March 2019 – Hissy Fit is adopted! Check back soon for her sweet story!
Amazing mama kitty that was saved just moments before euthanasia at animal control! This mama had so much stress being trapped and turned into animal control while about to BUST with babies! FURR saved her and she had babies only 2 days after coming to our rescue! She had FIVE gorgeous baby boy kittens and all have now been adopted!
While they were still growing up and too young to be adopted, Mama was in a constant state of hissing when anyone approaches her babies, but she purrs to beat the band as soon as you talk sweet to her and start petting her!!! She is quite funny with the hissing and purring almost at the same time!
This young kitty has been through a lot, but she is super sweet, loves to be petted, she will be fully vetted by FURR upon adoption. She is a gorgeous short-haired dilute tortie ONLY about 8 months old! Come and see this amazingly brave kitty!!!
Like all FURR kitties, this kitty is fully vetted with vaccinations and spaying/neutering. The Adoption fee also includes Microchipping to an approved home only.
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.
Have you ever thought of paying it forward? Paying it forward with animals? Animals that need our help and wait and wait for adoption because they are not the prettiest? They are not the youngest or cutest? They are not the ones that are “purrfect” as most people require of their new pets. WE at FURR give these kinds of cats HOPE. We tell them that we known there is a family out there that does not have to have the very BEST cat, but who are willing to rescue a shy kitty that is a little scared, or a kitty that is not the most beautiful, or a kitty that has been waiting for a home for months or YEARS while the cute youngsters get homes right away.
If you feel like you could give a warm and loving home to a less fortunate cat, please email Terry Schultz at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com. We want people like YOU! We LOVE people like you! We know that people like you are few and far between…as these kitties continue to wait and wait and wait. FURR welcomes you to visit their rescue facility in Waxhaw, NC to see if you have what these kitties long for – forever love! forever patience! forever home! Forever GRATEFUL for paying it forward and changing the life of a sad kitty or two. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
All FURR kitties are fully vetted with vaccinations and spaying/neutering. The Adoption fee also includes Microchipping to an approved home only!
UPDATE MAY 2017: CLARISSA IS ADOPTED May 2017! Clarissa is a high spirited fun-loving kitty went to a home that is exactly what she needed! This home had 2 young boys, a couple of dogs and another kitty! This cat is just happy to be in the middle of chaos and this home is just what she needs! The boys will play with her and she will have a huge house to run all around in, up and down the stairs, and even a large basement to play in! We are so happy for this adoption and it is a great fit for CLARRISA!
ORIGINAL ADOPTION STORY
We have rescued beautiful Clarissa! She was definitely in danger being outside, so FURR has taken in the sweet young female kitty. We do believe she was left behind by people who moved away, leaving this poor girl to try to survive all on her own after being a member of their family! Clarissa is a gray tabby and sweet, but a little shy.
For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the FURR lodge to meet this kitty please email Terry at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.
Mary, one of the FURR Volunteers, had called me about 2 more young kitties dumpted at her aunt’s house in Gastonia. I agreed that she could take them in and rescue them as long as she was willing to foster them temporarily until I had room at the lodge. Mary only had the cats a few weeks and FURR had them spayed, tested, shots, etc., but Mary agreed to bring them to the PetSmart weekend. Low and behold, BOTH kitties got adopted!!! Sheba had a million phone calls, but ended up in the perfect home with a wonderful couple that had one young adult cat that is also a lilac point or Siamese mix! Their current kitty is very docile and the couple wanted a friend to keep him company. WELL, it didn’t take long for SHEBA to adjust to her new home & all is absolutely PURRFECT!!! We are so happy for SHEBA and her new home!!!
ORIGINAL ADOPTION STORY
We have rescued beautiful Sheba! She was definitely in danger being outside, so FURR has taken in the sweet young female kitty. We do believe she was left behind by people who moved away, leaving this poor girl to try to survive all on her own after being a member of their family! She is sweet, but a little shy and is a unique looking snow show (Siamese mix).
For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the FURR lodge to meet this kitty please email Terry at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.
UPDATE: MAY 2017: ALL 5 KITTENS ADOPTED! Mama – HISSY FIT – still available!
Hissy Fit’s five boy kittens were ALL adopted during the May 13-14, 2017 PetSmart adoption weekend!!!
Jordan & Donnie’s New Family – May 2017
New Mom Kathryn with Danny, Joey & Johnathan – May-2017
Two of the kittens are going to a wonderful family that already has one older kitty and 2 sweet puppy dogs AND two
older kids! Mom is a realtor and the entire family just loves animals! JORDAN & DONNIE were adopted by this family and these kittens will be able to leave around the 1st of June. As soon as they have their 2nd vet visit and 2nd booster shot, they will be ready to go! Mama Hissy Fit needs to gain some weight and stop nursing all these babies soon! Right now Hissy is spending days in room 7 and nights in with the kittens. I am working on slowing weaning them from her. All is going well, and believe it or not, Hissy just LOVES being in the teenage room (since she is one herself) and she seems so much happier and relaxed in there!!! Please spend time with her if you can! This is a picture of the two older kids adopting JORDAN & DONNIE!!! WISH them all a good life and lots of fun!!!
The other 3 kittens, JOHNATHAN, JOEY & DANNY are being adopted by a former FURR client that already has 2 of our cats…..FERN & MYRTLE!!! Kathryn decided that she really wanted at least ONE kitten, but when she met the gang, she just couldn’t decide between the 3 unadopted kittens, so she decided to take all three!!! Kathryn is a wonderful cat MOM and she is taking wonderful care of FERN & MYRTLE! She tells me that FERN is still very shy, but absolutely gorgeous and totally in love with her senior kitty! MYRTLE is sweet, loving and absolutely stunning! She will now have 6 kitties, but that’s ok for Kathryn! She lives alone and her kitties are her family! She will soon be surrounded with lots of purrs & biscuits!!! Look at this cute picture of Kathryn with her 3 new babies!!! All the kittens should be leaving by the first of June!!!
ORIGINAL ADOPTION STORY
Three weeks ago this coming Saturday (around 4/1), a rescuer friend of mine (Huanita) asked me to foster a feral mama kitty about to POP with kittens. The mama cat had been trapped in Rock Hill and was going to be turned into A/C to be euthanized. She was feral, so no one wanted to deal with her, but I agreed to take her in until she had her babies. Two days after receiving her, she had 5 little boy kittens! The kittens will be 3 weeks old on 4/22/17. They are fat, happy and wanting to play! It has been a joy watching them grow. Thanks to Angela for being here right after they were born to make sure all went well – she was the first one to see them!!!
We have named the 5 boys after the “New Kids on the Block” band, so we have the following:
BUFF KITTEN is “Jonathan”
GRAY TABBY KITTEN is “Donnie”
BLACK KITTEN W/WHITE PAWS is “Danny”
ORANGE TABBY KITTEN is “Joey”
LILAC POINT KITTEN is “Jordan”
These kittens are now available for adoption now, as of mid-April, however they will not be old enough to be ready for delivery to their new families for a few more weeks. If someone is willing to take the Mama Kitty along with one of her babies, we will reduce the adoption fee which is $150 per kitten (which includes all vet work & more!)
The kittens have already graduated to another big container and tomorrow they will graduate again to an even larger container! Before long, they will have run of the entire room & we all know how much fun (and how challenging!) that is! Mama is getting a lot better about being petted. She needs a LOT of loving, petting & reassurance. She is getting sweeter every day and a lot more trusting of us coming into her room!
Like all FURR kitties, these kitties are fully vetted with vaccinations and spaying/neutering by the time they are delivered to their adoptive families. The Adoption fee also includes Microchipping to an approved home only!
For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the FURR lodge to meet this kitty, please email FURR President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.coom.
BIG BOY “JEFFREY” needs a home! This large stately kitty is GORGEOUS with his very soft silver gray fur and his amazing eyes! This kitty is SUPER friendly and is just shy of 20 pounds of “purrage”! He is really attached to ANYONE that will give him the time of day and he will follow you if you try to leave him!
JEFFREY is just recently rescued and is starved for love and attention! This is the kitty that showed up (more than likely dumped!) behind my friend, Donna’s, plastic surgeon’s office in Matthews where she works. I really don’t think he was feral. He hid from her for about 2 weeks before he would come close to her, but she was feeding him every day even though he kept his distance. Finally, he started approaching her and even started rubbing her legs; but he was quite nervous, anxious and worried.
After she got him and brought him to the FURR lodge for rehab, I figured out really quick that he just doesn’t want to be left. He was associating the food coming from her with her leaving. He turned out to be a very kind and gentle cat that just needed to feel secure and loved. He did not want to be alone and he started out running after me when I would go to leave his room. I decided to feed him and stay with him for a long while before leaving. Soon, he stopped trying to bite me and just settled down after eating to take a bath. He worried less and less as I spent more time with him and stayed longer each time.
Now I can pick him up, put him in my lap and rub him lots! This humongous cat is quite threatening looking but deep down inside, he is a very insecure and lonely fellow. Every day he is improving and getting more content. He has slowed down his fast movements and has mellowed out. He now goes into rooms 5 & 6 to hang out. He used to just sit in there with all the other cats while growling the entire time. Now, he hardly growls at all. He is realizing that he is safe, loved quite often, fed LOTS and that the other cats are no threat to him, his food or his safety. He has a good healthy appetite and comes totally vetted, neutered, etc. Jeffrey is about 2 years old, but let’s hope he doesn’t get any bigger! This is a lot of cat to love, so prepare to be head-butted and rubbed on by him! I think this beautiful cat will make a wonderful pet! He truly loves to be loved and just needs time and confidence.
Jeffrey would do best in a household with no other kitties. He has come a long way & pretty much ignores the other cats now, but if they come too close, he will go after them a bit.
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. Meet this big fellow and you will just adore him!
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.
Meet more FURR kitties now available for adoption on PetFinder!
UPDATE MAY 2017: MICKEY IS ADOPTED WITH GABBY (Minnie & Mouse are Still Available) Read all about it!
ORIGINAL ADOPTION POSTING
MICKEY, MOUSE and MINNIE are all sweet beyond words giving head butts and making biscuits for anyone who comes near! MICKEY & Mouse are short haired black & white kitties with really sweet faces!
This little boy was found dumped downtown Charlotte near the Panther Stadium long with his brother Mouse and sister Minnie. A Good Samaritan found them and called FURR. We now have them at our rescue and they are all just precious! They were born around the beginning of July 2016 and all are fully vetted with all shots, blood testing, spay/neuter & microchip! They are a pleasure to have at our rescue and all the volunteers love them, but they would love a “real” home – separately or together!
You should come to meet these sweet kitties & you will fall in love with them too! FURR adopts to approved homes only in the Charlotte and surrounding area! His adoption fee also includes Microchipping to an approved home only!
For adoption information or to schedule a visit to the FURR lodge to meet this kitty, please email FURR President and Founder, Terry Schultz, at adoptafurrcat@gmail.coom.
Update April 2017: SCSK is the last of the ‘Sun City Family’ to find a loving FURRever home. Full story here soon!
SISTA is beyond beautiful! She is the perfect kitty! Watch her video! She is a long-haired tortie with lots of white and she is less than a year old. She was rescued from Sun City Lakes Carolinas along with her three little babies! She learned quickly how much she was loved and now she tells the world about it! SISTA is a talker AND she is a very sweet and loving kitty! She just LOVES attention, petting, brushing and any affection she can get! This is a one-in-a-million kitty that anyone would be privileged to have! Come and meet SISTA at the FURR rescue facility soon and you will FALL IN LOVE WITH HER!!!
SISTA comes already spayed, with all her shots and her blood test for feline aids/leukemia/heart worm disease (negative for all!) and ready for a new chance in life!!! FURR adopts to approved homes only in the Charlotte and surrounding area. FURR’s Adoption fee also includes Microchipping!
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.
Mike loving on Topaz & Abby Grace with Tux – April 2019
Tux & FURR Mannequin
4/30/2019: Tux and Topaz are Adopted together!! Best Friends will now live together in a FURRever home!!!!
This is a tough one for me to type since I feel like these two cats are FAMILY!!! I can’t imagine the lodge without being greeted by TUX every day! He is the lover boy of the century and has been our mascot for the past SEVERAL years!!!
BUT, it is so unfair to keep them at FURR in one little room when there is a family out there that wants them! It took me quite a while to be able to approve of someone “worthy” enough to take these two kitties! I think this is a beautiful and wonderful fit!
The couple that adopted HISSY & PEPE are in love with their two new additions! HISSY & PEPE are doing GREAT and I will send you some pictures in a separate email. During this adoption, I met their daughter (Abby Grace) who was about to graduate from Liberty with her nursing degree. She has already landed a great job in Rock Hill, SC! Abby Grace is graduating this month and then taking a week vacation with her family. When she returns, she will be living with her parents for a year to save money & get her own place. She has a long term boyfriend that I met also and his name is Mike.
When AG and Mike come to FURR to visit Tux & Topaz, Mike has made an amazing connection with Topaz! He brushes her and pets her and she really likes him! It is so wonderful to see her happy! TUX and TOPAZ will live in the upstairs of the house for a while and Hissy and Pepe will live downstairs for a while……..I am sure they will all get along and be fine after a few weeks of adjustment period!
TUX & TOPAZ are leaving on Monday, May 20th. I may need someone to go with me since I will be a total mess leaving them. This is so wonderful for these two cats that have waited SO LONG for a home! It is bittersweet to me & I already cry at the drop of a hat thinking of them being gone from FURR……….
Look at these amazing pictures!!!
Tux’s Original Story
TUX, a big, beautiful and very special boy, was in terrible condition when he was rescued and brought to the FURR facility. He was covered with fleas and parasites, his fur was scruffy, had bald spots, and in addition to other problems his teeth required extensive dental work and several of his nail beds were badly infected. TUX was not only in severe pain, he was also a very shy and frightened boy.
But after months of rehabilitation and tender loving care, he has made a remarkable improvement both physically and mentally, and is now healthy, handsome, loves attention, and interacts well with volunteers and other kitties. He is on a healthy diet and eating up a storm, his coat is clean and shiny, and most importantly, TUX is happy, responsive and playful – he has grown strong, learned not to be afraid anymore, realizes how much he’s loved, and purrs to beat the band when getting attention!
All of us at FURR are so happy to see how much progress this sweet boy has made – not only health wise, but his personality as well. He is not the same shy, sick and depressed kitty who arrived at the facility. But as much as we all love him, we know it is only fair that he has the chance to move on to a caring forever home. If you are looking for a big, beautiful boy, TUX is the kitty for you! Please come to visit him – you will see how he got his name and how gentle he is. We know you will fall in love and hopefully decide to share your love and home with him.
FURR (Feline Urgent Rescue and Rehab), which the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Agency has rated the number one cat rescue facility in a twelve county district, is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to rescue homeless and/or feral cats and prepare them for adoption. Once rescued the cats are brought to the FURR rescue facility where they are fully vetted – spayed/neutered and tested for feline aids, leukemia and heartworm disease, kept up to date with all their shots, and are tamed and socialized in a cage free environment. When ready they are put up for adoption to carefully screened homes only in Charlotte and the surrounding area. FURR’s Adoption fee also includes Microchipping!
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.
