To
all my friends !!!! Happy Valentines Day ..... if you're short in the love
department .... come meet my friends ... I've got tall ones, short ones, fat
ones, thin ones .... somebody who'd like to follow you home and who'd promise
to love you forever and ever !!!!! Give four footed love a chance !!!
Meet Sampson and Violet
This is the TV show mom did
last week. Listen to her talk about
Rikki’s and Sampson and Violet. Sorry
about the ad .... Rikki’s segment
starts at 11 minutes ... you can skip ahead if you like.
Violet is a wonderful gal
and she’d like a nice quiet forever home.
Rikki’s is good to her, but all the commotion and oodles of critters all
the time, is a bit hard for this lovely gentle gal. She’s about 15, mostly blind and lost her home when her hoomans
divorced. She’s the kindest sweetest
gentlest kitty you’ll ever know. She
wants to just sit on your lap and purr.
She’d love a retired hooman, would be great in an assisted living type
environment, wonderful for a differently-abled person who’s often homebound. A another cat or two would be ok, but she’s
not one who wants to play, “can I catch your tail”. If you have the purrfect lap for Violet .... let me know ... mail@RikkisRefuge.org
If your home isn’t purrfect
for Violet but you’d like to give Violet some delicious nums for Valentines
Day, you can make a gift in her honor here http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php Thank you, with almost 1300 animals that need
Rikki’s Refuge ... we need your support and kindness !!!
Watch Sampson play
He (first got named Sophia
from that beautiful long hair and that delicate lovely face before anyone
checked under all that fur!) was born with birth defects to both knees. So his legs are bent at the knees and he
can’t straighten them. So he gets
around half rabbit and half ferret like -- but get around he does !!!!
Where did he come from? One morning Valerie was coming into work and
as she came round the last bend in the driveway she saw eyes glowing. When she
got to the gate Sophia aka Sampson was standing there looking terribly
confused. Valerie got out and picked
him up. His back legs are bent at the knees and don't straighten out. TWO
luxating patellas - which means really messed up knees that don't stay together
right. Since he's young, 6 or 7 months old maybe, and they are both the same,
it's probably a birth defect.
He doesn't seem to be in
pain and has really figured out how to get around. As he zooms about he looks
like a ferret streaking by. He's super adorable and lovely. Wants to play and
be held and purrs. Yes, he. Underneath all the beautiful girly looking fur we
found a neutered boy!!! So he's also known as Sampson !!!
No one answered ads for lost
cat in need of expensive surgery ... and no one called the pound looking for
him .... We bet this poor baby was
dumped at our gate before daylight that morning in the hopes that one of us
would find him before he was killed by neighbor’s dogs or eaten by a fox or
coyote .... as well as he gets along
... he didn’t have a chance out there in the wild.
And it’s WILD out here
!! Our gate is half a mile down the
road and thru the woods and then it’s another half mile to our complex. If he hadn’t been standing there at the gate
looking lost and confused, we’d never known he was there. If he hadn’t been frozen in fright and had
taken flight instead, he’d never have survived a day in the woods.
He’ll have extensive surgery
in a month on both knees and then after 12 weeks of physical therapy he should
be as good as new and ready for a forever home !!!!
Would you make his
Valentines Day and donate towards his surgery costs? http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
Thank you !!!! It’s cuz of kind and generous people like
YOU that we are able to help almost 1300 animals of 22 species each and every
day - including 650 cats and 50 dogs !!!
Have YOU
voting this Valentines Day ???
Will YOU help me win the contest at the Animal
Rescue Site ???
It's real easy .... go here http://animalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3
and enter Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA and follow the directions ...
it's easy, no information
collection, no spam .... just your vote ---
help me get the votes ...
vote daily and YOU can help me win $1,000 to feed my furry friends at Rikki's
Refuge. There are 1925 of us .... well a couple hundred of them have feathers
... but we feed them too. Vote every
day from every computer you have, home, office, phone and so on !!!!
Let’s work together real
hard and win the weekly $1,000 prize !!!
President’s
Day, February 18, 2013
World famous artist Wayne H.
Morris and a special friend from Australia will be visiting !!!!!
And we’ve got a fun filled
day for YOU !!!!
11 am - 1 pm Photo Class, taught by Wayne H. Morris. Learn how he gets those fabulous shots. From the simple to the complex ... bring
your camera and learn the secrets.
Photo Class $25 per person
1 pm - 2 pm Photos with the
Animals - Wayne H. Morris will take YOUR picture with Opie L. Cat or Duke
Thomas Peabody .... or another of your favorite Rikki’s animals!!!
$10 and you go home with your photo !! Yes, you can get multiple photos. Discount on more
than one!
2 pm - 4 pm Tour Rikki’s
with Wayne and practice what he taught you in the morning about taking great
animal photos.
$12.50 per person
6 pm - 8 pm Reception and
Vegetarian BBQ with Wayne and Vicki from Australia!!
$20 per person
ALL DAY -- $50 per person,
includes EVERYTHING ...
What a way to spend your day
!!!! Meet Opie, Timmy, Duke, Petunia
... all the critters you hear about!
All events are strictly
RSVP, tickets in advance. Call
540-854-0870 x3 or email for quicker service mail@RikkisRefuge.org
Now don’t laugh so hard you fall out the litterbox .....
2013 is the Year of the Purr ....
DECLARE YOUR LOYALTY TO
VINCENT
Look! It's a great car
magnet with the world's most loved cat -- Vincent Cat!!!!
"What Would Vincent
Do?"
He'd "Purr More, Hiss
Less".
Magnet is $5 each, plus
shipping (65-cents for 1 magnet, $1.05 for 2 for U.S. addresses). For other
shipping costs (international, or for more than 2 magnets) contact Melissa
Felts dogslife24@comcast.net with your zip code and how many you
want. Purchase your magnet TODAY
right here http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
Love you bunches,
Vincent
PS your help and support is
much needed at this time of year. We’re
running out of all the wonderful nums donated under the Christmas Angel
Trees. This week alone, we have an
order out for $993 of canned cat food and a WHOLE dump truck of nums for the
horses, cows, sheep, pigs and ....
If you can help us buy a
case of food for $12.50 or a sack of feed for $9.99 we’d greatly appreciate it
!!!! With 1300 mouths to feed EVERYDAY
... TWICE a day ... It’s tough to make
ends meet !!!
Thank you and I send you my
love this Valentines Day ... http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
