Greetings from Lake Michigan !!! Can you see me, Vincent, sitting there on this great big sign!!! I’m visiting my friend Deb Forrest and she’s
taking me around to all the sights.
Rainbow Bridge is a great place, sunshiny all the time. Though I like to spend time on my favorite
planet, visiting my favorite friends !!!
Earth Day --- what a purrfect day to reflect on how
wonderful it is to be here together!
Look at the sun shine, the flowers blossom, the leave turn green. No matter what hoomans can do to try and
mess things up and make us unhappy ... our Earth, our very own Earth, is always
here to give us beauty and joy. If
you’re feeling down ... take a walk with nature .. it can’t help but make you
happy and hopeful!
Let’s start off with something important -- only a week left
in the Shelter Challenge Contest --- VOTE !!!
Mmmmmm
I can taste it all ready
Mmmmm the Fancy Feast I can eat
when YOU help me win $1,000
Please CLICK here and help me WIN
Every Day !!
It's real easy .... click on
Vincent above or go here http://animalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3
and enter Rikkis Refuge,
Orange, VA, USA and follow the directions ...
Contest ends April 28th
-- we need your daily votes !!
Happy Birthday EARTH
-- my FAVORITE planet ever !!!! Do something nice for our Earth
today ... pick up some trash, plant a tree, feed the wildlife, go outside and
look around and really see this wonderful planet we're allowed to live on, the
sky, the trees, the rivers, the oceans, take a look around and be thankful for
this wonderful planet and all year long help me keep it clean and healthy.
Working together to make the
world, the planet, the earth a better place is something we’ve been doing
together for years. We work to help the
animals, we work to help the people. And
let’s never forget to work to help our Earth!!
Recycling is one way to
help. And you can feed two cats with
one bowl (cuz you know, at a no kill sanctuary we don’t use that saying about
birds) by recycling. Here’s how you
can recycle for Rikki’s http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/07/recycle-for-rikkis.html
And no matter where you are,
you can recycle and help your favorite animal rescue. Yes you can !!!! Well
if you live in Antarctica I don’t know if they have recycling places, but in
the USA they sure do and I bet in lots of other places too!!
And this is what you can
do. Collect your own recycling, metal
especially, but glass and paper and cardboard .... take it to the
recyclers. Now that’s one good thing
right there. Good for our planet. Take the money you’re paid for turning in your
recycling and donate it to Rikki’s, or your home town shelter!! See !!!
Now you’re fed two cats from one bowl!!!! How cool is that!!
If you live where you can do
it, this is an idea I’ve seen lots of folks doing. Set a trailer out near the road -- obviously this doesn’t work
for my city mice friends -- and put a sign up FREE METAL DUMP. Your neighbors who don’t want to travel all
the way to the recyclers will load up old junk, appliances that don’t work and
the like. When it’s full, hitch up and
haul it to the recycler -- you’ll make more for your efforts AND you can donate
that !!!!
What Does
Rikki’s Do for the Earth?
That’s a good question! And the answer is LOTS!! Rikki’s is now 450 acres big ... and 350 of
that is woods and wetlands and shall be preserved forever. Yes, that’s really an itty bitty part of the
planet. But it’s a great big home for
tens of thousands of wildlife to live in peace. Natural space, natural fauna, natural wildlife is getting scarcer
and scarcer on our planet, all we can preserve, we should.
We’ve had some experts out
lately studying the diversity of species in the woods here at Rikki’s. They’ve found that we have a very nice
healthy bear population!!! Is that
cool?? And do these bear bother
us? No way!! With 350 acres, they’ve got lots of room to roam. LOTS .... and so they are happy.
Wildlife usually does their own thing in their own
place ... unless they are displaced by da hoomans, then they gotz no place to
go but your trash for nums .... and how
can you blame them for that!
In addition to lots of bear
evidence ... our experts have found and are very intrigued by evidence of a
much larger critter lurking in the woods .... big BIG prints .... claw marks
WAY up high on trees ... odd clumps of fur .... it’s being investigated .... and we’re hoping to welcome a most
unusual species into the protection of Rikki’s Refuge !!!
Rikki’s border, encompassing
our 450 acres, is over 7 miles long. To
keep the land and animals protected we must keep that entire perimeter posted
and we must patrol often. We maintain
special places for wildlife ready to be released by licensed rehabbers. We are working on trails and observation
areas for hoomans to mingle with nature and recharge their batteries. It really works you know --- a good long
walk in the woods and you come back feeling refreshed and ready to tackle
another day!!
All this is done on donations
designated specifically for our natural area.
If you’d like to be a part of this, just make a note to that effect on
your donation: http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
Think about saving more land. Would you be interested in buying land
adjoining the refuge so it, too, can be protected forever? What a wonderful gift to the animals!! There’s raw land, there’s houses. Buy up a chunk and donate it to Rikki’s and
reserve the right to use it for the remainder of your life, with the peace of
mind it will be kept safe for the animals forever. Just ask us how: Mail@RikkisRefuge.org Or make a contribution specifically for the
purchase of land to be added under Rikki’s Refuge’s Umbrella of
Protection. Just mark you donation as
such: http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
or Rikki’s Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960
It’s a good feeling to know
you’re saving lives FOREVER !!!!
What I’ve
learned at the bridge
is the same that we
practiced together at the Refuge. Love
matters. Kindness matters. Lending a hand to help matters. Gandalf has it right here ... it’s all those
small ordinary deeds of kindness that matter.
Every day in Every way. Who did
you help today? Tell me !!! Where do you live and what did you do? I know YOU did something good! Opened a door for somebody, fed a feral
kitty, smiled at somebody on the street.
It doesn’t take much to brighten somebody’s day .... but it means so much to them. When bad things happen in the world, try not
to let it get you down and let it suck your good energy and intentions away ...
remember to help make it go away by making the day brighter for someone else
.... if we all practice this ... even on days it’s really hard ... sooner or
later somebody else is practicing it ... and then somebody else .... and if we
all work really hard ... in elebenty oddle years we can make the planet the
most happy, the most peaceful in the universe.
Trust me!! Try it !!!!
Don’t ever forget ... wez at
Rikki’s Refuge IS your good friends !!!!
Spend a day with the animals, or in the woods or with other volunteers and
you’ll find your smile, your hope, your courage!!!
Love you bunches,
Vincent
2013 is the Year of the Purr ....
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