August 2025 See Buddy’s new feature photo! Sweet boy eagerly awaiting his FURR-ever family!
April 2025 Buddy is still waiting for his FURR-ever home! He is happy, healthy and now loves to be around other cats! He would love to meet you!
October 2023 Watch his video! Buddy is improving every day learning to trust and be loved! He is purring & making biscuits! This gorgeous youngster would LOVE to be an only cat because the other kitties scare him! He is the sweetest fella, but needs a little time and patience to adjust to a new environment! Could you be his new angel??? He surely deserves it! Buddy was rescued underneath the pier at Topsail Beach at Buddy’s restaurant. A good person called me to come save him!
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Buddy
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.
Nov. 7, 2025 For those of you that knew “LOWES” the ferocious feral cat that I trapped, here he is living his best life!
This feral turned friendly kitty was loved by all at FURR & was adopted by my good friends!
Here is my nephew cat sitting LOWES at LOWES’ house showing off his GORGEOUS colors! We miss those head bunts!!!
Sooo happy he is happy!!!
Terry
>^,,^<
May 19, 2025LOWES has been adopted! Soon he’ll be going to a dear friend of mine and I couldn’t be happier! He will be leaving soon! BOY, another one to be REALLY missed!!! This is hard ya’ll !!! Very emotional saying goodbye to these beautiful kitties.
May 14, 2025In this new video, Terry tells Lowes amazing rescue and rehab story!
Lowes on Fox News 3-14-25
March 14, 2025 FURR’s kitty Lowes is featured on a TV News adoption segment!
January 9, 2025 – At the location where I was feeding Advance Auto Mama Kitty for several weeks, I noticed that even when she wasn’t in that area (via her tracking collar) the food was still getting eaten. This is a wooded area in the middle of a VERY busy shopping center where NO cats could live safely.
Lowes enjoying regular meals – March 2025
I observed a few times and got a few clips on my wildlife camera and saw a gray striped kitty eating the food. Of course, as soon as I would approach, it would run. After I finally captured Advance Auto Mama, I kept putting food out for the tabby cat and then I set a trap to save it.
I caught him, no problem, and took him to be neutered and vetted. He had a HUGE face, so knew he was a male kitty. My goal was to put him in with my feral cats after an isolation period. I put him in the master bathroom at FURR to recuperate after his surgery. Overall, he was pretty healthy, but he was thin, COVERED in ticks, tested negative for FIV & FeLV and got all his shots. I did tip his left ear.
Lowes after rescue – Jan 2025
His name is “LOWES”! So, after a week of hurrying his head and shaking in fear, he has started allowing us to rub and scratch him! He has never attempted to hiss, bite or scratch. After a week, he has accepted the fact that he is safe, warm, fed & being cared for.
I don’t think LOWES will go to my sanctuary because he is going to be awesome! He is also GORGEOUS, has a short stout body and a short tail!
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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.
May 19, 2025 PARTY GIRL & ADDIE were both adopted! New volunteer, KATE, took delivery last week!!! It’s a beautiful match & we surely do miss those babies but new mom is fantastic! See picture attached!!!
Addie & Party 10-20-24
October 20, 2024 Meet Addie (shorthair black female shown above) and Party (gray longhair female shown above) in their new video! These sweet sisters are a matched set, full of affection and so happy to finally be safe, snuggly and well fed. Party is the third sibling mentioned in the original story below.
Addie & Toto 9-9-24
September 23, 2024 UPDATE ON MAMA CAT & 2 BABIES RESCUED! The mama cat and 2 babies that I trapped that were living behind Advance Auto in Hampstead are doing OK. They were living in and out of the dumpster. I would see them on my way home from FURR at night and with NO other rescue interested in saving feral cats, I just had to save them, I have so many black shorthair cats.
The cat family was starving and living very close to Hwy. 17! Surely they would die soon from starvation, parasites, disease, cars or coyotes. They really didn’t have a chance to survive there.
Mama (see below) is very feral. I can barely pet her while she is hissing at me. I took her to Sound Cat, our vet, to be spayed, shots, microchipped, etc. She recovered in a cage at FURR for a week and then I moved her out to our sanctuary. She has a slight head tilt, so I can always know which one she is. The vet said this could be from head trauma or from being hit by a car, etc. Who knows, but she is eating and pooping normally.
The 2 kittens went to the vet for exam and 1st shots. They are TERRIFIED. They are 2 little girls about 12 weeks old, but the smaller one, “TOTO” is way underweight and REALLY feral. The larger kitten, “Addie” is a little less scared.
Doc Rockwell informed me that TOTO has cataracts! We don’t know how much she can see which may be part of her fear. I need to schedule an appointment with the animal eye specialist to see if TOTO can be helped at all.
I’m syringe feeding them because they don’t want to eat. Meanwhile, they are safe at FURR and I’m doing my best to care for them.
I’m really scared there may be more siblings, so I’m setting traps every am and pm keeping a close watch just in case.
Little Mama 09-01-24
September 1, 2024Watch this video of this little kitty mama finally enjoying some good food along with Terry’s encouragement. Here is their story …
I saw a cat and babies a couple weeks ago in a Hampstead store parking lot. You can imagine my thoughts of horrible things happening to them.
I put out food and water and went back every night to feed them, while wondering why I am the ONLY person that sees these things! They seemed to disappear after a couple of days, but I still kept putting food and water out every night.
Yesterday, I joined my husband and friends for dinner before a final check on FURR for the night. It was about 11:30 pm when we were on the way home and the Mom and babies were in the parking lot scrounging around the dumpsters. I went back to FURR to get traps and I waited until I caught mom and 1 baby!
Tonight, I got a second baby and I do believe there is a third. I’ll be back again tomorrow night to try for the last kitten. I feel so bad knowing it’s all alone out there!
Mom is VERY tiny and probably no more than 6 months old. The babies are probably around 3-4 months old. They are all black and otherwise just skin and bones – literally starving. I also managed to get flea/worm medicine on all three.
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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.
This precious kitty, Yardley, was DUMPED at a scrap yard & FURR rescued her! What a great rescue! This sweet & docile little girl is so easy going. She loves all the other cats & is a favorite at our rescue. She is such a unique-looking tabby girl with all her crazy spots & stripes….quite soft & beautiful! At only a year old, she still plays like a kitten. She is ready for a new adventure with a family of her own. Pleeeease come and meet her! You will fall in love! If you happen to want TWO kitties, she has several close friends ready for adoption also!!!
August 2025 New photo above! Sweet Yardley (female, tabby) is full of life and love! She’s more than ready for their FURR-ever home! Arrange to meet her today by contacting FURR at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.
Scrappy and Mom at new home 3-11-25
March 12, 2025 Great news! Scrappy (male, black) has been adopted! This sweeeeet boy was DUMPED at scrap yard along with his sister. He was skinny and didn’t really know what was happening to him, but he (and his sister) was rescued by FURR!
SCRAPPY quickly became a favorite lover boy at our rescue. He was so gentle and kind even though he was unsure about his future. He trusted us and became a gorgeous, shiny golden eyed boy!
Scrappy happily posing – Oct 2024
My niece has adopted him so that keeps him in my family! I’m so happy for her and Scrappy! He is doing really great right off the bat!
Her long-term roommate has an orange male kitty the exact same age as Scrappy! Gradually they will meet and hopefully be able to play together! Right now Scrappy is making air biscuits, purring up a storm and loving all the attention he is getting! HOORAY for a black cat adoption!!!
October 19, 2024 Scrappy is a beautiful, SWEET, adorable, big-eyed, BOY!!! See his new photo on the right. Yardley is also friendly and purrs when you hold her!
Poor skinny, scared Yardley soon after rescue – July 2024
Who will LOVE one or both of these babies for life??? Someone LUCKY, LUCKY, LUCKY!!!
July 24, 2024 Kristy, a FURR Volunteer, notified me about some cats living in a junk yard in Burgaw, NC, near Wilmington.
Scrappy-L-Yardley-R-July-2024
Watch videos of Scrappy and Yardley at FURR on August 13, 2024!
She met the man that owns it and took some food for the poor skinny cats. There is a mama cat, 2 male cats and 2 kittens.
With Kristy’s help, we trapped the 2 kittens and took them to the Cape Fear S/N clinic last week. My intention was to get them fixed, shots, etc., and release them again. However, the kittens are young and sooo skinny! They are about 10-12 weeks old. I have had them recovering at my feral cat sanctuary.
The 2 kittens are “Yardley”, a female Domestic Short Hair gray tabby, and “Scrappy”, a male Domestic Short Hair with black fur.
They started out scared to death and eyes bigger than saucers. Now, a week later, they seem glad to see me, I’m petting and holding both of them and they are purring! They will be moved up to the house, and join Connor, after quarantine.
Another rescue group is helping me TNR the mama and other 2 male cats. The sad part is that the mama tabby is really skittish, but wants love. She could easily be tamed and adopted out, but I just don’t have any room at this time.
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.
August 2025 New photo above! This sweet, pretty kitty is full of life and love! She’s more than ready for their FURR-ever home! Arrange to meet her today by contacting FURR at adoptafurrcat@gmail.com.
January 2023 FURR has rescued this gorgeous feral kitten! Terry trapped at her “seafood colony”. She and her brother, Puffer, both need a foster home/homes with someone who can spend a lot of time holding and petting them. They are approximately 4 months old:
Shells is a sweet girl with short hair and lovely dilute gray tortie coloring.
Puffer, Shell’s male sibling, has long hair black kitten with an amazing silver mane!
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Shells (left) & Puffer (right) – Jan 2023
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 adoptthis 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.
January 16, 2025 Our FURR Facebook has been maintained for SEVERAL years by Christa Ramos! Christa’s mom used to volunteer for me in Charlotte (Waxhaw) when we used to live there.
Sandy (Christa’s mom) knew how desperate I was to find someone to do FB for FURR & so she asked her daughter, Christa, to donate it. Christa agreed & has been doing our FB posts for a long time!
What you don’t know is that Christa took on this task along with her full time job, family to take care of, many pets of her own to care for AND also helping dog rescue groups!
We have found someone locally that has agreed to do our FURR FB & finally relieve Christa of that burden. Christa also lives out of the state, so she’s never even been in our area!
Bonnie has agreed to take on FURR FB & we are thrilled to have her helping us!
But, I don’t want to understate the huge gratitude we owe to Christa for the years of hard work she did for us!!!
Thank you Christa for everything I know you had to sacrifice to add another responsibility to your plate! We are so thankful for your efforts & will never forget you! Best wishes & happy 2025 to you Christa & your family (and beautiful mom, Sandy).
Christa is slowly transitioning FB over to Bonnie. Here’s hoping 2025 will be a record year for adoptions, donations & volunteers! It takes a village!
THANK U CHRISTA & BONNIE!!!
TERRY >^,,^<
December 19, 2024 Wanted to send a out a BIG THANK U to a couple of FURR volunteers that have gone above & beyond to help me & the kitties!!!
Laura & Patti helped me with the FURR Christmas cards! It’s a big job every December and takes a lot of volunteer hours! I arrange, order & pay for the cards. Then I get return envelopes & inserts ready. Patti & Laura folded, stuffed & stamped nearly 1,000 cards! Then I finish them up, seal & mail them. The Christmas cards are our biggest fundraiser of the year. We have to get $1,500 to start to cover our costs before we make a profit for the kitties! Keep your fingers crossed that we have good donations!
Next I want to thank Karlin, who put in EIGHT hours of community service hours for her employer & did it all at FURR! She scrubbed & steam cleaned the floors & Elizabeth helped us get better organized. Thank you Karlin for doing this hard work. It was really needed! Thank u Elizabeth for helping her!!!
It takes a village!
Terry
Michelle with Hayden March-2019
November 24, 2024 Want to extend a BIG THANK YOU to a couple of folks behind the scenes @ FURR! Without these hard working volunteers, we could not survive!
Michelle Rivers in Charlotte, NC FURR’s Vice President is not seen, but is all around us! Michelle runs the FURR web site! She updates it, upgrades it when needed, works closely with our developer and does am amazing job! Hers is not easy and she “tries” to keep me in the loop whenever she can tie me down…LOL.
Now that I am no longer an office worker, I don’t want to know anything more about computers, electronics or business. Just leave me in the field to trap & save cats! Michelle also registers all of our microchips for our cats. She does many other things as well to help FURR, such as putting the adoptable cats on Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet! Without her I don’t know how I would make it. THANK YOU MICHELLE for the love & support for the rescued FURR kitties!!!
Next, but not least, is CHRISTA!!! NY – FURR FACEBOOK!!! Christa also helps with fundraisers on FB to help keep the funds coming in! THANK YOU CHRISTA for all you do for the FURR kitties!!!
Elizabeth & Connor kitty – July 2024
October 29, 2024 THANK U ELIZABETH for taking a few minutes out of your busy days to visit and work with the FURR cats several times a week! This has made a HUGE difference in how quickly the shy cats are responding, not just to me, but to Elizabeth also which helps when new people come to visit. There are several cats that have made a lot of progress just having Elizabeth and me both working with them every day:
Thank you Christa for all your hours spent helping to get our stories out on social media! Christa is not even in the area, but posts all of our news, adoptable cats & announcements. This is a REALLY important part of reaching the public so that they know who FURR is and how to help, adopt or donate!
All of these cats were very shy & have made a huge step forward in their trust of humans!
Buddy, Toto, Cuttle Fish, Spot, Finny & Guppy are still a challenge….
The rest are beyond ready to leave FURR & get adopted! I am really struggling with why we still have these amazing black cats!
I am saddened every night I leave FURR because Oscar & Tony SCREAM for me NOT to leave them & I’m very emotional about these beautiful boys! They deserve MORE & are the best kitties ever!!! WHY??????
PLEASE HELP ME find them a home! They are truly loving, playful, healthy & GORGEOUS boys!!!
New Vacuum 10-26-2024
Next, thanks to Elizabeth for making contact with various companies on FURR’s behalf to see what we can get! She was able to get Chewy to donate FOOD & A NEW VACUUM! Way cool Elizabeth!
She has also contacted Land Rover, Wilmington, to see about their commitment to animal rescue & also other companies.
These are the things I just don’t have time to do & GREATLY appreciate anyone to help with! These are so many opportunities out there to help the cats that only takes some time & research. Thank u Elizabeth!
Sept. 23, 2024 Thanks so much to our volunteers who keep our kitties healthy and happy! But we still need several more in order to have adequate coverage and eliminate “double shifts”!
August 7, 2024 Update – We are thrilled to introduce a new volunteer, but several more are still needed!
First, please welcome Elizabeth, our new Kitty Happy Hour (KHH) volunteer! Elizabeth moved to Hampstead only a couple of months ago and literally lives about a block from FURR! She, and her son Cam, did volunteer work before and we are THRILLED to have them at FURR!
Elizabeth has been coming at least twice a week for KHH and it is already making a huge difference in the cats’ level of trust with strangers. Now, we have 2 KHH folks: Patti & Elizabeth!
With that said, I am currently doing 28 shifts a week after tomorrow. I am hanging in there, but I’m exhausted, so we need help in the worst way. Please try to recruit your kitty-loving friends, family, neighbors and anyone that might be able to spare a few hours a week.
While the job requirements are simple and few – volunteers MUST love cats unconditionally, have a good work ethic and dependability – the time they spend with FURR kitties is richly rewarding for both themselves and FURR kitties!
July 10, 2024 We need volunteers! Please consider giving back to the community by helping FURR cats!
All of the FURR rescues came from your local community, in and around Wilmington and Hampstead, NC. Most of the rescued cats came from the old Atlantic Seafood fish plant that was torn down this year.
Read the amazing story of how FURR rescued over SEVENTY cats from this abandoned set of buildings. It took over a year to catch all of the cats, get them all vetted & paid for. A lot of the cats, and all of kittens, have been adopted, but most of them are still being cared for and fed by FURR at their new safe sanctuary. We need volunteers to help us with the cats ready for adoption and the feral cats in our care.
Terry urgently needs volunteers to help with a variety of activities such as taking care of kitties (feeding, letter boxes, etc.), administrative tasks or petting and playing with them during “Kitty Happy Hour” to help socialize them for their future FURR-ever family life!
March 31, 2025Our Yard sale yesterday was a great success, raising much needed funds to help care for FURR Kitties! We had a great crowd and many people found multiple treasures and extreme value!
Thank you so much to all those who donated so much – great clothes, furniture, housewares, books, decorative items, outdoor gear and more! Many thanks as well to all our customers who stood in long lines to collect their treasures. Thanks as well to all the FURR Volunteers who worked VERY hard on the day of the event and of course for many long days and late nights for weeks on end ahead of this event to deliver, clean and organize everything!
March 20, 2025 FURR is having a HUGE Indoor Yard Sale on Sunday afternoon, March 30, 2025!
We’ll have a wide selection of gently used items including small furniture, clothing, toys, books & much more!
Enter a Raffle to win one of several donated gift baskets!
February 2, 2025 Our tiny little fluff ball, CHARLIE, went to her new home yesterday! A very nice fella took this little stuffed animal kitty! He just loves her and you can see that she loves him too! It’s adorable!
This gorgeous kitty has been overlooked for way too long because she is shy! But this is a match made in Heaven and her new owner just thinks she’s great! It really was meant to be.
CHARLIE (is a girl) and she is the LAST cat to be finally placed out of a colony at a former Seafood facility that I rescued at Surf City! It took two years, lots of taming time and lots of funding to support and care for all these cats. Now, the last one has been adopted and I’m so happy for her!
The couple that alerted me to all if these feral cats named all of them. Charlie was thought to be a boy, but was not! I think her owner likes the name anyway!
Blessings to Charlie and her future with Ryan! She’s one of the most adorable cats I have ever rescued!
July 16, 2024 Good news! Charlie is recovering from successful dental surgery today! BLESS her heart! Her mouth was WAY worse than I thought and she had EVERY tooth pulled!!! I am sure this will make her so much happier and pain free! Poor little thing! She’ll soon be healed and feeling much better about eating and life in general!
Nov. 12, 2023 Meet Charlie inher new video! She is the LAST kitty left from my colony rescue at Topsail Beach. She was completely traumatized when rescued and I was told by the caretakers that she witnessed her brother killed by a coyote.
Charlie is such a petite little girl and just needs LOVE!!! barely weighing 5 lbs., she’s like a fuzzy stuffed animal that you just want to cuddle!
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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.
April 28, 2025 Wonderful news! CRAPPIE is adopted! Last week I took CRAPPIE to her new home! The adopter is a veterinarian & super sweet! She LOVES our sweet little CRAPPIE! Crappie traveled great in the car looking around & never made a peep.
After CRAPPIE got adopted a few months ago & returned after only a few days, I am thrilled that this home will be so much better for her! The vet is a beautiful petite little lady just like CRAPPIE! She understands that in a new home, you have to be patient with a new kitty! She also has a dog & I loaned her my baby gate to make the intro to the dog go smoothly.
Crappie’s new mom tells me that she is eating, using her litter box & purring up a storm! She will be a little shy for a while, but considering all she has been through, the reports that I am getting sound great!
This poor little kitty was rescued at the Atlantic Seafood production plant along with at least 60+ other cats. Crappie was skin & bones & was already blind in one eye. It’s a miracle that she survived long enough for me to save her!
I’m so happy right now for this special little kitty & for the special lady that adopted her!!!
Crappie Jan 2025
January 24, 2025 My name is CRAPPIE, like the fish! Meet me in this video! I was rescued used by FURR at the Atlantic Seafood plant in Hampstead. That plant was torn down & I was saved along with about 70 other relatives of mine!
I’m just a tiny little girl, a couple years old and I am VERY SPECIAL because I am blind in one eye.
I do just fine with one eye & I never feel sorry for myself! It’s hard for me to understand why I am still up for adoption? I guess folks want “purrfect” cats? BUT, I am so adorable, sweet & tiny. My little upside down smile gives me that funny “Grumpy Cat” look! LOL!
Please come & visit me! I really don’t see how you could meet me & not love me!
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.
