Happy Late Labor Day !!!
And Welcome to Fall !!!
I’m glad I got lots of fur
on these chilly nights !!! Lots of my
friends are back to school. I’ll keep
on going to schools to teach humane education when ever I get invited !! I like going to school. So if you’d like me to come to your class,
just call 540-854-0870 x3 and ask for a reservation.
I like going to all kinds of
special events. And the summer was just
full of them. One of the biggest of the
year is the National Capital Cat Show at the Dulles Expo Center.
My Auntie Melissa
took me. You
can see the family resemblance, can’t you?
I had a kissing booth there
and lots of my friends came to see me .... and to kiss me!!!
My friend Linda
came all the way from
Florida to visit me!!! She’s been a friend a long time and moved to
Florida a couple years ago. She
traveled all that way just for some snuggles and a kiss !!!!
I was so excited when I got
to go home with my friend Walker to spend the night!
It was my first sleep over
ever !!! Walker used to live at
Rikki’s, but he got adopted and moved to Reston, just about 100 miles
away. Since he’s so much closer to
where the cat show was, I got to spend Saturday night with him instead of going
all the way home to Rikki’s Refuge here in Orange. It was lots of fun!
You’ll be able to catch me
at the Fredericksburg Pet Expo on September 21 from 10 - 5 and Sunday the 22
from 11 - 4. Here’s more info, http://www.fredericksburgpetshow.com/
That’s less than 2 weeks
away. It's a great time! And I need YOUR
help to make it a success!!!
There will be a water-skiing
squirrel, a pet talent contest, and lots of demonstrations. If you would like to join us and help us in
the booth, we'd love to have you! There
is a cost of $3 per person who will be working the booth. The deadline for committing is this
Thursday, Sept. 12!
We will have 2 shifts on
Saturday, Sept. 21: 10:00 until
1:00 and 1:00 until 5:00. On Sunday, there is only 1 shift: 11:00 until 4:00, but your help will be
needed after 4:00 for taking down the booth and getting everything back to my
car.
The goal is to tell everyone
about Rikki's, and sell lots and lots of stuff! (like we did at the Cat Show
this last weekend!)
Please contact my Aunt
Melissa at dogslife24@comcast.net
if you can come out and help me be a star at this event !!!
And I’ll be at the Charlottesville
Vegetarian Festival on September 28, 2013, Saturday, from 11:00 till 5:00. You can learn more about it here: http://cvillevegfest.org/ and I hope you come out to visit me !! AND if you’d like to help us out at this
event let Uncle Ron topcat@cstone.net
know. I sure hope you will.
The Shelter Challenge is BACK ....
and I’m begging you to vote
for MY sanctuary ... Rikkis Refuge, in
Orange, VA, USA ... if you’ll log on every day and vote for me you’ll be
helping me to win food for the animals !!!
How to vote for Rikki's Refuge in the Shelter Challenge!
1. Click on this voting link:
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2. Click on the “SIGN IN” icon
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4. VOTE!
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5. SHARE!
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Events at Rikki’s Refuge
If you don’t want to travel
to visit me at events, call me 540-854-0870 x3 or email me for tickets.
mail@RikkisRefuge.org for tickets to some local Rikki’s Refuge fun:
September 21, 2013,
Saturday and October 19, 2013, Saturday
Full Moon Walk at Rikki’s Refuge
October 26, 2013,
Saturday Halloween Tour & Nature
Hike at Rikki’s Refuge
Advance tickets are required
for all on site events and space is limited, so apply early !!
It’s Been
a Long Time
Geee I didn’t realize it’d
been quite so long since I wrote you a Good Morning Good News .... it was on July 22nd .... long
long ago .... Great Grand Pa had just
gotten home to Rikki’s from Florida and had just gotten back to work keeping
our litterboxes all clean and nice.
The next night he woke up feeling something awful and went to the
hospital and it a pulmonary embolism - that’s a blood clot in his lung. He felt really bad. It make him very weak and very sleepy for a
very long time. He slept for about a
month while, thanks to the prayers from so many of you friends, his body was
working on healing. Now he’s doing good
and exercising - they call it physical therapy - to get real strong again. Heee Heee Heee a nice lady called a physical
therapist comes to the house a couple times a week .... and she’s allergic to
cats !!!!! I hope she’ll make GGP
real strong real quick so she can stop sneezing for an hour visit !!!!!
We’re looking for a few good hoomans.
Good hoomans who want to
devote their lives to caring about us.
I mean, I know YOU care about us !!
But I need some folks who are caring AND cleaning for us everyday. We need a few folks to work here and help
sanitize everything for out protection everyday. Most of the work with animals is cleaning up. I’m sorry, we don’t really mean to be a
bunch of filthy animals ... it’s just ... well .... we can ... so ... I guess
... we do ...
Hmmmm anyway, we’re looking for
a few more folks to help us keep everything nice and clean and of course to
feed us and to help give us our meds and all.
The hoomans tell me it’s pretty hard, physically hard, work. Lots of heavy stuff to pick up and move
around. Like lifting all the
litterboxes to dump them thru the sifters to take the poo out and all the
little they have to haul in and out .. in and out .. in and out .... And some of the aminals are really lucky
too and their food come in 50 pound sacks ... and some of them get several
sacks a day .... like the pigs and the
goats and the sheep and the cows. So
it’s moving lots and lots of heavy stuff about.
And some of dem hoomans is
rude and say it’s a stinky job ....
well, poo on them ... I guess that’s what they’re talking about ... all the poo that has to be cleaned up every
day. Well sorry, but I bet if they made
YOU poo in a box it wouldn’t smell so good either !!!! And we all gotz to poo !!!! Every day .... sometimes lots of times every day .... and .... well .. it all gots to be cleaned up.
I need hoomans to work for
me that love me, and do a job that isn’t the easiest and doesn’t smell like
working in a garden, but makes their heart feel all warm inside cuz they know
it’s all about love and caring and it’s what it really takes to keep any animal
place running well.
So if youz one of dem
hoomans, call 540-395-3339, to listen about coming for an interview !!!!
Donation Drop Off is back !!!!
We’ve got a docent now
working Donation Drop off .... so you can come Saturdays, between noon and 2
pm, to drop off wonderful donations .....
like Fancy Feast .... and other yummy things. Donation Drop Off is NOT at the sanctuary .... we had to stop that cus of all the traffic
and the safety of the animals.
Donation Drop Off is now at
our North Facility. 21410 Constitution
Hwy, Rapidan VA 22733 is the official address and the driveway is right off
route 20 (Constitution Hwy), right at the corner of 20 and Quarterhorse Lane. The gates will be opened there from noon to
2 pm, every Saturday, where you can stop in and drop off nums and other
things needed for the animals and the sanctuary.
And if you’d like to be a
Donation Drop Off Docent .... raise your hand and let mom know, kerry@RikkisRefuge.org all you gotta
do is sit on the porch ... or inside the climate controlled house and direct
donors where to drop off !! Only two
hours a week. Take a shift once a
month, or once a year !!! NO litter
boxes to clean!
We’re only able to accept
items for use at the sanctuary. No yard
sale items at this time. We’re simply
out of storage space !!! But please do
hang on to your gently used yard sale items, we will be opening a Thrift Shop
later this fall. As soon as we have the
plans sorted out and have storage space available .... you’ll be the FIRST to
know !!!! So hang on to that good
stuff ... soon you’ll be able to turn
it into wonderful items for the critters !!!!
Thank you for working with
us, hand in paw, day in and day out, to care for the critters of Rikki’s Refuge
.... we couldn’t do it without YOU!!
Thank you for saving our lives. http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
Love you bunches,
Opie
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