I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Designed for YOU
Good Morning Good News is for YOU, it’s to make YOU happy and to make you SMILE. Send me YOUR Good News to share. Send me stores that make YOU smile. Tell me which parts of Good Morning YOU like and wish you don’t. I’d like to customize it just for YOU!!!! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
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The Animal Rescue Site - Shelter Challenge
YOU voted Rikki’s Refuge #1 in Virginia in 2010
Let’s do it again for 2011
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we moved up 0.01% planetwide !!!!
Keep it up
slow and steady wins the race
we can do it !!!
GO TEAM VINCENT !!!!
The TEAM OF THE HEROES !!!
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Bissell MVP Contest
Vote daily thru Tuesday February 8th for Guido Cat
Animal Assisted Therapy Meowster
Running on behalf of Rikki’s Refuge
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Read the Guido Gazzette http://theguidogazette.blogspot.com/ it’s a great way to start your day!!!
Between Guido and Vincent, we’ve got you covered!!!!
Thanks for helping me decide which photo to run in the Bissell contest. You all voted most for my classical pose!
You can start voting for me on Wednesday. Last year I made it to second place for the week with this photo
But the Bissell judges didn’t pick me! Boo on them. This year I want to see my face looking out at you from Bissell Vacuum boxes everywhere. Next year on the label of every Fancy Feast can!!!!
My Favorite Quote, Today
Strong Deeply Rooted Desire is the Starting Point of all Achievement
After all who ever did something well that they didn’t have a driven desire to see happen? Do you have the desire to see animals have a better place in this world? Do you have the desire to see us treated as equals? Do you have the desire to eliminate speciesism? If these desires are strong and if we band together we CAN DO IT. We can do ANYTHING we set out minds to doing. It’s just putting one foot in front of the other ..... Soon you’ll be an animal HERO ... way before you even know it !!!!!
Refuge News
Another pretty warm day in the almost middle of February! Lots of visitors and fun over the weekend. We celebrated Valerie’s 3rd Anniversary at Rikki’s with a party on Saturday. Pictures Wednesday, they’re on Lena’s camera and she’s off Monday and Tuesday.
Colleen writes in: I am a volunteer with SNAP in Louisa County. I recently trapped a beautiful calico cat for spay. After getting her home that night, I learned she is actually just a scared domestic - and has slowly been warming up to me over the last week. She loves to be brushed, you can pet her, pick her up, and snuggle with her, but she is shy. We discovered at the feral spay/neuter cat clinic held this last Saturday, that she was already spayed. Our county shelter euthanizes 80% of cats and with her being shy, she has no chance here. I hate to return her to the gas station where I rescued her from. Do you know anyone who can foster this cat until she can be placed permanently?
If you can help please contact Colleen at ccole@tgblaw.com
Oh gosh can somebody please find enough money to build more 9th Life space? We take care of everybody that we can. Our building is so small and it’s totally full. That means we can't take more kitties and dawggies and wabbits and all who really need the kind of care we can offer. I cry every time I hear mom turning somebody away. So many of the elderly, the handicapped, the diabetics, the kidney patients have nobody but us to care. No place but Rikki’s to go. Oh so many need us, no other place to go. They can't live in feral / semi feral barn style housing. They need the regular household type accommodations with regular heating and cooling. We have only five rooms in this old farm house. So sad ... wipes eyes.
If you can help me with fundraising I’d so appreciate it. You can help from anywhere in the world. Paypal is universal so we all live in the same world now!!!
Right now just feeding everybody is a challenge. And we need about $12,000 to do upgrades and repairs from ice damage and to properly reinforce everything so we don't have ice problems in the future. I don't know what a new building would run. Somebody said they could a do a room for about $15,000. I've been trying to meet our Valentine Chip in for $2,277.22 and I've only raised $380 in a week. http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/double-your-love
We manage to spend only 25 cents per meal and only an average of $1 a day per animal to take care of them. But with 1250 animals we need $1250 a day just for the basics. We need all the help we can get with fundraising. It's probably our biggest need. Anybody up for helping please HELP !!!!! Love you all.
I want to save so many. I want to have all the money we can use to save animals at Rikki's and all the money needed to share it with other groups and people saving animals the world over. The money's there, just sitting in banks all over. We just need to convince people to share. Or figure out how to crack the banking system .....
I got wonderful news from Smoky today!!! Smoky’s mom took in a feral kitty and was letting her chill in an upstairs bedroom till she could get a ride to Rikki’s. She was going to live in a feral kitty house at Rikki’s. She started to be a bit friendly. And now Smoky’s mom has fallen in love and kitty has a name Dotty, and she’s being friendly and now she’s got a wonderful forever home with Smoky!!! Smoky wrote: Did you hear the news? We're keeping Dotty, the cat formerly known as Upstairs Kitty. YEAHHHHHHH
The Cats of Cod
Artwork by Wayne H. Morris of New York
photography and art
visit to see more of his spectacular work
Wayne loves to study an animal and capture their essence which he then turns into a whimsical work of art depicting them at work or play. Your pet’s whimsical custom portrait available for only $300 (donated to Rikki’s Refuge). Contact me and I’ll put you in touch Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
Meet Ms. Bao Cai, employee of the month at the 1st National Bank of Trout, where your fish gain interest!
Live from Vincent Video
Meet Beauty the Dog
So do you think she’s Beautiful???
On this Day
February 7 is Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbor's Day - Let’s do one better than that. Say hi to a neighbor you don’t often see or have never spoken too. Is there an elderly person or someone in your neighborhood who seems to have a difficult or shut in life? Offer to go to the grocery store for them. Take them some cookies. Just stop in and say hi, how are you. You’ll be their HERO. Small little kindnesses mean so very much to the receiver. Often something you do that you just consider routing politeness can be a huge kindness to someone and make you their total HERO! Practice kindness in everything you do.
Music and Motion
Dude Barkley
Stolen Parking Space
Once again, just proving, cats ARE better drivers!
Great Purrchases / Donations
Take a look at what’s on ebay!!
A full set of Vintage Kitty Postcards!!!
See the whole set here
or here on ebay - only $6 - $10
We've got an ebay store now where things can be listed too!!!
And Melissa is helping to do the listing - so anybody have something they'd like to sell to benefit Rikki's, if you can do pictures and shipping (if you can't donate the shipping cost we can reimburse by paypal or check) let me know and I can put you in touch with Melissa our ebay helper. dogslife24@comcast.net
The 24th Species
Rikki’s Refuge for Humans
Benefiting the Hoomans who Help
Humans who help animals receive vast benefits; Read Jane’s and Ken’s story:
VALENTINE’S DOUBLE YOUR LOVE
Larry and Jan
pledged $2,222.22 in the Double Your Love challenge. Paul and Candy
upped the ante to $2,277.22. We’re $1,897.22 away from meeting this challenge!! Come on folks, help us raise the $s to buy the food for the animals!!!
Any little bit gets us one step closer to our goal!!! Thanks so much for your help!
I Love YOU,
Vincent
PS You tell me what you want! Email me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org with instructions to change your subscription: additions, deletions or modifications! Subscriptions: Vincent’s VIPs - up to the second alerts about issues at Rikki’s Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as needed. Good Morning Good News - a little something to get you going in the mornings, for those of you who want to keep smiling with us! Scheduled daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled weekly.
Rikki's Refuge, supported solely by private donations, houses over 1200 animals of 22 species. On line at http://bit.ly/Give-a-gift-to-Rikkis Checks, money orders, cash, items at Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960
Rikki's Refuge is owned and operated by Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Virginia Corporation, tax-id 54-1911042. Combined Federal Campaigns #77674, Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign #3163, PetsMart Charities #1377. A financial statement is available upon written request from the State Office of Consumer Affairs.
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