BeBe, her husband Bub, elderly sheep Joseph
Conrad and
elderly goat Uncle-Paul enjoy a hand out on
tour day!!
Thank you
for your continued prayers BeBe our very elderly donkey. It’s been touch a go a few times and we know
she’s very fragile. She’s having really
good days now. Keep up those prayers !!
....Winter
is comin ... and there aren’t so many bugs .....
but Iz still scared bout getting bugz .... You ever gotted da bugz?
It be really bad! Yeah. It’s like itchy and all. Even just a couple make you feel all itchy
and antsy and wonderin where they gonna bite you next. Yikes ...
I hate da bugs.
But guess what? I heard mom
sayin that wez out of stinky drops to make da bugz stay off us. I real worried about this. Cuz I don’t want no bugs on me. No sireeee I do not.
Oh,
please .... don’t let the fleaz on me ...
Love, Casanova
I don’t like dem icky stinky drops either .... but if I gotta stink for a couple dayz to have no bugz for like
30 more days ... well I guess it’s one
of dose tings mom calls da lesser of da two evils, huh?
So I was gonna load up da goat cart and go to the trade ‘em green stuff
for icky flea dropz store
.....
but then I founded out why mom be upset bout bein out a da icky make da
bugz go way drops. The trade ‘em green
stuff for icky flea dropz store wants lots and lots of green stuff to keep the
fleaz off mez !!!! I mean like
lotsz.
I’m sittin on the desk and stayin off the
ground ...
I don’t think the fleas can get to me up
here,
do you?
Love, Timmy
So .... I guess maybe I did a bad thing ..... I got one for me and one for Timmy .... but ... I didn’t have nuf green stuff for efurbody else. I mean ... I know dey hate da bugz too ....
but ... well Iz the one who hooked up
da goat cart and made da goats take to da trade ‘em green stuff for icky flea
dropz store ...... and I even had to
ride a little bit in da rain ... and .... well ......
Did that pesky cat say FLEAS?
Ok ... so mom’s sorta right I guess.
I be selfish .... didn’t I
? Now Iz be feelin guilty ..... I can no get da drops off and try and share
‘em ... Iz been rubbin all up and down on efurbody trying to share da drops ...
but it not a workin.
WHAT?
I’m going to get FLEAS? ... Save
ME, Love Dudley
I so worried all my furiends is gonna get da bugz and it be all my
faultz ... I feelin real guilty now ... but I still glad I not a gonna itch
.....
Did
you meet Little Mack?
He
was left at the emergency clinic one night to be killed.
His
owner said he’d been in a terrible dog fight and three days later it was worse,
not
better and poor Little Mack couldn’t even stand up now.
The
owner had to move the next day and couldn’t take a dog,
and
nobody was going to take an injured dog,
so
sorry Little Mack ... but you’re done for.
Well
Little Mack got lucky,
the
emergency doctor fixed up his rotting wounds
and
he came to Rikki’s.
He’s
almost all healed up now and a very happy little dog.
Soon
he’ll need to be neutered, when the last wound is totally healed.
But
in the meantime he sure don’t want no fleas!!
I did some math, and that’s hard, cuz my toes and fingers only goes to
ten, and Sylvestra too, but Socrates helped with 14, Snickers, she wouldn’t
help at all, she just growl, so maybe we don’t give her the dropz ever, what
you think?
Did you say fleas? Opie, if I get fleas .....
you got an idea what’s gonna happen to YOU
?
Any idea you pesky little cat? Snarls, Snickers.
Anyway lots of us put toes and fingers together and counted and counted
and den looked at how much green stuff da trade ‘em green stuff for icky flea
dropz store wanted for EACH little ... I mean dey be very little ... bottle of
no-buz-stinky-stuff .... n we counted
us again ... and Iz feelin so guilty I even counted Snickers .... and I counted
all the dawggies too .... but catz get no-buz-stinky-stuff first ... ok ? That be ok, right? I not be bad cat to look out for my really really very own first,
then look out for my own but different next, huh?
ALL need flea drops EVERY month ALL year
round !!!
So anyway ... I gonna hav giv dat trade ‘em green stuff for icky flea
dropz store $1,842 if n dey gonna give me no-buz-stinky-dropz for ALL of us
.... Yeah .... and that be for ONE MONTH ..... Ick ....
That could buy me so much Fancy Feast ..... but ... Iz think it’s a sacrifice Iz really gotta make ..... for everybody ... even Snickers and all the dawggies ... even da ones that growl at
me .... I mean havin da bugs livin on
you is pretty icky ... and dat be nuf to be makin em snarl and growl ... so
maybe if I let em have no-buz-stinky-stuff dey won’t be so snarly and growly?
We’re sniffing around trying to help that
pesky cat
find the green stuff to buy the flea drops
from us .....
I think we need YOUR help ....
in the meantime ....
the Shelter Challenge is back !!!
So please take a second to VOTE for
Rikki’s Refuge, VA, USA right here at this
link: http://www.shelterchallenge.com/web/charityusa/nomineehome?userId=53331&nomineeId=17448
Thank you Moose and Oscar, we LOVE you !!
What you think ..... you gotz
any ideaz how I can find nuf green stuff to hurry quick and get
no-buz-stinky-stuff for everybody? Dey
need da drops like NOW ...... Mom said
I can’t buy da real cheap stuff cuz it be dangerous and might hurt us .. maybe
kill us ... even hurt us more dan da bugz .... so I gotz very strict orders dat I canz only buy Advantage or
Frontline for us ..... she say
specially catz getz real problems with some gridents in some products and they
can hab seizures and awful stuff. So I
guess I gonna listen to her .... even
for Snickers .....
NO !!
We CAN’T be out of flea drops !!
Can we ??
Click my shoulders, right where the drops
go,
and keep ME from getting fleas !! Please !!
Love, Grinch
If you gotz any ideaz where I can find da green stuff to buy no-buz-on
me-stinky-stuff please tell me ...
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate ....
$1,842 is a really big huge number ...
it only be $3 for each one of us ....
I’m Mandy and I’m hiding out in THIS green
stuff
till I got flea drops .... will you help ME?
Please click my shoulders, right where the
drops go,
and keep ME from getting fleas !!
So maybe you could adopt some of us !!
Hey dat would solve da problem, if you dopted all my brofurs and sisfurs
and then I got my drops AND I’d getz all da numz too !!!! Wow that be the bestest deal !!!! So you call mom if you wanna dopt somebody
so I don’t gotta find nuf green stuff to get them da dropz ....
All
lined up and waiting for flea drops ......
YES,
you’ve seen this photo floating around the web .... the picture was taken right here in the 9th Life Retirement,
Assisted Living and Psychiatric Center at Rikki’s Refuge ... it’s early one
morning, about 4 am, and mom snuck in and got the photo before turning on the
lights. She’d worked on getting this
shot for over a year, sneaking and trying to catch everybody before they woke
up and started begging for breakfast and jumping down to greet her .... finally one day ... SUCCESS !!!
And it’s now the most famous photo of Rikki’s on the planet !!!
If you can help me find $3 to get da drops for one brofur kitty or one
sisfur kitty or one brofur dawggie or one sisfur dawggie .... www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate I really be thankin
you .... and they be too. For every time they not be scratching, they
be sayin to you THANK YOU for keepin da bugz off me this month !!!
Maybe you can help me .... pleaz ... you just click on my donation can
...... OK?
I’ll kiss YOU too
if you’ll get flea drops for that pesky cat
and shut him up ....
we need hay and grain for winter
and everybody is always listening to THAT
cat !!!
This may be the ONLY time you’ll hear me
tellin you to listen to that pesky cat
...
Please help us dawggies get flea drops,
only $3 each !!
If we get fleas, I won’t be allowed to
visit
our adoring fans, cuz it’d be rude to give
them fleas
Fleas ?
..... Can’t SOMEBODY do
something about this? Love ya, Iggy
Gross me out, I had fleas when I came to
Rikki’s ....
I thought you promised never to let that
happen to me again ?
Won’t you help me, please?
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Love, Boomer
You think fleas is no big deal? Try ‘em on for size! I was covered when I got rescued off the
streets and I hate fleas. Isn’t flea
drops a basic right? Won’t you help me
stay flea free? Pleaz? Love, Ice
Is that flea drops you got there? Love,
Nibbles
I know you’ll take care of me, won’t
you?
Just $3 will keep the fleas off me!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Love, Sir Rub A Dub
Did you bring flea dropz for me? Love, Dino
Fleas?
Seriously?
You’d just stand there and let me get
fleas?
Click my nose to keep ME from getting
fleas!
Please !
Love, Baby
Maybe an early Christmas present ....
gee just what I always wanted flea drops
.... Love, Opie
ah uh ah uh ah uh ah uh
( how the heck to you spell the sound of a
doggy panting in excitement?
Merow is so much easier to spell )
I know you’ll take care of me !! Love, Duke
Mr Mister is screaming for your VOTE
The Shelter Challenge is back on again
.... It runs three times a year. YOU can make us win $1,000 each time
.... Each win will give us flea drops
for the cats and dogs for a little more than half a month .... Please don’t make us wait for the next win
to get more flea drops .... we need
them NOW .... please help out. $3 will protect one of us for a whole month
... www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
...... and THEN be sure to vote today
and every day and let the Shelter Contest pay for our next round of flea drops
!!!
So please take a second to VOTE for
Rikki’s Refuge, VA, USA right here at this
link: http://www.shelterchallenge.com/web/charityusa/nomineehome?userId=53331&nomineeId=17448
Don’t ... please don’t ... let the fleas on
me ...
Pleaz no let no body in my family have da
fleaz !
Pleaz!
Hep get drops for us all. Love, Opie
HELP ME !!! Daddy, I’m just a little kitty
trying to run a great big sanctuary and
take care of everybody .....
I need help ...
I can’t do this all by myself ....
Please HELP ME !!
Love, Opie
Please help Opie, my son, keep the fleas
off everyone .... Love, Vincent
If you’re really rich and can help us
....
a $20 will protect SEVEN of us this month
....
well almost ...
somebody’s tail might be left out !!!!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
I’m in big trouble now .... I
was supposed to tell you BEFORE donation drop off yesterday .... we are DESPERATE ... TOTALLY DESPERATE for paper towels and
bleach .... these items are really
really really important cuz we need all our stuff sanitized for our protection
every single day .... yeah .. that’s
what da hoomans do all day long .. clean this and clean that .... and it takes
a lot of paper towels .... sometimes
hoomans ask why not use a rag or sponge ...
well it’s cuz that’s not as sterile.
If da hooman is cleaning up da poop or da puke ... we don’t want any germs to spread
round. Or like when they’re cleanin the
hospital cage you don’t wanna mix up somebody’s snot with somebody’s diarrhea
... sorry to be gross ... but that is the way it is !!! Us aminals can be makin a lot of icky mess
!!! So if you can send me some paper
towels and bleach, put ‘em in the donation box outside the Life Center
.... or gib me some green stuff and
tell me it’s for bleach and paper towels, I promise, I really do, that’s all
I’ll spend it on ... I promise I won’t even sneak a can of Fancy Feast in da
shoppin cart .... well not two ..
ok?? www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Help me fill up the goat cart like this
PLEAZ !!!
This lasts less than a week.
It’s
Pumpkins Time and we NEED your help
EVERYBODY -- cept me and Duke and our kind -- eats da pumpkins. They are nutritious and they are good and
when the aminals eat pumpkins it’s saving the Refuge money cuz we’re not havin
to buy hay and grain .... so it’s a
really important part of the sanctuary’s yearly survival !!
So jump on the band wagon ... and if you have a wagon, trailer, truck or
van --- that is great .... even with a
car you can haul in the truck and back seat ... and if you can’t haul .. you
can load !!! It’s all really important
work.
Right now Daddy Fred at fred@z9a.com needs to get pumpkins to Rikki’s about every weekend
from St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Fort Hunt Road in Alexandria. It’s about 20 pumpkins this week and they
are in his car right now and he’s on the way here. He needs help cuz he can’t make it down here every week. we need this help every week and then on
November 1st we need LOTS of help loading and hauling pumpkins from
here and other Northern Virginia locations.
So if you can help at St. Lukes or anywhere in Northern Virginia, tell
Daddy Fred at fred@z9a.com or me at Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org pleaz !!!
Auntie Nora at nelmg@aol.com has pumpkin pickin scheduled at Miller’s Farm in
Locust Grove - between Fredericksburg and Rikki’s -- very convenient, short
drive -- Please come and help load and/or haul on Nov 1st. Let Nora know if you can make it.
If you’ll be able to help in any other areas, Culpeper, Orange, Madison,
Green, Albemarle, Charlottesville, Louisa, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg,
Stafford, Caroline, Hanover, Richmond -- please let me know --- Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org and let me know if you can pick up, haul or both !!
Along
with Christmas Comes Gift Wrapping !!!
And did you know
you can MAKE MONEY FOR RIKKI’S by wrapping gifts?
Really!!
Just let me tell
you how !!
You reserve time at a Barnes and Noble Bookstore ANYWHERE and in the few
weeks before Christmas you can wrap their customer’s purchases and the
customers make a donation!! It’s super
cool. Actually it’s a comfortable
temperature, I’m not askin you to freeze your tail off outside .... just to SIT down inside in a climate
controlled place, and do the delicate task of wrapping. You don’t need to be a great wrapper ---
we’ll show you how. I’m all claws and I
do a fine job !!!
The Fredericksburg schedule is above and Auntie Nora nelmg@aol.com is in charge, ask her which hours you can help with.
The Charlottesville schedule will be in the hands of Uncle Ron topcat@cstone.net - if you’ll help in Charlottesville, just let him
know.
I need a Head Hooman for Richmond ....
and where ever YOU live !!! You
can do this from any Barnes & Noble on the PLANET ... so lend a hand to help us paws !!! Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
PHOTOS
WITH SANTA
Petsmart has discontinued this fun event where you can bring your pets
to sit with Santa for picture ... stop crying !!! Re-Tail has come to your rescue .... we’ll have Santa in our store along with a great photographer,
and YOU can walk out with a print in your hands !!!
Re-Tail is our thrift shop and if you haven’t stopped in lately -- you
better check out all the fabulous Christmas stuff already on display !!! 3503 Lafayette Blvd, Fredericksburg -
that’s on the Spotsy side of Fredericksburg !!!
Been
Wanting to Visit Rikki’s Refuge ?
We have a few Tours and events scheduled.
All events and tours and hikes and everything require tickets in advance
and all have limited participation.
Most of our animals have been thru one trauma or another before finding
peace at Rikki’s and large groups of hoomans often frighten them and bring bad
unhappy memories and fears .... so we
have to keep groups to a size they are comfortable with. When visiting, please remember to be calm
and quiet and let them feel only love emanating from you.
November 15th is Nature Appreciation Day with a Tour at noon
and Nature Hike at 2 pm ..... if you’re
not scared of a close encounter with Big Foote ..... this is THE day for you !!!!
Email me for a reservation package ...
Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org Hoomans
participating in both events will have priority tickets.
Thanksgiving and Christmas Day tours will start at noon. Email me for a reservation package ... Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org The
Christmas Day Tour fills early so get your tickets now .... past Christmas visitors will have first dibs
on tickets if we get more reservations than we can accommodate.
Our Traditional New Years Day Hike will start at noon. Email me for a reservation package ... Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
THANK YOU
FOR HELPING ME TO
SAVE SO
MANY LIVES
... with your support we’ve
been able to save so many animals ... it’s only with your continued support
that we can continue to care for them each and every day .... Thank you for your kind and generous support
for food, medicine, doctors, cleaning supplies ... and love !!
Without
YOU
none
of us would be alive
and
enjoying this autumn !!
THANK YOU !!!!!!
Your donations saved every
one of us and will keep us all alive as we stock our pantries for another
winter at Rikki’s Refuge !!!! Take the Opie Pledge and promise to work
each and every day to make the planet just a little bit better. If the pictures of the animals you have
saved in this issue have made you smile, please take a few moments to make a
donation so we can keep them smiling!!!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
I want YOU to know that all
the animals in our blog are Rikki’s critters that YOU saved !! Without YOU I couldn’t be writin about them
.... and they probably wouldn’t even be
alive !!! YOU are our HEROES !!!
Love,
Opie
YES mom, I’m posing nice for the camera
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our thrift store
Web Site:
www.rikkisrefuge.org/?page_id=6330
Location:
3503 Lafayette Blvd, Fredericksburg VA 22408
Phone:
540-891-5300
Hours:
10 am - 6 pm Monday - Saturday
noon - 5 pm - Sunday
