County animal shelters are always packed with wonderful animals looking for a chance at a forever home. Many of the dogs and cats living at Rikki's can be adopted, but we encourage you to start your search with animals in county shelters -- the Orange County shelter is just down the road from us.
You can find a list of Virginia county shelters at: http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/adopt/va_shelters.html
Many county shelters will do same day adoptions, but call before you drive out to find out what their exact adoption requirements are.
If you are looking for a cat or kitten, consider adopting two at the same time(especially bonded pairs or cats from the same family). Most cats really enjoy the company of other cats, and two cats are not harder to take care of than one cat alone.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Rikki animal photo necklaces
Rikki's Refuge has many crafty volunteers, so we thought we would ask a question: Who can volunteer to make photo pendants of our animals that we can sell at fairs and adoption days?
We have several cds of photos that can be used, or you can come out and take the shots you want. Interested? Email Kathy for images.
Pet photo pendants: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=76990.0
FYI: The link above goes to an amazing crafting website. If you don't want to work on photo pendants you're sure to find other ideas.
We have several cds of photos that can be used, or you can come out and take the shots you want. Interested? Email Kathy for images.
Pet photo pendants: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=76990.0
FYI: The link above goes to an amazing crafting website. If you don't want to work on photo pendants you're sure to find other ideas.
Monday, July 10, 2006
College scholarships for vegetarians
Dozens of student volunteers come to Rikki's Refuge to help care for the animals. Many of them are preparing for college. We just found out about a great scholarship being offered by the Vegetarian Resource Group.
If you are graduating from high school in spring 2007 and have promoted vegetarianism in your school and/or community, you could win a $5,000 scholarship. Two winners will be chosen.
Applicants will be judged on having shown compassion, courage, and a strong commitment in promoting a peaceful world through a vegetarian diet/lifestyle. (Full application info).
Deadline is February 20, 2007. That seems like a long way off, but why not start your essay now during your summer break?
Need inspiration? Come on out and spend the day working among the pigs, cows, and chickens.
If you are graduating from high school in spring 2007 and have promoted vegetarianism in your school and/or community, you could win a $5,000 scholarship. Two winners will be chosen.
Applicants will be judged on having shown compassion, courage, and a strong commitment in promoting a peaceful world through a vegetarian diet/lifestyle. (Full application info).
Deadline is February 20, 2007. That seems like a long way off, but why not start your essay now during your summer break?
Need inspiration? Come on out and spend the day working among the pigs, cows, and chickens.
Friday, July 07, 2006
On Beauty
Have you ever wondered who determines what is beautiful in our society -- and who gave them the power to decide?
Anyone who spends time surrounded by animals and nature can tell you that real beauty is all around us. If who don't think our emu model is absolutely stunning, you need to come out and spend some time at the farm.
Motivational poster made with fd's Flicker Toys.
Anyone who spends time surrounded by animals and nature can tell you that real beauty is all around us. If who don't think our emu model is absolutely stunning, you need to come out and spend some time at the farm.
Motivational poster made with fd's Flicker Toys.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Video blogging cats
Vlog cats --- that is, a video blog of cats. What are we talking about? Check out Josh Leo's Vlog Cat Clips at http://www.joshleo.com/vlogcats/.
Scoll down to the "Medicating a Cat" post -- uhmmm... yeah ... it's that easy!
Now that we have moved our website to hostmonster.com we, too, can make and upload little video movies to our site. We can have a whole series of video clips on "medicating cats" -- of course ours are feral, crazy, or turn wild the instant a human even THINKS of medicating them.
Who wants to volunteer to be in the first video?
Scoll down to the "Medicating a Cat" post -- uhmmm... yeah ... it's that easy!
Now that we have moved our website to hostmonster.com we, too, can make and upload little video movies to our site. We can have a whole series of video clips on "medicating cats" -- of course ours are feral, crazy, or turn wild the instant a human even THINKS of medicating them.
Who wants to volunteer to be in the first video?
Update: July 13, 2006: We set up our free video hosting account with YouTube, so come out and shoot some little video clips for us to post. Our user name is rikkisrefuge.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Alien cats invade Rikki's Refuge
Rikki's Refuge cat population has been infiltrated with aliens! They look like regular cats. They act like regular cats -- but see how their eyes glow!
We have taken a number of photographs of these alien cats and will share them via our Flickr account soon. Scary!
We have taken a number of photographs of these alien cats and will share them via our Flickr account soon. Scary!
Thursday, May 11, 2006
It's a Rainy Day
It's a Rainy Day here at Rikki's. Be we have big plans for tomorrow. If all goes as planned ... ... ha ha ... ... we'll be starting major remakes of Doggy Downs at 10 am tomorrow Friday 5/12. Be here to help Kenny and Chris. Thanks Kerry
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