Have YOU
been voting???
Will YOU help me win the contest at the Animal
Rescue Site ???
Please vote for Team Vincent today !! And Every Day !!
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 YOUR TEAM round up
votes ... vote daily and YOU can help me win $1,000 to feed my furry friends at
Rikki's Refuge. There are 1268 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 !!!!
You all are so cool
YOU are what makes
Rikki's Refuge possible
YOU YOU YOU !!!!!
.... how many critters do you have? How many cats? Dogs? Pigs? Goats?
We've got 1268 animals today .... and that includes 659 cats ...
tomorrow it will be only 658 cats ....
Don't get sad !!! Leeper who's
been with us since June of 2008 will be getting a real furrever home !!!!
Despite being crippled from
an injury when he was 10 months old, a crippling defect that was going to lead
to his death in a city shelter .....
He's getting a home !!!!
Matthew, a wonderful
volunteer, spends a day or two a week at Rikki's. And Leeper loves him ... Leeper never let his handicap get in his
way ... he runs and plays ... just limps .. but he's still the fastest thing on
three legs when he runs !!! And he
always runs when he sees Matthew coming and he leaps on to Matthew's shoulders. Well tomorrow .... Leeper goes home with Matthew and his family.
Sometimes it takes FIVE
YEARS to find your forever home .... for some, Rikki's Refuge is their furever
home furever ... but for all of our residents they know love and happiness
every day .... because of YOU .....
Look at those THUMBS
!!!! How was Leeper turned down by
adoptor after adoptor for five years ???
But wasn’t he lucky to be at Rikki’s, where no matter how long it takes
.... you’ve got the time !!!
But as I was saying
.... we have 53 doggies .... 36 pot
belly piggies ... 3 farm pigs .... 42 goats ... and all kinds of other guys
living with us ... eums, pigeons, guinea pigs, rabbits and on and on ....
Big Cows ... Little Cows ... they all eat the hay
....
So What do you think it
costs to feed all those guys .... and gals ???? And not just feed them --- but meds - like monthly worming and
flea prevention and vaccinations as well as surgery like Sophia is having today
....
Please
keep Sophia/Sampson in your prayers as he undergoes serious surgery on both
knees today
but also bedding and
utilities, electricity, propane to keep them warm in the winter .... and oh my
gosh imagine the cost of cleaning up after 1268 animals ....
The bill is HUGE !!! But when you break it down ... it's really
itty bitty .... $1.13 per critter per
day .... Food, Meds, Doctors, Cleaning, Housing .. EVERYTHING .... WOW that's an itty bitty number .....
BUT do the math .... Ok let's see ... you said 1268 animals times
$1.13 for each one ... so that's HOLY COW $1,432.84 a DAY ....
Now that number is starting
to look kind of daunting, isn't it ????
If we think in year or month, the number is just overwhelming ....
So we try to make it one
week at a time ..... And one week of
caring for 1268 costs us $10,029.88 ..... gaaaaagggg that’s enough to stop you
in your tracks isn’t it ?????
But ..... add up what you’re spending on your pets ....
and multiply it out to 1268 mouths to feed ... 1268 poops to clean up .... and
Hmmmm $1.13 a day doesn’t look so bad anymore
... does it ???
Oscar says
thanks for caring. Remember the
bedraggled busted up kitty he was three weeks ago? Thanks to YOU he’s now on insulin and looking so much better. Ok, so he needs a few more repairs before
he’ll win any beauty contests .... but hey look at those thumbs .... He may
soon be able to earn his keep opening cans in our kitchen !!!
The hard part is knowing
that you’re with us every day, that you’re there helping us make ends meet,
that we can count on YOU !!!! And oh
my gosh ... look what YOU’ve done this week ..... With the auction payments coming in, with YOU wonderful monthly
subscribers, with all you YOU helping out when you can .... LOOK what’s in my paypal account today
!!! $8,887.91 ...... and that means
ONLY $1,141.97 and we’ll meet our goal this week !!!!! How cool is that ....
Can you help me out and
spread the word about how little it takes to feed and care for the animals of
Rikki’s Refuge ???? I know YOU have
helped so much already .... but I bet you have a friend or a friend of a friend
... would love to donate $1 or $5 or even a whopping $25 .... And when WE all work TOGETHER ... we make it
happen !!!!
Let’s see if we can spread
this around far and wide and get enough new folks to help us out so we can
cover all our obligations this week !!!!
Only $1,141.97 to go .... which with billions of people on the planet
... and so many of them loving animals ....
it should be easy !!!
LET’S DO IT TOGETHER
!!!! WHAT DO YOU SAY ??
Remember
Mike? Though
he wasn’t young and they said the leg
would never heal, and it would cost to much to try and save him .... YOU made it possible and thru YOU he got to
see the doc and he went thru several months of cast changes and healing and
then physical therapy and he’s enjoying life as a four hoofed critter !!!!
Sure hope you’re coming to
EASTER FUN, March 23rd
and EASTER ALMOST SUNRISE
SERVICE AND TOUR, March 31st
Don’t wait any longer ....
RSVP today !!
Love you bunches,
Snoop and Norman
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