March
3, 2018 - Opie's Diary of Daily Doings
at Rikki's Refuge
Dear
Diary and Friends .... I so glad to
have my friends !!! I love my friends
!!! I'm glad YOU are my friend !!!
It's
a Bright Bright Bright Sun Shiny day !!!!
And it be Caturday !!! The bestest day of all. And it be first Caturday of the month ... so that means tonight, after donation drop off, I have to be the ruler of Rikki's and talk to the hoomans at the monthly board meeting !!! Then wez all get to eat. And Uncle Ron cook for us. He make veggie burgers for the hoomans .... and give me all the fancy feast I can eat. He made me promise not to tell mom how many cans he open for me .... so she better not be sneaking round reading my diary !!!
Beautiful
purple crocuses !!!!
Spring
has spring !!!!
Do
you know the official colors of Rikki's Refuge ?
So
PURPLE fits right in !!!
We
love love love bright bold beautiful colors .... and murals .... and stand
alone cut out animals .... You're seen
Feline Fields .... and Doggy Downs ...
NOW
HELP US PAINT THE FENCE
This
is the board fence that runs along route 20 and up the Life Center Drive
... We'll be painting bright bold
colors ..... Come and join us any or
all SATURDAYS from 9 am till 4 pm at the Life Center .... 21410 Constitution Hwy .... corner of rt 20
and Quarterhorse. Just bring yourself
in clothes you want to spill paint on !!!!!
STARTING MARCH 17 - St Paddy's Day - and every Saturday there after till
the fence is finished !!!!! Spend the
day or help out for an hour. Work one
Saturday or all of 'em.
Just
show up and we'll put you to work - providing you're 18 or older.
Anyone under 18 coming without their parent or legal guardian will need to sign up in advance and have a liability waiver signed by their parent/guardian on file here before showing up, so be sure to sign up several days in advance at Volunteers@RikkisRefuge.org
Anyone under 18 coming without their parent or legal guardian will need to sign up in advance and have a liability waiver signed by their parent/guardian on file here before showing up, so be sure to sign up several days in advance at Volunteers@RikkisRefuge.org
Anyone
under 18 coming WITH their patent or guardian, must be old enough and well
enough behaved to join the work party and participate, and both guardian and
minor will can sign forms once you've arrived.
I'm
sorry, but your can't bring your doggies with you, or any other animals, it's
not a safe environment for them. This
will be a work party and there won't be any tours of the animals
available. Though you will be working
near Ramsey Residence so you can bring some fruits or veggies to feed the
sheep. No bread or crackers or anything
they're not used to eating here, so if you've got something special in mind
.... ask first !!!
Nora and Paul who will be running the work parties would love to hear if you're coming out to help. It's not required .... so you can decide at the last minute ... but it makes planning easier for them !!!! You can let them know at nelmg@aol.com;paulcandy214@hughes.net
Nora and Paul who will be running the work parties would love to hear if you're coming out to help. It's not required .... so you can decide at the last minute ... but it makes planning easier for them !!!! You can let them know at nelmg@aol.com;paulcandy214@hughes.net
I
hope I'll see YOU covered in paint .... real soon !!!!
Happy cows !!!
Happy cows !!!
They're
loving all the new green grass !!!!!
Num num num !!!!!
Cows
have friends too .... They headbutt in
friendship just like us cats do !!!
Cows
are really just like all of us. They
have friends, mothers, fathers, siblings.
They love each other. They want
attention, they want love, they want to be cared about. They play, they laugh, they have fun, they
love, they grieve, they feel pain. They
want to live, they want to eat grass, they want to feel the sun. If you never knew the cows you pass by out
in the fields were so much like YOU ....
it's cus you never got to really know a cow !!!! Come on out on an up close and in your face
tour and meet cows and pigs and chickens and learn who they really are, that
each and every one has it's own personality, just like each and every one of
you, and each and every one thanks you for the opportunity to have life at
Rikki's. No cow ever wanted to be
hamburger. Not a single one.
Slurp
Slurp Slurp ....
Cows
drink lots of water and that's why their giant 100 gallon water bowls need to
be filled several times a day. In
nature they'd live near a river or big creek or pond and graze on the grass and
then walk down for a drink .... But
here we have to fence them in. If we
let them wonder off to the creeks to slurp .... some of the neighbors might complain when the cows stopped to eat
their grass and their flowers and their bushes along the way !!!!
Piggy
is happy to see Melissa visiting today
!!!!
Petunia
loves melons !!!!!
Any
melons .... a cantaloupe is a two bite
delicacy !!!!!
Can
Petunia get the grapes before that emu swoops in and steals them ?
See
how muddy Petunia is? A muddy pig is a
happy pig !!! They love to roll in mud
puddles !!!! This rainy weather has
been wonderful for them.
Lauren
feeds the emus their own grapes.
So
Petunia can have her bunch too. This
picture of Petunia, emus and a hooman really show you Petunia's size !!! She's no little girl !!!!
Elvis
gets a sweet potato !!
Don't
ever ever ever toss any fruits or veggies .... bring them out for the piggies !!!! Donation Drop Off every Saturday noon till 2 pm .... gate is open at the Life Center just waiting
for you !!!!
THIS
is what Up Close and In Your Face means !!!
Experience
real life with us !!!! Tours@RikkisRefuge.org
Yup,
they're big animals.
Some
people are scared of them cus they think they look like dinosaurs .... But really do they even have first hand
experience with dinosaurs ? Or is it
like sharks that everybody is all scared of .... even though they've never seen a real one .... or only seen one
behind glass at an aquarium ... if you
swim with 'em and behave yourself, they're not gonna bother you. So behave yourself around the emus and they
won't hurt you either !!!!
Now the story changes real quick when you try to "do" things to emus. Things like capturing them and putting them in crates and giving them medicine. Mom got it really good .... maybe I should say bad .... by holding one to give her eye drops one time. It had to be done, she'd hurt her eye and needed drops several times a day. Her eye healed up and she got well, mom stopped limping but can still show you the area of broken veins all on her knee !!! And it was years and years ago.
So feed the emus when you visit .... don't chase 'em, don't wave sticks at them, though we'll probably throw you out before the emus hurt you if you do .... don't try to give them pills or eye drops or trim their nails .... you just feed them and be polite and they'll be nice to you too !!!!!
Now the story changes real quick when you try to "do" things to emus. Things like capturing them and putting them in crates and giving them medicine. Mom got it really good .... maybe I should say bad .... by holding one to give her eye drops one time. It had to be done, she'd hurt her eye and needed drops several times a day. Her eye healed up and she got well, mom stopped limping but can still show you the area of broken veins all on her knee !!! And it was years and years ago.
So feed the emus when you visit .... don't chase 'em, don't wave sticks at them, though we'll probably throw you out before the emus hurt you if you do .... don't try to give them pills or eye drops or trim their nails .... you just feed them and be polite and they'll be nice to you too !!!!!
Silly
horsey !!!
Two
vultures stopping in for a visit.
Drying
off after a swim !
Oh
!!!! Petunia !!!!! You silly girl !!!!
Once
again !!!! Cindy SAVES the day !!!!
Look
at this food !!!! Dry food for us ....
we were OUT !!!! And canned for the
doggies !!! Yippie !!!! Now we'll all get breakfast tomorrow
!!!! Thank you Cindy !!!!
Clean
Litter Boxes with Fresh Litter Makes for Happy Cats
We
need your help ... It's been about 6
years since we last replaced the litter boxes .... they have a lot of rough use ...
lots of kitties climbing in and out .... scrubbing every other day ... some of 'em every day ..... the cold weather .... the heat .... eventually all that a toll on the plastic
and they start to crack and have sharp edges and split where they can't be
used.
We
have 79 litterboxes of this size in use every day. Seriously. We keep twice
that many on hand so when it's time to change the litter, about every other
day, it goes into a clean litterbox and the dirty one goes out to be
sterilized. It's awfully hard when we
don't have a full second set. Each cat
house has several boxes, so it means you can dump a couple, go wash them, dry
them and bring them back to re-fill.
It's a lot easier and saves a lot of time, to be able to change them all out on morning cleaning rounds - often while it's still too cold to even really wash things outside. Then in the afternoon take everything and wash up for the day in the afternoon sun !!!! Much better. And much more time conserving to let them dry naturally than to have to dry with towels that then have to be washed, or with paper towels that get thrown out.
Right now we need about 50 more boxes to meet our goal of keeping two for each station on hand. One in use, one in the wash area. Won't you help us?
We get them a Lowe's and they are $5.75 each .... so 50 of them becomes $287.50 ..... Buying all of them at once is like BIG BUCKS .... Yikes .... But could you maybe buy us just ONE ? www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate Just leave a note that your kind donation is for litter boxes !!! Thank you.
Or if you like .... you can stop by your local Lowe's and pick one up to bring to Donation Drop Off next Saturday !!! It's called MacCourt Drywall Mud Pans and it's Item # 19251 Model # AT2606 .... they're over where the drywall mud is.
It's a lot easier and saves a lot of time, to be able to change them all out on morning cleaning rounds - often while it's still too cold to even really wash things outside. Then in the afternoon take everything and wash up for the day in the afternoon sun !!!! Much better. And much more time conserving to let them dry naturally than to have to dry with towels that then have to be washed, or with paper towels that get thrown out.
Right now we need about 50 more boxes to meet our goal of keeping two for each station on hand. One in use, one in the wash area. Won't you help us?
We get them a Lowe's and they are $5.75 each .... so 50 of them becomes $287.50 ..... Buying all of them at once is like BIG BUCKS .... Yikes .... But could you maybe buy us just ONE ? www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate Just leave a note that your kind donation is for litter boxes !!! Thank you.
Or if you like .... you can stop by your local Lowe's and pick one up to bring to Donation Drop Off next Saturday !!! It's called MacCourt Drywall Mud Pans and it's Item # 19251 Model # AT2606 .... they're over where the drywall mud is.
Mouky
says you probably think this is a lot of cat food .....
But
it won't even last 3 days !!!! When
you have over 500 cats ..... well it
takes a LOT of cat food !!!!
Furniture
like this is what we use in all the cat houses. All kinds of this plastic Tiny Tyke stuff .... play houses, picnic tables, castles, and so
on.
Mom
says it's really hard for us to tear up and it's really easy to keep
clean. So it's ideal for kitty play
!!!! If you have any your hooman kids
have outgrown, or you see any cheap at yard sales this spring, please grab it
and bring it out on Donation Drop Off Days .... that's every Saturday from noon till 2 pm.
And
then it was board meeting time. The
hoomans bring snacks for while they be talkin and listenin to me ........ And Ben kept stealing potato chips ....
Love,
Opie
Thank
YOU for making it all possible !
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