HELPING ANIMALS AT OUR SANCTUARY AND AROUND THE WORLD!
RIKKI’S REFUGE IS A MULTI-SPECIES LIFE-CARE NO-KILL SANCTUARY
FOR THE MEDICALLY AND SOCIALLY CHALLENGED
SUPPORTED BY DONATIONS FROM KIND AND GENEROUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU !
And so we
celebrate Christmas at Rikki’s Refuge !!
It’s Timmy’s first Christmas
he’s awed by all the excitement and gifts Santa
brought. Even after listening to all
the tales of Christmas past that Vincent told him about, he’s just amazed at
the kindness and generosity of his friends and supporters.
Timmy takes time to read all the cards from all his friends
and to stop and wish each and every one a very Merry Christmas! So many many friends!
Timmy wanted to take his time, opening each gift and
savoring it ....
Vincent hunkers down and
shows Timmy how to get on with it !!
Wow, a stocking of my own !!!!
Come on kid, no need to
take all day, let me show you how it’s done .....
Peace and
Love, Love and Peace, that’s what I wish for all my friends today!!
It takes
so little to make so many so happy!!!!
We were such happy animals on Christmas!!!! Santa sent his helpers
Jan Chetnik and
Laurie Karnay
and lots of others to help out!!! We had a wonderful tour with lots of kind and generous people.
Mr. Mister, Vincent and
Nora Eldridge are so happy about all the donations!!!!!
A whole truck full of cat food
And a whole truck of dog
food
For Kiki and friends
Mick supervised sales of
Soaps with our pictures, raffle tickets, and lots more
One
cabbage means the world to a dozen guinea pigs!!
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
HELP .. I
need somebody ...
Help
.... Not just anybody ....
Heeeeeeelp
......
Where’s my bed? I’m
having to sleep on my toy cuz I don’t got no clean bed! Jennifer left us on Monday - just walked out
in the middle of the day - so I need somebody to take care of the feeding and
cleaning in the 9th Live Center and the Hospital Cages. Is that YOU? Call for a job interview - 540-854-0870 x8 . If you’re a good volunteer, please come and
help till the position is filled.
Counting
Down the Hours
Thank you for helping with our Double Your Donation End of
Year Challenge!!! A wonderful donor
will double our donations, up to $15,000 at midnight tomorrow, the 31st! So far we’re at $6,161.50 .... not quite half way ... we desperately need $8,838.50 to make our
goal !!!!
Every dollar we come up short - is two dollars short to care
for the animals !!
or send me an email with your pledge and note that the check
is in the mail! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
A great big huge thank you to those of you who have
contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!
Since yesterday:
Lia Federico, Jean Evans, Robyn Schnellenberger, Claudia
Espana, Mary Walker, Torre Taylor, Jill Pfeiffer, Winging Cat Rescue Inc,
Barbara Lowe, Vicki Gielen, Carol Boyse, Marie Shirey, Lois Angeletti, Beverly
and Jim Flynn, Amy Griffin
and to Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the
Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw,
Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio, Vicki Gielen, Denise
Halderman, Sue Banning, Dennis Nagy, Amy Madson, Deborah Jameson, Stewart
Business Services, Inc., Betsy Brown, Beverly Cain, Martha Girdany, Theresa
Loretto, Jayne Ashmore, Harold N, Deborah Forrest, April Nelson, Robert
Tringali, John Bowman, Konstantin Shepelev, Suzanne Bolton, Sharon Dyer, Ann
Claassen, Roberta Finkelstein, Suzette Haile, Elizabeth Gaver, Linda Downey,
Amanda Bumpus, Douglas Michel, Erin Higgins, Jennifer Stocker, Jennifer Dorr
Ziegenmeyer, Amanda Lea, Jeffrey Carey, Marlin Leonard, Lisa Millhorn, Wes Boyd
I’m so
sorry! I called you a girl
yesterday. I really sorry. I know you’re a big handsome boy. Please forgive me!!!
MY New
Year Resolution
Is to make
the 9th Life Center look just like this!!!
Ron!! Rene!!!! Come and help !!!!!
Miles says
it all
Thank you Michael and Lanell Gardner, we LOVE you let me
give you a great big hug!!!! Michael
and Lanell brought this big beautiful van to Rikki’s yesterday. There’s a story here.
Last week Lena was telling mom about a program she’d like to
start. Offering free or low cost
Speutering to a few local citizens - I mean their pets - every month. Maybe we could start with 10. For $1,000 a month we could probably do 20 a
month. It wouldn’t be hard to get
going. We’d need to line up a doctor or
clinic to work with. Get paper work
ready for folks. Have the animals come
here. Find a volunteer who’d drive
them, in the morning and back in the evening.
We’d need the volunteer, and we know someone would help with this kind
of a great program. And either they’d
need transportation that could fit in many carriers or crates. Or better yet, we’d get a van that we could
outfit with cages and carriers and our volunteer could drive .........
Well the next morning when the phone rang and the caller
said ..... I have a van I’d like to donate if you could use it .... mom was jumping with joy and now Lena is
working on implementing the all new Community Speuter Program !!!
New Year’s
Day Tour and Hike
January 1st Sunday - Opening the New Year at your favorite
place will bring you good luck all year!!!
11 am Tour of the Refuge - note 11 am - not our usual noon - 11 am so we
can squeeze in Nature Hike before it gets dark and cold. Gates open at 10:30 am. Tour at 11 am, yup, it’s all outside so
dress warm warm warm. Then at 1 pm
you’ll head for the hills!!!! Pristine
Nature Hike thru the 367 acres of Rikki’s Refuge. Good boots, waterproof and all dressed up for the weather. Wear orange and red and bright colors so any
evil poaching trespassing you know what’s don’t think you’re a deer!!!
Till
tomorrow .....
We Love
YOU,
Vincent
and Timmy
PS Hi can you spare $1 or $2? I'd really appreciate it if you can. I can double your donation thru the end of
the year - AND you get a tax deduction too!!!
It's a real WIN WIN WIN. $1
normally buys four meals for us here at Rikki's Refuge. Now your $1 will buy 8 meals !!!! That's a bargain!! If you can help at all, please do! Thank you, Vincent
PPS 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.
Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org
and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge
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
Kiwi and
Gibson, Happy in their New Home !
Kiwi came from Georgia and had spent several years at
Rikki’s before finding the purrfect parents, Patty and Andy.
You may remember Gibson’s story.
Gibson doing The Happy Dance, tasting freedom at last
!!! After 1 ½ years of healing from
traumatic wounds, Gibson dances with joy!!
Read his whole story under the video on youtube.
Kiwi and Gibson very happily spent their first Christmas
with Patty and Andy last week !!!! A
wonderful forever home they’ll be eternally grateful for.
YOU made this possible.
YOUR donations paid for their care and for the many surgeries Gibson
needed.
Now You
CAN Save More Like Gibson and Kiwi
You can double your donation thru the end of the year. But watch out! That’s only three more days!!! Saturday at midnight is the
deadline!!! We have $15,000 to be
doubled and we haven’t quite yet reached the $5,000 mark. Please help us reach this goal for the full
$15,000 is donated to us at midnight Saturday.
A great big huge thank you to those of you who have
contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!
Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the
Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw,
Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio, Vicki Gielen, Denise
Halderman, Sue Banning, Dennis Nagy, Amy Madson, Deborah Jameson, Stewart
Business Services, Inc., Betsy Brown, Beverly Cain, Martha Girdany, Theresa
Loretto, Jayne Ashmore, Harold N, Deborah Forrest, April Nelson, Robert
Tringali, John Bowman, Konstantin Shepelev, Suzanne Bolton, Sharon Dyer, Ann
Claassen, Roberta Finkelstein, Suzette Haile, Elizabeth Gaver, Linda Downey,
Amanda Bumpus, Douglas Michel, Erin Higgins, Jennifer Stocker, Jennifer Dorr
Ziegenmeyer, Amanda Lea, Jeffrey Carey, Marlin Leonard, Lisa Millhorn, Wes Boyd
We’ve raised less than $5,000 of this $15,000 matching
challenge. Our deadline is midnight
Saturday. Please help out by making a
large end of year tax deductible donation, or simply by tossing in a few
bucks!! Every penny adds up!! Thank you!!!
Thank you
Arthur and Annie !!!
Blue Dog is now a Rikki’s Resident !!!! This is the truck my dear sweet Aunt Candy
used to haul all kinds of goodies to Rikki’s.
Arthur and Annie came to visit Monday and donated Blue Dog !!!! Thank you, that’s a really lovely gift.
Bonnie
Kliamovich is a Vincent Elf
Her Angel
Tree was at Pet Supplies "Plus" Charlottesville VA
and look
at all the goodies she brought out on this trip!!!
Ahhhh The
Hot Seat
Pi is all
stretched out and cozy warm in his home with Martha!!
Come to my
New Mews New Years Eve Party !!!!!
Midnight
Saturday !!!
A New Mew
to every one who shows up !!!
Can’t make
the party?
Please
send your shipping address so I can get your Happy New Mew on the way to you
!!!!
ps Just
kidding, we’d love to see lots of our kitties get homes,
but
adoption application and processing are required for everyone!
Thank you
for coming to visit me Jennifer and mom !!!
I Love
YOU,
Vincent
PS Hi can you spare $1 or $2? I'd really appreciate it if you can. I can double your donation thru the end of
the year - AND you get a tax deduction too!!!
It's a real WIN WIN WIN. $1
normally buys four meals for us here at Rikki's Refuge. Now your $1 will buy 8 meals !!!! That's a bargain!! If you can help at all, please do! Thank you, Vincent
PPS 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.
Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org
and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge
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
JR Gets a
Wonderful Forever Home!!
Happy happy news!!
JR went to his new home yesterday.
An older very gentle and sweet guy!!
It’s so wonderful to see seniors get homes. He’s a gentle sweet unassuming guy. He can walk into any environment and fit right in. Lots of the older guys and gals are like
this. Please head out to your local
shelter and take one home today!!!!
It’s really good karma !!!!!
Fred Shows
up with the 23rd Species ......
Hmmm when Daddy said he was coming with his snake
.......
Thank you Fred for fixing the horrible clog in the 9th
Life Center!!! The good news! It wasn’t
a cat stuck down the drain!
Angel Tree
Donations Keep Rolling In
Dan Galvin with donations from Angel Tree in Richmond!! So many kind and generous people, putting up
trees, putting supplies under the trees, picking up the donated items, and
bringing them to Rikki’s !!! Such a
wonderful program. Bringing in lots of
nums for the animals.
Shopping after Christmas sales?? Watch for trees for next years programs. 6-7 foot pre-lit easy assemble trees. Also white and other bright color ones for
Christmas in July !!!!
The
Animals or The IRS ?
Who would you rather see get the cash? I hope your vote is with the animals
!!!!! Only four days of tax saving
donations left !!!! Hurry and get your
donation in and your tax write off ready!!!
AND you can double your donation with this wonderful program!! http://rikkisrefuge.chipin.com/double-your-donations
A great big huge thank you to those of you who have
contributed to the end of year Double Your Donation !!!!!
Kate Viscardi, Nora Eldridge, Missy Burns and the
Wagglebutts, Janet Duran, Katherine Reynolds, Debra Berry, Nancy Mottershaw,
Karen Friedel, Theresa Leppley, Mary Lou Pizzio !!!!! You’re my angels!!!
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.
Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org
and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge
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
It takes
so little to make so many so happy!!!!
We were such happy animals on Christmas!!!! Santa sent his helpers
Jan Chetnik and
Laurie Karnay
and lots of others to help out!!! We had a wonderful tour with lots of kind and generous people.
Mr. Mister, Vincent and
Nora Eldridge are so happy about all the donations!!!!!
A whole truck full of cat food
And a whole truck of dog
food
For Kiki and friends
Mick supervised sales of
Soaps with our pictures, raffle tickets, and lots more
One
cabbage means the world to a dozen guinea pigs!!
Christmas
Quilt
Karen Jones was the winner of the quilt !!!!! She bought 10 tickets. Thank you Miss Marika for making and
donating the quilt. Thank you to everyone
who took a chance on the quilt and bought a ticket. Together you raised $265 for the animals !!!!!
New Challenge!!!
Well this pretty much says it all !!!!! My friend who hate's paying the IRS, just
started this Double Your Donation before the End of the Year, pay less taxes,
help the animals more!!!
Yikers and I've got what like five days !!!! HELP !!!
This is wonderful news!!!!
It’s short notice. We’ve only
got five days. If you are looking to
save on your taxes with a last minute tax deductible donation - please please
help out now while this Double Your Donation is going on !!!! Thank you.
Please share with anyone and everyone you know who cares about the
animals!!
The
Animals or The IRS ?
I’ll
double your tax deductible donations!!!!
You win
!!!!
The
animals win !!!!
Donate
before the end of the year !!!!
Rikki’s is
my all time favorite!!
How about
YOU ?
Hey Duke, Hey Vincent,
It’s your buddy here who
hates paying income tax!! I’d much
rather give my money to you than to the IRS!
I bet lots of your friends feel that way too!!
How many of them will join
me!!
Let’s find out!!
I’ll tell you what I’ll do
....
but first I better say ....
donations made to Rikki’s Refuge are tax deductible to the fullest extent of
the law and all that fine print. In
most cases 100% of the donation is deductible.
Seek the advice of your accountant if you’re not sure about your
particular situation.
And now this is what I’ll do
so we can all save money together --- I’ll match all donations from this second
forward, thru midnight on December 31, 2011 so we can save the mostest.
Just in case this goes wild,
I do have to put a limit on this!!! All
donations up to $15,000 by the end of the year, I’ll match.
Dollar for dollar.
That’s right, YOU donate $1
to Vincent and Duke and I’ll donate $1.
It’s a WIN WIN WIN
situation!
YOU get a tax break, I get a
tax break, and Duke and Vincent get to eat!!
I’ll be stopping in at
midnight Saturday to celebrate with you!
Duke and Vincent, you show me what you have and what’s been pledged by
midnight Saturday - and I’ll write you a check for up to $15,000 !!!!
Hope that’ll help you out,
you adorable little furry guys!!
Love from your fan, who
likes you better than the IRS !!!
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.
Learn more www.RikkisRefuge.org
and help spread the good word, tell everyone you know about Rikki’s Refuge
Jan Chetnik and
