RIKKI’S REFUGE - HAIRBALLS AND HAPPY TAILS
The newsletter of thanks
from grateful animals to their beloved rescuers brought to you by
Duke Thomas Peabody
and Vincent D. Cat
Building a Better Planet
One Rescued Animal at a Time
You can make Duke’s and
Vincent’s job easier http://bit.ly/BeMyHero
We Are The
Happy Animals Of Rikki’s Refuge
who so thank you for
giving us the gift of our lives and the tools to build our Refuge. We represent all the animals, the world
over, whose lives have been saved by kind and loving people just like you. Thank you for being an animal rescuer.
Just like
Little Timmy in the Christmas Picture with me.
Merry Christmas and thank
you so much for the gift of Timmy’s life!!!!
That’s the best gift you could give him and me !!!! Timmy is going to work with me in humane
education. He can tell you how urgent
the need is to educate folks!
When Little Timmy was
about a month old, somebody driving down the street in Winchester, VA, USA, saw
him “fall” our of the window of a moving vehicle. Yes, right there, into traffic.
Ouch. Little Timmy was hurt real
bad. The nice person who saw this,
rushed to help him. So worried about
this poor little kitten, she didn’t think to catch a license plate number.
She rushed Little Timmy
to the closest vet who immediately started saving his life. He was very badly bumped and bruised and cut
up. No bones were broken. Though the swelling from spinal injuries
made him unable to use his hind legs.
The doctor there worked on Timmy and healed up all the wounds. But Timmy’s hind legs still didn’t work.
Rikki’s board member Ken
Lickliter works at this vet clinic, and when he saw that Timmy was no longer
improving he knew there were two things left to do. Both were at Rikki’s Refuge, and so he called, and Little Timmy
came for a visit.
The plan was that Rikki’s
would do physical therapy with Little Timmy for a few weeks and see how much
improvement could be made. If he was
able to walk he’d get adopted.
And the fall back plan
was that if he couldn’t he’d become Vincent’s sidekick!! He’s travel alongside Vincent and teach
kindness and humane education!!
Who better to do that,
than someone who’d needed so much help and kindness from loving people just
like you !!!!
Thank you for Timmy’s
Christmas Gift ! It’s thru your kind
and generous donations that we are able to save animals like Timmy and give
them a wonderful, enriching and loving home forever!
Please help us help
others during this holiday season.
Timmy, doing one of his favorite activities!
Helping Mary Walker with the mail,
and hoping to find a Christmas Card from YOU!!!
Physical therapy with
Velcro!
No better exercise for
those hind legs!
Timmy can now make it up to
the first rung
of Snicker’s ladder to HER
loft.
Snickers is not amused!
Would you
help Sandy Claws come to Rikki's Refuge?
We have a
wonderful opportunity and our time is running out!
A fabulous
friend and volunteer and donor has put a $10,000
DOUBLE
YOUR DONATIONS challenge on the table.
Can we do
it by the December 20th deadline?
We’re
almost there! With your help we can
make it!
Read all the details: http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/12/sandy-claws-is-coming-to-rikkis-refuge.html
Or jump right in with your donation! http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/Vincent/sandyclaws
Remember your donation gets DOUBLED!!
Thank you !!!!!
Click to open your Christmas Card!
Thank YOU
Winners!
Fancy
Feast and Shelter Challenge
Everyone of you on TEAM VINCENT is a great big tremendous
wonderful winner!!!!!
YOU won the Fancy Feast contest!!!!! By two points!!!! That means each and everyone of you was vitally important!!! Yes it does!!! And I love each and every one of you!!!
Learn More about what you won for Rikki’s! http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/12/thank-you-winners.html
Holiday
Happenings
Everything you need to know and what to do at Rikki’s Refuge
over the holidays !!! Sunday Tour,
Christmas Tour, Donation Drop Off, New Year’s Day Tour, New Year’s Day Nature
Hike .... read all about it !!!
Pet
Pictures with Santa
And a special picture time with Vincent ...
Read all about it: http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/12/pet-pictures-with-santa.html
Beautiful Christmas Quilt
Get your raffle tickets in person at Rikki’s Refuge or click
on the quilt to buy them on line! All
tickets will be turned into food for the animals! Drawing 2 pm Christmas Day, you do not need be present to
win. But we’d love to see you on
Christmas!
Letter
from St. Vince or St. Duke
Wowser! I
just heard from Santa!
It seems he and the elves are so busy getting ready for
Christmas that he needs
help responding to Christmas letters and he’s asked me and
Duke to help.
would like to get a Christmas letter from me or
Duke?
Great Gift
for Friends with Diabetic Pets!!!
Sales benefit Rikki’s Refuge - Learn More: http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/12/sugarbabies-holistic-guide-to-caring.html
Angel
Trees 2011
Going great again this year, thank you Katarina Galvin!!!
We have trees up in many stores where you can pick an animal
ornament and buy a present for one of us!! Leave it under the tree and our
volunteers are running around filling their sacks and bringing the goodies out
to us at Rikki’s Refuge.
Grab some goodies and put it under one of our Tree!!!!
Here’s where you can find trees and learn more about this
program! http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/12/angel-trees-2011.html
Vincent!!!
What are you up to now?
What are you up to now?
Watch Vincent get all “wrapped up” about Wrapping for
Rikki’s !!!!!
and learn how you can help earn donations for Rikki’s Refuge
by wrapping gifts!!!
We Know
Vincent will do about anything
to take care of his friends at Rikki’s
....... Look at what his friends are doing!!!
I’m sure you know all too well these days how difficult
things can be. When making your own
ends meet, how do you reach out and help others? The tougher the times ... the more creative the friends
get!!!
Jayne a friend of Vincent’s on Facebook, lives in
Birmingham, United Kingdom and writes in: I wanted to do something special for
the animals. I used to do so much when I was able. I’m no longer able to do
these things as my health doesn’t allow me to.
I know its hard deciding who to help, but I have to narrow
it down Rikki`s Refuge and My Local Birmingham Dogs home. Rikki`s care for SO
MANY animals, it must cost a fortune to feed them everyday, vet bills, upkeep
of the refuge itself, etc., etc. As im
sure many of you have seen its a tough time at the refuge right now so
naturally I felt like I had to help.
Paul and I sat discussing how we could help and we came up
with the idea of me having my head shaved as a fundraiser. So Im hosting a Christmas Party on the 22nd
(please see link below) and we will do the shave via video on that day during
the party itself.
I know with Christmas being just a few weeks away money is
tight but all we are asking for is a dollar or two off everyone. Just think how
quickly that will add up. Of course you can donate more if you want too.
So as well as joining in the fun watching me have my hair
shaved you also know that you are helping animals.
The link for the chip in below also!
Lets make this a Very Merry Christmas for all the animals
and staff at Rikkis Refuge and Birmingham Dogs Home. All monies raised will be
split equally. Paul will actually take me to the Dogs Home to give them the
money personally so we can take lots of photographs :) And Vincent Cat and
Rikkis Refuge money will be transferred to him on the same day. And please dont
worry about me i have plenty of hats :) :) :) :) Thank you, Jayne
Sponsored Head Shave for Rikkis Refuge and Birmingham Dogs
Home
Best Christmas Party On Facebook
Chip In
Ornament
Auction
Closes at
8 pm eastern USA Sunday 12/18
28 Days of
Christmas ...
Rikki's Style ....
On the first day of Christmas,
Look what they brought to Rikki's,
a Chukar in a Cherry Tree,
on the Second Day of ......
Thank you
for your love and support.
Together
we’re making a marvelous difference!!!
LOVE,
VINCENT
December
18, 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.
