Easter Cats !!!
Thank you Melissa Felts,
Melanie Hansford and Nora Eldridge for giving a lovely Easter Day Tour
!!!! And thank you Paul Erhard for
capturing it all in photos !!!! Thank
you Cindy Wright for cleaning up Doggy Downs on Saturday !!!
Thank you Melanie Hansford for bringing Easter Nums
for us !!!!!
The
SHELTER CHALLENGE is back !!!!
Help us win the grant to buy
a pallet of cat food .... please vote
today and every day thru June 29 !!!
It’s easy, simple and FREE to vote .... you just go to this link http://www.shelterchallenge.com/web/charityusa/nomineehome?userId=53331&nomineeId=17448
and
enter Rikkis Refuge (no ‘ ... see ??)
in VA in the USA and that’s it ...
they’ll ask you to copy in a secret word .... sometimes it’s a cool word ... like feast ... and some times it
just a bunch of letters !!!! But if
you can copy it right .... than you’ve voted right !!!! Thank you
My Uncle
James Caught the Easter Bunny
“I caught the Easter Bunny
sneaking around my garage! Fed her some high class salad greens and then took
her to live at the nice park close by !.!”
Girl Scout
Troop 527 -- you are awesome !!!!!
You’ve
earned your BRONZE AWARD !!!!
Have YOU earned yours? To earn the Bronze Award, Girl Scouts have
made a promise to help others, to improve their community, and to become the
best that they can be !!
That’s a pretty awesome
oath, don’t you think ?
Thank you for choosing
Rikki’s Refuge as your Take Action Project !!!
You got
skills ????
We’re looking for a few good
volunteers with good handyhooman skills.
Carpentry, roofing, repairs .....
If you got your tools and you can travel and you is creative and can work
with materials we have donated .... we
need your help !!! You got to be
independent, able to work without guidance and able to figure it out !!! We gots lots of things that need fixin after
the winter .... I don’t know much about
these things being a cat and all ....
So I need to point to it .... and say ... see, it don’t work .... you can fix now please ??? If you can think on your feet and help us
out and have the tools and the time and can either scrounge thru our materials
... or can scrounge the community for them .... please let me know !!! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Also we still have a LOT of
field fencing that needs to come down about 15 miles west of Rikki’s
Refuge. It’s pulling staples out of
fencing and then rolling up the fencing.
If you can transport it, that’s great ... if not, that’s ok, we got
somebody with a trailer who can help too.
This is independent study !!!!
You can do it at your pace on your time .... will you help us get this fencing for the sheep ? Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
One of our staff hasn’t
shown up for the last three days. It’s
really critical as his counterpart is on vacation so we were really depending
on him. So we have a real 8 am to 5 pm,
five day a week (ah yup, you gotta work weekends and holidays, but you’ll get
two days off during the week) paying job open.
You need to have two skills,
or be willing to learn them. You need
to work on meds, giving shots and pills and bathes and so on to all kinds of
animals. So you can’t be scared at all
!! No sireeee, can’t be scared of
holding down a feral cat and cleaning his ears and popping him with worming
meds !!!
AND you need to be a handy
hooman, handy with the hammer and saws, or at least willing to learn. Helping Doug put up fences and fix roofs and
all that kind of stuff.
If you’d like to apply for a
job with us, please arrive at the Education Center at Noon on a Saturday. 21410 Constitution Hwy, Rapidan VA 22733 ...
at the corner of Constitution Hwy and Quarterhorse Ln. Orientation starts at noon .... please do not be late !!! All applications must be in person !!!
And lastly ... the grass is growing ... though the sheep would probably love to get
to eat it all .... and we sure wish
they could ..... we need help mowing
what isn’t fenced in .... if you’ve got
mowers or weed whackers you can bring out (gas powered ... no electric cords are long enough !!!!) and help us mow and trim .... please let me know !!! Another week or two and all the animals will
be lost in the jungle !! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Tis the
Season every one in rescue dreads .....
It’s kitten season. And puppy season. And ..... First of all,
please remember to spay and neuter ALL your animals. As long as animals are dying in shelters because there are simply
not enough homes .... please don’t
bring any into this world. Every birth
will mean a death in a shelter. And
yes, your clinic and spay even in advanced pregnancy. It’s sad, but it’s far less sad than living animals dying in
shelters. Please SPEUTER and please
tell everyone you know to speuter. All
yours “fixed”, think about donating to “fix” one for someone who can’t afford
it. At most SPEUTER CLINICS you’re only
talking about $25-$30 for a male cat and $50-$75 for a female. A little more for larger dogs. You can donate to Rikki’s SPEUTER fund, or to
the Pana Speuter Clinic in Guatamala, just put a note on your donation so it
goes to the right place.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Second ... if you think this kitty is cute drinking
from a bottle .... your local shelter
has orphaned kittens right now and they’d love your help raising them. When you foster you take care of the kitty
or doggy for a while. A few weeks or
months, until they’re old enough to be “fixed” and adopted or till a foster
home is found. There’s not an adoption
organization out there that doesn’t need your help. Please pick up that phone now and call your local shelter and
help them to save another life.
Thirdly .... if you can possibly take in one more real
live full time forever resident ....
adopt someone today. That purrfect
kitty or doggy is waiting there for you ....
Just one more .... if each of us
could adopt just one more .....
Please help the animals !!!!
Thank you
Opie’s
Wisdom
If you’ve got a good one
you’d like to share, please send it to me !!!
Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
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 looking forward to Spring!!
Love you bunches,
Opie
I’m headed out to enjoy this
weather ... gonna chuck my jacket in a
bit !!!! Sun’s out and it’s NICE
!!!! See ya ......
