ARE YOU SEEING DOUBLE TODAY?
I was supposed to welcome you to December yesterday .... but I was so
confused. I woke up and it was spring
.... and I was thinkin I missed all of
winter ... it was warm and beautiful and sunny and just wonderful outside
..... And so I catnapped in the sun.
Today I wake up and it’s certainly December !!
WELCOME to December on Planet Earth !!!
My FAVORITIST planet of all !!!
Did you know they call today Giving Tuesday ?
I didn’t know bout that till I gotz a call from a special somebody early
early this mornin. And that special
somebody said ... I give you special deal Opie, my friend.
And I say, oh yeah? What? I love special deals! Specially if they got Fancy Feast on
them!!
My friend said ... well not xactly Fancy Feast ... not right directly
now, but I bet a smart boy like you could find a way to turn it into Fancy
Feast. You see I heard that you’ve had
a tough time this year ... and that the year is almost over ... and you gotz so
many bills to pay that you’re worried about how you’re going to stock the
pantry before it gets really cold.
And I said to my friend, You is right.
It’s been pretty hard. It was so
wet so long and that made the fields get mushy and so the grass got trampled
and didn’t grow so good. And I had to
give lots of my Fancy Feast money to the cowas for hay. And to the Donkeys and the Sheep and the Goats
and the Horses .... Yeah ... they gotta
eatz too so I feedz them.
And, my friend said, I herd you had to replace a sewer line and I know
that’s big bucks. And Mrs Donkey has
needed a lot of care. Isn’t the doc
coming to see her about every two weeks?
And the farrier a lot too?
Ha ha ha, I saidz, you’s a hooman and you said herd ... not heard ...
heeee .... but I gues it was a herd of bucks we had to pay for dat sewer
line. I told mom just to leave it, who
needs da sewer, they can all use litterboxz but mom said it was for the washing
machine to make my beds nice and clean and for the dishes so I don’t gotta eat
of moldy old icky bowls ... so I said, ok then, I Chief Cat authorize you to
get new sewer line. Yes I do, I gotta
have a nice clean bed and I don’t wanna eat not moldy icky stuff neither. And yeah, BeBe has had lots of problems
with her legs, but the docs have been makin her better so that’s ok to spend
the money, we want everybody here to feel good and be healthy. Just maybe no more shots no more, huh?
Ok little fellar, said my hooman friend, let me get to the point. It’s Giving Tuesday, and I’ll make a deal
with you. You tell all your friends
.... and for the 24 hours after they hear about it, I’ll DOUBLE all their
DONATIONS to you !!! How about that my
friend? They give you one can of Fancy
Feast and I’ll give you one and than you’ll have TWO !!!! What you think?
And I said, I think I love you whole lots !!!! Yes I do, yes, that’s what I think. I love you more than mom, if en you’ll give me TWO cans of Fancy
Feast and she only give me one!!!
But Opie, my friend said, Just one last thing ........
Yes? I merowed ... thinkin oh no ... don’t take way my
wonderful suprise, pleaz?
You gotta promise me you’ll share, and you’ll use this money to pay some
of those bills. It’s really important
that you get those bills paid. You’re
going to need propane to keep warm very soon.
And filling that tank is a whole herd of bucks .... and you don’t got
that now ... and you can’t take the propane and say Bill me Later .... you’re
gonna have to pay for it ... so you gots to get these bills finished and away
and then be ready to pay your new bills.
Bills come and go, it’s just the way of the world. And my little fellow, you gotta get caught
up. And you need to do that quick. You can have TWO cans of Fancy Feast every
day .... but the rest has to feed everybody and pay those bills .... OK, my
man?
Yes siree I said !!! Yes, I will
do that. I promise. Now I have to scurry off and write to my
friends about this !!!!
Ok FRIENDS wez got 24 hours from the time you read this .... to DOUBLE
YOUR DONATION .... HURRY ..... QUICK .....
you can do it right here www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate .... or you can do
it by mail if you like that better ....
my address for this special DOUBLE YOUR DONATION DAY is
Giving Tuesday
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 1357
Orange VA 22960
But if you gonna mail, you need to tell me that NOW in an email,
Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org, to make it count in the next 24 hours !!! So HURRY !!!!! On your mark .... get set
...... DONATE for GIVING TUESDAY and
DOUBLE IT !!!!
Yeah !!!!!!!
Hi Timmy here .... I'm just sitting round hoping for enough to
eat this holiday season ... would YOU help me kick off Giving Tuesday ??? AND we have a very special deal at Rikki's
Refuge today .... ALL donations for the
next 24 hours will be DOUBLED !!!!
Don't feed one of us .... when you can feed TWO of us !!!! www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
.... mention Giving Tuesday to DOUBLE
YOUR DONATION !!!! Love you !!
So YOU know what season it is
Don’t YOU ??
Start this music playing before you read any further ......
At Rikki’s, we are known for never doing anything in a small way. And so for our 1297 critters of 22 species
..... 12 Days of Christmas would never
be enough ..... we present to you
.... the 28 Days of Christmas at Rikki’s
.... follow along daily .....
On the First Day of Christmas .....
Look What Came to Rikki’s,
..... a
Chukar in a Cherry Tree.
Chuck, pictured above, was the first Chukar to ever come to Rikki’s. Well, unless one out there in the wild had
happened on by to visit. Though we’ve
never seen any wild Chukars here. Chuck
and his wife had been rescued several years before. Chukars are slow and gentle birds. And so they are often used to train hunting dogs on. The larger multi colored pheasants are more
desirable as hunting trophies. You’ve
never seen a Chukar hanging on someone’s wall have you?
It’s exciting for dogs to chase a bird, and when training a dog to hunt
(please do not do this at home, or anywhere else, it’s not a very nice thing to
do to any birds and we don’t think a nice thing to teach dogs either) they
often start with Chukars. The dog has a
better chance of catching -- and killing -- a Chukar tossed his way, than a
faster bird.
Well that’s exactly what Chuck and his wife were being used for. They were injured and tossed aside. A wonderful person saved them and took them
to a guy who rehabs birds. He had them
for a while, and Chuck’s wife passed away.
He feared Chuck would be lonely, and so Chuck came to live at Rikki’s
Refuge with other birds who’d also been so lucky and saved.
We have many homing pigeons .... and if they home and they get lost ....
nobody wants them. Nobody that is,
except Rikki’s Refuge.
At Rikki’s we don’t care what your background was. We only care about making your future bright
and happy. Will you drop a penny in our
favorite cat’s hat this holiday season to make the days bright and happy for
the 1297 animals YOU have saved !!!
Thank you !!
click on Vincent’s
hat to make our dreams come true !!
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO
SAVE SO MANY LIVES
... with your support we’ve been able to save so many animals ... it’s
only with your continued support that we can continue to care for them each and
every day .... Thank you for your kind
and generous support for food, medicine, doctors, cleaning supplies ... and
love !!
Without YOU
none of us would be here
thinking about what the holidays might
bring this year !!
THANK YOU !!!!!!
Your donations saved every one of us and will keep us all alive the rest
of this year and into 2015 .... we pray.
Please HELP US as we stock our pantries for another winter at Rikki’s
Refuge !!!! Take the Opie Pledge and promise to work each and every day to
make the planet just a little bit better.
If the pictures of the animals you have saved in this issue have made
you smile, please take a few moments to make a donation so we can keep them
smiling!!! www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
Love,
Opie
PS I want you to
know something very important. We
always spend your funds very wisely and frugally. We buy the basic necessities, we buy generic in bulk, volunteers
drive many miles, donating the cost of gas, to get the best deals, we use day
old produce, recently expired products, others left over construction materials
and recycled products.
We don’t need luxury, we don’t need the best ... we just want to save
lives and create a world of happiness and contentedness.
When we can meet our basic needs, we are happy ... so very happy.
Thank YOU for making that happen.
Join us on
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RikkisRefuge\
Rikki’s Web Site: www.rikkisrefuge.org
Help the Animals: www.rikkisrefuge.org/FeedMe
Re-Tail: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org
our thrift store
Web Site:
www.rikkisrefuge.org/?page_id=6330
Location:
3503 Lafayette Blvd, Fredericksburg VA 22408
Phone:
540-891-5300
Hours:
10 am - 6 pm Monday - Saturday
noon - 5 pm - Sunday
