Wednesday, March 21, 2018

March 5, 2018


March 5, 2018 -  Opie's Diary of Daily Doings at Rikki's Refuge
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal
Dear Diary, it's Monday ...  lots of paperwork ... but nothing unusual or specially citing ....  ordinary days are good days !!!  It's always a good day when nobody is sick .... no disasters happen ...  and things all go smooth and nice !!!!  

Good Morning!!
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal

Yup .. that's ice in the water bowl .....   brrrrr  
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal 
Not impressed with that frost on the ground.
                                                                                           photo compliments of Clarence Deal 
Moon in the western sky.
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal 
You're familiar with the multi-species sun deck by now !!!
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal 
Here comes our Wishing Well !!!!!!
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal 
Coming our of storage and into the light of day !!!!!

                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal
Headed to the Life Center.
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal 
Where I hope volunteers will come and help me fix it up and paint it pretty.   Will YOU help me?  Volunteers@RikkisRefuge.org 

Despite the sunny day ....  it was chilly ...
                                                                                            photo compliments of Clarence Deal 
and a good day for an afternoon nap curled in some cuddly straw.

This is Mommey Kitty
                                                                                           photo compliments of Doug Deal
We don't know where she came from.  She just appeared last summer with three newborn kittens.  She was skinny, anemic from all the fleas, sick.  She was scared but too weak to out run my hoomans when they saw her.  Her babies were only days old, flea bitten, full of worms, sick and skinny.  Oh... so so sad ... they were all so so skinny.  You could see the bones of the little babies.  And poor sick Mommey was trying as hard as she could to nurse them.  She was so sick and starved herself she had almost no milk for them. 

My hoomans went to work as hard as they could to save everybody.  Sadly the poor babies just weren't strong enough to survive and one by one we had to bury them at our Rainbow Bridge Cemetery.  It was so sad.  And Mama Kitty cried.

We thought she was going to give up and that she'd die too.  But the hoomans took such good care of her and begged her to keep trying and promised she'd be happy again some day.  And slowly she got stronger, and she started to get well, and finally she was walking around and starting to get interested in life again.  It took her many months but now she's well and even a little bit fat.  But not fat like ME !!!
 
She lives at the Life Center and she's still a little shy, but she loves to play with the other kitties and loves to be petted by the hoomans she's come to trust.  She gets more and more trusting every day.  She's not much more than a year old, and she's really like a kind and sweet and quiet and gentle forever home.  Can she get dopted by YOU?

Love, Opie 
                                                                                           artwork compliments of Wayne Morris
(artwork: Opie, compliments of Wayne Morris)
Thank YOU for making it all possible !

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