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 !
GOOD MORNING GOOD NEWS ---- HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE FROM THE ANIMALS OF
RIKKI’S REFUGE
Opie is on a mission ...he’s determined to fill every animals'
stocking at Rikki's Refuge with something delicious for CHRISTMAS DINNER
....will YOU help him put a can in
every stocking!!
All funds donated today for Opie’s
Christmas Can Campaign will be used exclusively to feed the animals of Rikki’s
Refuge. Thank you for sharing Christmas
Dinner !!!
ALL of US at
Rikki’s Refuge
Wish you and
yours a
VERY MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Calvin hopes YOU’ll be on the
Christmas Day Tour and bringing apples, carrots, celery ... num num !!!!He’s waiting to see YOU tomorrow and give
you your Christmas Kiss !!
At Rikki’s, Christmas doesn’t
come just one day a year ....our
animals think Christmas is EVERY DAY ... joyous ... happy ... and thankful for
the life YOU have given them !!!!Your
kind and generous gifts will stretch into 2016 giving them another year of loving
life !!!To wake up alive, happy, loved and fed every day .... what more
could any of us ask for ?
Christmas and every day ... donations to help the
animals of Rikki’s Refuge are fully tax deductible !!!Yaaa Hooo .....You help them .. they help you ...that’s called WIN-WIN !!!
GOOD MORNING GOOD NEWS ---- IT’S STARTING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE
CHRISTMAS
Brrrr
it’s COLD
out there today !!!It’s been feeling
like winter and like Christmas is coming lately !!!
Are
YOU getting ready ?Have you made YOU
Christmas List ?Have I been naughty or
nice ?Shut up Duke .....you tell on my ... I’ll tell on you.Yup Iz been real nice !!!!Duke too ....all us aminals .... andwez really hopin to be on your Christmas List !!!
You
know all gifts to Rikki’s Refuge are tax deductible ....so do those numbers now ....and see what will make a difference to YOU
....would you rather give it to dem
hoomans in government or help the aminals to have a happy life?Gee that seems like an easy choice, huh?
VOTE
VOTE VOTE --- TODAY AND TOMORROW ....only two days left !!!Tell all
your friends ....there is TWO THOUSAND
dollars at stake ....and that’s a
great big huge number ...Please make
it happen !!!!
Pick a shift and HELP THE ANIMALS --- email the
volunteer at YOUR store TODAY !!
Yeah
Yeah Yeah ...I’m trying to get in the
Christmas Spirit ....but ya know ...
every year Santa brings us lots of broccoli .....and it’s more than we can eat all at one time ....so those darn pigs end up eating most of it
.... I mean you just can’t save broccoli for 11 months and divvy it out so we
get some every day.
So what happens?We feast for a month
or so .... and then don’t get much good and fresh for months ....Wouldn’t it be cool if Santa could just
bring a little bit of it every month.
I
mean if somebody would just make a $30 donation every month .....we’d always have fresh broccoli for
breakfast !!!!Nummy !!!!
You silly emu .... you’re
just a bird brain ....of course they
can ....and I’d like to get to eat well
EVERY month .... not just during Christmas when hoomans is feeling happy and
generous. I'm Baby and I'm the biggest kitty in Cat House number one .... come on our Christmas Tour and you'll meet me !!! I'm the ruler of Cat House 1 .... and I'll tell you how this works.
Some of our hooman friends DO
know how to help us every month.It’s
called Recurring Monthly Donations .... they can sign up ONCE and without any
notice, any pain, any more work ....
Just
CLICK http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate
and scan down till you see RECURRING DONATION 3 minutes of YOUR time
....give us happiness each and every
month !!!!
You have no pain, we get all
the gain !!!And you’re building up
that tax deduction all year round !!!Now if that don’t sound like one of them WIN WIN things ....
And
if you check out the Drop Downs at http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate
you’ll see PUPPY
PALS where for ONLY $15 you
can make a monthly recurring donation and that will feed ALL us doggies canned
food for the day.We LOVE canned food
.... but when there’s not enough money ....we only get crunchies.
I mean I’m not complaining or nothin.I’m so thankful that you feed me and take
care of me.But it really is nice to
have that nummy tasty soft mmmmmmm good canned food too ....specially as I get older ....
And for ONLY $63 a month .... YOU can provide ALL
the care -- I mean everything -- food, housing, loving care, sanitation,
preventative meds -- EVERYTHING for one doggie for one whole month !!!!
I think that’s what I’d like for Christmas !!!
Hey you dog face !!!! Tell 'em about VINCENT VITTLES on the drop down too ..... for only $15 YOU can feed one cat house canned food for the day too .... so sign up and feed one cat house for one day each moth !!!! If only 30 of you signed up for each cat house .... that's be all our nums every day !!!! Opie.
SOCCER - SHEEP vs GOATS
We
love to play.When you visit us on a
tour, you might think we do nothin but sit under the trees and chew cud ... but
that’s not true ...in the morning we
love to play ....and after we’ve
digested our cud .... we love to play again in the evening.We get accused of being lazy a lot .... but
that’s just not true ...we have to
relax and let out stomachs do the work ....and then we team up and PLAY !!!!
Come
to one or both !!!We look forward to
showing you what your kindness has built !!!
BOOMER
AT TRACTOR SUPPLY LAST WEEKEND
Please
come out and see us tomorrow and next weekend !!!
Rikki's
Refuge has giving trees up at several stores throughout Central Virginia. These
trees will be decorated with ornaments that feature pictures of some of our
animal ambassadors, along with some background information about each one. By
way of these ornaments, each animal will be requesting what he or she most
wants to get from Santa this Christmas for themselves and their friends at
Rikki’s. (Not surprisingly, it’s usually something edible) **If you would like
to donate to Rikki's Refuge but cannot get to one of the listed stores, here
are some links for you to use: www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate Paypal: mail@rikkisrefuge.org
Opie’s Corner Store: www.OpiesCornerStore.bigbig.comMail a check or money order: PO Box 1357,
Orange VA 22960
Angel Tree at Re-Tail
Angel Tree at Giant Hilltop
Center
Angel Tree at Petco Harrison
Crossing
Hi, my name is Crabby
Patty.You know why?The shelter where I was said I was crabby
all the time and not very nice and nobody would ever want me and I should be
disposed of.Yeah ... disposed.Like trash.Thanks a lot.And you wonder WHY
I was crabby?
That and my butt hurt all the
time.I have what is often called manx
syndrome.It means cus the end of my
spine isn’t formed right it affects my .... mmmm ... you hoomans are sensitive
about this stuff aren’t you?Well let’s
just say my butt isn’t formed quite right and it means with out proper care
three times a day, I’ve got problems and I hurt .... yeah ... like raw bloody
HURT ....Just imagine if every time
you sat down it hurt ....every time
you walked around it hurt .... and every time you went potty it hurt so awful
bad ....you’d be pretty crabby too I
bet.
But when I get my medicine
and I get my soothing ointment on my butt 3 times every day, then I feel good,
I don’t hurt .... and I’M HAPPY ....I’m so glad to be at Rikki’s ....if I never told you THANK YOU .... you didn’t just save my life
....YOU made it all worth
living.....cuz it’s no fun to live in
pain all the time.When I’m taken care
of properly, my butt heals and nothing hurts and I feel so good .... I thank my
hoomans for helping me ....you didn’t
just give me life ...you gave me a
happy pain free life !!!
All my friends want is nums
for Christmas ... yeah ... I like nums too ....but I really like my medicine ....I need about $22 in medicine every month .... and a hooman to
help put it on my butt ...I tried once
... but without thumbs I had to squeeze the tube with my teeth .... and it got
all holes in it and gushed out all over ....so I have to ask for kind and gentle help ....
For $22 a month on one of
those recurring donation things .... YOU can make my butt comfortable ALL MONTH LONG !!!!www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
thank you !!!!!
Friends Don’t Let Friends Spend Christmas HUNGRY !!!
We are so grateful for you. Please remember
Rikki's Refuge in your year-end giving. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate
Love,
Opie
Thank you for being there for us !!YOU have made our very lives possible thru
your kind and generous donations !!!!
Here’s
the goats doing what goats do while the reporter was interviewing Lolly and
Birttney for the tv show ....
Here’s
that story in case you missed it ...
With
a little imagination (ok, a whole lot of imagination) you can imagine this
cherry tree 20 or 30 feet high and covering Rainbow Overlook in shade.
That’s
what Ron said, after planting what will become a lovely tree for many to enjoy
in a future years.
See
the fencing laying there?You can’t
just plant a tree at Rikki’s .... you have to fence it in .... a number of our
residents think young trees are for eating !!!
Ron’s
signature slogan is "A society grows great when crazy old cat people plant
trees whose shade the next generation will enjoy"
Thank
you Ron !!!!
Read
on .... and PLEASE help my Uncle Ron wrap it up in Charlottesville !!!!
YOU
ALL ARE AWESOME ....you did it on
Giving Tuesday !!!! We met our match
!!!!Fabulous Job !!!!
And
your hard work and kindness and generosity made it possible for us to get over
30 kitties speutered this week !!!
We
blood tested a lot of cats this week.... The blood test kits cost us $13.95
each so just that is an expensive proposition with all these cats ... thank
goodness ducks don't need to be tested ... well not blood .... for anything
before they merge with the crowds !!!!
And
we have done intake processing on many of the new feral cats. Doing their id
photos, face, sides, top, bottom, distinctive markings, writing descriptions,
worming, vaccinating, cleaning ears, checking teeth -- yeah ... they got good
ones. Taking in a cat isn't just putting it in a cat house!!!!Oh no sireee ...there’s lots
more to it than that !!!
Hope
to see you there !!!!Please come for
fun ....Volunteer to help if you’d
like !!!Volunteers@RikkisRefuge.org
Here’s
the story that appeared about Rikki’s in the Scottsville Weekly
click
on the article above to read the story on line
VOTE
VOTE VOTE --- we’ve dipped to 5th ---get us back up to 4th !!!QUICK
....you just gotz to vote EVERY DAY
!!!!!Tell all your friends ....there is TWO THOUSAND dollars at stake
....and that’s a great big huge number
...Please make it happen !!!!
Pick a shift and HELP THE ANIMALS --- email the
volunteer at YOUR store TODAY !!
The
baby pigs have a new home !!!They’re
still getting formula, but are now drinking out of a bowl, and they are eating
... and eating ... just like ... ummm ....wellPIGS !!!!They’ve already about
doubled in size and outgrown tea-cup status ...now they’re miniature pigs .... and soon they’ll outgrow
that.
They’ve
got a nice new outdoor home where the can spend these beautiful days !!!Happy piggies ....but they still need to come in the 9th Life Center at night.
They’ll
be getting speutered on the 22 .... and they they would be happy if no
contributions came in to make it possible ....WE need your help, cuz we don’t need 20, 30, 40 .... more
piggies !!!!www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Come
to one or both !!!We look forward to
showing you what your kindness has built !!!
EVERYBODY
wants to get in on one of Mr. Ken's awesome tours... Even the critters! If you
come visit for one of our tours, YOU could be getting this view!Ken will be leading our Christmas Day Tour.
How
Awesome! Doesn't this look like paradise?That’s what our recent guests who came all the way from England to see
the sanctuary in person, had to say as all the critters came out to give them
an escort !
Is there a Turkey in your life ?
Give
your holiday season a new meaning this year ... the meaning of Love, Life and
Hope !!
Let
the world know how you feel. Turkeys are our FRIENDS and should be treated with
love and respect. If you don't have a turkey friend, you absolutely must visit
Rikki's Refuge no-kill life-care sanctuary and meet some very wonderful
turkeys! You'll be glad you did.
Each
T-shirt sold during this campaign will help to care for the Turkeys, Chickens,
Geese, Ducks, Guinea Fowl, Peacocks and Pigeons at Rikki's Refuge over the
winter when they need so much more food.
We
hope you'll make some time to come and visit our happy birds .... and all the
other animals, too!
