It's Furrday!!! And on Furrday you can send an email and if yours is
chosen they'll send me a $50 gift card for Fancy Feast at PetCo!!!
http://www.freekibblekat.com/giveaway.asp
Right now email Giveaway@freekibble.com with the words "Shelter
Giveaway" as the subject and tell 'em Vincent D. Cat of Rikki's Refuge
sent you!
Mom and me just did ours!!!!
Hey, are you getting ready!!! Only three more days till voting time !!!
Monday is time to start voting again!! Let's win mostest number of
votes in week one this time, ok? We make a great team don't we!!! You
open the cans, I eat the nums !!!! I love you!!!!
Buster Kitteh's Possum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/4997622300/
My friend Jonsey
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/4997622264/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxyRvgkWYg
Hmmm what do you think about lining one wall in the 9Th Life Center with
mirrors? Would that be good vidoe ops for mom or just drive everybody
crazy thinking there were twice as many of us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25RcDO2RdZQ
Me and mum think it's real funny what scientist have to study when we
already know it just cuz we live with the aminals. We know all about
the different sounds and different communications. And me and my
friends have studied hoomans and we know that most have three sounds
that can be distinguished.
The angry one that means, "get out my way and leave me alone". Lots of
us remember that from the past before we came to Rikki's. I only hear
that here when I take mom's credit card and over run it buying cat food.
But hey, a guy's gotta eat you know!
Then there's the nice one that means, "I love you, come let me pat you
and snuggle you." We like that one a lot. And then there's there
wonderful one that means, "Nums is getting opened come and get some!"
Mom knows the meanings of lots of the sounds by lots of the animals.
She knows the happy sound of the chickens cooing in the night and
singing, "I love you" to each other. She knows the sound of "Good
morning, rise and shine you lazy biped, get the door open and feed us!"
And she knows the sound of "help fox on the horizon". My doggy
friends know that one too. Just like mom, they sleep soundly thru the
"I love you" calls in the night, but just as soon as they hear a "help
fox on the horizon" call they up and barking, "stay away from my
chickens, these guys are my family and not for your dinner and if you
don't turn around and run, I'll chase you off and really scare you!"
And the foxes know exactly what that means too!!
Camel Love !!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/4998802870/
OREGON CITY -- Clackamas County firefighters have revived one cat and
five dogs after rescuing them from burning homes. They've pulled a cow
from a well. They've pulled a horse from a creek. Now they can add a
camel to the list.
Moses, a 1,200- to 1,500-pound Bactrian camel (that's the two-hump kind)
got himself stuck in a sinkhole on his owners' rural Oregon City
property late Tuesday. Mike and Kim Dilworth, who've owned Moses since
he was just weeks old, could see only the animal's head sticking out of
the mud. They tried pulling him out on their own, using a 4-wheel drive
Kawasaki Mule but Moses didn't budge. His long, skinny legs were deep in
the mud. The normally mellow camel's bellowing could be heard across the
Dilworth's property.
About 9:45 p.m., the couple called 9-1-1. Soon, seven firefighters with
Clackamas County Fire District No. 1 descended on the 10-acre property,
where the family also tends a small herd of goats, sheep, chickens and a
pot-bellied pig named Sonny. But the hole was in rough terrain. And it
was dark. Fire officials decided they couldn't safely use heavy
equipment to extricate Moses. They'd have to use their hands.
The firefighters dug around Moses – who continued to voice his distress
– so they could slip thick straps under the animal's belly and pull him
out. It was tricky work that took hours, said firefighter Steve McAdoo,
who help light the work area with a flashlight. The firefighters – and
the Dilworths – worried Moses had broken a leg. "The problem is the
legs on this animal are like 4 or 5 feet long and he is down in the hole
and his legs have sunk into the hole," McAdoo said. "They are thin. They
are like little sticks and they are all the way into the mud. "It was
hard work lifting and digging, lifting and digging," he said.
Meanwhile, the Dilworths comforted their beloved pet. They soothed him
by rubbing his head, kissing his nose and assuring him he'd be OK. "Calm
down," Mike Dilworth told his camel. "You're doing good, you're doing
good." "They did great," McAdoo said. "They were treating it like you
would have thought your kid was in the hole." The Dilworths consider
Moses – one of two camels they own – a member of the family. For the
first year of the camel's life, the couple, who have two young
daughters, fed him lamb's milk from a bottle three times a day. Kim
Dilworth sang Christian hymns to him as he drifted to sleep. They
bought Moses and his brother, Bethlehem, for live Nativity displays at
their home and around Oregon City. A camel, they thought, would surely
be more of an attraction than an ordinary llama or alpaca. And they were
right. "So many people have never seen a camel, let alone pet it," Mike
Dilworth said. "They're always surprised at how nice they are and how
friendly they are."
Finally, about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, the firefighters managed to get a
tarp and heavy duty straps under Moses and heaved the animal out of the
hole. For an hour, Moses lay on his side, exhausted. Then he got up on
his knees, where he remained for another half hour or so. The Dilworths
still weren't sure Moses was going to make it. Had he broken a leg? And
then, Moses scrambled to his feet and ambled back to his barn. A local
veterinarian looked him over and said the camel escaped serious injury.
It was a happy ending for the Dilworths, who have been struggling with
health and financial issues. Mike Dilworth, 44, lost his job and Kim
Dilworth, 44, is out of work while she receives treatment for cancer.
The couple watched their pet walk up the hill to the barn and go to
sleep. "We were all cheering," Mike Dilworth said. As for the
Clackamas County firefighters, McAdoo said they're getting pretty good
with animal rescues. "I don't know why we are the pet rescue fire
department," McAdoo said. "Some of the guys on the rescue of the camel
were there when we did the cow in the well. We're getting this down."
There's more pictures and a video here.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2010/09/moses_the_camel_rises_from_an_oregon_city_sinkhole_with_just_a_little_help.html?ref=nf
Have a wonderful day! Come volunteer or bring canned dog, cat food,
bleach, laundry detergent, nice smelling floor cleaner, scrub brushes.
May the force be with you, my HERO!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/4997016319/
Love, Vincent
PS If you don't want your Daily Good New, just let me know! A couple of
you have said you only want Hairballs with out the Good News!! That's
ok! Just tell me. I'm here to make you happy, just tell me how! If
Good New don't make you happy - I could always start Bad News, but, as
you hoomans say, why reinvent the wheel - that's what you've got tv and
newspapers for !!!!!
--
Vincent D. Cat, Official Spokes Cat of Rikki's Refuge
Representing the Right to Life of the Differently Abled of every species.
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