anyway and sure enough, ONE kitty was left that they couldn’t catch. I waited for days with my special drop trap and finally got her. I can tell you another entire story about Cane Kitty and all that she went through, but the main thing is that she DID get adopted & lived a wonderful life with Earl & Loucinda! Cane Kitty was in her late teens when she passed away.

Now, Lucinda & Earl have taken a second kitty from FURR just because it needed a home! Mike and I drove BREVARD up to Charlotte to her new & furrever home! I cried my eyes out (again!) because of how happy I was for BREVARD!

BREVARD is doing really well and Steffan (their other FURR kitty) has met her a few times. BREVARD is in the perfect home where Lu and Earl are taking a quiet & slow approach to her living with them. Progress is eminent and this couple is amazing! I want to clone them! I am sending a few pictures of BREVARD in her new home. I miss her so much because I spent 3 years taking care of her and she is a part of my heart. I am so grateful that this is a happy ending for this kitty……………there are just no words good enough to thank Lu and Earl for their compassion, care and dedication to these cats. They are the real heros!!!

Isn’t this a wonderful story!

Meet all FURR kitties available for adoption on our Petfinder page!

Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to approved homes only in the Hampstead/Wilmington and surrounding area.

If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.