January 22, 2018 - Opie's Diary of Daily Doings
at Rikki's Refuge
6:09
am ... the sun is peeking thru ... work has already been underway for a couple
hours for da hoomans.
6:49
am and enough light to do your chores by ....
headlamps can go away for the next 11 hours .... animals begin to wake up
Opie
has his 3rd morning snack.
Lucy
and Madison are ready for some senior horse chow !! It takes special food, and lots of it, to keep weight on these
old folks !! Both were in horrible
shape when they arrived. Now they're
looking good. But they need feedings
several times a day to stay that way.
Grab
a bag and drop it off on Saturday from noon to 2 pm for Donation Drop Off !!!
You'll probably pass a Tractor Supply on the way ... if not, we have one right here in Orange!!
You'll probably pass a Tractor Supply on the way ... if not, we have one right here in Orange!!
Our
seniors eat 3 bags a week.
Morning
rounds brought a great big sad. When it
was time to call Joey and Jessie the inseparable goat brothers out for
breakfast, only Jessie came. Joey
didn't move, he was right there in his spot, where he'd been leaning back to
back with Jessie all night .... he'd left us in his sleep and gone to Rainbow
Bridge.
He's
been with us for more than 10 years .... and was 12 or 14 yeas old his owners
had said when he and his brother Jessie came to Rikki's ..... these two were up
to all kinds of antics all the time .... if you ever visited Rikki's .... you
met them .... they were the goats pick pocketing, stealing strollers, running
off with all kinds of things they'd steal from visitors !!!
We'll
miss you a lot Joey, we're thankful you got to spend so much time with us after
your owners had to move to assisted living and worried about what would happen
to the goats they loved so.
So
far Jessie is doing well, we're worried about him as the two were absolutely
inseparable.
Thank
you all for making it possible for loving gentle souls to have a place to call
home and a way to find love when their owners can no longer be there for them.
We
never know how long anyone will stay with us, we wish everyone had as long as
Joey did. But we're thankful for every
day we can bring happiness to them.
Good
Morning Piggy Paradise !!!
You
can tell the temperature by how far apart the pigs sleep and how deep they are
burrowed into the straw. Under the
straw .... it's COLD. Piled up on one
another .... it's COLD. Spread out on top
of the straw ..... it's warm !!!
Hey ! YOU ! Yes YOU !!! You the one with the nums?
Seriously
? YOU expect me to swim in THIS ? Make it rain and fill up my pond !!!
I
live my life on the edge .... wondering where my next meal will come from .....
Beauty waits patiently for her bowl. Can you guess how she got her name?
OK! We filled 2 platters. How many can YOU fill ?
photo compliments of Katie Terrill
Uh
Oh .... Turkey stand off .... watch
out .... there's gonna be a fight about who gets the cracked corn first
..... they push each other around so
long it's all gone before they realize it !!!!
But don't worry ... we'll give them more !
But don't worry ... we'll give them more !
Just
hangin around .... just hangin around
....
Unicorn
say FEED ME FIRST .... OR ELSE ....
When
you realize this game of hide and seek is gonna take a while.....
Rikki's
Refuge has several beautiful murals ..... some are getting a bit faded and
peeling .... we need YOU to come out and touch them up !!!
Got more artistic talent than that? Come out and create some of your own !!!! Let YOUR work live on forever beautifying Rikki's and delighting visitors !!!!
Got more artistic talent than that? Come out and create some of your own !!!! Let YOUR work live on forever beautifying Rikki's and delighting visitors !!!!
Two
new guys arrived today. Both just cus
they have FIV. I so wish the myth of
FIV being such an awful dreadful deadly disease would go away. After twenty years of housing FIV kitties,
we see no difference in them and the general population. Once they get over their initial problems,
which are usually what they were taken off the street for, they are just like
all the other kitties. Same kind of
health issues, at the same kind of rate, same life span. Gee many of
our twenty plus year olds are FIV positive.
I pray for the day they won't be discriminated against, that they have good adoption rates and that shelters don't just want to kill them off for nothing but a blue dot on a test.
I pray for the day they won't be discriminated against, that they have good adoption rates and that shelters don't just want to kill them off for nothing but a blue dot on a test.
Love,
Opie
thank
you for making it all possible !
