December 2022 – Good News! Payton is adopted! Check back soon for the story!
July 2022 I am a STUNNING chatty girl that loves to play and be adventurous! I think my markings are precious like me! Please come meet me and see! I am fully vetted and ready for my new humans to take me home! You won’t find a prettier girl with all of my stripes & white! I have really cool siblings too and we all play together and have a really great time! I was born at the rescue because my mama was pregnant with us when saved from Bojangles!
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 approved homes in the Wilmington/Hampstead NC and surrounding areas.
If you are not ready to adopt a kitty, please consider fostering or sponsoring. All donations are tax deductible.
October 2022 Carbon is adopted again to a wonderful FURR family!
Carbon with new Mom Vanessa Oct 2022
When Mike saw a black cat walking around in our back yard, 1+ years ago, he yelled to me that our “Johnny Cash” had gotten out ! Mike flew out the door (it was dark outside) and went to scoop him up.
Once the kitty was in the house & it was obviously a really laid back cat, but he wasn’t our Johnny Cash.
Of course I rescued this “carbon copy” of our cat, and named him Carbon.
He was underweight, no collar, covered in fleas & NOT neutered! BUT, he was quite laid back & seemed to be looking for love & food. I’m not sure which he preferred more.
Carbon happy on his new porch Oct 2022
I checked all around the neighborhood, asked tons of people, posted him on Nextdoor, but to no avail. No one seemed to know how this cat landed in MY backyard. I do have a few guesses…..hmmmm…..cat lady’s house…..good place to discard a cat, right?
It wasn’t long before Carbon got adopted to a retired couple. After all, this was one AMAZING cat! He was beautiful, had a personality to die for and loved to be held. The couple also took another FURR kitty that I had also, so Carbon & Blaze went together! These were two amazingly wonderful cats.
A year later it was now April 2022. The couple called me to tell me they were selling their house & moving out of the country. They wanted to return Carbon & BLAZE! Of course I had a total meltdown & couldn’t believe it. Not only was I already overwhelmed with cats, these were two of the best cats we had ever had. Now they are a year older & homeless! What part of “adoption for life” or “your pet is a family member” don’t they understand! I was furious, disappointed & sad for the cats.
Carbon & look-alike Binx Oct 2022
Thank goodness the couple’s daughter stepped up and took Blaze. Of course, I interviewed her fully. She already had cats & said she could only take in one more. She also actually agreed with me about her parents dumping the cats & leaving the country as being CRAZY! She lived in Florida, so poor Blaze had to be transported all the way to her house. It did work out well and she filled out all the necessary paperwork. Her house is beautiful and she updates me often on how Blaze is doing.
Carbon, bless his heart, had to come back to FURR & be uprooted & thrown back into a room full of cats he didn’t know.
He cried a lot in the first couple of weeks due to sadness, confusion & probably missing Blaze. I did notice that as long as someone was with him, petting him & talking to him, he was fine.
Carbon actually turned out to be everyone’s favorite cat to visit at FURR and my husband & me were no exception.
Low & behold, it didn’t take long for him to get a new and wonderful home! Carbon went to a family that I know all too well. They already have 2 FURR cats and another black cat! I knew this would be a huge blessing for Carbon and I knew this new family would NEVER abandon him!!!
Carbon & new friends Oct 2022
Mike and I were both in tears when Carbon left. I know for a fact that we both wanted to keep him, but with 4 geriatric cats & 1 youngster that almost died, we had our hands (and finances) full.
Remarkably, Carbon adjusted to his new home with no problems whatsoever! He just blended right in and never missed a beat! The family already loves him to pieces and he gets along great with their other 3 cats!
I suppose it was just meant to be. I thank God for that. He is such an amazing cat!
We all miss him at FURR. He was one special kitty who would give u kisses if you scratched his back!
(Blaze is doing well also & his new family loves him too!)
Carbon (bottom) & Blaze (top) April 2022
June 2022 Carbon is once again safe and sound a FURR, eagerly awaiting his next FURRever home!
The Story of Carbon and Blaze
CARBON showed up at my house (go figure) as a VERY sweet UN-Neutered all black male, covered in fleas and begging to come inside. He looked just like my personal cat, Johnny Cash, so I thought somehow Johnny Cash had gotten out, only to find it wasn’t him. So, I named this new arrival Carbon because he was the carbon copy of our kitty!
I tried to find out who owned him, with no luck. I had planned on fixing him anyway before turning him back over to the owners, but no one ever claimed him. Carbon was super sweet and fit in with the overloaded number of FURR cats just fine.
BLAZE was one of the kittens that I rescued behind a medical building in Hampstead. I had found a colony of about 25 cats living back there and worked all summer to trap all of them, including several kittens. All of them were fixed, I kept as many as I could (I kept all the kittens) and returned about 12 to the site. The caretaker had been feeding them and making shelters, but needed my help in trapping and fixing all of them. It was a huge job. Blaze was tiny, with no mom, along with his siblings I kept the kittens in my bathroom until they could be fixed and adopted out.
April 2022 previous owners notify FURR they are moving
The couple called me recently to say they had sold their house and were moving out of the country and so could not take the kitties with them. Their daughter, who lives in Florida, agreed to take Blaze. However she cannot take both kitties, which is why Carbon desperately needs a temporary foster home!
Carbon is a lovely, sweet kitty, about 2 years old, very personable and I really have no where to put him. Please ask anyone you know about fostering for a few months while I try to find him another home. I think he is stressed about all the packing and moving, so I would love to find a foster home for him where he can be in a quiet and loving place. He is well worth it! If I had not had my Johnny Cash kitty, I would have kept him for myself.
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 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.
June 2022 – Sand Fiddler, Bossie and Mouse are adopted! Check back soon for their adoption stories.
April 2022Sand Fiddler (shown above) is an adorable VERY unique colored gray tortie female, a young teenager who is EXTREMELY playful and sweet! She is a teensy shy at first, but it doesn’t last long if you shake the cookie box! This silly little girl loves other kitties and wants to run and play all day!
Bossie – April 2022
April 2022 In Bossie’s “own words” – I came to FURR already named but no one can figure out why! I’m completely adorable and as friendly as can be! I was an inoor kitty with my brother, Mouse, and our family was evicted. Everyone left us alone and FURR found us outside and hiding underneath the house! I ran up to the nice lady at FURR and she took us in! I am only years young and QUITE beautiful with my stripes, tri-colors, and white feet! You won’t find a better people kitty than me! I come fully vetted and full of love to give… and I promise I’m not bossy at all!
Mouse – April 2022
April 2022 In Mouse’s “own words” – I am a talker! I get SOOO excited when somebody wants to pet me! I am a teensy shy, but as soon as you start talking sweet to me I express my joy with loud meows! I am as friendly as can be especially considering what I have been through, as you can read in my sister Bossie’s story above.
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.
Gracie shaved for injections to hopefully save her life March 2022
June 2022 – Good News! Gracie survived FIP (see her story below) and now Terry, FURR’s President and Founder, is adopting her!
March 2022 – Please go to our Go Fund Me page to help meet several urgent needs described below!
The little rescued kitten named “GRACIE” who came from a colony I saved at Topsail Beach has been sick. I took her to the vet in December for just being lethargic and she was running a low grade fever. Her fever, despite antibiotics and other treatments, stayed for several weeks. I had to medicate her, give her fluids, monitor her, hand feed her, weigh her often and spent many hours taking her back and forth to the vet with no resolution in site.
After about a month of nonstop care (I had put her in my personal bathroom to care for her round the clock), she was no better. I took her in to be euthanized since I could not stand to see her suffer any further, losing weight, not wanting to eat and becoming neurologically unsound in her back end.
Before I took her in to be euthanized, someone reached out to me and gave me a phone number to call suspecting that Gracie had FIP – Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a rare disease that is very difficult to diagnosis and treat. I called the person and rushed Gracie to see the person at 10 pm one night. The medicine that I purchased is not approved by the FDA and cannot be obtained by a vet. The medicine has been proven to cure FIP in China, but not in the US. I didn’t have anything to lose, since she was dying, so I bought the medicine.
Within one day of getting the medicine, GRACIE’s fever broke. She immediately started eating. Within a week, she was walking normally and feeling a whole lot better. With a long way to go still, I needed to continue the medicine every day for 84 days. I have managed to buy the medicine with just barely enough in the FURR account to keep her going……….
However, she needs 2 more weeks of medicine and we have run out of money. The medicine runs about $1,000 every two weeks, so you can imagine how this has but a huge strain on FURR.
I thank the people who have given to help save her: my parents, her caretakers when she was living in the woods (before FURR was able to rescue her), and other donors who have given recently. Without those funds, she would have died.
Please pass along the word that FURR is desperate for funding for Gracie, Mama Google and other expenses. Thank you all for caring and prayers always help!
Learn how to adopt this kitty! FURR adopts to the Hampstead/Wilmington, 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.
December 2025 – I noticed the other week that SHRIMP had horrible breath! That can be a sign of mouth infection & bad teeth/gums. I looked in her mouth & could see she had dental problems. I got her in to Sound Cat for a dental. Luckily they had an opening and she went yesterday.
$1,300 later, most of her teeth had been pulled! She will surely feel better after healing up from the surgery. Poor thing!
SHRIMP’S brother, RED FISH, also had a dental, with most teeth pulled, about a month ago. I guess it’s genetic plus bad nutrition before being rescued.
These dental surgeries are necessary not only because of the infection from broken or bad teeth/gums, but also to relieve pain.
Pictures of RED FISH & SHRIMP. Both siblings still waiting for a home this Christmas!
Red Fish – Aug 2025Shrimp – Aug 2025
November 2025 – Watch this adorable video of Red Fish hoping for a FURR-ever home for Christmas!
September 2025 – More great photos of Shrimp and Red Fish! They’ll be so happy to have a FURR-ever home. Learn more about their amazing story below.
May 19, 2025 RED FISH & SHRIMP have come back & are in Room 3. They are doing really well considering & need LOTS of gentle love. SHRIMP will hiss at everyone, but she is just scared & you can pet & love on her. RED FISH is super sweet but scared. These poor cats have been gone TWO years & now back at FURR. I love them both & will see to it that their future WILL be better!
April 23, 2023 A wonderful lady named Chris has been fostering Red Fish & Shrimp. I went by a couple days ago to put their Revolution on them, trim their nails & visit.
Chris has done an amazing job with these 2 cats! Considering their horrible beginning at the fish place, they are now loved, cared for and safe in a beautiful home! Chris has been great to take my advice and take it very slowly with them. They have graduated from the large bathroom to include the master bedroom!
These pictures show how great the kitties have progressed. I am so thankful to Chris for spending this valuable time with them!
Feb. 4, 2022 This tiny but colorful girl is longing for someone to love her! She came from a rough place when she was very young, but she has made huge progress and just needs a little reassurance and love! Read her story in the “Seafood Colony” article. She is so soft and loves to be petted and brushed! She is a gently girl and still shy but ready for the next step in her little life. She gets along great with other non-dominant cats that won’t pick on her. If you want a gorgeous, sweet and quiet little cat to love, she is your girl!
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.
Feb. 4, 2022 This gorgeous teen boy is breath taking! he is as sweet as he is beautiful! Emmit has long, super soft fur and although he is shy at first, he is very loving, kind and laid back. Emmitt gets long great with other cats, and just doesn’t have an aggressive bone in his body. Emmit is completely vetted and ready to go. He has lots of kitty friends at FURR is anyone would like to adopt him with a friend!
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.
December 17, 2021 Happy Holidays to all FURR Friends & Family – current and future!
Terry has been working around the clock for the past 2-3 months trapping cats, taking all of them to the S/N clinic, recovering them in my garage (now heated & cooled), taming them or re-releasing them, sending some to Virginia, another to Texas (due to having feline leukemia) and another one to another sanctuary (due to being feline AIDS positive), etc. Haven’t had a spare moment except to take care of all the current cats at FURR.
So for the last 2 full weeks, I stopped trapping to have time to send out 600 FURR Christmas cards to touch base with many adopters, donors, friends & supporters!
Surprisingly, I have been amazed at the folks that have sent me incredibly wonderful adopted kitty updates along with pictures!!! So great to hear success stories of these cats that came from some horrible places to a life of love & happiness!
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.
Feb. 26, 2026 FURR needs FOSTER homes!!! If anyone knows anyone that can take in a cat or two for temp foster, please let me know! We have so many wonderful cats! FURR’s email: adoptafurrcat@gmail.com
Fosters should be prepared to spend time with the cat(s) and able to keep them in a totally separate room.
Please also be prepared to notify me at least 2 weeks in advance if you’re no longer able to continue to fostering! Thank you!
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!
April 2022 – Hooters is adopted! Check back soon for her adoption story!
BIG yellow green eyes are an amazing feature on this adorable sweet, petite kitty!! Hooters looks like an owl with those peepers!! She is a tiny girl, about 2 years old, and just LOVES to be pet, held, and doted on. Hooters is completely vetted and just the sweetest little girl!
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 Hampstead/Wilmington, 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.
