Good Morning Good New, September 9, 2012

I’m Opie, Vincent D. Cat's adopted son,  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

On Friday ......

I hear mom call the V...E...T.... and so we went to visit my nice doc .......   and you know what she said about me?

She say 9 pounds be too fat for dis little boy!!!  Yes she did.  She said I gots all kinds of belly fat and I need to exercise me bottom half more.  Grrrrrr .... now mom says I have to be on diet .....

NUM NUM NUM .......

   
Wayne Morris, our photographer friend in New York,










YES, that Wayne!! The one who visited in July












entered a picture a picture of his kitty Batman in a contest to win NUMS ----  600 POUNDS of NUMS !!!!!  

 and won FIRST PRIZE and that was 600 pounds of nums donated to his favorite animal shelter!!!  And guess who that is???  YUP !!!  Rikki's Refuge.    Thank you Wayne, and thank you Batman !!!!!!

Wayne's Birthday is coming .... read all about what he wants!
http://wishes.causes.com/wishes/480521

 

 I've got your goat ......

 Dancer's been under treatment by Rose Hill Veterinary Clinic in Washington Virginia for six weeks ..... Tuesday was appointment day ... guess that escape during the Labor Day Tour he wanted to prove the leg is working just fine !!!! He got freaked out with all the people on the tour and went nuts, bashing his horns against his gate till it busted open.  Thank goodness there was no damage done.  He's very elderly, sixteen, and healing's been slow..... Photo by Beth McMaster, Official Photographer of Rikki's Refuge

We had to leave bright and early and head over the river ......

.....and thru the woods

............  and across the mountains we went ....

 and once at the doc's ......    He checks Dancer's gait

 and then x-rays

 Yeahhhh for Dancer ... it's healing, slower than we'd like .... but so far so good .... after six weeks it should be almost all healed and it's no where close ....  but healing is occurring and there's no infection ....  so we'll be back in two weeks to check again ....





 Dancer is glad to be home

Doug lifts out this 108 pound goat all by self    

Did YOU come to the Labor Day Tour ?

         We're up and working hours and hours before the gates open and the guests arrive .....

 Paul getting food to feed kitties

 Timmy says Good Morning

Doggy Downs

 Merlin

  





Powderpuff. ....... am I going home with Lloyd?    Lloyd Dolan, a volunteer since 1998, adopted kittens from Rikki's very first litter way back in 1999.  And now he's fallen in love again ......

Melissa Felts vendor of shirts at the Labor Day Tour !!!  Thank you Jan Chetnik, Tour Director, and all the volunteers who worked hard to give such lovely tours !!!!  Thank you to the visitors who were so generous in their donations!!  

 Sally will come out if the visitors bring good nums

 Jesssie loves visitors ........ with nums

Pigs numming corn - a big thank you to Snead Farm and everyone who went to pick and haul corn!

Joe protects the wildlife

Rabbit rotunda round up

Billy preparing new ground cover for Rabbit Rotunda  

Good morning from the goat field

Piggy Paradise

 

Petunia - the BIG pig !

Pig wallow

Emu Estates






Christopher meets Miss Piggy

 There was lots of excitement during the Labor Day tour ...... It all started when
.................. Dancer, who's on confinement with a healing leg went streaking by ..... Valerie in close pursuit was soon followed by others .... Photo by Beth McMaster, Official Photographer of Rikki's Refuge

 Cornered and captured, Billy hangs on for dear life as Dancer tries to butt him off the truck
.... Photo by Beth McMaster, Official Photographer of Rikki's Refuge

Thank you Sherry Eller !!!    LOOK my very own mower !!!

KiKi and Lena have a nose to nose .....

Look at the wonderful signs Rene Luther made for Rikki's Refuge !!!!

I Love YOU,

Opie

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