I’m Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are
HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of
you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there’s
lots of very glad things too and that’s what we talk about here! All pawsitive
all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there’s a lot of
good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me
your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let’s keep it fun and
interactive!! After all, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
HEY!!! That's me !!!!
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It’s been
a busy and productive week at Rikki’s !!!
Look who
came to Breakfast on Tuesday!
Breakfast was served a little later than our scheduled piggy
breakfast for Preston and Patrick!!! PUMPKINS !!!!! YUM !!!!
Preston
and Patrick are very grateful to Sarah.
Welcome to Rikki’s Refuge Preston and Patrick!!!!! Believe me, they are very happy to have the
chance to move to Rikki's!!!!
And they get to root up their new yard in Piggy Pagoda!!!
This is the first time their feet have touched anything but cement. They were
raised for ..... Oh gosh I can't say it, I can't even think it ...... At a
working farm for tourists ... and now with summer over they were headed to an
awful place ..... Sarah, a 17 year old, had worked at the farm this summer and
raised them ..... She was born a vegan and had no idea ...... She saved all her
money from the whole summer and bought them to save their lives!
Here's
Sarah with them. I think she'll be spending a lot of time at Rikki's now!
Timmy rushed right in to meet his new friends! Preston and
Patrick didn't know cats were friends!!! Wanna take bests on how long before
every last stick of grass is rooted up!!!!
On
Wednesday I had to see the doc.
I’ve had three bladder infections back to back and mom and
my doc were worried it might be something bad.
And so I got an ultrasound.
Oh the humiliation of it all .... Ok, so maybe the
ultrasound wasn’t that bad, cold and tickly but gosh the invasion of privacy,
the total embarrassment. I’m a fur bearing warm blooded animal, so like they
need a probe to tell I’m warm? Come on!
Then I get flopped on my back and my belly tickled. Not to
mentioned shaved, SHAVED! Cats are supposed to be covered in fur, that’s how
we’re made, what is this trying to take it all apart stuff???
And then, “Oh Vincent pee in this little box, up on top of a
table, with everybody watching to see how good Vincent is to pee on command!”
Mommey puts me in a BIG litter box a home, lets me scratch in the litter and
pats my back and says, “Come on little man, go wee wee, we’re going out in the
truck and you want to wee wee first.” But with the whole planet watching me?
Come on - you try it, can you pee when you’re being watched?
And so what did all this tell them? NOTHING! Yeah, nothing’s
wrong with the Vin-Man!! No problems in the bladder, no stones, no crystals. A
little bacteria is showing up, but that’s like a bad bug, that’s not me! So
it’s two weeks with no antibiotics and then pee for them again so they can
culture it!!!
Mom says it’s good that it’s nothing serious and it’s good
we’ve eliminated that. Well I say YOU go pee in public and leave ME home to eat
Fancy Feast!!
Dang .....
see my fur there !!!!
I should
have brought it home and put it in the auction!
Henry Went
to the Doc too !
Henry just came to Rikki’s Tuesday afternoon. He'd been a
"neighborhood stray" in a gated community, Lake of the Woods!!!
Several folks have been feeding him and most of the residents liked him. It
only took one icky stuffy mean hooman to call the authorities - NO CHICKENS
ALLOWED.
So before he could be caught and killed, one of the folks
who fed him tricked him into a carrier. If you look close you'll see his beck
was cut short on the top - they do that in factory production, and then they
can't peck each other, but it makes it hard to eat too.
One toe looked broken and the foot infected so we needed doc
to check him out. It’s an old break and
the bone is sticking out. He had a
little bit of the sniffles too. He’s
got to be on pain meds and antibiotics for a week and then he’ll have to have
the toe amputated. He’ll be ok, we’ve
had other chickens that lost a toe before and they do fine.
Last Night
we Saved the Twins
Mom had left me in charge last night here while she went off
to chase a couple feral kittens around. When she finally got back here and went
to put them in a cage .....
Opps the girl jumped out over her head. She chased all
around and under the tub and on top of the lights hanging off the ceiling and
under the cages, and up and around and finally mom netted her.
The boy was all huddled back in the corner of the cage .....
looking like he'd stay still. And when mom opened the door just enough to put
the girl in - he lunged and out he went. Around and around and over and under
....
Now I gotta get soap to wash mommey's mouth she called the
filthy animals and all kinds of other bad things ..... She bleeding on one
knee, both hands and the top of her head. She's always making some kind of
mess.
She finally netted him in mid air as he flew across the
room. She thought about putting him in a different cage, but the girl was
looking so scared and so alone .....
My mom is a really dumb hooman, really dumb, but I do keep
her cuz her thumbs work good on opening cans and she can clean my poo box ....
hmmm I wonder if her half chewed off thumb is going to work ????? I may have to
trade her in ....
So as she's being really really careful not to let the girl
out while the boy's going in ......
I don't even need to tell you, do I???? Well another round
of up and over and down and the girl kept throwing herself at the windows
trying to smash her way out ..... but the big bad hooman swooped in and netted
the poor little itty bitty kitty.
And thinking once again of putting them in separate cages
..... but not being able to bear the thought of each of them alone and scared
and wondering what happened to the other ...... mom was lucky and got them in
together!!!!!
Today Lena gave them their first shots and wormings and
blood tested them. And they were nice
and friendly, pretty much friendly, a little scared, but they purred. They’re 4 or 5 months old. They're afraid.
But not too terribly feral.
Would you give these two a nice home? They absolutely must stay together.
Poor
little innocent Snickers .....
So..... I went to check my email today and ....... it no
work.
No internet connection.
So I try to reconnect and it say no modem? WHAT?
My modem is hanging right up there ....... air card hanging
off ceiling cuz that's the only way to get service here ..... and the end of
the usb cable is ..... empty ... nothing .... no aircard modem .... HUH ????
I call mommey to fix my problem and she look on floor, did
it fall off ... where is it?
She search and search and start moving furniture and dumps
the trash to look ..... could it have fallen off ???? How far could it go ....
she dig thru litter box .....
Then she see Snickers up in loft, sitting there watching
mommey go crazy .... Snickers has the evil eye ..... Snickers is snickering
...... Mommey says, you couldn't? Could you?
Mommey goes up to loft and guess what Snicker's is sitting
on!!! Bad Cat!!!
I hope
you’re coming
Saturday, Nov 12th Nature Appreciation Day (click
for more info)
http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/11/nature-appreciation-day-nov-12-2011.html
Sunday, Nov 12th, Thanksgiving Dinner (click for
more info) http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2011/11/celebrate-thanksgiving-where-no-animals.html
I Love
YOU,
Vincent
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Refuge for those who care and want to be intimately involved. Scheduled as
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daily. Hairballs - so you know what’s coming up at Rikki’s! Scheduled
weekly.
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