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 !
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
GOOD MORNING GOOD NEWS ---- SPECIAL TUESDAY
GOOD MORNING GOOD NEWS ---- SPECIAL TUESDAY
GIVING
TUESDAY is a nationwide push to kick off the holiday season with a day of
giving back to causes that matter to you.
Before the hustle and bustle of the holidays really sets in, please take
a moment to make a gift to RIKKI'S REFUGE.
AND IT GETS BETTER !!!!
A SPECIAL SPONSOR will DOUBLE ALL DONATIONS MADE TODAY - no gift too
small or too large ~ it ALL makes a difference and we can't do this without
you!
With
your help, we will continue to go above and beyond for animals in need.
The
fine print: DOUBLE YOUR DONATION is
available thru midnight Tuesday, December 1, 2015. Our Special Sponsor is dangling $5,000 within easy grasp ... but YOU need to make it happen ... he will ONLY donate that $5,000 if YOU
collectively also donate $5,000 .... SO CHIP IN AND MAKE IT HAPPEN
!!!!!
LOOK WE’RE ON TV !!!!
Click the goat to watch the show !!
Here’s
more details - click a kitty !
This is Chance, he’s the kitty who ended up in the
emergency room
He thanks you VERY MUCH for saving his life .... not once .... but twice !!!! He’s quite an elderly gentleman, and warming up quickly. He must not have started life as a feral kitty. He was once loved and cared for. Maybe someday he’ll tell me his story. For now, all he’ll say is he was abandoned and forgotten about and spent many years living with a feral colony. He’s got old battle scars, not many teeth, ground down fangs. He’s so thankful for canned nums now .... so much so .... he needs small meals every hour or he gobbles up all he can and gets sick. Poor baby, he’s been starved for so long .... but never again Chance .... never again. Our wonderful sponsors will make sure YOU have HAPPY EVER AFTER !
DOUBLE A DONATION for Chance so he can have DOUBLE
THE MEALS !!!
Martha writes in: I am a long-time friend of Rikki's, after you so
kindly took some ferals my friends and I sent your way. Thought you would like to see my neighbors,
Sally and Anna (who pet sit for me when I travel) - in their Sullivan shirts!
Keep up the fine work !
THANK YOU Martha !!! We love to hear from fans and love photos !!!!
PLEASE
PLEASE keep up those DAILY VOTES ....
if YOU will keep voting daily for Rikki’s Refuge in the Shelter
Challenge, we will win $2,000 !!!!
IT’S FREE .... IT’S EASY ....
IT’S QUICK and IT MAKES A
DIFFERENCE !!!!
DUCK UPDATE
They’re checking out the SIZE of the newly DONATED
Duck Pool !!!!
WOW is that HUGE !!! Lots of room to swim around and have a blast !!!! Thank YOU for caring so much about these
ducks !!!! They are SO happy now.
Here we were picking the pool up at Tractor Supply !
Here’s the happy ducks, once so frightened of humans
they’d run and bunch together or beat their heads against the fencing trying to
get away.
Now they come to talk to us and are happy to take
treats !!!! How quickly they’ve
learned to trust again in their new magic kingdom at Rikki’s Refuge !!!
Thank YOU for making this possible !!!
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS AUCTION
HURRY AND BID, AUCTION ENDS DECEMBER 6th
Just in time to ship, so you’ll have your WINS in
time for Christmas.
We’ve got some really fabulous gifts in here
!!! HURRY and get your BID in TODAY !!
Here’s YOUR bidding link: https://www.facebook.com/RikkisMarketPlace/photos/a.985883321434198.1073741837.286226674733203/986277884728075/?type=3&permPage=1
And a sneak preview .... click the link above to get a better view and to BID !!!
WINTER IS COMING
And that means animals will be looking for places to
get warm. HELP SAVE LIVES. Before
starting your engine, be sure to check ON, IN and UNDER your vehicle for
animals. On top of the tires in the
wheel wells is a favorite hiding place, under the hood stays nice and warm long
after the car’s been turned off, so give the hood a WHACK to scare them out
before starting up. The fan can cause
horrible injuries, even cut someone in half.
I like to WHACK the hood, then walk around the vehicle and whack each
door and the back end, then get on my knees and look underneath. If I’m about to drive something I can’t see
the top of the tires, I bend down to check each one too. And watch out, if you leave your windows
open for a stop ... somebody might have crawled in ... always best to make sure windows are up,
doors are closed and trunks are only open while you’re right there. A little extra caution can save lives.
ONLY AT RIKKI’S !!!!!
LET’S WRAP IT UP !!!!
Here’s another great way YOU can earn money for
Rkki’s !! It costs you NOTHING ... you MEET new friends .... and you have a lot of FUN !!!!
Join us GIFT WRAPPING !! We’ll be at THREE Barnes and Noble Bookstores .... so pick the
one closest to YOU. Fredericksburg,
Charlottesville and Falls Church. You
wrap -- INSIDE where it’s warm .... and there’s NO POOP .... well ... there’s not supposed to be
!!!!
YOU WRAP --- THEY PAY RIKKI’S !!! WIN-WIN !!! You can even get your shopping in while helping out !! Usually shifts are two hours long .... Can only do an hour ? Want to do a full session? That’s just fine .... contact the volunteers
listed below for shifts at the different sites.
RON topcat@cstone.net
is looking for volunteers to help in CHARLOTTESVILLE
Thursday
12/3 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday
12/8 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday
12/11 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Monday
12/14 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday
12/15 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FRED fred@z9a.com
is looking for volunteers to help in FALLS CHURCH
Friday
12/18 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Saturday
12/19 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Sunday
12/ 20 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
NORA nelmg@aol.com
is looking for volunteers to help in FREDERICKSBURG
Saturday
12/19 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday
12/ 20 12:00 PM - 800 PM
Tuesday
12/22 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
12/23 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Pick a shift and HELP THE ANIMALS --- email the
volunteer at YOUR store TODAY !!
CHICKEN LITTLE LAYS HER FIRST EGG
You
read about chicken little in our last edition of Good Morning Good News
She laid her first egg .... she selected the trash can as the place to do it ... Skully watches in wonder ....
Chickens don’t need a mate to lay eggs ... it’s
something that occurs from time to time without a boyfriend .... I guess our Chicken Little is a big grown
up girl now !!!
What do we do with the eggs at Rikki’s Refuge? Usually the chickens will eat their own eggs
if they aren’t fertilized ... it’s good protein and good calcium. The ones they don’t eat, are scarfed up by
the dogs and if any are left over at night, the skunks come round for a snack
!!
The mothering instinct has been breed out of domestic chickens ... so they just drop the eggs any old place .... and keep on strutting along !!!
The mothering instinct has been breed out of domestic chickens ... so they just drop the eggs any old place .... and keep on strutting along !!!
Thank you Shannon for this lovely painting !!!
Opie admires Shannon’s work !
Thank YOU for CARING and SHARING
Every body of every species matters !!!! You show your caring by supporting the animals at Rikki’s Refuge who LIVE because of YOU !!!! Thank you pumpkin pickers !!!
YOU MAKE IT ALL POSSIBLE !!!
Love,
Opie
Thank you for being there for us !! YOU have made our very lives possible thru
your kind and generous donations !!!!
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 1357
Orange VA 22960
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Happy Thanksgiving
GOOD MORNING GOOD NEWS
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Good Morning !!!
It a beautiful Thanksgiving
Day .... so what are YOU thankful for?
I'm thankful first for
Rikki's Refuge, cus in the outside world, folks like me getz labeled defective
and unworthy of living on this beautiful planet ....
but at Rikki's Refuge it's
different ... we get labeled family, and we are loved and fed and cared for ...
and that's a lot to be thankful for.
I'm thankful second for YOU,
all the YOUs out there that make Rikki's possible,
without YOU, there could be no safe and happy place for me and Duke and all of
us to live, so that means we'd be ... I don't want to think about that.
I
want to THANK YOU for your kindness and generosity, your donations, your
gifts, your time. YOU ARE MY FAMILY and I LOVE YOU !!! Oh and I
thank you for your votes too !!!
VOTE
HERE www.ShelterChallenge.bigbig.com
and
then Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Day
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
.... VOTE .... www.ShelterChallenge.bigbig.com
... it's REALLY important ... we're number four on the PLANET ..... if we keep
that up two more weeks .... we'll win a weekly prize .... and it's $2,000 ....
so come on .... we've added so many hungry mouths the last few weeks -- animals
that came from terrible situations and would have died without us .... ducks,
cats, pigs and even a parakeet .... and they ALL want to eat !!!!! SHARE the
voting link and beg everyone you know to vote for Rikkis Refuge !!! Thank you
....
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| Good Morning from Chicken City |
ThanksLiving
Feast and Gathering
We had a wonderful time with wonderful guests and
wonderful food !!! If you missed out
this year, be sure you sign up for next year !!!
Me and Tomasina talked lots at ThanksLiving .... I
offered her fancy feast and she offered me grapes and berries ..... we decided
to eat our own nums and not share ....
At Rikki's Refuge, our turkeys are honored guests
at our ThanksLiving celebration.
Wally had a place at the table for ThanksLiving
Dinner ..... I stayed on the floor and ate my fancy feast .... he’s going be real surprised when he’s served
vegan nums !
Chicken Little came for ThanksLiving .... she loves
to be held like a baby and have her tummy stroked.
Dillon waiting for his nums at ThanksLiving !!!
Sylvestra: There’s got to be a way to open this
cooler .....
BLACK FRIDAY DONATION SALE
20% OFF ALL DONATIONS
Thanks to an awesome donor all donations from 6 pm
Thanksgiving evening, Thursday, November 26, 2015 thru midnight Friday,
November 27, 2015 are 20% off
Just click http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate?purpose=BLACK
and if you choose $20 and our donor will add $5 so Rikki’s Animals will have
$25 to spend on food and necessities !!!
Donate $80, the secret donor tosses in $20, and the Animals get $100 !!
It’s the BEST DEAL YOU CAN FIND FOR BLACK FRIDAY !!!! Much
better than making some merchant rich and dragging all kinds of junk you don’t
need home to your already over full house !!! WIN WIN put your
money where your HEART is and WATCH IT GROW !!!
Srsly ....
I don’t want no hat from no Black Friday Sale ..... I want da NUMS !!!!!
just a little clickin will make me mighty happy
!!
http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate?purpose=BLACK
LOOK WHO CAME TO DINNER
Three little piggies .... I'm kind a worried bout
having them in the house .... I know they need to be warm cuz they have no mama
to keep them cuddled up and warm in the barn .... but what if they huff and
they puff and they blow the house down?
Here's me first meeting the little piggies who
arrived during our ThanksLiving feast ... just in time for nums!!
It was a very sad story and an emergency. The people were going to kill their mamma
and daddy to eat on Thanksgiving (how do you call that THANKS giving, it sounds
more like SAD giving to me).... and the little piggies would have no place to
go, no one to keep them warm, no one to feed them, no one to care if they lived
or died.
It was an emergency call and no time to build them
a home or get ready for them .... so we
welcomed them at the Life Center and I think everyone celebrating ThanksLiving
with us were so happy to see them .... but so sad to see them so scared and
alone.
They bunched up together for protection and would
scream if you tried to pick them up.
After what they’d just seen happen to their mom and dad ... no wonder
the terror they felt.
Chicken Little came to visit them.
They are too young to eat on their own yet. They’d just been nursing their mom. Now they’re drinking piggy replacer milk
.... and LOTS of it ... gee they’re
little pigs !!!! They’re drinking
$16.99 of mile every 2 ½ days !!!!
Thank YOU for being there for these guys and
helping us to have the milk to feed the.
http://rikkisrefuge.org/FeedMe if you can spare $16.99
DESPERATE TO FIND A HOME
Bearded dragon (approx 4-5 yo) and a Red-tailed Boa
(approx 9-10yo) In Rixieville, VIRGINIA, USA need homes ASAP. Dundee, the
lizard is a little shy, but has not tried to bite anyone. Hister, the snake, is
docile and will eat the frozen food. --- if you'd like to give them a good
home, please contact us and we'll put you in touch with the current owner.
Intake@RikkisRefuge.org Please SHARE and help these guys get homes. Rikki's
Refuge is no currently equipped to house reptiles.
BUT IF I GIVE UP MY SUMMER
SHADE TARP
WON’T WINTER COME ?
It’s getting cold ... and that means our drafty old
buildings are getting cold too. There’s
a few things we’re in URGENT NEED of now with the cold setting in.
Click the picture or here www.OpiesCornerStore.bigbig.com
to see what we need so desperately.
This is my store and my WISH LIST !!
I stock the supplies we need so you can easily find
them and send them on the way to us !!!
I try to find the best prices (incl S&H w/ Amazon Prime) so you can
save your money too!
Do all your AMAZON SHOPPING thru my store ... just click the Amazon logo (top left) on
any page of my store to go to Amazon and shop for anything you want !!! Every time you do, AMAZON MAKES A DONATION
to us WITHOUT costing you anything!
WIN WIN - ALWAYS shop Amazon thru MY store
CATCHING THE RAYS ON A COOL MORNING
That’s what you’ll find most of us doing ... soon
as the sun if up full ... we all head
for sunny spots to chew our cud .....
Except the hooamns ... they’ve already been here
for hours and one of the early morning tasks is breaking up the ice in the
drinking troughs. It’s a big job. You’ve seen those giant ice breaker ships,
right? Well we don’t do it that way
!!
This is how we do it.
And at this time of year we're already getting
thick ice on the water troughs over night. ..... we are in DIRE need of at
least 4 more of these. If you can pick one up and bring it out, or leave it at
Re-Tail or mail it to us at:
Rikki's Refuge
Jessy Wayland
Chief Ice Breaker
10910 Barr Ln
Rapidan VA 22733
We'd greatly appreciate it .... it would be so much
easier and quicker if we had one at each farm station. Then everyone could get
out and get it done. Right now we only have one so that means one person has to
run all over busting up ice. And that person is usually Jessy. This is the tool that works the quickest and
easiest and has lasted year after year. Thank you.
The best deal is at Home Depot right here
ROCKFORGE $29.97
home depot
Model # GXP-440FGH
Internet # 202531235 Store SKU # 520109
By the time the sun is good up, the ice is all gone
and the water troughs filled with nice fresh water, Jessy take a second to
relax with a friend.
IT’S HAPPENING AT RE-TAIL
If you haven’t visited our Thrift Shop in
Fredericksburg yet ... you don’t know what you’re missing ! It’s HUGE -
8,800 square feet - it’s light - it’s bright - it’s clean - it’s nice
.... We stock Rikki’s Wear and Magnets
and lots of fun logo stuff, lots of new items, lots of antiques, cool vintage
things, and gently used clothing, furniture, art work and household items. We have 16 kabillion 7 zillion items ... so
you can find just what you’re looking for at just the right price. SO MANY THINGS FOR WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS
!!!
IT’S WINTER TIME
WATCH FOR ANIMALS WHO ARE
ATTRACTED
TO THE WARMTH OF YOUR
VEHICLE
Once you see this on YOUR car, you’ll stop
complaining about parking at the Life Center and walking into Rikki’s Refuge
!!!!
This time of year, animals like to get in, on and
under your vehicle. Never start up a
vehicle without smacking on the hood to chase out the animals who may have
crawled up inside to keep warm. Don’t
leave the windows down when you’re visiting cus somebody’s animal may jump and
go home with you. Always look under the
vehicle, check the top of the tired in the wheel wells, and look behind every
tire. It’s real easy for a small kitty
or doggy to hide and be killed when you start the vehicle or begin to
move. Always keep good flashlight so
you can check well underneath.
Kneeling down in the snow and sleet is so much
kinder than jumping in in a hurry and hurting or killing someone.
LAST CHANCE
NUM NUM POPCORN
HURRY HURRY must have your orders in by November 30
end of day ...
Rikki's Refuge POPCORN ....
40% of the sales price goes to support the animals
of Rikki’s Refuge !!!
SIXTY SIX Flavors to pick from .... SOMETHING IS
PURRFECT FOR YOU ... Sweet ... Salty ... Fruity .... Spicy .... Chocolately ...
Cheesy ... Kettle Corn ..... Nutty .... even Catnip Coconut Curry .... Check it
out !!!!
Great nummy snacks for you and GREAT FOR THAT SPECIAL GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS
.... prices and sizes for every budget!
This fundraiser runs from November 9 to November 30
and all orders will be shipped and received no later than the second week of
December. Nom Nom = Yum Yum.
ORDER RIGHT HERE www.supportyours.org/rikkisrefuge
Duke and Taco, best friends, taking a nap after a
hard day’s work !!
Mr. Mister still doing farm rounds at almost 22
years old !! He can no longer keep up
for the full rounds, so has acquisition a vehicle with a nice wide sunny dash
and a good safe driver. He just loves
checking on all his friends in all the neighborhoods of Rikki’s Refuge every
morning.
Love,
Opie
Thank you for being there for us !! YOU have made our very lives possible thru
your kind and generous donations !!!!
Don’t forget that 20% off donations !! http://rikkisrefuge.org/donate?purpose=BLACK
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 1357
Orange VA 22960
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