2011 Yard Sale was a big success!!

Thanks to all who came and helped at our Yard Sale last weekend. Special thanks to Muffie and her husband Hutch for running around for five days picking up most of the yard sale items.

Karen Elskin

Welcome and many purrs to potential new FURR volunteers – Helen Higgins and Karen Elskin.

Karen helped us with pricing all day Friday. She did a great job!! Thanks Karen

"The Closer"

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Helen greeted all of our buyers and became known as “The Closer”

She could sell feathers to a duck! Funny to watch.

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Yard Sale this weekend!!

FURR is having a huge yard sale this weekend. Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd. We have over 10 contributors donating items for sale. It will be huge! Bring your friends your neighbors and anyone else you can think of!!

2010 Yard Sale

Welcome to FURR!! Adoptions Available!

In Memory of S'mores

Our goal as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization is to rescue homeless and/or feral cats and prepare them for forever homes.

Founder & Executive Director, Terry Schultz, traps, tames and adopts out these cats and kittens to carefully screened loving homes.  All the cats are fully vetted, spayed, neutered and tested for feline aids and leukemia before adoption.  FURR depends solely on donations to fund its operations.

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR CAUSE!!

Mail Checks to:  FURR, PO Box 1164, Waxhaw, NC 28173

HELP US HELP THE KITTIES IN NEED!!
SAVING THE WORLD ONE KITTY AT A TIME!!

See us on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-m6OCNEt-8

Please Help an Injured Kitty

This lovely kitty is Spice Girl! She is the mom cat of Pepper, Parsley and Paprika (see them below).

Spice Girl is a feral kitty, and before she was rescued with her kittens she suffered an injury that has affected her ability to control her tail. At first glance, her tail looks fine but as you watch her move around you can see that her tail just hangs and she can’t wrap it around herself likes cats normally do. She can’t move her tail at all.

We are not sure how she sustained this injury, but the veterinarian says that there is no possibility of repairing the damage as it appears the tail had been broken and could have neurological damage, and so the tail needs to be amputated.

Chip In to Help pay for Spice Girl’s surgery

Or you can send a check to

F.U.R.R.

PO Box 1164

Waxhaw, NC 28173

Spice Girl needs to have this operation whether she is re-released or tamed and adopted, because the tail could become infected and if she is re-released any number of other things could happen if her tail is just hanging behind her, and ultimately cause her to suffer and die. F.U.R.R. is running low on funds and is asking for your help to pay for Spice Girl’s surgery. The vet estimates the surgery will be about $300 and you can make a contribution on our donation page by clicking here: Feline Urgent Rescue & Rehab We really appreciate any help you can give to Spice Girl. She is already spayed, negative for FIV & FeLV, and her vaccinations are up to date.

Here are Spice Girl’s beautiful kittens…

Pepper

Parsley

Paprika

(you can click on the photos to read more about the kittens on Petfinder)

Marmalade

Ridiculously SWEET orange stripped kitty with white accents, short hair and BIG wide stripes!  Marmalade just LOVES to be loved!!!  Neutered adult male, tested, all shots and ready to go to some new VERY lucky kitty owner!  This cat will wrap his paws around your neck and give you a hug!  He will also give you lots of kisses!  I think he is making up for lost time being lost!!!  Adoption fee $125 to Charlotte and surrounding areas to approved home only!

Salsa

This cute guy was in a drainpipe for 9 days!!! Terry got him out with her net.

Salsa was neutered when caught. He the sweetest kitty. Wants a lot of love. Making up for time stuck in that drain pipe.

Look! It’s Dewey!

Here is our very handsome Dewey…that’s right, like the famous Library Cat! I’m sure you can see the remarkable resemblance! However, rather than being rescued from a freezing cold book return bin, our Dewey was rescued as a tiny kitten scrounging for food and dodging cars in the parking lot of a fast food establishment! Dewey was adopted last year, and his mom, Sherri, has sent this beautiful photo of her baby to us! Many purrs to Sherri & Dewey!

Dewey & mom, Sherri!

Happy Caturday! >^..^<

Well, actually it’s Sunday now, but Saturday, or Caturday as it is known in certain kitty circles, is the day that the F.U.R.R. kitties began appearing on our own Petfinder pages! Yeaaa!!! Meow!!! Headbutts!!! Purrs!!!

Check it out! Click here:

F.U.R.R. on Petfinder

Our Petfinder homepage is still under construction, so please excuse us there, but you can now see most of the F.U.R.R. kitties on our Petfinder Adoptable Kitties pages!

And now, one day later, we have even more excellent mews…the first 3 kittens to appear on our Petfinder Adoptable Kitty page have already been adopted…together!

Many purrs to the new parents of the 3 young siblings, Mocha, Latté & Cocoa, and to

Petfinder.com!

Here are Mocha, Latté & Cocoa with their new parents! One the left we have Latté & Mike, on the right is Mocha & Robin, and there is F.U.R.R.’s Rhonda Price in the middle joining in the happy celebration with little Cocoa!

Lost Gray Persian Mama Kitty Found!

About six weeks ago we told you the story of the rescued gray, Persian mama kitty with babies that had been put out on a screened in porch their first night in a new foster home. The mama kitty was so frightened she jumped through the screen, leaving her babies. She was probably going to get her babies and take them to safety, but she never got the chance with all the commotion of trying to find her. The babies were only 2 weeks old, and had to be bottle fed right away so they went to another foster home. Poor mama kitty, frightened and lost her babies. Terry and Mari, along with some other volunteers and people in the neighborhood, spent many hours trying to capture her. Terry called the animal communicator, Linda Thomas, who first directed Terry to the backyard where mama kitty was initially hiding,  and Mari contacted an agency who called people in the neighborhood to alert them to be on the lookout and gave them the number to call if they spotted the kitty.

Well, momma kitty has been found and taken to safety! Here is Terry’s story:

     Two days ago, Elaine (a nice lady that lives in the Piper Glen neighborhood) called us about a siting of the mama gray Persian kitty!  Mari had JUST gone by and picked up the traps since they had been set for weeks with no luck…………go figure!  So, we rushed back out there and put out a freshly bated trap, and sure enough, THERE SHE WAS!!!  We were so excited to see her alive and in person we could hardly stand it!  We watched her for HOURS circle the trap, go through neighborhood recycle bins and trash cans, go BACK around the trap, but she never got trapped.  We finally left the trap with some fresh bait in it and decided to come back the next morning (This was Tues night)

     Wednesday morning, first thing, we got a call from Elaine that the kitty WAS in the trap!!!  HOORAY!  I rushed right out there and picked her up!  At first glance, she appeared to be fine.  She was clearly agitated from being in the trap and was growling and crying, but I could not see any visible signs of anything wrong with her.  Elaine had mentioned that she thought the kitty had been limping?  Anyway, I didn’t dare open that trap until I had her at home and in the confines of my home before transferring her to a recovery carrier!

     In route, I noticed that she really smelled bad and I knew she must be really dirty, but when I got her home and safe and moved her into the recovery carrier, I could clearly see that she had a collar and tags on under that matted fur.  To my amazement, once she was out of the trap, she began to purr and “make biscuits” on the soft blanket I had in her carrier and all she wanted was love!  It was truly amazing for this poor kitty that had been outside and lost for 6 weeks!

     I got some scissors and tried to cut the collar out of her fur when I realized that it was embedded into her skin!  That is where the smell was coming from; the infecton!  She had stuck her left front leg through the collar and had been wearing it that way for a long time.  The collar had cut her underarm severely and the collar was going to have to be removed surgically.  This was serious.

     I rushed kitty (called “Stephanie”) to the vet and the performed surgery on her.  The vet had to remove the embedded collar, clean the wound good, give her tons of anitbioics and pain meds, and hope for the best.  The infection had to be cleared up before the area could even be sewn up!  According to the vet, the front leg would have been lost very soon if we had not saved her………..and she would have surely died, or the leg would have had to be amputated!

     Stephanie is now resting comfortably, eating well and believe it or not, purring every step of the way!  This little gray kitty is amazing.  She never complained, not even once, and began “head butting” all of us as soon as the doctor brought her in to see us!  This is one great kitty!

     I will be driving Stephanie to Wilmington, which is where she was headed on her original transport 6 weeks ago.  It just so happens that Wilmington is my home town, so we will both be looking forward to the trip!  I am feeling quite honored to be escorting such an honored passenger!!!

 This story has a happy ending, but it could have been much worse. If you ever foster a kitty or get a new cat please do not put the kitty on a screened-in porch until they are relaxed and feel safe in their new environment. All new kitties should be secured in a quiet room where they can’t escape. If you do have a screened-in porch make sure you check for possible escape routes and secure them before you let the kitty go out on the porch! Also, remember to use only collars that are designated as “safety” or “break away” collars” for cats.

 

Lost Momma Kitty

Last Friday, Terry got a call about a lost momma kitty in Piper Glen. Apparently, the rescued momma kitty and her 4 newborn babies were taken to a foster home and the foster home put them on their screened in porch. Well, this is the absolute wrong place for a momma with babies in a strange environment. All new foster kitties, and especially mom cats with newborn babies, should be safely secured in a small, quiet room from which they can’t escape, with comfortable bedding in a clean box or a closet in which they can hide their babies, with their litter box and food and water very close by. It is natural behavior for cats to hide their young from perceived dangers which include humans, and if the momma kitty doesn’t feel safe she will move her babies.  This is the survival instinct.

The momma kitty became frightened, jumped through the screen and disappeared, leaving her babies. The poor kitty; you know she had to be terribly scared to leave her babies like that. She probably intended to try to get her babies out of their and take them to a safely hidden spot.

Terry went over with a trap and they tried to use the babies as “bait” to get momma kitty to come back, but she was too frightened and would not come out of hiding. The babies are just one week old, and so they had to be taken to someone who could bottle feed them. We just couldn’t wait any longer, or they would die. Newborn kittens need to be kept warm at a constant temperature of around 80° and need to be fed every 2-3 hours.

Terry worried about the momma kitty all weekend. Yesterday, she decided to call Linda Thomas, an animal communicator. Linda told Terry which path momma kitty took, that she was in a backyard with a jungle gym and an outbuilding, and that she had no intention of coming out of hiding until the door of the outbuilding was open so she could run in to hide.

Vickie, the lady who was helping Terry search for the kitty, found the home with the backyard as described by the communicator, and the people said they had been seeing that kitty in their backyard! This is amazing! So last night they left the door of the outbuilding open and put some food inside. Hopefully momma kitty will be there when Terry goes back today, and can be reunited with her babies.

Keep paws crossed so Momma kitty is found and reunited with her babies in a safe place where she won’t be frightened.