These cats have found a home with loving families.
Sam has been adopted by a loving multi-cat family where he has become the Zen master of the household. He’s incredibly happy and greets the family every day and sleeps with his new family every night. He went from being rescued with a life-threatening illness to being cured and moving in to his new home. Sam says FFUR is the best!
Nora has been adopted by a medical student and they are now spending many happy hours together bonding over textbooks and interesting cellular structures on the computer. Nora thought she might miss her siblings, Clancy and Finn, but finds she enjoys ruling her own roost in Center City.
Finn has been adopted to a loving family where he is growing up with a little girl his own age.
Clancy has been adopted by an activist teacher new to the Philadelphia area who is giving him extra special love and attention. He and she are very happy!
Nigel has found a happy home as the single cat he has always wanted to be where he is being treated “like royalty” by his new mom.
Pinx has been adopted to a lovely couple who recently moved to Philadelphia and missed the cats who lived next door to them at their former home. He is their first cat and they are his first family. It’s happiness all around for Pinx!
Photos by Shan Ju Lin.
Baby Rex was found in the bushes near the FFUR compound. His mother, the feral colony cat that we are still trying to trap and spay, is Violet. Baby Rex was a mere three weeks at his rescue and had to be bottle fed. He is now healthy and living with another BIG black cat.
Mira has been adopted by a family of writers and anime artists. She is deleriously happy in her new home. Every morning she wakes her people up by marching on their heads and demanding food. Then she sees them off to work at the window.
Photos by Shan Ju Lin.
Calvin has been adopted by a wonderfully family and has gone to live in Maine were he hopes to become a full-time mouser and lounge in front of the woodstove on cold winter evenings.
Photos by Shan Ju Lin.
Noel, now Mia, has found a loving home with another FFUR adoptee. She is now able to share her loving personality with her new cat and person family.
Squash, Jones and Mustard have been adopted by a trio of art students who fell in love with each of them. This dynamic group of cats seriously bonded after they were rescued, but fortunately found three new “moms” who want to keep their little family together.
Pete was nearly blown away in a tropical storm. At first he was a difficult placement due to biting behaviors, but now he a cherished member of his family. Pete underwent surgery for bladder stones when he was three; he is now 15 years old! He has appeared in two award-winning films.
Rusty and Lulu are, to quote a member of our board, “like a Disney movie.” Rusty was a feral cat in our colony for four years before we were able to finally trap him during a blizzard in February. He spent three weeks in the hospital recovering from surgeries, but was never able to adjust to being indoors and with people. On a sunny warm day in April he was released back into the feral colony.
That day he befriended Lulu, the young daughter of one of our other ferals, Violet. Lulu, a tiny mackerel tabby with white feet and front, was finally trapped and spayed in June (we had been trying to capture her since Violet first brought her to be fed when she was only a few weeks old). She was so feral the vet refused to even have her overnight in the hospital because she could not be handled. But we kept her indoors in the carrier (fortunately she was very small) for several more days until she was more healed from her surgery.
Meanwhile, Rusty had kept vigil outside the back door the whole time she was gone. When we released her, they spent the afternoon rolling around in the grass together. They now live in the garden and on the front porch, a loving feral cat couple that is inseparable. They come when called for breakfast and dinner, and sleep on their little cushioned chairs on the front porch every night
Pumpkin, the FFUR spokescat (that’s her stern little face on the business card asking “Have you adopted a cat yet?"), was brought to FFUR by one of the cats in our feral colony, Uncle Lyle, one morning at breakfast. At the time, Pumpkin was a small kitten with a large voice. Two years later she is still small and still has the large voice, but she has been working hard for FFUR. She is responsible for rehabilitating a feral rescue cat, Sinead, and has become a beloved member of a multi-cat household.