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North Fork Friends of Ferals - NFFoF

North Fork Friends of Ferals Inc, established in May 2021, is a 501c3 non profit cat rescue group, located on the North Fork of Long Island.

It is 100% all volunteer driven, and 100% of donations and proceeds benefit the cats we rescue. We rescue abandoned cats, trap, socialize and adopt out cats and kittens from the local area, and perform trap, neuter, return (TNR) services for feral cats in our area. We are also starting to set up a pet food pantry.

08/14/2024

A few weeks ago, Bagel was adopted without his Cream Cheese but we are happy to announce that Cream Cheese got his forever wish, a home of his own! This boy had quite a trek, all the way to New Hampshire, but he made it safe and is settling in right at home. Here he is with his new brother and sister and in due time he will meet his feline brother Sid, who we adopted out several years ago. We love repeat adopters!!!

Welcome home Cheese, who will now be known as Jericho, named for a mountain in NH that is a favorite place this family frequents. We couldn't ask for a better home for him.

Thank you to Sherri, Abbie, Morgan and family for fostering this love muffin!

08/12/2024

Petunia was trapped in Port Jefferson Station along with her sister and mom. She was fostered by Brisa and family and has blossomed into such a doll. Super sweet and loving and will provide so much love to this family. Elizabeth and her children are now repeat adopters. They had adopted brothers Sherlock and Watson from us in December 2022, and now welcome home Petunia, who will be known as Willow.

Congratulations!!!

Thank you Brisa for fostering this duo!!!

08/08/2024

We’re ecstatic that our ~ 1 year old bonded sisters, Lily and Jasmine, have finally gone to their forever home together. These ladies were trapped as 4/5 month old kittens from a home in Wading River, with the intent to TNR (trap, neuter return) them. However, after fixing them, they seemed calm enough to at least attempt to socialize them. Kittens at this age are harder to socialize than 4-8 week olds, as it sometimes takes quite a bit of time to earn their trust. Our foster Sam and her family didn’t bat an eye when we asked them to foster (among many other fosters, and her own pets), and these ladies have blossomed into friendly, loving cats, who are a shadow of a step behind your every move. They are starting to settle into their new home, every change in an animal’s life is a stressor, and we appreciate their new adopter allowing them to come out of their shells on their own. Before she knows it, they will be her new BFFs. Thank you, foster Sam!!! She, her husband, and children are such a blessing to our rescue. I think she recently has had cats from 5 different litters in foster. She is a total ROCKSTAR!!!

Congrats to Lily and Jasmine!

08/06/2024

Daisy and Petunia are anxiously awaiting their turn for an adopter! These two girls are super sweet, friendly with kids, cats, and the foster family’s dog! They would do great in any home, either together or separate. They were rescued from a home in Port Jefferson Station and have been in foster a few weeks now. They are true kitties - fun, cuddly, and curious.

Share our post please! You just might help in finding them a forever home of their own!

08/05/2024

How precious is it when you adopt a forever friend to two young children, who are over the moon excited??? This is Lucy and Chase, and they adopted our little boy Midnite, who we rescued from a restaurant in Center Moriches.

Midnite was fostered this summer by Justine and her family, and Midnite was one of four kittens that they fostered for us this summer (first time foster family!). They did a fabulous job and now Midnite will have a very home of his own, and be able to grow up with these two cute kids!

08/01/2024

Here I am, the last of my litter, waiting for YOU to come adopt me. My name is Cream (cheese), and my brother Bagel was adopted two weeks ago and here I am waiting for it to be my turn! I am the goodest boy, I love cats AND dogs, and I am super friendly and loving and I give non stop licks and kisses to my people.

Would you share my post to help me find my forever?

08/01/2024

Sweet Nala went to her new forever family a week ago, and we are sorry for the delay in posting her celebratory post! Nala was one of a litter of four female kittens rescued from a yard in Shirley. She is the first of her litter to find her forever family, and luckily they got to meet her at the home of a foster family. Our foster families not only provide love and socialization but sometimes they bring us the most awesome adopters.

Thank you to Val and her kids, and the friends of her kids for being amazing with all the kittens that cross their path.

07/30/2024

We have an exciting adoption update! Bonded sisters, Elsa and Anna, went to their new home yesterday!!!! Their human siblings Simon and Noelle couldn't wait to get them home and play with them! We are over the moon that they will get to grow up together in a very loving home where the pets are cherished family members.

Congratulations, girls!!!

07/29/2024

Stubbs went to his forever home tonight with Pam, an all-encompassing animal lover. She saw his photos, and the rest is history. She felt an instant connection. Thank you, Pam, for adopting this handsome devil and giving him a future that any animal would be lucky to have.

Thank you to Sam and family for fostering always at the drop of a hat!

07/24/2024

Ethan went to his forever home this past weekend. His adopters were camera shy, but it's a wonderful family with two children. They recently adopted a kitten, Luna, and felt that she needed a playmate. They specifically wanted an orange baby. Ethan's orange coat and his loving personality made him the perfect fit! Congratulations, Ethan!

07/21/2024

Bagel had a long day today! His journey started with a car ride from foster mom to drop off point A. He then traveled from Wading River to Southold, where transporter Donna then took him on a ferry to Connecticut, and then his new mom drove him home from there. What a day! The poor guy doesn’t know what’s next! Bagel, we hope you settle into your new home, and have an amazing life with your new mom, Kaylee, and your furr sibling Mr. Whiskers.

Thank you to Sherri, Abby, Mogan and family for fostering the grey kitten litter! You’re the best! 😻

07/19/2024

Lonely....I'm Mr. LONELY....Are you singing with me? Let me introduce myself, I'm Sargent Stubbs. My foster family named me that because I look like a mini Bob cat. I was only born with half of a tail; it's quite adorable and unique. I'm really lonely because one by one, I've watched each of my siblings leave and get adopted, and here I sit, all alone. I'm fully vetted and ready to jump into your arms! I've been fostered in a home with active young kids and other cats and I would fit right into any home!

Won't you share my post to help me find my forever home?

Xoxo Stubbs 🐾 🐾 🐾

07/17/2024

We are super excited to announce that we have a new foster family!!!! Justine is a teacher and has the summer off, and jumped on the band wagon after seeing how rewarding it was from her friend Val who fosters for us. Welcome Justine and family, we hope you get as much love from fostering as our kitties do! We can’t do everything we do without our fosters!!!

Last year we lost two fosters who were pivotal to our program. One moved to Ireland, and the other downsized her home, so we are so thrilled to bring Justine on board!

We are always in need of fosters. If you have some time on your hands, PM us!

07/11/2024

Three litter mates went to their forever homes over the past two weeks!
Prince went home with his new mom Megan, and he will get to buddy up with her other kitty Braige! Lucky girls, Flash and Ghosty, went home together, with their new mom Aileen. Aileen has a kitty named Charky who will get get to show his two new sisters the ropes! Happy tails to these three beautiful babies who were forstered by Sam and her amazing family, who always opens their doors to more kitties!

07/01/2024

Kittens, kittens, we have kittens!!! Your very best friend is waiting for you....please share our post, let's find these girls homes!!!

06/30/2024

A friend of ours has a neighbor who is going to assisted living and needs to rehome her 11 year old dog. She’s had him since he was 8 months old and has nofamily to take him. If you’re interested please PM us.

06/29/2024

Rigatoni, the last of our pasta group, went to his forever home yesterday. Here he is with his new mom and sister and he will have a golden retriever to buddy up with in his new home, which is awesome because he loves dogs! He was a very hot commodity- so these ladies should feel lucky that he went home with them! Happy ever after Rigatoni!

06/21/2024

Spot!!! That's his name! Spot is the first of his litter to find his forever home, and today was the big day! Spot's new parents and his two doggie siblings will ensure that he will be loved and entertained for all the days to come!

Special thanks to Sam and her family for taking on a big litter of 5 kittens, on top of her other foster cats. Fostering is rewarding and you're saving kitties from growing up outdoors as feral. Anyone interested in fostering, please let us know!

06/17/2024

Tortellini from our pasta group went to her forever home today! She is already settling right in at home and will be able to befriend her new doggie sister Esme. Her new mom Caitlin was super excited to adopt and Tortellini will help heal her mom’s broken heart over her kitty Glimmer, who recently went over rainbow bridge. Tortellini, we hope that you love your new mom as much as she already loves you!

Congratulations, Tortellini!

06/13/2024

A triple adoption is a rarity, but here we are glowing tonight after another triple adoption! Ninja, black male, and his two sisters from a separate litter, Peanut Butta and Jelly, all went to their new home, together! Ninja was rescued from a car engine in Riverhead, and his two friends that we introduced him to, to give him company, were trapped in a local backyard in Wading River as part of a TNR project. They went to an amazing cat loving family that broken heartedly lost three of their senior pet cats over the past few months. They needed a kitty to love, and help heal their hearts, or maybe three! Best wishes guys, we hope that you have the best lives ever!

Thank you Sherri, Abbie, and Morgan who not only fostered this crew, but sent these awesome adopters right to our doorstep!

Happy ending ✔️

06/08/2024

Happy post update! Three kittens went to their new homes yesterday!!! First, Gnocchi, orange male tiger, went to his new mom Karen, who didn’t want to be in the adoption photo!!! 😂 He will have a feline sibling to befriend in his new home! Karen is a long time cat owner and recently lost her orange male kitty due to old age and Gnocchi is filling a void in her heart!

Secondly, Ravioli, calico female, and Fusilli, marble tabico female, went to their home together! They went to a local family and will befriend their pup who loves kitties!

Congratulations to these three striking beauties who were rescued with their mom from a local shed in Wading River. We look forward to happy updates from our adopters!

Special thanks as always goes out to our foster family who doted on a set of five kittens! Val and her children are great fosters, exposeing their foster kitties to cats, dogs, and a boisterous home full of family and friends. Our kittens who are fostered by this family can easily fit into any kind of home!

Two siblings from this litter are still waiting for their homes…Tortellini and Rigatoni!

06/04/2024

Momma cat Sunshine has found her forever family!!!

On April 25th, we were called to a home in Wading River where 5 small baby kittens were found inside an outdoor shed. We put the babies in a carrier and used them as bait to trap the mom. Like most situations, we assumed mom was feral, but she was very calm in the trap, and after reuniting mom and babies (video in comments) she immediately flopped over, starting to nurse them as if to say thank-you, I am finally safe and my future is bright. You see, momma Sunshine is one of the friendliest cats we've rescued. To know that the homeowners had noticed her for weeks scrounging through garbage, searching for food is nevertheless heartbreaking. She was trying to find food to eat in order to produce milk to feed her babies. This super friendly young mom was once a house cat, loved by a family, and when they outgrew her, she was discarded like trash. To be on her own, desperate to find food, ending up pregnant and birthing her babies in the safest place she could find. Cats are not garbage. They should never be dumped outside. There are rescues and shelters to help. Please do the right thing. When you adopt, you adopt for life, no matter what the circumstances. And if you find yourself in a position that is grave and you can no longer care for your pets, find them a good home. Do not put them outside and never look back.

These are situations that we, as rescuers, see all too often. It's heartbreaking. We are so over the moon that momma Sunshine has found her forever family, who will love and protect her forever and ever. She was adopted by a local teacher and her children, and she will feel all the love in the world every day going forward.

Congratulations, Sunshine, who will now be known as Soliel.

05/28/2024

Last week we assisted a family from Wading River vet a stray kitty “Finny”who had been in their neighborhood for about a year. We were told he was an unneutered male, so we wanted to get him fixed so that he didn’t add to the population! When we picked him up, we could see he had already been previously neutered but figured we would get him to the vet anyway to be snap tested, get updated vaccines, and microchipped. Well, upon examination, it turns out that Finny was really Jake, and Jake had been missing for nearly two years! Jake had a microchip that led us to find his family, who had been missing him this whole time. He disappeared one day and they assumed the worst. This is a happy ending for Jake, and his family!

This is why all of the kitties we adopt out are microchipped.

Have a great week everyone!

05/22/2024

We have some amazing news, Midnight and Dawn went to their new home as a bonded pair last week. These girls are very shy, and when their potential new dad came to visit, they hid under the bed. Most cats will act this way when any stranger comes around, and we were worried that their shyness would once again get them overlooked. However, their new dad Jamie is an amazing human. He told us that black cats are less likely to be adopted, and so he chose them as his new furr babies. Not only are black cats the most passed up on, but add them being shy to the mix, we knew we needed to find an extra special home for them. We can’t thank Jamie enough for being patient while they adjust to their new home. We are sure that in time they will be cuddled up sleeping in bed with him one of these nights.

When you’re adopting, remember to consider the shy ones, the disabled ones, the not so cute ones, the old ones…the ones least likely to be adopted. Be like Jamie, adopt a cat or two, and give them a safe haven, a forever home, and a forever friend and companion.

Special thanks to their foster family Sherri, Abbie, Morgan, and dad too, for always opening their home to fostering. They even had to move out of their home temporarily due to a renovation, and all the fosters moved right with them. They are an amazing local family. ❤️

05/20/2024

Last week we spent countless hours trapping two cats in dire need of medical care. The first was a calico we initially TNR'd last summer who had some sort of growth on her tummy. It ended up being a large, infected, burst mammory tumor. This is an aggressive form of cancer and likely had already spread and so she was humanely euthanized. The second cat was from another previously TNR'd colony from several years ago. His left eye was completely gone and the right eye was nearly all white and was starting to rot away as well. Living outdoors without eyesight is just not possible and he too was put to sleep. Sorry for the terrible pictures of him but at 12:30am that's the best we could get. Feral cats suffer immensely. We are just thankful we were able to help them over rainbow bridge where there is no more suffering. RIP

05/17/2024

Hula Hoop just rolled out the door!!! Congratulations to our super affectionate little man! He is going to a home where he will be loved by three young little boys!!! We wish him nothing but a good life like he deserves, in a home, being cuddled and loved!!! He had been living in a feral colony that we TNR'd and at just six months old, he was a lover boy from day 1! Now he will have the dream home with a forever family!

05/09/2024

Congratulations to Smalls! Here he is in his new forever home with his new dad Kevin! Smalls went to his new home last week and after a day or two of hiding under the bed, he is now comfortable and exploring and 100% climbing into dad’s lap for love and pets. We wish these two a happy future together!

04/29/2024

We got a call about friendly kittens being dumped behind a local store, so we swooped in and got the twins to safety. We fully vetted them and they were ready for their new home. They were only with us a few days, and they are now getting settled into their forever home. Congratulations to Finn and Toby on their double adoption! Happy life boys!!!

04/25/2024

Yesterday a local homeowner was cleaning out their shed and found five kittens. Thankfully social media connected us and I told them to keep the babies safe and warm until I could get there to set a trap for momma, because we NEVER kidnap the babies and leave mom behind, or she will just return to the same yard every four months with a new litter. At about 10:30pm I trapped momma cat and they have now been reunited. She is a fabulous mom who rolled right over to nurse and clean her babies the moment they were reunited.

Kitten season is in full bloom, please keep your eyes and ears open!

Videos of the babies and mommy will be in the comments below!

04/24/2024

How did we forget to post Wolfy’s adoption?!!? A few weeks ago Wolfy, our long haired grey ball of fluff, was adopted to the loveliest couple who are such animal lovers. He’s already fitting right in and we couldn’t be happier to have found him the most amazing home where he will be cherished every day of his life!

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Here are just a handful of our adoptions from 2023; these bring back such happy memories and give us the strength to push on to have an even bigger and better year in 2024! These kittens all took the long way home, but I think they’d say it was worth it ❤️😻. Happy New Year everyone!

Marshall, Snoop, and Dre are still dreaming about a forever home with you, they are absolutely nothing short of loving purr machines! ❤️❤️❤️😻😻😻 tap the post with video to hear them PURRRRRRR. Please share our post and PM us with interest!

WWF with Malibu and Coconut 🥥 😻😹

Just a little snippet of what we do on a weekly basis. I wish I started this video before I already unloaded four traps, but a little Prius can be packed out and transports usually 12 cats at a time. I spend the whole weekend out trapping feral cats so that they can be spayed/neutered, and vaccinated in order to control the feral cat problem that we have here on Long Island. On Sunday night, I load the car up, my hubby (a saint) drives them to his job on Monday morning, one of our volunteers who lives near his job goes there, unloads the cats from his car into hers, and then transports them to the vet. Later that afternoon, she picks them up from the vet, and returns them back into hubby’s car. That evening once they are back home and in our heated garage, they are recovered in XXL dog crates where they have access to a litter box, food and water, and a cat carrier with a warm blanket to sleep in. It takes a village, but this is a positive impact we have on the feral cat population here in our local area. In you are feeding ferals, please reach out to us or a rescue/shelter to assist with trap, neuter and return (TNR). Please don’t wait until cats get pregnant and start multiplying, do it right away, the cats will thank you!

Everyone, I have the pleasure of introducing you to Noel. She popped up out of the blue at an industrial area where we feed feral cats. It was obvious she didn’t belong there because she went right up to the feeder for a few pets. After several days, Noel jumped into the feeders car and he brought her to us. She has a super thin coat, which means that she was definitely a house cat and hadn’t been exposed to the cold yet, or she would have had a thick winter coat on her. We had her spayed and she is now fully vetted and looking for a home for the holidays. If you have it in your heart to give Noel a loving home, please PM us. This beautiful, petite little girl didn’t deserve to be dumped and left for dead to survive the harsh winter in an area with little to no shelter. She is a total mush and jumps in and out of my lap all day long and will roll over for belly rubs!!! Let’s find her a home for the holidays…

Night 2 of trapping at the same colony in Mt Sinai resulted in 15 more cats....and I saw even more that I didn't get yet, ugh. Long nights are OK when you're successful! TNR for Life!!!

Just one look of what happens in our rescue week after week to try to control the feral cat population on Long Island 💪💪💪

Let this be an educational lesson for all. This week I saw an urgent plea on Facebook for help. A young girl had to move, and could not take all of her cats with her. She needed to rehome around 20 cats!!! How on earth did a young girl have 20+ cats??? She adopted three cats two years ago….they were not spayed or neutered, and the reproduction process happened again, and again and again. We took in three adult females, four 12 week old kittens, and one of the females had four babies on Wednesday. We were happy to be able to jump in and take 11 cats off of her hands. This sadly happens all too often. This is why we NEVER adopt out unfixed cats/kittens. You simply cannot trust the homeowners to spay and neuter. Here is a short clip of Cosmo and her newborns; she is a first time mom and doing a good job at being a mommy!

Pepper is still searching for his happy ever after! He is 10 weeks old, neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, tested, and ready for you! Please share so we can find him a home for the holidays!

2 weeks old baby kittens rescued 8-26-21

Sometimes nosey neighbors are a good thing. Trapped a female cat tonight and as we were walking the trap to the car a neighbor came out and asked if we had a small grey cat, well yes we do. Okay well she has babies under my BBQ grill. Sigh. Are you sure? Yes. Sigh. More kittens. Welcome to NFFOF littles. This year has been brutal for rescue. PLEASE consider donating, fostering, or adopting. Venmo donations to NorthForkFOF

An Incoming litter of kittens puked up these beauties today. Our critical care while in foster includes specialty deworming to get rid of parasites like these. These are roundworms.