Staff & Volunteers

Latest Blog Posts

February 18, 2022

FARS Program – Bonnie and Bear’s Story

Providing programs that help keep people and their cats together is one way that MRFRS better serves our communities, and our Veterinary Funding Assistance Program (FARS) […]
January 26, 2022

MRFRS’s Commitment to Providing Spay/Neuter Access

Hello friends, Access to spay and neuter is a critical resource for cats and their caretakers for their overall health and wellbeing as well as being […]
December 30, 2021

Raise Your Paws!

We are very excited to announce that MRFRS’s theme for 2022 is “Be a CATalyst” and we’re asking everyone (humans and felines!) to raise their paws […]
October 27, 2021

You Made Happy “Tails” Paws-able!

Thanks to all who participated, we had a terrific (and possibly record-breaking!) Fur Ball to benefit vulnerable cats and kittens – the seniors, the kitties with […]
July 14, 2021

Paving the Way for MRFRS’s New Catmobile

SALISBURY, MA, JUNE 21, 2021 —The Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society (MRFRS) announced that they are getting a new Catmobile thanks to a replacement reserve, many […]
November 24, 2020

Remembering Janet Rogers

Dear MRFRS Family, I am writing to you now with some very sad and difficult news. Yesterday afternoon I learned from Janet Rogers’s family that she […]
August 1, 2020

Volunteer Spotlight – Peggy McQuillan

MRFRS’s Sunday Spay Neuter Clinics have been key to controlling the pet population in the community. We’d like to introduce you to long-time volunteer, Peggy McQuillan, […]
August 1, 2020

Volunteer Spotlight – Joyce Bell

MRFRS is very fortunate to have such an amazing group of people that are willing to foster our kitties and help to socialize them while they […]
July 30, 2020

Teaching the Nation About Feline Leukemia

MRFRS’s Shelter Director, Brit Fox Hover, presented to an international audience at the Feline Leukemia Day online conference. Adoption programs for feline leukemia positive (FeLV+) cats […]
June 23, 2020

A Virtual Success!

Together and Apart We Strutted for Strays and Raised Funds and Awareness for Feline Rescue We can’t pretend that we weren’t sad when it dawned on […]
June 1, 2020

Hearts And Homes Open In A Time Of Crisis

MRFRS foster homes opened their doors to save cats in the face of the pandemic. As alarms about the novel coronavirus were raised and guidelines were […]
April 28, 2020

Quick! To the Catmobile!

The sneuter hero team takes to the road to help during shutdowns. As one of the few spay/neuter focused clinics still offering services in Massachusetts during […]