Morning !!!! I’ve got a book out !!! My very first, very own book !!!
I’ve got a problem, can you
help? I want to be a Top Cat. That is a big honor at Rikki's Refuge and that
means I have to know alot about the place. My friends are saying I’m too young.
They don't think I knows all the differences between the animals at Rikki's and
I think they are trying to trick me. Help me prove them wrong. 100 colorful
photos taken around the refuge are used to illustrate this book. There are 25
challenge pages with four photos on each page. One does not belong. There may
be more than one difference on each page but there is only one right answer.
You will need to use the clue at the top of each page to figure out the photo
that does not belong. If you get stuck there is an answer page in the back.
This book is formatted to be viewed in landscape mode. It is geared towards
kids 5-8, but everyone will enjoy the photos of the animals. All proceeds from
the sale of this book go to care for the animals at Rikki's Refuge.
So grab your copy and help
me solve the puzzles TODAY !!!
Thank YOU
!!!
for voting in the Shelter
Challenge - you DID make a huge difference.
It takes each and every one of YOU to make Rikki’s happen !!! YOUR voting brought in $1,000 ..... AND .... we’ll be receiving either 50 pet
beds or 100 vaccines too !!!! You DID
IT !!!!
YOU, my friend, are FABULOUS
.... and I LOVE you so so so much
.... cuz it’s all cuz of YOU that we
all got a second chance and we get to live at Rikki’s !!!!
Yippie .. Let’s hear a BIG hand for our wonderful
friends !!! Sing with me !!!
Lives YOU
have Saved
Thanks to YOU and your
support ... you make it possible for Rikki’s to save lives every day. Lives that others would have tossed
away. To us every soul matters, no
matter how small, how many legs, fur, feathers or scales .... they all deserve a comfortable life.
And YOU make that possible
when you support Rikki’s Refuge. Thank
you !!
Got a Green
Thumb ??
Wouldn’t these look cool at Rikki’s?
Fruit for
Life
Teaching hoomans about
kindness is one of our very important missions at Rikki’s Refuge. Kindness to the animals. Kindness to one another. We hope that someday all meanness in the
world has gone away. And that everyone
will always do everything in kindness.
It’s really not hard. It just
means thinking about the options each time you’re picking an action .... and
opting for the kind action.
Rikki’s Education Center was
born in December. We’ve had lots of
programs there. And as we gear up there
will be more and more. We’ve got a lot
of work to do to fulfill all our dreams of what our Education Center will be.
One project we’re working on
now is planting a row of fruit trees at one of the borders. This is a two fold project. It will provide a pleasant shield between
our animals and the neighbors, and it will give our animals yummy fruit in
later years.
You can be a part of this
project by donating a hardy fruit tree.
We’ll be adding signs with donors’ names. Bring your tree to Donation Drop Off on Saturdays between noon
and 2 pm. Add a $10 donation if you’d
like your name attached to your tree.
Please be sure to give us your name printed clearly. You can also do “In Memory of .... “ or “In
Honor of ...”
If you can’t make it out
with a tree, for a $50 donation our volunteers will pick up the tree for
you. Same deal on a sign, if you’d like
one.
Click http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php
to order your tree, and sign if you wish.
Please add in the comment area that this is for a tree and if you’re
requesting a sign too, then be sure to include your name as you’d like it to
appear.
The goats, sheep, cows and
horses who will one day inhabit this area of the Education Center say THANK YOU
!!!!
Donation
Drop Off
21410 Constitution Highway
(Route 20), Rapidan VA 22733 is the address of our Education Center. We have a Docent on duty every Sat from noon
to 2 pm. The gate is right there at the
corner of Rt 20 and Quarter Horse Ln.
Volunteer opportunities to
be a Donation Drop Off Docent --- just email us and let us know you’d like to
help out one weekend !! Thank you. mail@RikkisRefuge.org
Kathy and
Kim moving furniture
in for the first event held at the Education Center.
Vegetarian
Thanksgiving
This is the kitchen at the
Education Center and where we’ll be cooking up nummy vegan and vegetarian
things for Thanksgiving Dinner .... some of our friends may join us .... but
not in the oven or on our plates.
We give thanks for all life
forms .... preferring to see them eat
... than being eaten ...
If you’d like to join us in
a celebration of life at our Thanksgiving Lifesaving Feast just ask me for
details mail@RikkisRefuge.org It will be on Saturday, November 23, 2013
... we’ve picked Saturday for our
Thanksgiving as many folks wanted to be with their families on traditional
Thanksgiving. We pray that no matter
where you are celebrating Thanksgiving ....
that part of your thanks will be for life ... life of our animal friends
...
Up
Coming Fun
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.
Still looking for volunteers
to help haul produce from grocery stores in the Fredericksburg area to Rikki’s.
Volunteers to help haul
pumpkins in over the next couple week.
All over Virginia !!
Volunteers to help Sandy
Paws at Fredericksburg PetSmarts with Photo Taking in December.
Volunteers to help with
wrapping for donations at Barnes & Noble Bookstores. We have Falls Church, Richmond,
Spotsylvania, Charlottesville and Virginia Beach lined up .... and it can be done at B&Ns anywhere ....
And of course .... scoop
poop at Rikki’s !!!!
mail@RikkisRefuge.org to volunteer or
ask questions !!!
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO SAVE
SO MANY LIVES
... with your support we’re
able to help so many into their new furrever happy homes .... and to give that life long home to those not
quite so fortunate ... Thank you for
your support
Without YOU none of us would
be breathing today !!
Love you bunches,
Opie
2013 is the Year of the Purr ....
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Magnet is $5 each, plus shipping (65-cents for 1 magnet,
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