John Kitty --- thank YOU for coming to Rikki’s Refuge and
letting us save your life and for giving us the opportunity to help you have a
long wonderful fulfilling life !!!!
It’s what we do best !!
Did you notice anything
“different” about John Kitty, the brown tabby in the video? The guy reaching up and jumping and chasing
the Red Dot?
Did you notice he’s
differently-abled? Yup ... he sure is.
Do you think it makes him
any different, any less desirable, any less able?
Nope !!!! He’s a great and wonderful kitty. He would have died at the hands of his
owners or at the pound instead of being the chance to lead a fulfilling life
being differently-abled.
What do you think he would
have chosen?
At Rikki’s Refuge we think
LIFE !!!!!
And that’s why we do what we
do !!!!
When life hits you with a
hard one and you’re born with a birth defect, have an accident or illness that
leaves you different .... you have a
choice. You can give up, withdraw from
the world, feel sorry for yourself and be dis-abled.
Or you can put your purr
right back on, say well dang gone bummer uhhh ahhhh scream in the woods and get
the anger and frustration out and then say, now I’m gonna make the best of it
and have a wonderful life being differently-abled !!!
Non-human animals almost
always choose the latter.
And Rikki’s Refuge is here
to help everybody, regardless of their species, reach that goal of being
differently-ABLED.
We’re also here to teach the
world that differently-abled is ok ... it’s just fine .... so you’re missing a leg, you walk funny,
missing an eye, or two, an ear, have a gimpy leg .... so what ..... you’re
still valued every bit as much as someone who looks and acts just like
everybody else .... and you have your
own individuality too !!!! And it’s to
be appreciated.
I love going to schools and
teaching kids about the differently-abled.
Vincent was the best teacher ever.
He’d always scoot right up to the differently-abled kids and he’d love
and snuggle and then he’d teach the class how they were all the same. Starting from see, I’m different. But look at me !! I’m not disabled !!!!
Soon John Kitty will have a
chance to see if he’d like to become a teacher. If he enjoys the roll, he’ll join Opie and Timmy. If he doesn’t, he’s got a good home waiting
for him. He’s received three good
offers for homes. So no matter what he
choose in life .... it’s gonna be good and wonderful !!!
I’ll let him tell you his
story.
IN
THE BEGINNING
Hi, my name is John Kitty
and this is my story of going from ordinary run of the mill run around kitty to
a special differently-abled kitty. I’m
two years old and I’ve lived in a lot of homes. My sibs and I got left at a pound when we were little. I got adopted to a family where I lived for
most of a year.
They gave me away and I
lived with somebody else for a while.
They were moving so I got taken back to the pound. Somebody else took me home last
October. It was a cool place to
live. There were no rules, no bed time,
I was allowed to roam and run all I wanted to.
One day I got hurt. I think you call them automobiles and they
smush kitties and I almost got away, but my left arm got hit and it hurt real
bad. The bone was sticking out at my
wrist. My hoomans said you stoopid cat,
don’t think we’re paying any doc bills for you. So I went out looking for a job, a paper route or something, cuz
I was hurtin and I knew I needed to see the doc.
It’s hard enough to get a
job when you’re not injured and limping, nobody wanted me limping and bleeding.
Not even my hoomans. When the infection got so bad that my leg
was really swollen up, they took me back to the pound. They went home with another kitty. I sure hope he had better luck than me. I loved them ....... Do they grieve for me?
AND
THERE I WAS ... LEFT TO DIE
A volunteer there said, Oh I
hate to see him killed. He’s so
nice. But even if we can fix him up, no
one will adopt a gimpy kitty, let’s call Rikki’s Refuge, they like three legged
cats, maybe they can fix him, and I hear they love everybody.
And somebody, who’s name I
later found out is Mom, came and looked at me.
She said .. ohhhh geee this is
bad .... I don’t think you can save the
leg, but the rest of the kitty is just fine !!!!
And so I went home with
her.
Wondering how long this home
would last, and would they find a way to make it stop hurting. I was starting to feel bad too and my temp
was 105 which the hooman called Mom said was really high.
Mom called her doc and
described my injury to her, it looked like a break at the wrist and an open
wound and really badly infected and doc agreed to see me in the morning and see
what she could do.
Mom gave me some pain meds
and I felt a little better, and she gave me good nums to eat. She was so surprised that I wanted to cuddle
and purr and I was nice and loving and appreciative even though I was in so
much pain.
MY
DAY AT THE HOSPITAL
I was at the doc’s all
day. They wanted to save my leg but
explained to me that the infection was in the bone really bad, and it went up
to the elbow, and my fever was high and they were amazed I’d survived this long
with such a serious bone infection. I
guess I shouldn’t have kept walking on it with the bone sticking out .... but
what else could I do?
When I woke up my leg was
gone from just above the elbow down. I
was kind of sad about that. But I was
tired and not feeling so well and they kept giving me medicine to make me
sleep.
I wondered where I’d go
next. Would I ever see my old hoomans
again, or the ones before that, or the one called Mom who brought me here? Would another hooman want me, now that I was
missing a leg?
Mom came and took me home
again and helped me eat some, and gave me lots of meds, all night long she kept
waking me up with more meds, a shot for this, a shot for that ...... When I’d wake up and cry she’d come pat me
and give me little bites to eat and more medicine to make the pain go
away.
BACK
AT WHAT I HOPE WILL BE MY NEW HOME
The one called Mom takes
this horrible cone contraption off my head to let me eat. I am feeling pretty alert today. And I slept well last night ..... I can’t
manage a purr yet ....... too much pain
..... and I feel so sick ...... the one called Mom keeps talking about me
havin a very high fever and how worried she is. Then she gives me more meds and I sleep.
THINKING I MIGHT RECOVER
This morning I’m able to
stand up and greet her who controls food, I give head butts and purrs hoping
she will continue to feed me ... She takes my cone off while I have
breakfast. While I’m feeling good and
alert, she takes the cone off and lets me eat and move around easier. As I get drowsy, she makes me wear the cone,
I don’t know why, one more humiliation suffered at the hands of hoomans. They must be crazy.
As I’m drifting off, I hear
da hooman say, oh dang .... temp is
still 105 ..... please God please heal
this poor kitty.
WHEN
I WAKE UP THAT EVENING
My temp is down to 104
....she who is stickin me wif needles and puttin icky gunk in my mouth and
puttin cone of shame on me saya she gonna keep puttin that temperature stick in
places it don't belong till it says 101 .....
please, please pray it does
soon. Love, John Kitty
LIFE
IS COMING BACK !
Good Morning !!!! Thank you
for your prayers. I made that lady with the temp stick chase me round to get my
number this morning !!! My temp is
down to 103.2 ..... so I'm fighting the infection !!! Yeahhh
.... and I'm hungry and I
wanna run and hop .... Socrates, Timmy and Opie are teaching me how to get
around.
They tell me I’m not
dis-abled .... but I’m differently-abled ....
and they tell me I’ll have friends here and everybody will love me
! I wonder if my old hoomans miss
me? Do they know I’m alive? Do they care?
I’m even able to jump up on
the bed today !
The lady with the temp stick
and icky tasting meds says I can't play around too much .... and I bet she's gonna
put that cone on me too ...... I hate that cone ..... Why does she DO this to me?
Keep praying for my temp to
get all the way normal .... two more degrees down .... get all the infection
gone, and for me to finish healing up and my fur to grow back .... it's cold
when your shoulder is naked !!
Love, John Kitty I need a
job to pay by bills .... got any openings? Or you can help me here
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
YES
!! I’M GOING TO SURVIVE !!!
Morning ..... I'm feeling
GREAT today .... My temp is 100.4 .... so that lady can stop chasing me with
that temp stick now !!!! That's a
normal temp by the way.
I gave her quite the fight
to get it this morning too. You hoomans need to come up with a better idea on
how to go about doing this, let me tell you !!!
I'm sick and tired of confinement
... I've been locked up since Thursday ... I'm done .... I want out to play ...
I'm racing around and jumping up on the bed and thinking of climbing anything I
can get my paws on ....
I've got energy to burn
...... if them pain meds is keeping me drowsy ... Just you wait to see what a
live wire I am when I'm off that !!!!
If she comes after me with
that cone again ... we'll just see who's gonna end up wearing it !!!!
Love, John Kitty
PS thank you to those of you
who've been helping me pay my bills for survival .... YOU can help too is you
like, www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate ... without YOU they would have killed me at
that pound ... and I wouldn't a liked that one little bit .... Thank you !!!!
I will be YOUR friend
forever !!!!
DAY
6 OF CAPTIVITY
.... will no one come to my
rescue?
I can not stand this
confinement.
The alien came with the
probe again today ..... 100.2 ... normal she says
..... so open the door I say
..... let me go ......
I think they are holding me
hostage till I pay my bill ........ you can help me pleaz? www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate ...... thank you, love, John Kitty
DAY
8 OF CAPTIVITY
... and I continue to sit by the phone .... I've
tried and tried to call home ... I remain captive ....
the alien with the probe
visits .... forces pills down my throat ....
I saw snow out the window
yesterday .... and I wanted to feel the flakes on my nose .... but no, alas, I
am held captive ....
I believe the aliens are
trying to extort large quantities of cash from me .... I have none .... perhaps
they are looking for hidden treasures with the probe .... I do not know .... I
know I must pay my bill before I will be allowed friends or escape .... will
you help me?
Pleaz?
Thank you, John Kitty
VALENTINE’S
DAY
Valentines candy movie
Happy Valentines Day. Won’t YOU be my Valentine? Won’t you come to my rescue? I’ll love you forever, I promise !!!
Get me out of here ! ....
Help me to break the window ...
I want my freedom ... I’ve never been confined before and don’t see why
I am now. It wasn’t my fault I was
injured.
Why oh why am I being
punished here .... four walls around
me ... no sunshine ... just this
artificial light controlled by the alien with the probe .... the alien comes in and forces me to swallow
something .... then uses the probe in a
very inappropriate place ...
the nums are good I will
concede ... I ate so much the first few
days I thought I’d burst .... and the food kept coming ... mmmm ....
I don’t need to find a hidey hole nest at night ... it’s late spring here in captivity and I
sleep on a bed where I can look out at winter and freedom ...
The pain in my leg has
subsided, no longer is every step earth shattering stabbing pain .... yet it aches where it has fallen off.
Oh my friends .... stay away
from cars ... such dangerous
things. I see none of them out the
window here ... none .... I yearn to
be back on the streets of my home, romping with my friends ....
I believe if I pay my debt,
I shall be released .... please help me
gain my freedom ...
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate ....
I’ve only made a small dent in earning enough to pay my bills.
Thankfully they are still
feeding me.
Love,
MY Valentine,
John Kitty.
DAY
10 OF CAPTIVITY
Good Morning!
My captors are good hunters
... the nums are endless .....
ahhh but to feel the grass
under my feet again ..... to hunt my own nums ......
I sat in the window and
watched the moon ..... I could feel the coolness of the outside world thru the
window .... it is always summer in this place ... my winter coat is already
shedding out ...I must escape soon ......
the wind was blowing ....
the trees swaying in the moonlight .... how I wanted to sit on the fence and
howl and feel that cool wind blowing my fur ........
John Kitty
DAY
11 OF CAPTIVITY
Even with snow on the
ground, my captors manage to hunt and bring home the nums.
How I long to play in the
snow .... to feel the wind in my fur ....
instead I sit here .... captive
.... my winter coat shedding .....
I hear the voices of others
of my kind ..... I think they may be
held here captive too .... I wonder if
I will ever meet them ....
I do not understand why I am
held captive.
What have I done?
I am walking, climbing,
running and jumping on three feet ....
I am good to go .....
I pound and pound away at
the window and I can not get it to open ....
ahhhh to leave paw prints in
the snow ......
John Kitty
(ps from da hooman, as
healthy as John Kitty seems to be, he must remain in quarantine for 14 days to
ensure he was not incubating any nasty viruses, soon, he shall have friends)
THERE IS LIFE OF MY KIND
AROUND HERE!
When the hunter arrived with
nums this morning .... two most unusual things happened.
There was no probe ! This is a development I am most thankful
for. I do pray that probe is lost
forever.
AND one of my own kind
accompanied the hunter. Perhaps he is
the true hunter as the taller alien one seems poorly equipped to catch much of
anything in the way of nums and the variety she brings me is quite delectable.
The one who came with her is
named Ninja, a large solid black fellow.
He was quite nice, asked to share my nums ..... and though I had been
starved all night with only dry kibble to abate my hunger .... I immediately
conceded ..... we only had a moment to
speak before the hunter swooped Ninja up and removed him from my room.
She promises that in a few
days I may meet others, she says there are many of my kind.
So what’s the secret? Is it still about the bill that was paid to
remove my damaged dragging arm? Do they
not understand that my kind does not trade with their green currency? I have no pockets to whip out a credit
card. What am I to do?
Some of you kind hoomans
have donated a little over half of the green trading papers required to buy me
freedom. Please ... can you help me
with the rest? I shall hunt for you
upon my release to repay you.
Help me gain my freedom and
remove me from debtors prison http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate/?purpose=John
I pray of you.
Love,
John Kitty
DAY
13 OF CAPTIVITY
.... and I’m restless .... this confinement is killing me .... I need to be out running, chasing things,
climbing trees ....
I cannot stand this
!!!!
I have climbed up the walls,
leapt from one thing to another, raced in circles, tried to express my need to
be set free this morning .....
The hooman is not smart
..... it does not understand .... it
gets the video camera because it thinks I am cute.
I am not cute .... I want my freedom.
How do I express this in a
way the hooman will understand?
I met Timmy this morning
..... he figured out how to pull away
the towel separating us from under the door .... and we shook hands. I
can’t wait to meet this dude.... he
tells me he has all four legs, but his hind ones were badly damaged in an
accident when he was a baby ....
another one of those vehicle things .... perhaps hoomans should not be allowed to move about in such
dangerous ways .....
I remember the stories my
great-great-great-great .......
great-great-great-great grandma cat told me about the days of old when
hoomans didn’t zoom about .... but
traveled by horse .... and you could hear the horses coming and get out of the
way .... not many of my kind every lost
a leg to a horse and buggy .....
But alas ... the hoomans
call it progress ..... this destruction
of nature and it’s animals .... I
hope my kind can teach much to hoomans.
More good news ..... I think the hooman has lost the probe
.... shhhhh please don’t mention it and please don’t send funds for another
... please !!! No probe ... never again .... hoomans are totally weird, I don’t think
I’ll ever understand them.
Oh let me gain my freedom
before the snow melts .... ahhhh to
feel the cool and refreshing snow on my feet .... the wind in my fur .... the
sun on my face .....
Love, John Kitty
(ps from da hooman please
forgive the little mess, John Kitty is a scatterer ..... nums and love comes before clean up time !)
DAY 14 OF CAPTIVITY
.... well today ... maybe
I’m not so much wanting to go out.
Touch my nose to that glass ....
and it’s COLD ....
Think I’ll snooze in a
sunbeam after I clean up .....
THANK YOU all very much
!!! Opie tells me YOU ALL are kind and
wonderful and take care of our hospital debts !!! That is so kind of you. I
don’t mind working ... it’s just finding a job when they won’t let me out this
room is really tough, ya know?
So Timmy tells me, thru our
under the door communication slit, that he’s heard da hoomans talking about
FREEDOM tomorrow ..... I asked him if
that meant back outside ... hunting down my own nums ... dodging them auto mobiles .... hopin’ I don’t loose another leg ....
Timmy said not to worry, da
hoomans is really OUR captives and here to provide our every need .... he says they won’t dump me back in the snow
to fend for myself.
Hmmmm we’ll have to see how this all works out
......
Love,
John Kitty
FREEDOM DAY !!!
They said it was FREEDOM DAY
....
Then the hunter made me get
in a box ..... there was a large
viewing port .... They were taking me
home !!! Back to my neighborhood ...
back to my friends ... where I could wonder and roam ... YES !!!!
But when we stopped .... it
was somewhere else. They took those
itchy stitches out of my arm and that was good. Well it hurt a little.
But I’m glad they’re gone.
FREEDOM
NOW ???
But no ... it was right back
to MY room .....
but the hunter didn’t shut
the door .... and others of my kind came in to see me .... many of them !!!
I came out and I got out of
that room as fast as I could ...
looking for an open door
.... how do I get out to the snow ?
I do not like living in
confinement summer when I could be my natural self .... outside .... finding my
own food ... roaming my hood ....
romping in the snow .... I do not like
this ... no I don’t .... I want OUT
.....
I have found many windows
and doors ...
NONE can I escape thru
....
They promised me FREEDOM
.... this is a LIE.
Please demand my
release. Sign a petition, get 125,000
votes and maybe the hunter will give me my FREEDOM ....
Love,
John Kitty
DAY
16 THE LESSENING OF CAPTIVITY
I have tested every door and
window in this place. Pushing around
the edges .... pounding on the glass ....
that snow out there looks so inviting !!
There are many others of my
kind here ... they just sit in this artificial summer and look at me like I’m
the one who’s crazy. They are content
with their capture. I want my freedom.
I found this area on top of
the couch with LOTS of kitty smells .... everyone travels about here .... what is going on ... why are they all coming
and going from here ???
The alien hunter, who I’ve
been told is called Hooman, or by some Mom, which is a little easier for me to
pronounce .... shows me the way
!!!
YES ... Freedom .... and I’m
OUT !!!!! At las .....
........ but it’s a screened
room .... I cannot get to the snow .... to the ground .... to a tree ..... I am still captive .....
And it’s rather cold out
here? Really quite cold ..... I here Hooman saying, I wonder if he can
figure out how to get back inside? I
think, yeah, and why would I want to .... until I smell dinner !!!!
And then YES, I’m back in to
chow down !! Now I can get to this room
when ever I want .... I come in and I
go out and I come in and I go out .... out to watch the night sights ... back
in to warm up .... back out ..... And
so life has improved a bit,
Love,
John Kitty
JOHN
KITTY CHECKING OUT THE WINDOW.
JOHN
KITTY CHECKING OUT KERRY'S MORNING TEA!
A
COUPLE WEEKS LATER
Oh Hello !!!
My oh my ... where has time
gone ....
I’ve been trying to catch
the red dot .... So sorry ...
I didn’t realize I’ve been
at it this long .... My apologies
!!!
I’ve been to distracted to
even think about break our of here.
Nums are good.
I’ve got friends ....
and this Red Dot .... Oh look !!! There it goes !!
Love,
John Kitty
Stay tuned to Rikki’s Refuge
to learn what joys life will give John Kitty next !!! What’s in store for him?
For the other residents?
Who’ll be the next animal,
facing a hopeless world, that YOU will make a new life possible for !!!
Every penny every day is
spent on the loving care of as many animals as possible here at Rikki’s
Refuge.
It’s all YOUR gift of life
.... without YOU not a single one of
them would have ever seen the light at the end of their dark tunnel.
Won’t you help someone now?
We turn your pennies into
beautiful happy lives !!
Thank you for your support.
We NEED you each and every
day.
Everyone here relies on YOU
to be fed .... EVERY DAY
Love,
Opie
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