Friday, December 30, 2011

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.

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