I'd like you to meet Pepe ....
I know he’s little ... but
he’s really a doggy, not a kitty !!!
We have big dogs and little dogs and black dogs and white dogs !!
Mostly, we have old dogs!!
Pepe was once upon a time an
active young energetic doggy who’s leap up to greet his owner and jump for joy
at the thought of going for walks.
As time wore on, Pepe’s
owner got older .... and so did
Pepe. The thing is, dogs get older quicker
than people. And sometimes people
aren’t very nice to the older doggies.
If only they’d stop and think about when they get older .... do they
want somebody to be nice to them?
Teaching love and compassion
at home is where it all starts. When
you teach your kids to love and appreciate their grandparents and older
neighbors and friends and older pets ... well you know .. it really pays
off. The kids who see their parents
loving and respecting the old doggy or kitty are going to be the kids who grow
up and love and respect their parents when they get old .... and you know
.. it just might come in handy !!! So before you toss that old dog or cat out
.... teaching your kids a very valuable lesson about our older citizens
.... think real hard and ask your self
a few questions. Am I going to get
older? Will I want to be tossed out
like the trash? Do I want my family to
love and cherish me no matter how old I am?
Anyway ... Pepe and his
owner got older, every day. Pepe’s
owner would come home and instead of jumping up to greet him, Pepe would look
up from his comfy bed and smile and wag his tail. When the owner would say, come on Pepe let’s go out for a walk
... instead of bounding up, Pepe would slowly get up and head for the door.
And so Pepe’s owner said,
Hmmm well maybe I’ll just trade in the old dog for a younger one ! After all, his wife had done it last summer,
when she ran off with that lifeguard.
So off to the pound they went.
Pepe loved riding in the car
!!! And it was fun getting to meet all
the other doggies at the pound. But
being locked up in a cage wasn’t fun.
And watching his beloved dad walk out with a young ball of fluff .... well that really hurt. Pepe howled and barked .... and his beloved
owner never even looked back and waved.
The day turned to night ...
and the night to day .... and still his owner never came back. He was feeling sad and depressed. People would come into the shelter looking
for a new doggy to take home .... Pepe
would look up and wag his tail ... most of them would pass by and not even
notice him .... occasionally somebody
would bend over and pet him and say, you poor old dog, what are you doing in a
shelter? And Pepe would say, I’ve been
trying to figure that out myself, but you could fix it, you could take me
home. And he’d look at them with
pleading eyes ... as they walked away and chose a young energetic pup to take
home.
And then the day came when
Pepe came to Rikki’s Refuge!! His feet
on the grass, marking tires, sniffing other doggies, nose kissing kitties and
best of all ... a whole passel of hoomans to love him and fawn over him and to
play when he felt like it and to let him nap when he felt like it.
Naps on soft beds, naps with
furry friends, naps in the sun .... now
THIS was the life !!!!
Pepe, at almost 21 years
old, needed some pretty expensive eye surgery last week. Some folks would have looked at him and
looked at his age and said .... you know ... why not just put him to sleep ...
I mean how much longer will he last ... a few months .. maybe a year .... is it
worth it?
But at Rikki’s Refuge we
look at things differently. We look at
the WHOLE doggy .. not just the “problem” part .... and what did we see ... a
happy guy who loves to eat ... even if he is picky and has certain he holds out
for ... a guy who loves walking around the farm ... a guy with friends ... a
guy who wags his tail and ... well a
guy who really seems to be enjoying retirement life.
So what did Rikki’s do? Rikki’s said do the surgery and make our
little Pepe feel better !!
And so that’s just what
happened ... Pepe is now recovering very well from surgery ....
And he’s just got one
problem ...
He needs help paying his
bill !!!!
Every dollar you donate to
help Pepe ... will be DOUBLED ... every single dollar .... so hurry and click right here to VANQUISH
Pepe ‘s Vet Debt http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Vanquishing%20the%20Vet%20Debt
Wonderful donors have put up
a $15,590 DOUBLE YOUR DOLLAR challenge .... so far our wonderful friends have
contributed $1,957.86 !!!! Please help us make it to the double challenge and not lose any
of that great big carrot they’re dangling for us !!!!
Every
dollar counts !!!!
Please
help out !!!
Lots of our dogs come to us
because they are old .....
But not everybody !!!
Juan came to us cuz he had
too much energy. He was left behind in
a shelter by a family that said he was just out of hand. Nope ... they’d never tried any training and
they sure weren’t going to bother with that now !!! Poor Juan. And he went
nuts in a small kennel at a shelter.
Nobody wanted to take him
out to play. He was too rough and
pulled too hard on the leash. He jumped
and he ran.
Cooped up in a kennel, it
didn’t take him long to develop kennel fatigue .... he wasn’t going to make it ... he needed to go somewhere less
stressful.
And so he came to Rikki’s
Refuge. Here he got to share a huge
kennel, 20’ x 20’ with a couple friends and they’d get to go to the quarter
acre playground to romp and run. And
Juan loved it. hard working volunteers
worked with him on leash and taught him some manners.
And guess what happened?
Here he is riding home to
his new forever home !!!!!
Where I think he’s very very
happy .... what do you think?
Another doggy YOU saved
!!!!
Thank YOU Rikki’s supporters
!!!! YOU make it all possible
!!!! Without YOU, Pepe and Juan and
all the others would never have had their second chance !!!!
Kick up your heals and dace
for joy !!!! YOU are saving so many
lives !!!!
Isn’t it wonderful what we
can do together?
Please help us now and make
a donation that will be matched dollar for double !!!
Love you bunches,
Opie
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