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
KiKi’s
Alien Pumpkin Halloween Costume
We’re ready for Halloween!!
Are YOU? KiKi said she’s tired
of going to costume parties as a dog.
She couldn’t decide between an Alien and a Pumpkin this year .... so
....
Chubs is
going as a cat on a pumpkin.
Ok, so the
pumpkins aren’t in yet. Well .... it’s
almost the right color, isn’t it?
Voted Yet
Today?
Remember to vote every day!!! The mostest votes will win us $1,000 and I NEED YOUR VOTE !!
Please click http://tinyurl.com/VoteRikkis
and enter Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA
Thank you, your simple clicks every day really truly brings
money into Rikki’s, and the money that comes to Rikki’s is spent caring for the
animals!!!
Ever
wanted to be Mayor of your Neighborhood?
Dreams come true at Rikki’s Refuge!!! And you could be the Mayor of a
Neighborhood.
Volunteers are a big deal at Rikki’s Refuge.
Yes, we staff. Our
staff is wonderful, too. Our budget is
so limited that we are only able to afford to have staff for the absolute daily
essentials. The feeding, cleaning,
medicating. It’s a lot of work and it
has to be done on a schedule every day, day in and day out. No matter what. 365 days a week. Rain,
snow, sleet or heat. Holidays and mundane days. We love volunteers who like to come in to help with this work
too. Some come in just to wash the
dishes one day a week. Others to help
with the regular cleaning.
And lots of volunteers come to build new Animal
Neighborhoods, make repairs to existing Neighborhoods, mow acres and acres of
grass, do special seasonal scrub ups of Neighborhood Houses, and to keep houses
warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Every one of our 22 species needs volunteers!!!
Ron, is our Director of Serving Cats. His project this weekend was fixing up the
temp quarantine pens. This is an area
where a group of ferals can do their quarantine time together and not have to
be separated into scary cages. They’d
had a lot of water damage from recent flooding. Now they’re all nice and clean and have new decks!!
Ron would love to vote you in as Mayor of a Cat House. Your duties would be to keep that one house
looking nice and special, arranging the furniture, the climbing toys, seasonal
scrub up, keep the nesting boxes nice and warm with new fresh bedding, maybe
even some painting. It’d be up to you
on how to make YOUR cat house the prettiest!!
And imagine the looks you’ll get when you go to work Monday morning and
says, “I spent my weekend working in a cat house!”
Stacey is the Mayor of Rabbit Rotunda. Every weekend she rakes out to keep the
ground nice, scrubs house, works on drainage control, brings extra treats for
her special friends. Thank you Stacey
for keeping Rabbit Rotunda looking so nice!!
Katarina is our Volunteer Director katarinagalvin@yahoo.com she can
train you to be a useful necessary part of Rikki’s Refuge. She worked all day Saturday and Sunday with
lots of projects going on. Keeping her
eyes open and lending a hand where needed.
She had projects going on at Feline Fields, Rabbit Rotunda, Cavy Castle,
Pigeon Palace, Doggy Downs and was working on lairs for werewolves and dens for
ghouls for THE HAUNTED FOREST. You are coming on October 22 aren’t
you? http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/09/dare-you.html
Next weekend, on Saturday the 15th, she’s putting
on The Fall Furr Festival - and it’s THE place to be !!! http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/09/rikkis-refuge-presents.html Games, tours, raffles, craft tables, the
bestest bake sale, she’s got the best group of volunteer bakers you’ve ever
seen, come and try them out !!!!!
If you’d like to help us get ready for the event, we could
use extra clean up and set up crews Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. Contact Katarina to help out. katarinagalvin@yahoo.com
My special friend Victor,
who kept me warm at last years Christmas Parade, helped do
all kinds of thins all weekend too.
Doggy Downs Clubhouse One is getting it’s much needed new
roof, thanks to Dan. This is his first
big project at Rikki’s!!!!
Robyn is a jack of all trades and works in all the Animal
Neighborhoods, this weekend she was fall cleaning for the rabbits and guinea
pigs. Even the tops of their houses
need cleaning cuz where there’s a will there’s a way and there will be poop in
high spots and low spots!!!
Jan, our Tour Director, lead the Sunday tour. She’s our PR Director too and she brought
lots of cool news paper stories she had submitted and printed for the Fall Furr
Festival and the Haunted Forest. You
are coming, right???
Karen came and brought nums for us critters. She and mom have been friends since they met
working at the same humane society far far away about 30 years ago!!!!!
Laurie had extra veggies in her garden and brought them down
for the critters!! Num num num. We’re not picky, it doesn’t matter if it’s
too much or if it’s damaged. Our
piggies and rabbits and guinea pigs and everybody but us cats and dogs is very
happy to get something fresh and healthier than pellets!!!!
Ann scrubbed up all the dishes and helped with the
washing. Do you have any idea how many
dishes, food bowls, water bowls and plates and platters 1300 animals can use in
one day? Helen and Adam call it Mount
Dishmore when they come out to help scrub up.
And the laundry, which was running behind schedule cus the machine
broke. Everybody had to break and go
get a spare one out the barn and install it.
THANK YOU people who donate your working appliances that you’re
replacing!! With a bed in every cage,
quilts on the floor for sleeping, lots of linings for cubbies and cuddle areas
- it’s mounds of laundry.
And I know there were more of you out there this
weekend. I went to check the log to
make sure I got all the weekend activities and oh no !!!! Nobody filled out the volunteer log since
Sept 22!!! But I know lots of you have
been there !!!! Please remember to
sign in and out and enter a brief description of what you did!!!! You deserve a big thank you and I don’t
want to miss anybody!!!!
Thank you Dennis for bringing nums for the critters!!!!
And Jon our new Produce Procurement Manager for running the
Recycle Unwanted Pumpkin Project 2011 !!!!
Yeahhhh. With Catnip Candy in
the hospital, she can’t be the one out there on the streets, so Jon graciously
offered to take over the project!!! Big
clap for Jon please !!!!!!
Jon is a feline person (YES read Cat Man!) raised on a small
dairy farm in WI and retired Army Corps of Engineer Officer. You may have seen him hanging out with the
cooks at Refuge events or hauling cat food & the like.
He’s currently in the mobilization and information phase of
this project and needs YOUR help!
Have you helped in the pasty with the pumpkin runs? Will you help this year?
We need all the assistance we can get to spread the word to
donors that we can dispose of their unsold/unwanted produce for free.
Please get back to Jon with your contact information ASAP by
e-mail, we have only 20 days before the season is upon us and over for those
unwanted Pumpkins & Fall Décor.
Jon O'Connor, (540) 898-6063, jocors@comcast.net
London
takes over Mike’s Crate
While Mike the goat is out for fresh air, London takes
over. Silly London loves to sleep in
cages!!! Mike is doing great. his cast is scheduled to come off on October
18th.
I'm in a real pickle and I'm scared of drowning in this sour
juice !!!! Please help spread this around. I've only got a week left to pay off
Mike's current bill - so I can run up a new one having the cast off and x-rays
and ...... I've got my bladder bills, and KiKi huge surgery bill, not to
mention food and we're almost out of propane and no money to fill the tank.
Please help if you can and certainly share. There's lots of folks who'd be
willing to help with a buck or two if they knew how hard we work to take care
of the animals. Thank you, Love, Vincent
Click to chip in for Mike: http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/healing-mike-the-goats-broken-leg
We’re 71% there .......
That is ALMOST, isn’t it?????
When the
going gets tough - the tough remember - Vincent Loves YOU !!!!!
Love,
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
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