(Thank you Kim, for 17 years
of service to Rikki’s Refuge)
Merry Christmas from all of
US to all of YOU !!!
Celebrating our 17th
Christmas at Rikki’s Refuge .....
WOW ..... That’s amazing !!!
My my my .... time is a
flyin .... and it’s almost the end of the year too !!!! What are your best memories from this
year? Mine are all about YOU. That’s cuz YOU saved my life and the lives
of everybody here at Rikki’s and because you work to do it again and again,
each and every day.
I THANK YOU all.
I THANK YOU for sharing your
money with us so we can eat, have nice beds to sleep in, have family and
friends and best of all LOVE and all the nums we can eat .... I wish I could have all I can eat, but mom
and my doc keep saying d..i..e..t ...
poo on diet .... and all the
nasty flea drops to keep the bugs off and the other nasty medicine to keep us
well .... ick ... but that’s one of the
things mom says is a For Your Own Good Thing ... I’m not so sure about that
.... but I do know I love you for keeping
us all happy and healthy and loved !!!!
THANK YOU for coming to
visit me, and bringing me nums, it makes me so happy when you come .... that anticipation of more Fancy Feast ....
and of getting to snuggle and purr with you !!!! Thank you for coming to help clean up our poo boxes .... cuz you
know ... if we could do it for you we would .... but that a special job for those with opposable thumbs .... so I
think you for having those thumbs and for using them to help us be clean, our
grass be cut, our fences get fixed !!!!
THANK YOU for coming on
Donation Drop off day. Thank you for
being a Donor and a Docent on Saturdays ... without YOU .... it couldn’t happen
!!! Thank you for bringing nums ....
and litter .... and beds .... and all those cleaning supplies ... my gosh all
those cleaning supplies .... and things for Re-Tail ...
THANK YOU for all the gifts
you mail to us, from our amazon need list, to the kind things YOU think of !!
THANK YOU to all of you who
work and volunteer at Re-Tail -- to the donors who made it possible --- what a
wonderful success you have created in just one year !! From the day you opened the doors last
January .... you were a success !!! What a lot of hard work and planning went
into the creation of this store and what a lot of hard works goes in behind the
scenes every day. YOU walk in and see a
beautifully maintained laid out store ...
I see all that hard work that goes on, cleaning items, sorting, pricing,
stocking, keeping everything so nice and neat and clean. THANK YOU ... And to the folks who donate to the store ... well, you know, we
could not exist without YOU !! THANK
YOU !!!
THANK YOU all of you who do
events for Rikki’s .... who haul supplies and critters all over and set up
displays and sell items and promote adoptions and talk to the public and round
up support and donations and volunteers !!!
You’re awesome !!!
And you Wrappers !!! Thank you .... every year at Barnes and Noble ... so many of you (many more
than I have photos of) gather together to wrap gifts for donations. THANK YOU !!!
To my Pumpkin Haulers THANK
YOU !!!! That’s a HARD job .... them pumpkins get heavy .... but all the
animals ... well not the cats and dogs ... but everybody else, so much
appreciate your hard work.
THANK YOU ALL .... who have
made Rikki’s Refuge a success .... You’ve done it for SIXTEEN YEARS .... and here we go ... TOGETHER .... into our
SEVENTEENTH !!!!!!
Hurrah for YOU
for CREATING
this MIRACLE
we call RIKKI’S REFUGE
!!!!
Join The
Three Wise Hoomans of Rikki’s Refuge
they’ve banded together to
make GGP’s wish come true !!!
For 24 hours, they will DOUBLE
YOUR DONATIONS
from 7 pm, Rikki’s Time
(eastern usa) Christmas Eve till 7 pm Christmas Day
all donations ACTUALLY IN
HAND or PAYPAL shall be wisely DOUBLED !!!
How you can join in, make
GGP’s wish come true and DOUBLE YOUR DONATION
1)
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
2) PAYPAL to
mail@rikkisrefuge.org
3) check or cash, DROP OFF
IN PERSON CHRISTMAS DAY
Come to our Christmas
Reception at our Life Center on 12/25/14 between 2-4 PM
21410 Constitution Hwy,
Rapidan VA 22733, the gate is at the corner of rt 20 and Quarterhorse Ln
4) CREDIT CARD BY EMAIL
(name, billing address, number, exp, security number & amount) to
Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org (you may email
us earlier by this method and I promise to wait to run your card until the
fundraiser opens!)
Thank you for making this
the BEST Christmas ever for my GGP !!!
And thank you for helping
Rikki's Refuge!
And all 1300 of us who call
Rikki’s HOME !!
Love, Opie and Duke
Rikki’s 12 Days of Christmas
Refuge Style
!!!! Everything we do is bigger than life size .... so we bring you 28 days of Christmas !!!!
Click and play the music in
the background, while singing along with us ..........
On the
Twenty-Eighth Day of
Christmas
Look What
Came to
Rikki’s,
Twenty
Eight
Ferocious Fanging
Ferals,
Twenty
Seven
Versatile Volunteers,
Twenty
Six
Dogs a
Drooling,
Twenty
Five
Delightful
Donors,
Twenty
Four
Plump Pigs a
Plundering,
Twenty
Three
Goats a
Butting,
Twenty Two
Sheep in Need of
Sheering,
Twenty
One
Chickens a
Cackling,
Twenty
Puppies a
Pooping,
Nineteen
Rebellious
Roosters,
Eighteen
Litter Challenged
Kitties,
Seventeen
Emus Escaping,
Sixteen
Dangerous
Ducklings,
Fifteen
Peaceful
Pigeons,
Fourteen
Peacocks
Plotting,
Thirteen
Humans
Helping,
Twelve
Temperamental
Turkeys
Eleven
Pouting
Pussies,
Ten
Crotchety Creaking
Canines,
Nine
Grumpy
Geese,
Eight
Kicking
Kittens,
Seven
Guinea Fowl
Freeloading,
Six
Lizards a Lazing,
Five
Guinea Pigs a
Gnawing,
Four
Elderly
Equines,
Three
Burly Bossy Bovines,
Two
Rabbits a
Mating,
and a
Chukar in a Cherry
Tree.
YOU are
the
SUNSHINE
that makes
OUR Christmas
BRIGHT
Please put
a penny in our old cat’s
hat!
Thank you,
Vincent D. Cat and Duke
Thomas Peabody
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
celebrating
Christmas 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
