My goodness !!! Fall is certainly upon us, is it not? One day it was hot summer and then it rained and turned into fall for sure. The leaves are a turnin and a fallin ..... Overnight we’re chowing down almost twice what we were just a few weeks ago!! Even though our minds know you’ll always be there to feed us .... our bodies worry about the lack of food in the winter ... so we flip into instinctual stuff it down while you can mode !!! Have you found yourself eating more lately?
We’re
closing in to the end of the Shelter Challenge
Please
vote daily thru the 13th !!
You’re voting to feed the cats and dogs and everybody
else at Rikki’s Refuge
Winning contests is a big part of our budget
Please help out !!
Your clicks translate into food !!!
You DO NOT have to use Facebook
for voting --- you can use any EMAIL ADDRESS instead !!! OR vote without signing in !!!
Just click on the pic ... or
this link http://www.shelterchallenge.com/web/charityusa/nomineehome?userId=53331&nomineeId=17448
Remember to always vote
“Rikkis Refuge, VA, USA” ... if you’ll please, please log in every day and vote
for me you’ll be helping me to win food for the animals !!!
Fall
means Halloween is coming !!!
That can be fun and
scary. It’s fun to trick or treat and
get good things eat !! It’s always good
to get good things to eat !! But it
can be scary for us animals.
All those folks coming
round, dressed up funny, some dressed up scary, making scary sounds. This upsets my doggy friends a lot ... they have jobs of protecting their homes and
their families and they don’t know about the fun people have on Halloween. So they can get scared and they might growl
or even bite one of your Trick or Treaters.
So please help them out on Halloween, let them stay inside in a safe
room. Don’t let them answer the door
with you to hand out candy. You never
know when a terrible fright might make the nicest dog in the world get scared
and nip our of fear. And please, don’t
leave your dog outside on Halloween night.
Keep us kitties in mind
too. Most every body is nice to
us. But there are a few not very nice
people who might do not so nice things.
It’s best to let us stay inside too.
Especially your black kitties.
We’re not going to sit on your pumpkins and pose as lawn ornaments for
you !!! Please let us stay in a nice
warm room, snuggled up and away from the human fun of Halloween !!! Thank you !!!
And
Halloween Means Pumpkins
Raise your hand (or send me
an email mail@RikkisRefuge.org if you can help
haul pumpkins to Rikki’s. They’ll be
pick up sites in Northern Virginia, Richmond, Charlottesville, Spotsylvania,
Fredericksburg and just about anywhere.
We need folks at the pumpkin sites to help load. And folks who have trucks, trailers, vans to
drive. Please let me know if you would
like to volunteer with the Great Pumpkin Patch Pickin’ !
Do
you love food?
Well,
so do the animals at Rikki's.
They love it so much that
they are given some every single day!
The animals are so appreciative of the food, that they sometimes share
their meals with their friends.
Costco and Wegman's in
Fredericksburg love to help us feed the animals (and Rikki's bank account
appreciates them, too!). But, we need
help getting the food from the stores to the refuge. Can you help? The animals
will be oh, so grateful!
All you need is a large
vehicle (like a pickup truck or van with seats removed, or an SUV) and a couple
of hours. Costco gives us food every
day, Monday through Saturday, and Wegman's gives it to us on Tuesdays and
Saturdays. Food from Costco must be
picked up between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., and Wegman's can be picked up any time
between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Whether you can pick up 1
day a week, or 1 day a month, won't you join our team, and help give the
animals at Rikki's delicious, fresh produce?
It helps to keep the animals healthy!
If you can help, please
contact Melissa at dogslife24@comcast.net
Rap
with Vincent
Don’t pay him no mind about
advertising the wrong dates and locations ... he made this video a couple years
ago.
But we need YOUR HELP this
holiday season !!!
We have some good clean fun
coming up in Barnes & Noble Book Stores in Charlottesville, Fredericksburg,
Richmond and Northern Virginia. You get
to be inside where it’s warm. And you
wrap the books folks have bought as gifts.
You wrap, they give a donation !!!
Is that cool or what !!! We need
your help. Please sign up as a
volunteer to wrap for an hour or two, mail@RikkisRefuge.org
This is something you can do
at any Barnes and Noble on the planet .... just ask the manager how you can
sign up for the Holiday Fundraising Program !!!
Sandy
Paws Needs YOU too !!
Sandy Paws is a very good
fundraiser at PetSmart. Melissa has
been asked about doing pictures with Santa again this year at Petsmart. Santa is lined up to provide the lap. Can YOU be his elves and help out? Please contact Melissa ASAP so we can secure
dates, Melissa at dogslife24@comcast.net
Angel
Trees Rock
It’s a fabulous
program. Merchants invite us to put up
a tree in their store. Rikki’s has the
trees ... we just need YOU to help set them up !! We have ornaments with pictures of the animals and a wish list of
what they want for Christmas. The
customers pick an ornament and buy a gift for an animal. A bottle of bleach for Petunia the Piggy,
some Fancy Feast for me .... The
customer leaves the gift under the tree.
Every week or day, depending on how busy YOUR store is, you pick up the
supplies and restock the ornaments.
It’s easy and it’s a HUGE winter help to the animals.
We’ll have trees in Northern
Virginia, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Virginia Beach.
Will you be an Opie’s Elf
and help me collect the nums at one store in your area? mail@RikkisRefuge.org
VOLUNTEERS
These are all fabulous ways
to help Rikki’s Refuge. Please sign up
for an event soon. We NEED YOU !!!!
I’m
not so sure about this Government Fur Low ....
you’d think they’d want Fur
High with winter coming .... but I know it’s making some of us skip meals. Many of our regular supporters haven’t been
able to help us this week. And that is
scary.
The first sign winter is
coming at Rikki’s .... is the food bill goes up. We all start eating more and more. Longer nights and colder weather and we’re getting ready for
winter just the way nature planned.
We’re fattening up and growing thicker longer hair. And it takes lots of nums to grow all this
luscious fur
Winter is coming and we’re
trying to fill the pantry so we don’t have to go hungry on a snowy day when mom
can’t get out to the store ......
Please help us if you can
..... we’re a little scared now, and
it’s not cuz of the ghosts and ghouls coming for Halloween .... we’re getting
worried about our next meal .... Would
you help us out please? http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
ONE DOLLAR will buy FOUR
MEALS ..... $25 will feed ONE HUNDRED
of us !!!! You can just imagine how
far we can make $100 go !!! Thank you
so much for skipping a cup of fancy coffee, dessert, or a movie this week. We so appreciate your help. http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
And those of you having a
hard time, those without jobs, those of you fur lowed .... YOU are in our
prayers. May better times come to us
all soon.
Sometimes
in the Animal World
.... well maybe most of the
time, you should expect the unexpected !!!!
It’s like volunteering
Rikki’s Refuge ..... the unexpected
always happens .... and the emus make
off with your earrings .... the sheep
squeeze out the gate and you are lost for three days in the woods hunting them
down ..... the pigs are overly anxious
for their slop and knock you flat in the mud !!! It’s all in the normal day volunteering at Rikki’s Refuge.
Yet .... YOU can VOTE, help
haul PUMPKINS, tote the PRODUCE to the animals, WRAP in the nice climate
controled environment of Barnes and Noble and be SANDY PAWS assistant all on a
fixed scheduled .... without any unespected .... or dirty ... or scary ....
happenings !!
THANK
YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING TODAY!!
I’ve
got some fun coming up for you at Rikki’s Refuge.
Saturday, October 19, Full
Moon Walk
Saturday, October 26,
Halloween Tour at Rikki’s and Nature Hike
Saturday, November 16,
Nature Appreciation Day, Tour and Nature Hike at Rikki’s Refuge and Full Moon
Walk
Contact us by email mail@RikkisRefuge.org for details, times and tickets, all events
at Rikki’s require tickets in advance.
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 Winter is just around the corner ... we’re
getting ready to buy winter bedding and stocking the pantry in case of bad
weather .... would you ... could you
... please ... help us out just a little bit?
Every penny counts ... 25 of them add up to feed one of us a meal !!!!
Love you bunches,
Opie
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