Please help us fulfill this
$32,768 DOUBLE YOUR DONATION CHALLENGE by MIDNIGHT tonight ... 12/31 ....
As of right now we have only
$12,671.13 funded ..... Don’t let us
loose any of that precious money.
Every dollar we are short
.... is two dollars the animals don’t have.
The fulfillment of this
challenge will give the animals, and those of us who care for them peace of
mind and a respite from worry and fear for FIFTY days !! www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
Have you ever laid awake at
night wondering where the next meal is coming from?
It’s not pleasant when it’s
for yourself. When it’s for the animals
you love and care for .... it’s the most horrible feeling in the world.
Nightmares are knowing a
winter storm is coming, and you find your credit is overdrawn and you can buy
no more straw for warm bedding.
Going to the medicine chest
for thyroid meds, insulin for diabetics, fluids for kidney patients, pain meds
for the arthritic, to find the supply dangerously low, the bank account lower,
and have to worry about juggling food vs meds.
Watching the gauge go down,
down, down on the propane tank, and praying a donation will come in before it’s
too low to heat the hospital or 9th Life Center.
Watching the electric meter
spinning, faster, faster, round and round, and knowing that if it’s cut off, there
will be no pump to give us water, no refrigeration for vaccines and
medications.
It’s a gut wrenching feeling
when you watch your beloved animals happily cozyed up with one another sleeping
peacefully, and you’re pacing, trying not to wake them, too upset to sleep,
worried if the mail will bring in enough donations to make it another day,
another week, another month.
When you have 1300 lives
depending on you, there’s no sleeping in the next morning cuz the nightmares
kept you up all night.
Fearing for the funds to
care for everyone, is my biggest and most constant worry.
What will I do if I can’t
make it one day? If I can’t feed
them? If I can’t buy their
medicine? If I can’t take them to the
doctor?
There’s no welfare, no
government organization to help, no homeless shelter that would have room for
them.
The thought of what would
happen .... that’s what wrenches my gut at night .... that’s what keeps me
awake .... that’s what I live in terror of.
It’s only with your help
that I know we can make it. Your kind
and generous donations.
I gave up working for a
living to care for the animals. I have
a very simple lifestyle. I don’t need
much. All I want is to care for the
animals nobody else wants. To give them
life, love, hope and a bright future.
I work full time ... many
many many hours more than a “normal” full time job, every day, from sun up till
sun down, no time off, no weekends or days off .... I’m a volunteer so the hours I can work are not regulated ....
I receive no compensation but knowing in my heart I have taken broken,
hurt, rejected souls, and I have turned them into happy, frolicking, loving animals
! The hours I work are the hours that
it takes to make Rikki’s successful, to keep the animals happy and well cared
for. And it’s so worth it to me !!! I’m so happy to be able to do this.
But I NEED YOUR HELP .... I can’t do it all alone ....
I have no paycheck each week or each month, that I can use to buy food
and medicine for the animals. I can
provide the labor for free, labor that if I wasn’t giving, Rikki’s would have
to pay someone else to do.
I NEED YOUR
HELP .... I ask that you share a portion of your paycheck with the
animals. It must seem like I ask you to
share all the time. I’m sorry. Yet I COUNT ON
YOU. Because the animals
need care all the time. There is no big
source of money, it all comes in donations, $25 here, $5 there a can full of
change over here.
I’m happy to devote my life
to caring for the animals, I thank YOU for being happy to make it possible !!
Kerry
Love,
Kerry & Opie
PLEASE
