Friday, December 30, 2011

December 31, 2011


RIKKI’S REFUGE - HAIRBALLS AND HAPPY TAILS
The newsletter of thanks from grateful animals to their beloved rescuers.

Christmas is a time of Miracles
And thanks to YOU these 13 cats and dogs had life saving Christmas miracles.  Without your love support every day of the year, we couldn’t save the lives we do at Rikki’s.  Without your support this Christmas, we could not have saved these 13 animals!

Read the stories of how YOU and Rikki’s Refuge saved their lives, just in time for Christmas!!
Opie, Nellie, Kennedy, Sugar, Monrovia, Lightning, Mercury, Peanut Butter, Thelma, Prudence, Virginia, Sylvester and Glenda would not have been here to celebrate their first real Christmas without YOU !!!  They send you nose kisses, big purrs and big sloppy kisses !!!!!



One Christmas Cabbage Means the World
to These Little Guys



Thank you Arthur and Annie !!!
Blue Dog is now a Rikki’s Resident !!!!  This is the truck my dear sweet Aunt Candy used to haul all kinds of goodies to Rikki’s.  Arthur and Annie came to visit Monday and donated Blue Dog !!!!  Thank you, that’s a really lovely gift.


Christmas Quilt Winner
Karen Jones was the winner of the quilt !!!!!    She bought 10 tickets.  Thank you Miss Marika for making and donating the quilt.  Thank you to everyone who took a chance on the quilt and bought a ticket.  Together you raised $265 for the animals !!!!!



Counting Down the Hours
Thank you for helping with our Double Your Donation End of Year Challenge!!!  A wonderful donor has challenged us to a year end, DOUBLE YOUR DONATIONS, up to $15,000.  The dead line is midnight the 31st!  That’s when he’ll look at the donations for this challenge and the pledges and write a check to Rikki’s Refuge for up to $15,000 to help save the animals !!!!

So far we’re at $9,301.50 ....  almost two-thirds of the way there ......  we desperately need just $5,698.50 to make our goal !!!!  

Every dollar we come up short - is two dollars short to care for the animals !!

Can you spare just a dollar or two or ten? 
or send me an email with your pledge and note that the check is in the mail!  Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org

A great big huge thank you to those of you who have contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!

Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw, Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio, Vicki Gielen, Denise Halderman, Sue Banning, Dennis Nagy, Amy Madson, Deborah Jameson, Stewart Business Services, Inc., Betsy Brown, Beverly Cain, Martha Girdany, Theresa Loretto, Jayne Ashmore, Harold N, Deborah Forrest, April Nelson, Robert Tringali, John Bowman, Konstantin Shepelev, Suzanne Bolton, Sharon Dyer, Ann Claassen, Roberta Finkelstein, Suzette Haile, Elizabeth Gaver, Linda Downey, Amanda Bumpus, Douglas Michel, Erin Higgins, Jennifer Stocker, Jennifer Dorr Ziegenmeyer, Amanda Lea, Jeffrey Carey, Marlin Leonard, Lisa Millhorn, Wes Boyd, Lia Federico, Jean Evans, Robyn Schnellenberger, Claudia Espana, Mary Walker, Torre Taylor, Jill Pfeiffer, Winging Cat Rescue Inc, Barbara Lowe, Vicki Gielen, Carol Boyse, Marie Shirey, Lois Angeletti, Beverly and Jim Flynn, Amy Griffin, Jennifer Gundersen, Diane Thibault, Cynthia Scheel, Patricia Nelson, Greta Bollinger, Christine Kent, Sarah Cummings, Emily Elder, Morrigan Benton-Floyd, Melanie Jones, Jon O'Connor, Jae Berry, Nick Guagliardo, Margaret Shelbourn, Leigh Goodwin, Joanne Whalon, Martha Girdany, Cassandra Vago, Karen Friedel, Gigi Dul, Donna Bruno, Carolyn Demorest, Jeanine Van Voorhees-Bright, Sue Banning, Grace Lamoree, Elizabeth Mustakos, Craig McGruder, Diane Olin White, Paul Totten, Julie Sahlin, John Cann, Kathy Sheffield

!!!!!  You’re my angels!!!
to See YOUR name here TOMORROW !!!!!


Please Spend New Year’s Day With Us
January 1st Sunday - Opening the New Year at your favorite place will bring you good luck all year!!!   11 am Tour of the Refuge - note 11 am - not our usual noon - 11 am so we can squeeze in Nature Hike before it gets dark and cold.  Gates open at 10:30 am.  Tour at 11 am, yup, it’s all outside so dress warm warm warm.  Then at 1 pm you’ll head for the hills!!!!  Pristine Nature Hike thru the 367 acres of Rikki’s Refuge.  Good boots, waterproof and all dressed up for the weather.  Wear orange and red and bright colors so any evil poaching trespassing you know what’s don’t think you’re a deer!!!


Christmas with the Critters
Click to see the animals Christmas Photo Album, including Timmy’s First Christmas.


HELP .. I need somebody ...
Help ....  Not just anybody ....
Heeeeeeelp ......
Where’s my bed?  I’m having to sleep on my toy cuz I don’t got no clean bed!  Jennifer left us on Monday - just walked out in the middle of the day - so I need somebody to take care of the feeding and cleaning in the 9th Live Center and the Hospital Cages.  Is that YOU?  Call for a job interview - 540-854-0870 x8 .  If you’re a good volunteer, please come and help till the position is filled.



Miles says it all
Thank you Michael and Lanell Gardner, we LOVE you let me give you a great big hug!!!!   Michael and Lanell brought this big beautiful van to Rikki’s yesterday.  There’s a story here.

Last week Lena was telling mom about a program she’d like to start.  Offering free or low cost Speutering to a few local citizens - I mean their pets - every month.  Maybe we could start with 10.  For $1,000 a month we could probably do 20 a month.  It wouldn’t be hard to get going.  We’d need to line up a doctor or clinic to work with.  Get paper work ready for folks.  Have the animals come here.  Find a volunteer who’d drive them, in the morning and back in the evening.  We’d need the volunteer, and we know someone would help with this kind of a great program.  And either they’d need transportation that could fit in many carriers or crates.  Or better yet, we’d get a van that we could outfit with cages and carriers and our volunteer could drive .........

Well the next morning when the phone rang and the caller said ..... I have a van I’d like to donate if you could use it ....   mom was jumping with joy and now Lena is working on implementing the all new Community Speuter Program !!!



Thank you for your love and support. 
Together we’re making a marvelous difference!!!
LOVE,
VINCENT
December 31, 2011

PS: Please help me, I’ll try anything to keep the Refuge Running. I need your continued support.


The Fine Print
Rikki's Refuge in Orange County, Virginia, is a 367-acre, no-kill, all species, peaceful sanctuary supported solely by donations from kind and loving individuals just like you!   We help farm animals, domestic animals, and wildlife.  Over 1200 individuals of 22 different species now reside at Rikki's Refuge.  Please continue to help us help the animals.  To learn more about Rikki's Refuge go to http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/, http://www.rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/, and http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge . 

We survive on donations from kind and loving people, just like you.  We live on a shoestring and make it on less than one dollar per day, per animal.  So if you can spare a couple of bucks to buy a few meals, please go to http://www.paypal.com/ and use our email address of mail@rikkisrefuge.org .  We do accept checks, money orders, cash and stuff, too!  Thanks for your support.  Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960

Your donations directly support the Critters of Rikki’s Refuge.  Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation. Federal Tax-ID 54-1911042. We hold membership in all Combined Federal Campaigns in Virginia #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377, iGive, Benevolink, paypal.com (mail@rikkisrefuge.org), your donations provide direct support. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.

If you know others who'd enjoy reading about the exciting adventures at Rikki's Refuge let me know and I'll be happy to include them.  If you are one of those strange humans who does not wish to laugh and cry with us, simply reply with "REMOVE" and nothing but "REMOVE" in the subject line. 


Christmas at Rikki's Refuge



Merry Christmas Troops, we SUPPORT YOU !!!


And so we celebrate Christmas at Rikki’s Refuge !!

It’s Timmy’s first Christmas
he’s awed by all the excitement and gifts Santa brought.  Even after listening to all the tales of Christmas past that Vincent told him about, he’s just amazed at the kindness and generosity of his friends and supporters.

Timmy takes time to read all the cards from all his friends and to stop and wish each and every one a very Merry Christmas!  So many many friends!

Timmy wanted to take his time, opening each gift and savoring it ....

Vincent hunkers down and shows Timmy how to get on with it !!

Wow, a stocking of my own !!!!

Come on kid, no need to take all day, let me show you how it’s done .....





















Peace and Love, Love and Peace, that’s what I wish for all my friends today!!





It takes so little to make so many so happy!!!!
We were such happy animals on Christmas!!!!   Santa sent his helpers
Jan Chetnik and
Laurie Karnay






and lots of others to help out!!!    We had a wonderful tour with lots of kind and generous people.

Mr. Mister, Vincent and Nora Eldridge are so happy about all the donations!!!!!

A whole truck full of cat food
         
And a whole truck of dog food

For Kiki and friends

Mick supervised sales of Soaps with our pictures, raffle tickets, and lots more

One cabbage means the world to a dozen guinea pigs!!

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 30, 2011


I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
HELP .. I need somebody ...
Help ....  Not just anybody ....
Heeeeeeelp ......
Where’s my bed?  I’m having to sleep on my toy cuz I don’t got no clean bed!  Jennifer left us on Monday - just walked out in the middle of the day - so I need somebody to take care of the feeding and cleaning in the 9th Live Center and the Hospital Cages.  Is that YOU?  Call for a job interview - 540-854-0870 x8 .  If you’re a good volunteer, please come and help till the position is filled.


Counting Down the Hours
Thank you for helping with our Double Your Donation End of Year Challenge!!!  A wonderful donor will double our donations, up to $15,000 at midnight tomorrow, the 31st!  So far we’re at $6,161.50 ....  not quite half way ...  we desperately need $8,838.50 to make our goal !!!!  

Every dollar we come up short - is two dollars short to care for the animals !!

Can you spare just a dollar or two or ten? 
or send me an email with your pledge and note that the check is in the mail!  Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org

A great big huge thank you to those of you who have contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!

Since yesterday:
Lia Federico, Jean Evans, Robyn Schnellenberger, Claudia Espana, Mary Walker, Torre Taylor, Jill Pfeiffer, Winging Cat Rescue Inc, Barbara Lowe, Vicki Gielen, Carol Boyse, Marie Shirey, Lois Angeletti, Beverly and Jim Flynn, Amy Griffin

and to Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw, Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio, Vicki Gielen, Denise Halderman, Sue Banning, Dennis Nagy, Amy Madson, Deborah Jameson, Stewart Business Services, Inc., Betsy Brown, Beverly Cain, Martha Girdany, Theresa Loretto, Jayne Ashmore, Harold N, Deborah Forrest, April Nelson, Robert Tringali, John Bowman, Konstantin Shepelev, Suzanne Bolton, Sharon Dyer, Ann Claassen, Roberta Finkelstein, Suzette Haile, Elizabeth Gaver, Linda Downey, Amanda Bumpus, Douglas Michel, Erin Higgins, Jennifer Stocker, Jennifer Dorr Ziegenmeyer, Amanda Lea, Jeffrey Carey, Marlin Leonard, Lisa Millhorn, Wes Boyd


!!!!!  You’re my angels!!!
to See YOUR name here TOMORROW !!!!!


Oh Pi
I’m so sorry!  I called you a girl yesterday.  I really sorry.  I know you’re a big handsome boy.  Please forgive me!!!


MY New Year Resolution

Is to make the 9th Life Center look just like this!!!  Ron!!  Rene!!!!  Come and help !!!!!





Miles says it all
Thank you Michael and Lanell Gardner, we LOVE you let me give you a great big hug!!!!   Michael and Lanell brought this big beautiful van to Rikki’s yesterday.  There’s a story here.

Last week Lena was telling mom about a program she’d like to start.  Offering free or low cost Speutering to a few local citizens - I mean their pets - every month.  Maybe we could start with 10.  For $1,000 a month we could probably do 20 a month.  It wouldn’t be hard to get going.  We’d need to line up a doctor or clinic to work with.  Get paper work ready for folks.  Have the animals come here.  Find a volunteer who’d drive them, in the morning and back in the evening.  We’d need the volunteer, and we know someone would help with this kind of a great program.  And either they’d need transportation that could fit in many carriers or crates.  Or better yet, we’d get a van that we could outfit with cages and carriers and our volunteer could drive .........

Well the next morning when the phone rang and the caller said ..... I have a van I’d like to donate if you could use it ....   mom was jumping with joy and now Lena is working on implementing the all new Community Speuter Program !!!



New Year’s Day Tour and Hike
January 1st Sunday - Opening the New Year at your favorite place will bring you good luck all year!!!   11 am Tour of the Refuge - note 11 am - not our usual noon - 11 am so we can squeeze in Nature Hike before it gets dark and cold.  Gates open at 10:30 am.  Tour at 11 am, yup, it’s all outside so dress warm warm warm.  Then at 1 pm you’ll head for the hills!!!!  Pristine Nature Hike thru the 367 acres of Rikki’s Refuge.  Good boots, waterproof and all dressed up for the weather.  Wear orange and red and bright colors so any evil poaching trespassing you know what’s don’t think you’re a deer!!!


Till tomorrow .....
We Love YOU,
Vincent and Timmy
PS Hi can you spare $1 or $2?  I'd really appreciate it if you can.  I can double your donation thru the end of the year - AND you get a tax deduction too!!!   It's a real WIN WIN WIN.  $1 normally buys four meals for us here at Rikki's Refuge.  Now your $1 will buy 8 meals !!!!  That's a bargain!!  If you can help at all, please do!  Thank you, Vincent  
PPS You tell me what you want! Email me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org with instructions to change your subscription: additions, deletions or modifications! Subscriptions:  Vincent’s VIPs - up to the second alerts about issues at Rikki’s Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as needed. Good Morning Good News - a little something to get you going in the mornings, for those of you who want to keep smiling with us! Scheduled daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled weekly.

Rikki's Refuge, supported solely by private donations, houses over 1200 animals of 22 species. On line at http://bit.ly/Give-a-gift-to-Rikkis Checks, money orders, cash, items at Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960

Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation, tax-id 54-1911042. Combined Federal Campaigns #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.

Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 29, 2011


I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Kiwi and Gibson, Happy in their New Home !
Kiwi came from Georgia and had spent several years at Rikki’s before finding the purrfect parents, Patty and Andy.  

You may remember Gibson’s story. 
Gibson doing The Happy Dance, tasting freedom at last !!!  After 1 ½ years of healing from traumatic wounds, Gibson dances with joy!!  Read his whole story under the video on youtube.

Kiwi and Gibson very happily spent their first Christmas with Patty and Andy last week !!!!  A wonderful forever home they’ll be eternally grateful for. 

YOU made this possible.  YOUR donations paid for their care and for the many surgeries Gibson needed.

Now You CAN Save More Like Gibson and Kiwi
You can double your donation thru the end of the year.  But watch out!  That’s only three more days!!! Saturday at midnight is the deadline!!!  We have $15,000 to be doubled and we haven’t quite yet reached the $5,000 mark.  Please help us reach this goal for the full $15,000 is donated to us at midnight Saturday.


A great big huge thank you to those of you who have contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!
Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw, Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio, Vicki Gielen, Denise Halderman, Sue Banning, Dennis Nagy, Amy Madson, Deborah Jameson, Stewart Business Services, Inc., Betsy Brown, Beverly Cain, Martha Girdany, Theresa Loretto, Jayne Ashmore, Harold N, Deborah Forrest, April Nelson, Robert Tringali, John Bowman, Konstantin Shepelev, Suzanne Bolton, Sharon Dyer, Ann Claassen, Roberta Finkelstein, Suzette Haile, Elizabeth Gaver, Linda Downey, Amanda Bumpus, Douglas Michel, Erin Higgins, Jennifer Stocker, Jennifer Dorr Ziegenmeyer, Amanda Lea, Jeffrey Carey, Marlin Leonard, Lisa Millhorn, Wes Boyd

!!!!!  You’re my angels!!!
to See YOUR name here TOMORROW !!!!!

We’ve raised less than $5,000 of this $15,000 matching challenge.  Our deadline is midnight Saturday.  Please help out by making a large end of year tax deductible donation, or simply by tossing in a few bucks!!  Every penny adds up!!  Thank you!!!


Thank you Arthur and Annie !!!
Blue Dog is now a Rikki’s Resident !!!!  This is the truck my dear sweet Aunt Candy used to haul all kinds of goodies to Rikki’s.  Arthur and Annie came to visit Monday and donated Blue Dog !!!!  Thank you, that’s a really lovely gift.


Bonnie Kliamovich is a Vincent Elf
Her Angel Tree was at Pet Supplies "Plus" Charlottesville VA
and look at all the goodies she brought out on this trip!!!


Ahhhh The Hot Seat
Pi is all stretched out and cozy warm in his home with Martha!!


Come to my New Mews New Years Eve Party !!!!!
Midnight Saturday !!!
A New Mew to every one who shows up !!!
Can’t make the party?
Please send your shipping address so I can get your Happy New Mew on the way to you !!!!
ps Just kidding, we’d love to see lots of our kitties get homes,
but adoption application and processing are required for everyone!


Thank you for coming to visit me Jennifer and mom !!!
I Love YOU,
Vincent
PS Hi can you spare $1 or $2?  I'd really appreciate it if you can.  I can double your donation thru the end of the year - AND you get a tax deduction too!!!   It's a real WIN WIN WIN.  $1 normally buys four meals for us here at Rikki's Refuge.  Now your $1 will buy 8 meals !!!!  That's a bargain!!  If you can help at all, please do!  Thank you, Vincent  


PPS You tell me what you want! Email me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org with instructions to change your subscription: additions, deletions or modifications! Subscriptions:  Vincent’s VIPs - up to the second alerts about issues at Rikki’s Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as needed. Good Morning Good News - a little something to get you going in the mornings, for those of you who want to keep smiling with us! Scheduled daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled weekly.

Rikki's Refuge, supported solely by private donations, houses over 1200 animals of 22 species. On line at http://bit.ly/Give-a-gift-to-Rikkis Checks, money orders, cash, items at Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960

Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation, tax-id 54-1911042. Combined Federal Campaigns #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.

Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 28, 2011


I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org

JR Gets a Wonderful Forever Home!!
Happy happy news!!  JR went to his new home yesterday.  An older very gentle and sweet guy!!  It’s so wonderful to see seniors get homes.  He’s a gentle sweet unassuming guy.  He can walk into any environment and fit right in.  Lots of the older guys and gals are like this.  Please head out to your local shelter and take one home today!!!!


It’s really good karma !!!!!


Fred Shows up with the 23rd Species ......
Hmmm when Daddy said he was coming with his snake .......     

Thank you Fred for fixing the horrible clog in the 9th Life Center!!!  The good news! It wasn’t a cat stuck down the drain!


Angel Tree Donations Keep Rolling In
Dan Galvin with donations from Angel Tree in Richmond!!  So many kind and generous people, putting up trees, putting supplies under the trees, picking up the donated items, and bringing them to Rikki’s !!!  Such a wonderful program.  Bringing in lots of nums for the animals.

Shopping after Christmas sales??  Watch for trees for next years programs.  6-7 foot pre-lit easy assemble trees.  Also white and other bright color ones for Christmas in July !!!! 


The Animals or The IRS ?
Who would you rather see get the cash?  I hope your vote is with the animals !!!!!    Only four days of tax saving donations left !!!!  Hurry and get your donation in and your tax write off ready!!!   AND you can double your donation with this wonderful program!!   http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/double-your-donations
A great big huge thank you to those of you who have contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!
Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw, Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio !!!!!  You’re my angels!!!


I Love YOU,
Vincent
PS You tell me what you want! Email me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org with instructions to change your subscription: additions, deletions or modifications! Subscriptions:  Vincent’s VIPs - up to the second alerts about issues at Rikki’s Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as needed. Good Morning Good News - a little something to get you going in the mornings, for those of you who want to keep smiling with us! Scheduled daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled weekly.

Rikki's Refuge, supported solely by private donations, houses over 1200 animals of 22 species. On line at http://bit.ly/Give-a-gift-to-Rikkis Checks, money orders, cash, items at Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960

Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation, tax-id 54-1911042. Combined Federal Campaigns #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.

Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 27, 2011

I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org



It takes so little to make so many so happy!!!!
We were such happy animals on Christmas!!!!   Santa sent his helpers
Jan Chetnik and
Laurie Karnay






and lots of others to help out!!!    We had a wonderful tour with lots of kind and generous people.

Mr. Mister, Vincent and Nora Eldridge are so happy about all the donations!!!!!

A whole truck full of cat food
         
And a whole truck of dog food

For Kiki and friends

Mick supervised sales of Soaps with our pictures, raffle tickets, and lots more

One cabbage means the world to a dozen guinea pigs!!


Christmas Quilt
Karen Jones was the winner of the quilt !!!!!    She bought 10 tickets.  Thank you Miss Marika for making and donating the quilt.  Thank you to everyone who took a chance on the quilt and bought a ticket.  Together you raised $265 for the animals !!!!!


New Challenge!!!
Well this pretty much says it all !!!!!     My friend who hate's paying the IRS, just started this Double Your Donation before the End of the Year, pay less taxes, help the animals more!!!  

Yikers and I've got what like five days !!!!  HELP !!!   

This is wonderful news!!!!  It’s short notice.  We’ve only got five days.  If you are looking to save on your taxes with a last minute tax deductible donation - please please help out now while this Double Your Donation is going on !!!!  Thank you.  Please share with anyone and everyone you know who cares about the animals!!



The Animals or The IRS ?

I’ll double your tax deductible donations!!!!
You win !!!!

The animals win !!!!

Donate before the end of the year !!!!

Rikki’s is my all time favorite!!

How about YOU ?

Hey Duke, Hey Vincent,

It’s your buddy here who hates paying income tax!!  I’d much rather give my money to you than to the IRS!  I bet lots of your friends feel that way too!! 

How many of them will join me!! 

Let’s find out!! 

I’ll tell you what I’ll do ....

but first I better say .... donations made to Rikki’s Refuge are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law and all that fine print.  In most cases 100% of the donation is deductible.  Seek the advice of your accountant if you’re not sure about your particular situation.
And now this is what I’ll do so we can all save money together --- I’ll match all donations from this second forward, thru midnight on December 31, 2011 so we can save the mostest.

Just in case this goes wild, I do have to put a limit on this!!!  All donations up to $15,000 by the end of the year, I’ll match. 

Dollar for dollar.

That’s right, YOU donate $1 to Vincent and Duke and I’ll donate $1.
It’s a WIN WIN WIN situation!

YOU get a tax break, I get a tax break, and Duke and Vincent get to eat!!

I’ll be stopping in at midnight Saturday to celebrate with you!   Duke and Vincent, you show me what you have and what’s been pledged by midnight Saturday - and I’ll write you a check for up to $15,000 !!!!

Hope that’ll help you out, you adorable little furry guys!!

Love from your fan, who likes you better than the IRS !!!

See you Saturday night!!

You-Know-Who

and please share this link with everyone !!!!


I Love YOU,
Vincent
PS You tell me what you want! Email me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org with instructions to change your subscription: additions, deletions or modifications! Subscriptions:  Vincent’s VIPs - up to the second alerts about issues at Rikki’s Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as needed. Good Morning Good News - a little something to get you going in the mornings, for those of you who want to keep smiling with us! Scheduled daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled weekly.

Rikki's Refuge, supported solely by private donations, houses over 1200 animals of 22 species. On line at http://bit.ly/Give-a-gift-to-Rikkis Checks, money orders, cash, items at Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960

Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation, tax-id 54-1911042. Combined Federal Campaigns #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.

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