Kerry will remain in jail pending investigation and possibly a trail. Bail has been set at the price of the over due feed bill $6,782.47. So far Nanny T. Goat (with help from YOU), has raised well over half the funds to get Kerry back to work. The animals all beg for your help .... Help bail her out before there's nothing left but a pelt.
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
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 !
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Kerry says prison is like a vacation !!!
Kerry is quoted as saying, "I've always said I want to be a cat when I grow up! This ain't half bad! Sleeping in the sun! No phone! No computer! And, hey! They are scooping MY litterbox instead of the other way around. Eat, Sleep, Sun .. I could get into this ...."
Kerry will remain in jail pending investigation and possibly a trail. Bail has been set at the price of the over due feed bill $6,782.47. So far Nanny T. Goat (with help from opposable thumbed bipeds has raised $2,817.10, leaving only $3,965.37 to get Kerry back to work. The animals all beg for your help .... don't let her lay around relaxing and sleeping in jail - get her back to the drudges of cleaning up after us !!!!
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
Read the detailed story at
http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/Rikkis/kerryjail.html
Kerry will remain in jail pending investigation and possibly a trail. Bail has been set at the price of the over due feed bill $6,782.47. So far Nanny T. Goat (with help from opposable thumbed bipeds has raised $2,817.10, leaving only $3,965.37 to get Kerry back to work. The animals all beg for your help .... don't let her lay around relaxing and sleeping in jail - get her back to the drudges of cleaning up after us !!!!
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
Read the detailed story at
http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/Rikkis/kerryjail.html
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Kerry Charged on 3,206 Counts - Locked up Pending Investigation
Accused by Vincent and charged by Officer Lena Stocks with 7 counts of uneven fur trimming, 4 counts for what a horrid haircut , 639 counts of no tuna for breakfast, 639 counts of no Fancy Feast for snack time, 639 counts of no tuna for dinner, 639 counts of no silk pillows at bed time, 639 counts of no midnight snacks of fresh mouse.
Kerry will remain in jail pending investigation and possibly a trail. Bail has been set at the price of the over due feed bill $6,782.47. So far Nanny T. Goat has raised $1,660.00, leaving only $5,122.47 to get Kerry back to work.
The animals all beg for your help .... don't let her lay around relaxing and sleeping in jail - get her back to the drudges of cleaning up after us !!!!
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
Kerry will remain in jail pending investigation and possibly a trail. Bail has been set at the price of the over due feed bill $6,782.47. So far Nanny T. Goat has raised $1,660.00, leaving only $5,122.47 to get Kerry back to work.
The animals all beg for your help .... don't let her lay around relaxing and sleeping in jail - get her back to the drudges of cleaning up after us !!!!
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
Read the detailed story at
http://www.rikkisrefuge.org/Rikkis/kerryjail.html
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Kerry of Rikki's Refuge Jailed
for exceeding credit limit. She will be jailed in a local cell until a way overdue cat food bill of $6,782.47 is paid in full. The residents of Rikki's Refuge need your urgent assistance to get Kerry out of jail by raising the money to pay off this exorbitant bill. The creditors are threatening to auction off the refuge for resort property. The animals all beg for your help .... don't let us be homeless .. again.
The future of Rikki's Refuge is in your hands! Please send your support. $1, $5 or what ever you can. www.rikkisrefuge.org/donate.php?purpose=Feed Paypal, Credit card or send a check to Rikki's Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960.
Read the detailed story at
Monday, July 27, 2009
From our friends at Best Friends
Hi guys.
We wanted to send you the new link for the updated Best Friends web site:
http://network.bestfriends.org/golocal/virginia/default.aspx
and one of the featured articles there is one we wrote about your upcoming Birthday Bash.
We hope we can make it, but we have a conflict as of now.
By the way, we visited the Web of Life sanctuary in Chesapeake, and talked with the founder, Jackie Van Horn. She is doing some great work there. Here is a link to that article:
http://network.bestfriends.org/golocal/virginia/news.aspx?pID=11007
Congratulations again on your 11th anniversary.
Rick & Sarah McDonald
News Writers
Best Friends Network Volunteers
http://network.bestfriends.org/golocal/virginia/default.aspx
(540) 597-8268
Friday, July 17, 2009
HERE'S SOME THINGS THE ANIMALS NEED
that we just couldn't afford to buy last week.
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_registry_detail.html?ID=2352&ccd=IGR002
That's our Valley Vet registry where you can get some Birthday Presents for our critters. One word of caution. Kathy bought Nanny some diarrhea pills and when she paid with paypal it didn't over ride her address with ours. She'll drop off the pills as soon as they get in. If you live further away you - double check shipping address before you hit the final Order Confirm button. Make sure you're shipping to Rikki's Refuge, 10910 Barr Ln, Rapidan VA 22733
Valley Vet is working on this glitch and hopes to have it fixed soon.
PS. thank you Kathy for NOT listening to Nanny. She beat me to the phone and was trying to convince Kathy she really wanted Oreo Cookies for the big Birthday Bash instead of diarrhea pills!! Naughty Nanny !!!!!
DON'T MISS OUR BIRTHDAY
Open House - August 16, Sunday from noon to 4 pm. Lots of fun and yummy cooking by Larry. For more information or to volunteer to help out contact Jan Chetnik jerseygirljan@verizon.net
Admission is two cans of cat food per person. If you can manage to bring more please do. Our 638 cat use 24 cases a DAY. That's why there's so much cleaning up in the morning to do !!!!!
THANK YOU MIKE AND PURINA
Mike Wood just drove up to Pennsylvania where Purina donated 3200 pounds of dry cat and dog food. That might sound like a lot for your household. But at Rikki's with all those hungry mouths it's only a 40 day supply of dry food. They still need their canned too because most of them are old or handicapped or fighting a chronic health issue.
MOVE THAT GRAVEL
Cindy Wright and Rene Luther along with Joe Callahan have been busy moving gravel from the pile to the dogs. And they've moved a LOT. They could still use your help in smoothing it out and tamping it down. It's one heck of a work out. Get a work out, do good, win karma points. Great project for scout group !!!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
SPONSOR APPRECIATION DAY WAS WONDERFUL
The food was the best yet!! I didn't have to eat for the next 4 days.
I had so much fun meeting all of you. Thank you so very much for coming out. It really makes my day to get to meet and talk to you. For so many of you that's your one visit each year. But don't forget our next Open House - our 11th Birthday, August 16th from noon until 4 pm. Put it on your calendar right now!
It took all of these wonderful Volunteers to make it happen: Mary Walker, Jane Whitmore, Candy and Paul Erhard, Deloris Quick, Larry Ramsey, Clota Gerhardt, Lorraine Gentile, Laurie Karnay, Crystal and Dennis Bane, Mariza and Angela Soliman (Mariza baked and made salads also), Lou and Sean Laurie, BJ and Jarrett Wroten, Fred Friedman, Tom Hartshorne, Kerri Williams, Ron Herfurth, Melanie Hansford, Carrol Morgan, Bob Wallace, Kristina Anderson, Ken Lickliter, Katie and Grant Fincham, Kathy McLaurin, Katarina Galvin and her niece and nephew (Brie Castillo and Abe Herrera), Lloyd Dolan.
Rene Luther (sorbet and beautification), Alyce Smith made beautiful donation jars. Alex Hult - flyer creation. Dave Smalley, editor of "Weekender" - The Free Lance-Star - wrote a WONDERFUL editorial about Rikki's. Sarah and Rick McDonald - Virginia Best Friends website - wrote about the open house. We had such wonderful coverage from local and other newspapers, etc. The event had the MOST volunteers to date -- they all worked hard - we could not do these open houses without the wonderful volunteers.
Please call about becoming a volunteer!
Monday, June 22, 2009
At the salt mines
Meanwhile, here's what's going on with the gang. Anyone up for some awesome biceps workouts?
I just finished brushing the cat litter out of Golith the Goat's mouth. Lena called and hollered - help cat house 7, I need help with the goat. When I got there I discovered the goat's mouth was impacted full with clumping cat litter. Not good to eat. While she held him I flushed with a giant syringe and scrubbed with a tooth brush (oh please remind me to get to town and buy a tooth brush before tonight!).
As soon as he was litter free - he ran back to the litter box. So we leashed him and the other new buy Billy up and hauled them to Horsey Haven.
Joe Callahan has finished the fencing at horses. We are in need of additional T posts to strengthen the pannels. they'll need to be installed in between each one currently in. He'd only planned to do the pannels which makes it usable right now. The reinforcing is needed if we get something new that is pushy - but should get done. It requires a younger stronger person who can withstand the pounding with the post pounder.
We might be able to lure some of the sheep and goats into this pen and lock them up for tours so people can see them - though if many animals are going to be in there for long it's going to need shade. It's only got the current two horse run in.
So add a T-post pounding project to the list.
Kerry
I just finished brushing the cat litter out of Golith the Goat's mouth. Lena called and hollered - help cat house 7, I need help with the goat. When I got there I discovered the goat's mouth was impacted full with clumping cat litter. Not good to eat. While she held him I flushed with a giant syringe and scrubbed with a tooth brush (oh please remind me to get to town and buy a tooth brush before tonight!).
As soon as he was litter free - he ran back to the litter box. So we leashed him and the other new buy Billy up and hauled them to Horsey Haven.
Joe Callahan has finished the fencing at horses. We are in need of additional T posts to strengthen the pannels. they'll need to be installed in between each one currently in. He'd only planned to do the pannels which makes it usable right now. The reinforcing is needed if we get something new that is pushy - but should get done. It requires a younger stronger person who can withstand the pounding with the post pounder.
We might be able to lure some of the sheep and goats into this pen and lock them up for tours so people can see them - though if many animals are going to be in there for long it's going to need shade. It's only got the current two horse run in.
So add a T-post pounding project to the list.
Kerry
THANKS KATHY
For those of us back here at the salt mines, Kathy very kindly sent an update on the Richmond Vegetarian Festival. Here's how it went for the OCAS gang:
We got one small mixed breed dog adopted. Hurray!
Wiley, a gentle senior hound up for adoption, didn't find his forever home at the event. Wiley is about 8 years old, neutered, all vet work done. He walks well on a leash and enjoys walking -- he walked around the park so much yesterday, that he was too tired to get out of the crate when we returned him to the OCAS around 8:00 pm last night. He is VERY gentle. Gets along with other dogs. We were walking among Pitbulls, Akitas, Chihuahuas, kids, people in wheelchairs -- and Wiley was fine around all of them.
Wiley is a happy wanderer, however, and needs to go to a home that won't let him out unattended. I have photos if anybody is interested. Or, go to the shelter and check him out.
We got one small mixed breed dog adopted. Hurray!
Wiley, a gentle senior hound up for adoption, didn't find his forever home at the event. Wiley is about 8 years old, neutered, all vet work done. He walks well on a leash and enjoys walking -- he walked around the park so much yesterday, that he was too tired to get out of the crate when we returned him to the OCAS around 8:00 pm last night. He is VERY gentle. Gets along with other dogs. We were walking among Pitbulls, Akitas, Chihuahuas, kids, people in wheelchairs -- and Wiley was fine around all of them.
Wiley is a happy wanderer, however, and needs to go to a home that won't let him out unattended. I have photos if anybody is interested. Or, go to the shelter and check him out.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
SPONSOR APPRECIATION DAY PHOTO ALBUM
The weather was beautiful, the volunteers were wonderful and the guests enchanting. We all had a blast.
DUKE'S PORTRAIT
including this lovely one of our very own Duke Thomas Peabody. I wonder how he managed to get a portrait and Vincent didn't?
FEEDING THE ANIMALS
is always one of the favorite things people get to do on tours. During an Open House there is a tour group leaving every half hour.
Our next tour is May 18 at 1 pm. Our next open house is June 15 from 12 - 4. For more information check www.RikkisRefuge.org or call 540-854-0870 x2
BIG BIRD BIGGER THAN ME
It's rare for a new visitor to approach an emu with out at least a little bit of trepidation and wariness. They are gentle souls (as long as you're not trying to cram worming medicine down their throats or something) and use their beaks like hands to feel things. Long skinny tidbits temp them the most, breadstick, celery and the like. Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
THE PIGS EAT EVERY THING AND ANY THING
And people just love to watch them eat. Which makes the pigs very happy too! There's nothing a pig would rather do than please a person by showing off how much they can eat. In the fall visitors get to feed pumpkins to the pigs. This time of year it's all kinds of fruits and veggies. Remember, our pig friends are vegetarians. Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
LET ME HAVE THE FOOD WILL YA?
I'm not a dog and I'm not going to stand up on my hind feet to get it, I might walk right over you but I don't stand up and beg. We have so many pigs because of silly choices people make in pets. When people call me wanting to adopt a pig and explaining to me that pot belly pigs only grow to about 40 pounds and make wonderful house pets - I invite them out to work in Piggy Paradise. Mud wallows and every square inch of earth rooted up is Paradise to a pig. But it's not to most people who want green grass and flowers and the like.
When I say, "If you don't want to live in a pig pen, don't invite a pig into your house." They laugh hysterically and say, "Oh you're so funny." No, it's not funny. It's realistic. Pigs root. Pigs must root. This is their natural pass time. It is cruel and inhumane to put rings in their noses to make them stop it. And you know why that makes them stop? It hurts. It hurts like heck. That ring begins to dig into soft tissues when they try to root. If you want to put rings in somebody's nose - stick to your own nose. If pigs don't have dirt to root up, carpet or sofa cushions or drywall works just as well.
every pig you meet at Rikki's was a pet somebody thought would be a lot of fun - and in 6 months or two years - here they are packed off to the pound or a sanctuary -- to be cared for, for the next 10 or 12 years.
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
When I say, "If you don't want to live in a pig pen, don't invite a pig into your house." They laugh hysterically and say, "Oh you're so funny." No, it's not funny. It's realistic. Pigs root. Pigs must root. This is their natural pass time. It is cruel and inhumane to put rings in their noses to make them stop it. And you know why that makes them stop? It hurts. It hurts like heck. That ring begins to dig into soft tissues when they try to root. If you want to put rings in somebody's nose - stick to your own nose. If pigs don't have dirt to root up, carpet or sofa cushions or drywall works just as well.
every pig you meet at Rikki's was a pet somebody thought would be a lot of fun - and in 6 months or two years - here they are packed off to the pound or a sanctuary -- to be cared for, for the next 10 or 12 years.
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
BIRDS ABOUND
Most free ranging about the refuge. Ducks, geese, chickens, peacocks all roam happily about, following folks around for dropped crumbs. We have so many birds because of silly choices people make in pets. It seems to come as a real surprise that ducks will learn to fly and poop all over your house. That chickens, yes both hens and roosters, will crow and squawk and call at all hours of the day and night. They don't go to work on the same schedule you do, so if there's something cool to crow about at midnight, 2 am 4 am they do. And most of your "civilized" neighbors in subdivisions will complain just as loud as the birds. A lot of people are even shocked to learn that their home owner associations don't allow farm animals - including birds.
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
OH PLEASE COME OUR WAY ...
The dogs are always so happy to see people. At the first sighting the howls and barks of joy go out. Soon everyone at Doggy Downs is in a ruckus. Pat me, feed me, love me. Our dogs fall into three categories.
The old. He's not so playful anymore, let's dump him and let somebody else take care of him forever (if he's lucky) and we'll just get a new puppy. It breaks our heart to leave him behind at the pound, but we'll soon be over it as we start to housebreak the new puppy.
The handicapped. Like Duke Thomas Peabody, born with fetal eyes that will never see more than shadows. But with a big heart that just wants to be filled with love. When Duke is in his territory or with his seeing eye dog Boomer (no joke) you wouldn't even notice that he's blind. But on new turf he'll walk right into a tree.
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
The old. He's not so playful anymore, let's dump him and let somebody else take care of him forever (if he's lucky) and we'll just get a new puppy. It breaks our heart to leave him behind at the pound, but we'll soon be over it as we start to housebreak the new puppy.
The handicapped. Like Duke Thomas Peabody, born with fetal eyes that will never see more than shadows. But with a big heart that just wants to be filled with love. When Duke is in his territory or with his seeing eye dog Boomer (no joke) you wouldn't even notice that he's blind. But on new turf he'll walk right into a tree.
Photo by Kerri Williams, Magpi Studios 540-760-2388 www.MagpiStudios.com
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