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
THANK YOU
MY HEROES !!!!!!
You are absolutely wonderful!!!! YOU chipped in and helped out and shared and spread the word and
YOU made us meet our goal. At midnight
you had raised $15,159.50 and when the buzzer went off our donor wrote a check
for the matching funds !!!! This is a
great big help for the animals. It
keeps us safe and secure, fills the propane takes to keep us warm, lets us buy
the extra feed and bedding needed for all 1,289 animals all winter and is just
WONDERFUL!!! Thank you so much for
being Rikki’s Refuge. It’d be nothing
without YOU !!!
Thank you 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, Denise Harper, Alicia Boyd, Susie
Jeddygirl, Barbara Brogan, Dianne Inman, Deb Lavoie, donor making a tremendous
tribute to Catnip Candy, Dorrel Edstrand, Martin & Helen & Adam Hauser,
Cindy Richards, Kathryn Jones, Julie Wilhite & Jupiter Wilhite & Samet
Maxudov, Susan Harrison, Kathy Miller, Anthea Homer, Smokey Joseph, Ann
McBride, Andy Thomas and Patty Walker and Gibson and Kiwi and Starr, Janet
Lundy, Cavell Kopetzky, Pamela Donald, Alison Endicott and Ali Cat, Mary Ann
Bernald, Judith & Abram Peele, Jeff Green, Al Kent, Kristina Zanotti,
Vivian Kincheloe, Ann Eleanor, Liz Marcus, Jenna Watts, Lisa DeFilippo, Diane
Thibault, Jae Eun Kwak, Karen Friedel, Kristie Blizzard-Warner, Lorraine
Selwyn, Mary Ann Stanners, Elizabeth Crawford, Joyce Richardson, Gail Lowe,
Kristen Outten, Carole Springer, Dennise LaBarre, Dara Goldberg, Autumn Port,
Guido and Judith Basolo, Sarah Tulman, Joann Packard and Ally, Chloe, Lily,
Taji and Yog, Lisa Kerns, Susan Hamilton, Patrick Defur, Sherry Rhodes, Darlene
Cole, Laura Kovalik, Deborah Paradis-Keith, Patricia Nathan, Anne-Marie
Mckechan, Julie McKnight, Bill Pullen, Maike Liekweg, Nancy Shearer, Ellen
Olander, Lisa Meow Walsh, Deirdre Schwartz, Bonnie Kohlligian, Vicki Wright,
Susan Fisher, Stacey Freed, Scott Barton, Cindy Richards, Susan Weiss, John
Fairty, Kathy Russell, Helen Torosian, Kathryn McLean, Sara Arason, Eve Allen,
Jane Marden, Virginia Brock and Patsy Shiflet !!! This list is in
chronological order of the time of the donations.
And my
Volunteers Who’ve Kept Us Going
We’re short two positions now!!! Need a job? Just call
540-854-0870 x8
A huge thank you to Nora Eldridge, Ann McBride, Jennifer and
Thomas Ziegenmeyer, Karen, Andy Thomas, Anja Hollinger who’ve been helping with
the dishes, laundry, dog runs, cat runs, winter bedding and all kinds of great
help. We couldn’t do it without you.
If you’re a self service volunteer come on out and
help. If you’d like to learn how -
ask! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Thank you
Tour and Hiking Guides and Volunteers
Melanie,
Vincent, Jon, Paul, by Ron
Traditionally we’ve had a Nature Hike every New Years Day
since 1999. This year we added a New
Year’s Day Tour of the Refuge. Thank
you Jan Chetnik, Laurie Karnay, Nora Eldridge, Mary Walker, Gussee Lamoree,
Fred Friedman, Paul Erhard, Ron Herfurth, Kristina Anderson, Melanie Hansford,
Jon O’Connor, and I know more of you were there, thank you all !!!!
Know what this is?
To the left is a Bear Tree. You
know how your kitties like to scratch on Kitty Trees. Well ...... Yup, that’s
right!!! We didn’t get to see the bear
on the hike but I bet she was watching you !!!
To the right is Joe Callahan who works day and night to keep
trespassers and poachers off the property.
And he NEEDS YOUR HELP next Saturday, January 7th. That’s the last day of hunting season and
it’s going to take a lot of work to keep the trespassers and poachers off the
property. You can ride atv or dirt bike
or mud bogger, bring your own. Or you
can ride with Joe. The more in the
group the better. If you can help
please let me know Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
and come on out early in the day.
January 2nd
= TWO Adoptions !!
Trill with her new mom Laurie! And Frost.
What a
wonderful way to start the new year !!!!!
These kids came in with a feral group in October. Turned out they weren’t very feral after
all!! Come out and meet some of their
friends in Cat House Number 1, pick one out, to adopt !!!!
I need a
cage to put mom in
to make her keep her paws off MY puter. She was messing around with my ‘puter
yesterday and busted it. There were NO
cats involved. Honest! This was strictly a hooman problem, and if
she tells you otherwise don’t believe a word of it.
The corner is busted and a hinge damaged, the data cable to
the screen must be damaged. It
flickers, the back light goes off, the whole thing goes off, and so on. For minutes or hours at a time. I’m working now with it hooked to an
external old crt, and keeping everything on an external back up disk, and have
an old laptop I can use too - all together I’m getting tuff done but it’s a
pain!!!!
It’s a Dell Inspiron 1545 and we got lots of software that
takes days to load back up and all kinds of stuff. May even have to buy a lot of it if we switch computers. Takes so long to move to new computer.
So I have two questions for you? Do you know how to fix something like that cable in there? It doesn’t look easy to even take the case
apart to get to it. It’s a Dell
Inspiron 1545 laptop.
Second is do you have an old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop you’d
give me for parts????
Daddy is working on getting one too and working out the
details and should have me running like a real cat by Saturday. If you know anything in the meantime
.... Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Thanks!!!
Help Stop
The Bad Guys
Please help me share this around anywhere that it might be
seen by people in and around Newark, Delaware. Very, very good friends and
really wonderful animal people and members of Rikki's Refuge's board were the
victims. They even hurt one of their dogs they’d adopted from Orange County.
Help get these bad, bad people caught and locked up. My friends lives have been
horribly affected. They're going to be ok though the guy was very seriously
hurt.
You know how many criminals get caught because somebody recognizes
them or their car? All it takes is one
person who says, HEY, isn’t that that person or car and picks up their cell
phone and dials. Tons and tons of bad
people are being stopped thru social media.
The theory of seven degrees of separation says that you’re
only seven introductions away from the entire planet. The people you know, and the people they know, and the people
they know and so on, down seven levels and you’ve covered the world.
Well social media has shortened that gap. You’re constantly seeing people get arrested
after someone looking at facebook or youtube or myspace saw them and turned
them in.
HELP US FIND THESE BAD PEOPLE AND PUT THEM IN JAIL.
Here’s the story, pictures, videos, sketches, pictures of
the car .... more detail when you
follow the links. Please check it out
and share it with everybody you know everywhere.
I’m putting it all in one simple blog entry to make it easy
to share. I’ll add any new information
that turns up. Please help lock these
creeps up.
SHARE THIS
LINK EVERYWHERE UNTIL THESE CRIMINALS ARE FOUND
FREE
RABIES VACCINE CLINIC
IN
HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, USA ON JANUARY 7,
2012 FOR DOGS AND CATS!
(please note - there is a fee for the rabies license, but
the vaccine is FREE!)
The Hoboken Health Department will host a free rabies
vaccination clinic for dogs and cats on Saturday, January 7, 2012 from 11 am to
2 pm. The clinic will take place at the Multi-Service Center, located at 124
Grand Street. All dogs and cats must be securely fastened with a collar and
leash or in a carrier and accompanied by an adult. Dog owners must have a 2012
Hoboken dog license which can be obtained on site. Proof of Hoboken residency
is required. License fees are $10 if the pet is spayed/neutered and $14 for
non-spayed/neutered.
Do you
have experience
with Virtual PBX services, virtual phone systems or
services, things like halloo.com, RingCentral.com, grasshopper.com, virtual
call system and the like? I’d like to
hear your comments about these services, please! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Caution -
if the volume is up, you kitty might get upset!!
I Love
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
