Wednesday, March 21, 2018

February 18, 2018


February 18, 2018 -  Opie's Diary of Daily Doings at Rikki's Refuge
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal
Ohhhhhh  foggy out here this morning .....   anything could be lurking just beyond reach in this fog ....   I sure hope it's an open can of Fancy Feast !!!!!
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal
Sun Sun Sun !!!!   It really came out late morning !!!!!    NO rain ....  absolutely none today .....   Ohhhh  Sun Sun Sun ......

Everywhere you went .... Anywhere you went .....
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal
everybody is lounging face to the sun !!!!!   

Inside
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal

Outside
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal

In pairs ...
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal

In groups
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal

Soaking in all the rays they can
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal
after so many day of cloudy rain ...   Ohhhh it feels so good !!!!!

This is Crabby Patty.   One of our polydactyl kitties.
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal
You know why?  Where she came, they from said she was crabby all the time and not very nice and nobody would ever want her and she should be disposed of. Yep ... disposed...Like trash.

Here at Rikki's Refuge No-Kill Life-Care Multi-Species Sanctuary we discovered that she was crabby all the time because her bottom hurt all the time. She has what is often called Manx Syndrome. It means because the end of her spine isn’t formed right it affects her, ummmm ... are you sensitive about this stuff? Let’s just say her bottom isn’t formed quite right and it means without proper care three times a day, she's got problems and pain... like raw bloody HURT ....

Just imagine if every time you sat down it hurt .... every time you walked around it hurt .... and every time you went potty it hurt so awful bad .... you’d be pretty crabby too I bet.

BUT when she gets her medicine and her soothing ointment 3 times every day, she feels good .... and she's HAPPY!!

For $22 a month, you can support Patty and provide her medication for her. We can't do this without YOU and we are so grateful for your support!! THANK YOU!! www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

Do you know what polydactyl means?  I'm gonna tell you a funny story about that.  Polydactyl means extra toes, you've seen kitties like that, haven't you?

And do you know what a pterodactyl is?  Right, a big flying critter that would a eated me if I lived in dinosaur times. 

So one day the phone rings and this man says he needs us to take his pterodactyl.  Mom laughed and said, yeah, right !!!  What's up?  the guy kept insisting he had a pterodactyl he needed to get rid of.  Mom finally figured out he wasn't joking, but really had some kind of "pet" he wanted Rikki's to take.  So she tells him to start describing it.  It's got like really long claws and a lot of 'em.  Big fangs and it bites and scratches and that's why he needs to get rid of it.  Mom was getting really frustrated cus the guy is like insisting it's a pterodactyl and describing some pretty horrid big creature .....   and finally somehow or other he got around to the too many toes and that was probably why it was crazy. 

Ohhhhhh he had a polydactyl CAT he wanted to get rid of ......   And Joey turned out to be a really nice cool kitty, he was just young and super active and he did have really really big feet. 

Dinner time !!!
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal
Do YOU have any critters that it takes a tractor to feed ???  

Almost everybody had a wonderful day
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal
and were so thankful to see the sun and just loved it .......    But there's always a party pooper ....  some of the birds are worried the puddles might dry up if this keeps up for a few days .....

Love, Opie 
                                                                                           photo compliments of da Hooman
Thank YOU for making it all possible !

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