... and walk
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 !
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BOSS HOGETTE & HOWIETTE
did a special fundraiser in conjunction with Kerri Williams Magpi Studios. For a donation to Rikki's Refuge, you could get your photograph taken with the Hogettes.
LOTS OF VISITORS STOPPED IN
all day to meet the candidates Vincent the Spokes Cat and Duke Thomas Peabody the Spokes Dog. It's a fierce battle, April is Cats vs Dogs month. Will cats win again this year? Or will Duke beat Bandit's past performances? Tofi, begged and nagged and jumped up and down, he barked and barked and barked and jumped up and down, and begged and begged and begged and finally his chauffeur, Dr. Cohen, brought him out to the event.
VINNEY CONSULTS WITH DUKE,
trying to convince him to lie down on the job, take a nap, stop drumming up so much support.
THE WINNER IS UP TO YOU
cast your vote with a donation. Mailed in donations prior to the golf tournament were in favor of Vincent. Sorry dog folks, but by a long shot.
But at the golf tournament Duke doubled the number of votes given to Vincent. So cat people, stand up and be counted. Make your vote known, by sending in a donation for Vincent or Duke. PayPal, cash, credit card or check. Any way you want to do it, it counts as a vote.
THE WINNER IS UP TO YOU
cast your vote with a donation. Mailed in donations prior to the golf tournament were in favor of Vincent. Sorry dog folks, but by a long shot.
But at the golf tournament Duke doubled the number of votes given to Vincent. So cat people, stand up and be counted. Make your vote known, by sending in a donation for Vincent or Duke. PayPal, cash, credit card or check. Any way you want to do it, it counts as a vote.
HEY VINCENT !!! READY FOR LUNCH???
Vincent is more of a chow hound than most of the dogs I've ever met. No polite nibble for him! He crammed his head in and gobbled what he could.
RELAXING AFTER LUNCH
Gruffy ruminates and chews his cud. Lori ruminates on what a successful event today has been.
CANDY ERHARD
a Super Shopper who is always on the watch for great products at a great price for Rikki's Refuge, used her super shopping skills, to get many of the prizes and gift certificates donated. Candy, along with her husband Paul, maintain Rikki's Refuge's memorial garden. She is also the founder and sponsor of Puppy Pals, where you can adopt one day of the month, and with recurring $15 a month donation, feed all the dogs at Doggy Downs canned food for the day.
COURTNEY DEVORE
works at Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital where she knows Jan Chetnik. She was there to help out in all kinds of ways during the entire day. You might have seen her riding around on the golf cart helping out and selling raffle tickets.
DEBRA BARRETT
is another hard-working Super Shopper. She rounded up lots of gift certificates and prices and even donated a piece of her own pottery works. She founded Morgan's Munchies to keep people up to date on when the cats need more supplies. Her most important job of the day was caring for Vincent. She keep him out of trouble, and cleans up the messes, gives belly rubs, and helps him purr.
DELORIS QUICK
who was majorly instrumental in pulling it all together, organizing, inventorying and preparing the prizes, having tickets on hand assigning duties and tasks, and overseeing that all went well. As a Super Shopper she helped to round up prizes. Deloris is probably best known for her calming ability to organize and manage. She is the Goddess of the Gift Shoppe at Rikki's Refuge. She had a table of items for sale. You can be Deloris and check out the wonderful Gift Shoppe, April 27 at Sponsor Appreciation Day from noon until 4 p.m. Deloris has a special place in Vincent's heart, she's the one who sees that the shipments of cat litter come in on time! Little Rob and the other pigs love her too, they call her the Produce Lady, because she brings them fresh fruits and veggies on Wednesday.
DONNA WINANS
is a relatively new volunteer to Rikki's Refuge, and already proving invaluable. Every Tuesday morning, bright and early, she shows up to lend a hand. Whatever we need, gets done. Right now we're special project is organizing the office, catching up on the filing, and just overall improving my life! She ran hither and thither helping out all day at the Golf Tournament.
DUKE THOMAS PEABODY
is also relatively new to Rikki's Refuge, having been in residence less than a year. When the residents of Doggy Downs held their annual meeting they voted unanimously for DT Peabody to be Bandit's successor as the Spokes Dog of Rikki's Refuge. DT Peabody's special personality, puts him in a perfect position for this, he is the most loving, sweet, gentle soul you have ever met. Born blind, or almost so, with a seizure disorder and a bleeding disease, he was abandoned on the streets of Baltimore before he was six months old. Fortunately for all involved he came to Rikki's Refuge. He asks for your vote is your during the month-long Dogs vs Cats event during April.
FRED FRIEDMAN
has been a major supporter from day one. He takes care of all the business at home, so I can be on duty at Rikki's Refuge close to 24/7. He supplies computer work, attends events, and occasionally even helps vaccinate goats wearing flip-flops. (That's Fred, not the goats.) And he's often stuck lugging animals back and forth, or picking up donated supplies.
GRUFFY
has been at Rikki's Refuge about a year and a half. If you recall what he smelled like over Christmas of 2006, you know why his previous owner disposed of him. A little neutering job soon took care of that problem. This was the first event he attended as Spokes Goat. Nanny was too ill to make the trip, so at the last minute Gruffy was "roped" into it. Literally, with a lasso. And he did an outstanding job. Not one single butt was butted. He rammed and smashed nothing. He was extremely well-behaved. I suspect to be seeing him at more Rikki's Refuge events.
HOWARD CHURCHILL
aka Howiette of the Hogettes, posed for photos, helped with prize drawing, and had an all around good time with the participants. In real life he is a Commercial Real Estate Consultant. As a kid growing up in Manassas, Virginia, he started collecting Redskins players football cards and now has over 100,000 Redskins cards. This is a man who's serious about what he does. And helping to raise funds for organizations is one of those things.
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