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  • Foster or Adopt Orange Roughy Today! New Photo!

    Foster or Adopt Orange Roughy Today! New Photo!

    Orange Roughy perching – Aug 2025

    September 2, 2025 See Orange Roughy’s new photo to the left perching in a cat tree.

    It has now been over 3 years since these gorgeous cats, Orange Roughy and his brother Guppy, were rescued. They were just kittens when I trapped & saved them from a seafood production plant that was closing down.

    The kittens had been traumatized, starved & constantly dodging massive tractor trailer trucks & equipment. They were pitiful & barely alive when I finally caught them.

    These 2 brothers have come through a tremendous journey. They are both now healthy & kind, but still very very cautious especially around someone new.

    Orange-Roughy-handsome-face-Aug-2025
    Orange-Roughy-handsome-face-Aug-2025

    We have worked hard to help them gain confidence and feel safe, but no one will adopt them or give them a chance. Most adopters are looking for a “purrfect” cat that will make themselves happy. Im looking for that selfless adopter that wants to save a life or two because that is what paying it forward & rescue work is all about.

    These two beautiful sweet boys need time & love. If you think you have patience & a big heart for the not-so-purrfect cats, give me a call! As soon as you meet these precious souls, your heart will tell you what to do.

    I feel so sorry for these cats after so many rescues have come & gone and they still wait for a chance of a home.

    “Orange Roughy” is the big, beautiful long haired orange boy and “Guppy” is his gorgeous orange & white brother.

    Orange-Roughy-posing-Aug-2025
    Orange-Roughy-posing-Aug-2025

    I pray for them every day. I know their angel adopter is out there somewhere!

    Terry >^,,^<

    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.

  • Foster or Adopt Guppy Today! New photos!

    Foster or Adopt Guppy Today! New photos!

    Handsome Guppy – Sept 2025

    September 2, 2025 It has now been over 3 years since these gorgeous cats, Guppy and his brother Orange Roughy, were rescued. They were just kittens when I trapped & saved them from a seafood production plant that was closing down.

    The kittens had been traumatized, starved & constantly dodging massive tractor trailer trucks & equipment. They were pitiful & barely alive when I finally caught them.

    These 2 brothers have come through a tremendous journey. They are both now healthy & kind, but still very very cautious especially around someone new.

    We have worked hard to help them gain confidence and feel safe, but no one will adopt them or give them a chance. Most adopters are looking for a “purrfect” cat that will make themselves happy. Im looking for that selfless adopter that wants to save a life or two because that is what paying it forward & rescue work is all about.

    These two beautiful sweet boys need time & love. If you think you have patience & a big heart for the not-so-purrfect cats, give me a call! As soon as you meet these precious souls, your heart will tell you what to do.

    Shrimp (L) and Guppy (R) – Aug 2025

    I feel so sorry for these cats after so many rescues have come & gone and they still wait for a chance of a home.

    Orange Roughy” is the big, beautiful long haired orange boy and “Guppy” is his gorgeous orange & white brother.

    Guppy has another sweet friend, Shrimp, shown together at the left.

    I pray for them every day. I know their angel adopter is out there somewhere!

    Terry >^,,^<

    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.

  • Foster or Adopt Bumble Bee Today! New Photo! Video too!

    Foster or Adopt Bumble Bee Today! New Photo! Video too!

    Bumble Bee April 2024
    Bumble Bee

    August 2025 See her new feature photo above! Video below! 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.

    Sept. 7, 2024 Meet adorable me in my new video!

    April 13, 2024 My name is “BUMBLE BEE” and FURR rescued me from a terrible situation!  My BIG bright eyes look just like a bee and my colors too!  I am no bigger than a football and have quite a silly/sassy personality!  After I get to know someone who is sweet and gentle with me, I follow them all around meowing and sticking my tail straight up in the air! 

    I’m only between 1 and 2 years old and I love belly rubs.  They tell me that I’ve probably had a litter of kittens before!  I wonder what happened to them?  All I need is a little patience and love to become your little friend!  Come visit me soon.  I would probably prefer no dogs or loud children, but I do just fine with other cats.  If they bother me, I just give them a pop with my paw, but no claws!  Call me “Bee” for short!!!

    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.

  • Foster or Adopt Shells Today! New Photo

    Foster or Adopt Shells Today! New Photo

    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.

    Shells - Jan 2023
    Shells – Jan 2023

    February 2023 Shells is still available and Puffer is adopted in Feb 2023!

    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!

    Meet all FURR kitties available for adoption on PetFinder!

    Shells & Puffer - Jan 2023
    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 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.

  • FURR’s Valentine’s Day Fundraiser!

    FURR’s Valentine’s Day Fundraiser!

    They need us, and we are confident that with your help, we’ll save more…

    Oscar and Emmy April 2024
    Oscar and Emmy April 2024
    Tux Walking - Nov 2024
    Tux Walking – Nov 2024
    February 2025 – Show your love for kitties for Valentine’s Day by making a secure and easy donation on FURR’s GIVINGGRID – just click on the blue Donate button!


    Why donate to FURR? If we can get enough people to give us a small donation, we can rescue and care for more cats and kittens urgently in need and prepare them for a FURR-ever home, like Oscar & Tony, bonded brothers, and sweet, handsome Tux, one of our special needs kitties!

    Meet all FURR kitties available for adoption on PetFinder!  

    While we are so grateful to our community of supporters for helping FURR survive this long, we are continuing to struggle and unfortunately moving backwards in terms of our expenses versus our donations due to several rescues this year where the kitties needed expensive veterinary care, such as the kitties rescued from living near an Advance Auto store. We don’t know how much longer we can sustain this trend, but we can’t stop saving the FURR kitties! Our work is too important, so we are asking for your help to make ends meet.

    If you’re not in a position to donate, you can also help by sharing FURR’s GIVINGGRID with others you think might want to help too. You can also share FURR’s facebook page!
    Somehow, we always find a way to make it through for the benefit of all our precious kitties. Sometimes it almost seems impossible and we look back and wonder how we got by. Then we remember, our miracle is you! Thank you for helping us!
    What to know about FURR? Feline Urgent Rescue and Rehab (FURR) was founded in 2009 by Terry Schultz and to this day, 100% of her time is devoted to rescuing and rehabilitating stray and feral cats and kittens. Your donation supports our “no kill” shelter, a cage free facility, the FURR Lodge, which is a safe haven for cats and kittens to temporarily reside, recover and become adorable, loving pets ready for FURRever homes.

    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.

    PO Box 1430
    Hampstead, NC 28443
    UNITED STATES

  • See our new sanctuary – “Care & Comfort” Donations still needed

    See our new sanctuary – “Care & Comfort” Donations still needed

    Please Donate from our Wishlist to see all the latest requests for helping happy, healthy kitties in our new sanctuary!

    New Gazebo in FURR Facility Yard 10-25-2024

    October 29, 2024 Last week I personally paid to have a very large, but very old, gazebo moved from my home to the FURR Ferals’ facility!

    New Gazebo kitties love 10-25-2024

    I thought they might like it and we rarely used it.

    Well, I was right!  The FURR FERALS play  on it and enjoy it every day!  I’m so happy that it gives them another fun thing to do!


    New Sanctuary – April 2024

    September 2024 Learn how to Donate a Kuranda Bed! We’ve also updated our Wishlist with many things our kitties need that are inexpensive household items!

    We appreciate the generous donations we’ve recently received to help supply the new sanctuary’s ongoing needs to feed, vet and house all FURR’s kitties – those ready for adoption (varies between 10-20, sometimes more) and those still in post-rescue rehabilitation (varies between 25-50 kitties).

    July 2024 Many thanks again for your continued support for the new sanctuary as detailed below. We’ve come a long way and donations are still much appreciated!

    June 28, 2024 We still need to raise funds for vetting and moving ferals into our new sanctuary. In our ongoing efforts to ensure we’re using FURR’s resources as efficiently and effectively as possible, this project has been one of our highest priorities in recent months. Now that all FURR kitties are consolidated into one location, we need to replenish the funds we had for day-to-day care and feeding that were re-directed for this special project. Terry & Team are now able to devote much more time and resources to caring for kitties in the new sanctuary.

    Salmon – FURR Feral 06/2024

    June 24, 2024 ALL OF THE FURR FERALS HAVE BEEN MOVED into our new sanctuary, shown here!  Many thanks to my sister, Fran, for helping me many mornings catching these cats.  Many were already trap savvy and she had to help me net them.  It was stressful for all of us.  We hate upsetting the cats and it was truly a test of our tough love. Every cat was re-vetted and I took one or two cats to Sound Cat every day for almost 3 weeks! Each cat was examined, got updated shots and treatment for fleas/worms.  I have a HUGE respect for the Sound Cat vet’s, techs and staff!  They were so patient and wonderful to help me with this project.  I’m glad it’s over!

    Ferals in New Sanctuary – 6-13-24

    These FURR FERALS from Atlantic Seafood seem to be settling in to their new sanctuary home pretty well but all still scared and confused after being trapped again (or netted). Ninety-five percent of the Atlantic Seafood cats are black with a white spot on their chest. There are also 5 torties, 1 siamese, 1 orange and 2 gray striped tabbies.  All the rest are black and beautiful.

    Ferals in New Sanctuary – 6-13-24

    This building and property has been my project for over a year now.  There is a lot more room for the cats inside the building and outside in a fenced in area. The cats will stay contained in the building (which is cooled and heated) for at least 30 days.  After that, hopefully they will understand that this is their new home. I did install security cameras all over the place so I can monitor the cats inside and eventually outside. Even though the cats have a lot more room, they are still cuddling up together in one of the three lofts I made for them up high!

    Please know that dropping off cats, or any animals, is a felony.  FURR FERALS is at FULL CAPACITY, has NO volunteers (only me 7 days a week and twice a day) and is struggling financially.


    4 Successful Dental Surgeries after Generous Donation

    Tang Fish – 06/2024
    Trigger Fish (formerly Blue Fish) – 06/2024
    Algae –
    06/2024
    Autumn –
    04-2024

    July 15, 2024 Good news – All 4 dentals are done! Tang’s dental surgery was successful after treating infection, broken teeth (28 teeth removed), abscesses and fire engine red gums! Algae’s dental surgery on July 9 was also successful after treating an infected mouth removing 24 teeth! They will both soon be healed and enjoying pain free mouths! Trigger Fish’s dental was successfully done July 8 and Autumn is also feeling much better after her dental surgery in May.

    Salmon, shown in the section above about the new sanctuary, also had a horrible mouth and needed teeth pulled, and so now thankfully has had successful dental surgery on July 16.

    June 28, 2024 Wonderful news! Thanks to a very generous donor, we can now plan for the dental surgeries for the 4 feral kitties urgently in need, including Tang Fish! Recently, a family adopted another older FURR kitty that had undergone an urgently needed full mouth dental extraction that FURR paid for when the kitty was rescued. So this kitty’s new family kindly wants to “Pay it Forward“!

    This donation pays for these FOUR dental surgeries: TANG FISH, AUTUMN, ALGAE and TRIGGER

    June 24, 2024 A kitty named “TANG FISH” (yes, that’s a fish name and yes, he is an orange kitty) BADLY needs a dental!!! TANG is an older feral and his teeth and gums are so bad that we moved him up on the waiting list! Poor cat! He deserves a happy, pain free life! So, that’s gonna be at least $1,000 for a FULL MOUTH removal of teeth.


    Original Story about the Sanctuary and Dentals Needed

    June 14, 2024 – What’s new at FURR? Two things – Our sanctuary and of course more rescues!

    Terry has worked very hard for over a year to complete the new FURR sanctuary, all the while rescuing more kitties! So now while Terry moves kitties in, please help us raise funds for these urgent needs:

    Vaccinate and move ferals to our new sanctuary – $200 per kitty / $2,400 total:

    • I have re-trapped, or netted, one or two feral cats per day from the holding pen at my house.  It has taken nonstop work and two or more trips to the vet every day.  Each cat is sedated, given updated shots, full exam and treated for fleas/parasites.
    • Two dozen cats have been done so far and moved to their permanent new FURR sanctuary.
    • Each cat costs about $200 including sedation.
    • TWELVE cats left to be trapped, vetted and moved- total cost approx. $2,400

    Multiple dental surgeries needed:

    • Three of the cats need dental work:
      • AUTUMN – FURR ADOPTABLE cat and dental has been done for $800, but we never raised enough money, so this came out of our operating budget.
      • TRIGGER FISH – FURR FERAL is scheduled July 8th FULL MOUTH EXTRACTIONS approx. $1,000 – $1,200
      • ALGAE – FURR FERAL is scheduled for July 9th dental with about 2 or 3 extractions approx. $800

    Food and Litter:

    • We have auto deductions from the checking account every 2 weeks from Chewy for food and litter. 
      • Litter: $350 every 2 weeks = $700 per monthFood: Chewy runs $718 every 2 weeks = $1,436 a month
      • Royal Canin dry food runs us $255 every other month or $128 a month

    Ongoing care:

    • The other expenses FURR encounters are:
      • Vet bills related to each kitty’s rescue and recovery
      • Supplies – gloves, cleaning supplies, dish washing liquid, paper towels, kitty treats, toys, water filters, carrier pads, disinfectants, mopping pads and solution, toilet paper, Feliway refills, air fresheners, scratcher refills and so on and more.

    We currently have $300 in our checking account!

    Thank you for helping us get all the FURR kitties moved into our new sanctuary and to care for them after they’ve survived so much during their rescues and recoveries!

  • Foster or Adopt Percy! New Photo!

    Foster or Adopt Percy! New Photo!

    Percy
    Percy

    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!

    Percy with previous Mom, Carol, in 2023

    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!

    Percy relaxing July 2022

    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.

    Percy napping July 2022

    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.