Sunday April 27th 2008, Noon-4 PM
Rikki's Refuge
In appreciation for all of Rikki's Donors and Volunteers. Please come out and join
us for fun all afternoon. Refreshments and veggie bar-b-que-ing. Tours leave the
Gift Shop every half hour. You will get to interact with the friendly cats and dogs,
feed the pigs (bring apples) and sheep and goats and rabbits (bring carrots). Wear
waterproof shoes, old clothes, long pants, sun lotion, hats, etc; dress for the
weather, it's all outdoors and you will get wet, muddy and slobbered on!
Warning - lots of prickles and hooves so sandals and shorts aren't recommended.
Visit our gift shop. Buy a Rikki's Wear T-shirt. Bring your camera and get great
shots of the critters!!
2008 OPEN HOUSE DATES
Summer with the Animals - Sun 6/15 (12-4 pm)
Halloween with the Animals - Sun 10/19 (11am - 3pm)
Fall in Love with the Animals, Sat 11/15 (11am - 3pm)
2008 TOURS DATES
Sun 5/18 1 pm, Fri 7/4 11 am, Sun 8/17 11 am, Mon 9/1 12 pm, Thur 12/25 12 pm
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 !
Friday, April 18, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
First Ever Rikki's Refuge Golf Tournament
The big event was yesterday at Cannon Ridge Golf Club. And it was one huge, tremendous, fabulous success. Thank you Cannon Ridge for allowing us to be there. Thank you to all our sponsors, especially Xerox. And please remember leave all your reproduction to Xerox, neuter and spay your pets today. A big thank you to all of our volunteers who worked so hard to coordinate it and begged for the gifts and prizes. And thank you to all the donors who forked over prizes large and small. There were so many prizes and gifts, I think everyone got at least one.
Cannon Ridge Golf Club is a lovely facility. I suppose most of you live with running water, but out here at the ranch, we're just happy when Larry's Loo has toilet paper. So we really enjoyed the accommodations!!!! I guess they must expect those golfers to get just as dirty as their sheep shearers do.
Cannon Ridge Golf Club is a lovely facility. I suppose most of you live with running water, but out here at the ranch, we're just happy when Larry's Loo has toilet paper. So we really enjoyed the accommodations!!!! I guess they must expect those golfers to get just as dirty as their sheep shearers do.
Even Vincent Was Impressed With the Facilities
He'd never seen such a large litterbox. This was heaven on earth! We scurried to clean up his little boo-boo, before we got caught and evicted. Every second he got he kept trying to sneak back to the best litterbox he'd ever seen.
Duke and Vincent Take a Moment to Share Some Affection
Both campaigning hard to be the winner of Dogs vs Cats, or Cats vs Dogs as Vincent prefers to call the event, behind the scenes, they've always been, and always will be, best friends.
There Were All Kinds of Categories to Win All Kinds of Prizes
In addition to those shown here, there were stacks of gift certificates and wonderful things in the goodie bags that everyone got. I didn't hear anybody complaining about not winning something. Door prizes, Raffles, 50 / 50s, a good time was had by all.
Boss Hogette & Howiette of the Washington Redskin Hogettes Picked the Winners
Boss Hogette & Howiette of the Washington Redskin Hogettes Picked the Winners
Originally uploaded by rikkis_refuge
Tom Sabol, Chairman of the Event, Announces Golf Winners
As they came up to claim their prize they got to meet and shake hands with Mikey T. & Howiette.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
VINCENT, EVER THE HAM, CAMPAIGNS IT UP!
That sand trap, was absolutely irresistible to poor little Vincent. Usually on his best behavior, every time we turned around, he'd vanished. After the first frantic search ... we always knew where he would be!
DUKE THOMAS PEABODY MET SOME OF HIS SUPPORTERS.
Tofi came back for a visit after visit. All of Duke's loyal fans bounced away with wonderful things to say about him, and their wishes for success in the month-long campaign, Dogs vs Cats. Most expressed their absolute horror, that Cats, had always been the winners in the past. We're certainly going to set out to change that this year!
Meanwhile, Vincent rolled around in the background, saying, "Gag me, I'm sure glad nobody comes out here, expecting me to lick them!"
Meanwhile, Vincent rolled around in the background, saying, "Gag me, I'm sure glad nobody comes out here, expecting me to lick them!"
MAGPI STUDIOS IS OWNED BY OUR VERY OWN KERRI WILLIAMS
Of course, the subjects that have inspired her over the years, are the wonderful animals at Rikki's Refuge. She started photographing them for fun. Then she became the photographer, the creator, and the editor of Rikki's Refuge's own newspaper, Reflections. Visitors at tours and open houses began begging for copies of her creations. Soon they were asking that she have Creative Sessions with their pets to produce beautiful Portraits. Kerri was having so much fun, she even realize how good she was. Until one day someone said, "You should open a studio!" And Magpi Studios was born!
One lucky person one drawing for a free Creative Session with Kerri. The photos you're seeing here are mine (Kerry), and not at all in keeping with what Kerri can do. Watch for the next issue of Reflections, to see her photo shoot of the Golf Tournament.
In the meantime you can call Kerri Williams today at Magpi Studios, for your own Creative Session, photographing pets and their people. 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
One lucky person one drawing for a free Creative Session with Kerri. The photos you're seeing here are mine (Kerry), and not at all in keeping with what Kerri can do. Watch for the next issue of Reflections, to see her photo shoot of the Golf Tournament.
In the meantime you can call Kerri Williams today at Magpi Studios, for your own Creative Session, photographing pets and their people. 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
NO MATTER WHERE THE CAMPAIGNING TOOK THEM
Vincent and Duke were never far apart, and stopped to check in on each other frequently.
NANNY HAD TO TAKE A BATH
on Sunday so she would be squeaky clean for Monday's Golf Tournament.
She was quite less than pleased with this procedure. Though she didn't gore anyone too seriously. Poor Nanny has developed age related irritable bowel syndrome, and so she frequently has the runs. Goats, even at the best of times, produce a lot of methane. Needless to say, this is a messy problem. Bathing her was quite necessary before she could be presented in public.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday morning as we began to prepare the animals for the long trip to the Golf Tournament, we noticed Nanny was having another bout of IBS. Uh oh .. she got a quart of Kaopectate for breakfast. Once loaded into the truck, she virtually exploded, had to be unloaded, hosed off, and her crate scrubbed out. She downed four giant size antidiarrhea tablets, carob flavored. Back on the truck, and kapush .... After the third event, we decided that perhaps she was too ill to make the trip today.
But everyone was waiting to meet Nanny. What were we going to do? Darrell had a flash of inspiration. Why not take Gruffy? So here we were at 6:30 a.m. in the morning (I am really sorry I forgot to get my camera out) driving around the fields in the half light trying to lasso Gruffy. Finally we captured him!
His horns are spread much wider than Nanny's, and it was quite a challenge to get him in the crate. But we managed. Duke Thomas Peabody only threw up once, delaying us for stop and clean up. Vincent pooped his brains out three times, and if you've ever smelled Vincent poop, you know why I stopped to clean him up each time!
We arrived only an hour late, well maybe an hour and a half, I know it wasn't more than two.
She was quite less than pleased with this procedure. Though she didn't gore anyone too seriously. Poor Nanny has developed age related irritable bowel syndrome, and so she frequently has the runs. Goats, even at the best of times, produce a lot of methane. Needless to say, this is a messy problem. Bathing her was quite necessary before she could be presented in public.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday morning as we began to prepare the animals for the long trip to the Golf Tournament, we noticed Nanny was having another bout of IBS. Uh oh .. she got a quart of Kaopectate for breakfast. Once loaded into the truck, she virtually exploded, had to be unloaded, hosed off, and her crate scrubbed out. She downed four giant size antidiarrhea tablets, carob flavored. Back on the truck, and kapush .... After the third event, we decided that perhaps she was too ill to make the trip today.
But everyone was waiting to meet Nanny. What were we going to do? Darrell had a flash of inspiration. Why not take Gruffy? So here we were at 6:30 a.m. in the morning (I am really sorry I forgot to get my camera out) driving around the fields in the half light trying to lasso Gruffy. Finally we captured him!
His horns are spread much wider than Nanny's, and it was quite a challenge to get him in the crate. But we managed. Duke Thomas Peabody only threw up once, delaying us for stop and clean up. Vincent pooped his brains out three times, and if you've ever smelled Vincent poop, you know why I stopped to clean him up each time!
We arrived only an hour late, well maybe an hour and a half, I know it wasn't more than two.
GRUFFY WAS THE HIT OF THE SHOW.
Everybody just had to get a chance walking Gruffy. And he was extremely well behaved. I have to admit I was completely shocked that no one got butted in the butt !!!
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