Rikki's Refuge

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 15, 2010

Feed Vincent and Duke
Click on their Penny

Only FIVE Days Left to Vote !!!!

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Rikkis Refuge, VA, USA

On the Fifteenth Day of Christmas,

look what came to Rikki’s,

fifteen peaceful pigeons,

fourteen peacocks plotting,

thirteen humans helping,

twelve temperamental turkeys,

eleven pouting pussies,

ten crotchety creaking canines,

nine grumpy geese,

eight kicking kittens,

seven guinea fowl freeloading,

six lizards a lazing,

five guinea pigs a gnawing,

four elderly equines,

three burly bossy bovines,

two rabbits a mating,

and a chukar in a cherry tree.

Catch up on any pictures you’ve missed!

http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2010/12/28-days-of-christmas-at-rikkis-to-date.html

Away in the Manger

Reflections of Rikki’s

Turn your page - Reflections Page 18 featuring Imelda Samaniego, Vincent, Jane Whitmore, KiKi, Beauty, Cindy Wright, Autumn-Skye Port

Click here to read page 18 http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/Vincent/10112218HEWVUZYY.pdf

Chicken City in the News

Monday night it was COLD out there. WINDY too. Not a creature is stirring EXCEPT Beauty and KiKi who think it's finally cold enough to really run and play and gallop all over. They're Pyrenees doggies and they like it COLD. I am not a Pyrenees cat and I don't!!!

Chickens go to bed at dark. If they haven't made it to their bed they sort of go comatose where ever they are when it gets dark. Mom was out picking up supplies and not here at dusk. She got home just after dark. She went to shut Chicken City’s door - usually everybody would be home and sleeping. BUT there were chickens sitting on top of the fence, on top of dog houses and packed into dog houses. HUH?????? What was wrong?

The door to Chicken City had blown shut so they couldn't get home. Uh Oh. Mom spent an hour picking chicken up & carrying them to bed in Chicken City. They grip tight and she had to peel their feet off the fences. Silly chickens. About 60 were out & had to be carried to bed & tucked in. One woke up & was dazed but could still outrun mommey & they ran & ran all over till mom caught her. At least that warmed mommey up!

Yesterday, She-Who-Opens-Cans had Billy build a latch to keep the door to Chicken City open during the day so it can't blow shut in the wind. I guess she didn’t think it was fun putting all the chickens to bed!

When she went out last night to close the door to Chicken City up for the night, Vista Kitty followed her out to help. It was already pretty dark but the moon was out so she didn't take a flash light. Silly hooman. What if a bear had been waiting in there to catch her and eat her - then I’d have missed my dinner!

She went in the gate, shut and latched the door, came out and shut and latched the gate. Then heard this awful ruckus banging on the door ..... She went back to see what was going on and Vista had gotten locked inside and was pounding on the door to get out!

Big Thank You

to everyone who’s sent gifts, Virginia for Fancy Feast, Alicia for snuggy pads, and who ever sent the three heaters!!! We LOVE ‘em especially right now. They didn’t have a note saying who sent them - but we love you anyway!!!

Siamese Cat Rescue Thank You

for the snuggy beds, it’s so kind of other organizations to share when they have extra things.

We Like to Share too

Any rescues or people who work with rescues - if you need any crates or carriers, please let us know. Often places have a lot to give away and nobody else goes and gets them so our volunteers do. We use lots, but there’s even more so we’re happy to give some to you if you need them for rescued animals. If you’re a private individual and would like something for your own pet, please talk to us about making a donation.

PHOTO CONTEST CALENDAR

IS READY AT CAFE PRESS!!!

Wonderful pictures for each month!!! Four different styles - three styles have a photo for every month, and each month on a separate page. For those of you not skilled at turning pages - there a one page format with the year at a glace and you can pick which of the photos you want!!! So really it’s 15 choices!!!!

WOW!! Now everyone can order the calendar of their choice, delivery is usually within 24 hours of ordering so this is all in time for Christmas!

Get a calendar with all twelve winning photos or one with just your fave. Cafe Press is having FREE DELIVERY specials for the season so order today! http://www.cafepress.com/RikkisRefuge/7580519

And check out Vincent Wear while you’re there !!!

http://www.cafepress.com/rikkisrefuge

Can you imagine anyone who wouldn’t want my smiling face on their shirt on Christmas Day?

Paul and Billy gave mom a really nice Christmas Present

You remember the two giant tractor trailers of litter we got last month? Well we have to pay rent on the trailers for every month they stay here. But finding a place to store that much stuff ..... And we can’t afford to buy a building. Gosh wouldn’t that be nice. Anybody out there a Morton Salesperson who can arrange a donation!!!! So Paul and Billy worked every day - moving a pallet or more of litter and stashing it all around. Every dry and safe nook and crannie is now storage for cat litter and one of the trailers is empty!!!! Now that’s a gift that keeps on giving!!!

OH OH OH DID I TELL YOU THE REALLY GOOD NEWS?

The “suspect” has been charged with stealing the things from Rikki’s back in October!!! Yippee. There will be a trail. We don’t know when yet. We hope she gets to spend Christmas locked up in a cage at jail and that nobody will take her home to foster for the holidays. Bad bad hooman.

Rikki's Angel Trees are all over town!!!

Pick an ornament with an animal and their story,

buy their Christmas Wish and

leave it under the tree!

And here's where you can find them!

* Booth Feed Fredericksburg, 5037 Plank Rd

* Booth Feed Stafford, 1186 Warrenton Rd

* Petco Harrison Crossing, 5717 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg

* Village Feed, 23436 Constitution Hwy, Unionville

* Orange-Madison Co-op, 13323 James Madison Highway, Orange

* Culpeper Animal Hospital, 441 Aspen St

* Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital, 2301 1/2 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Fredericksburg

* La Rue de Beauty Hair Salon, 243 E Church St, Orange

Also Donation Location Drop Off

Pup N Iron 21 Perchwood Drive, Unit 111, Fredericksburg

Monday thru Friday between 6 PM and 9 PM through Dec. 23

www.pupniron.com.

A Word from Pup N Iron

Thanks to all who attended our Santa Paws Holiday Open House and benefit for Rikki's Refuge, the Stafford County Animal Shelter, and the Fredericksburg SPCA. Your generous donations of food, toys and supplies will add some much needed holiday cheer for local homeless animals. For those of you who couldn't attend, we're extending the drive until Dec. 23, so please drop by and add your donation! In return we'll give you a coupon worth 10-50% off Pup 'N Iron classes, programs, daycare, swimming and merchandise!

Vincent's 25 Days of Giving

with Love at Christmas

Click on the animal Click on the gift

you wish to feed you wish to give

On the Fifteenth Day of Christmas

Rikki’s received fifteen seniors breathing easily,

in moist humidified air.

fifteen seniors breathing easily

A few humidifiers for the senior center would really be great. Here is one that will run for 12 hours on a single filling and has an automatic shutoff.

fourteen feral kitties happily helped to the speuter clinic

thirteen terabytes of memory,

twelve glorious gift cards,

eleven wondrous packets of warmth

ten hooman helpers illuminated to see,

nine domed doggy igloos,

eight cozy kitty condos,

seven guinea pig garages,

six months of warm and wonderful heat,

five gentle, soothing, healing musical CDs,

four lights to help us see all the creatures at night,

three nummy cans food for each of the doggies,

two snuggy pads to keep us comfee,

and one VINCENT eating FANCY FEAST ....

You can have Amazon send it right on it’s way to

Vincent D. Cat

Rikki’s Refuge

10910 Barr Ln

Rapidan VA 22733

AND it even counts towards Amazon point for Rikki’s cuz you’ll be going in thru our site with this link!!!!

Interested in buying other items from Amazon for yourself or for gifts for all your friends and family? Use this link to make your shopping shop for Rikki’s - it doesn’t cost you a thing - Amazon will make a donation to Rikki’s when you enter their site thru this link!!! http://www.amazon.com/?&tag=wwwrikkisrefu-20&camp=212361&creative=392013&linkCode=wsw&

If you missed any of Vincent’s Shopping Suggestions - here they all are!

http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2010/12/vincents-25-days-of-christmas-to-date_13.html

Love EVERYBODY

No matter what,

no matter how many legs they have

or how long their ears are!

Remember, I love YOU just the way you are!

Vincent

PS - We’ve almost reached $3,000 and only have a little over two weeks to make our $15,000 challenge, if you can spare a buck - it will turn into two bucks!!! Please help if you can. We don’t want to lose any of the $15,000 !!!! Please !!!! Remember YOU get a tax deduction too!!!

http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/double-your-donations-christmas-for-the-animals

Rikki's Angel Trees

are all over town!!!

Pick an ornament with an animal and their story,

buy their Christmas Wish and

leave it under the tree!

And here's where you can find them!

Booth Feed Fredericksburg, 5037 Plank Rd
Booth Feed Stafford, 1186 Warrenton Rd
Petco Harrison Crossing, 5717 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg
Village Feed, 23436 Constitution Hwy, Unionville
Orange-Madison Co-op, 13323 James Madison Highway, Orange
Culpeper Animal Hospital, 441 Aspen St
Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital, 2301 1/2 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Fredericksburg
La Rue de Beauty Hair Salon, 243 E Church St, Orange

Also Donation Location Drop Off

Pup N Iron 21 Perchwood Drive, Unit 111, Fredericksburg

Monday thru Friday between 6 and 9 PM through Dec. 23

www.pupniron.com.

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Feed Vincent and Duke
with a Click on their Penny

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Good Morning Good News !!!! December 14, 2010

Click on Vincent’s hat to help the animals

Only SIX Days Left to Vote !!!!

You’re my HERO - I know you’re voting every day !!!!

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Rikkis Refuge, VA, USA

On the Fourteenth Day of Christmas,

look what came to Rikki’s,

fourteen peacocks plotting,

thirteen humans helping,

twelve temperamental turkeys,

eleven pouting pussies,

ten crotchety creaking canines,

nine grumpy geese,

eight kicking kittens,

seven guinea fowl freeloading,

six lizards a lazing,

five guinea pigs a gnawing,

four elderly equines,

three burly bossy bovines,

two rabbits a mating,

and a chukar in a cherry tree.

See all the pictures

http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2010/12/28-days-of-christmas-at-rikkis-to-date.html

Jingle Bell Rock

Christmas Day Tour at Noon

Last tour of 2010. Join Jan Chetnik, our professional tour guide, for a trip around the refuge meeting all the happy critters of Rikki’s Refuge. The tour is all outdoors so dress for the weather and before heading out that day call 540-854-0870 x3 to confirm that it’s on. Bad weather shuts down our road very quickly and for your safety we have to cancel if it’s been too wet or there’s any ice.

There is only one tour so please be prompt. Gates open at 11:30 am and the tour begins at noon and runs approximately 2 hours. Our comfort facilities are porta potties (thank you Larry for supporting Larry’s Lou again during 2010, you’ve made a lot of us very comfortable with almost indoor plumbing), litterboxes and the bushes!!!

Admission is a case of canned cat food per person - Special for Christmas. Please feel free to be more generous!!!

New Years Pristine Nature Hike

First event of 2011 - the traditional New Year’s Hike. Over the river and thru the woods, and we’re not kidding. You might find some trails or you might blaze them. Follow Fred’s bright orange vest - and please wear bright orange or red yourself, no hunting on our property but poachers have been known to trespass - and he’ll get you back to the complex sooner or later!!! The November hike took a few twists and turns and ambled thru the brambles - but they did arrive alive and uneaten by bears!!!!

Nature hike takes off at noon sharp. Don’t be late cuz you can’t catch up. Gates open at 11:30 am on the first.

It’s outdoors so dress for the weather and before heading out that day call 540-854-0870 x3 to confirm that it’s on. Bad weather shuts down our road very quickly and for your safety we have to cancel if it’s been too wet or there’s any ice.

Admission is a case of canned cat food per person!

Progressive Automotive & Tire

Check the web http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/ to order your special coupon card!!! Fabulous money saving Stocking Stuffer!!!

Pet Friendly Housing

Katie Reardon created http://www.MyApartmentMap.com/pet_friendly/

It’s a housing search web site, listing pet friendly listings all over the USA. She’s hoping to help people from giving up their pet due to moving. She created this web site after searching for an apartment that would accept her Jack Russell Daisy, and Beagle Jerry. As a pet owner she found it difficult to find pet friendly apartments, and now wants to help other pet owners find a home quick and easy. She also promote "Adoption." A lot of times when people are moving to a new home, they have a new furry friend in mind. They may even be searching for pet friendly apartments with the plan of getting a pet soon. She wants to promote adopting instead of the local puppy store.

Duke Meets Santa

Mary Ellen sends in a picture of her beloved Duke telling Santa what he wants for Christmas. She adopted Duke from FOHA and he’s the absolute love of her life!

Mary Ellen recently met Rikki’s Refuge when her neighbor died, leaving behind four outdoor kitties. There was no family in the area to care for them. So Mary Ellen took over and made the arrangements between his estate and Rikki’s Refuge so the kitties could live together for the rest of their lives. Mary Ellen now volunteers to help all the animals at Rikki’s Refuge.

Quote from Debbie

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
Old African Proverb

Send me your favorite quotes, I’d like to have one special one a day in 2011 ... Help me !!!

Vincent's 25 Days of Giving

with Love at Christmas

Click on the animal Click on the gift

you wish to feed you wish to give

On the Fourteenth Day of Christmas

Rikki’s welcomed your help to trap

and fix all the feral kitties.

fourteen feral kitties happily helped to the speuter clinic

We’re getting close to Christmas and people are thinking about others. Let’s help the feral kitties. We could really, really use as many of these feral cat TNR (trap, neuter, return) traps as possible – both for work we do here at Rikki’s and to support our Wild and Feral division. We never use traps to catch and kill! The more of these traps we have, the more cats we can help get to the speuter clinic.

thirteen terabytes of memory,

twelve glorious gift cards,

eleven wondrous packets of warmth

ten hooman helpers illuminated to see,

nine domed doggy igloos,

eight cozy kitty condos,

seven guinea pig garages,

six months of warm and wonderful heat,

five gentle, soothing, healing musical CDs,

four lights to help us see all the creatures at night,

three nummy cans food for each of the doggies,

two snuggy pads to keep us comfee,

and one VINCENT eating FANCY FEAST ....

If you missed any of Vincent’s Shopping Suggestions - here they all are!

http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2010/12/vincents-25-days-of-christmas-to-date_13.html

You can have Amazon send Doggy Supplies or other items from our Wish List right on it’s way to

Duke Thomas Peabody

Rikki’s Refuge

10910 Barr Ln

Rapidan VA 22733

AND it even counts towards Amazon point for Rikki’s cuz you’ll be going in thru our site with this link!!!!

Love always wins

Let everyone you love know it - be somebody’s HERO - say I LOVE YOU today !!!!!

Good night,

I just want YOU to know how much

I love you !!!

With a great big heart full of Love and Purrs,

Vincent

PS - We’re just a couple hundred bucks shy of $3,000 on our $15,000 challenge, if you can spare a buck - it will turn into two bucks!!! Please help if you can. We don’t want to lose any of the $15,000 !!!! Please !!!! Remember YOU get a tax deduction too!!!

http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/double-your-donations-christmas-for-the-animals