November 12, 2023

It’s a BEAUTIFUL day at Rikki’s Refuge !!!!

And WE are hoping to meet you UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day !!!

Rikki’s Refuge No-Kill Life-Care Multi-Species Animal Sanctuary will be OPEN on THANKSGIVING and CHRISTMAS day from NOON until 2 PM for Donation Drop Off and visitors. Come on out, drop off food and supplies for the animals, and visit with horses, cows, goats, sheep, pigs and more. Bring PRODUCE or commercial treats for that species if you’d like to give anybody a treat. No cookies, crackers, bread, etc, everybody here is on a controlled diet. Come and meet Sanctuary manager Doug Deal who can tell you all about the animals. Please dress for the weather, it’s all outdoors, rain or shine, snow or sleet !!
21410 Constitution Hwy, Rapidan – right at the corner of rt 20 and Quarterhorse Ln at the end of the rainbow fence!

We hope to see you UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL !!!

Can’t make it but want to HELP US anyway? www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 1357
Orange VA 22960

November 11, 2023 – WE NEED YOUR HELP

HELP !!!

The Cat Pantry at Rikki’s Refuge No-Kill Life-Care Animal Sanctuary is almost EMPTY !!!

We need your help. Walmart is offering us these fabulous prices on canned cat food — FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY. Can you PLEASE help us? With 583 cats … we need 16 cases a DAY right now. And as the weather gets colder, we’ll need even more. Just click on our Walmart Registry and choose what you’d like to send and it will be on the way.

https://www.walmart.com/registry/ER/c5c6411b-1618-4e2f-b999-1f4d7f5274b9

If you prefer to donate funds and have us do the shopping you can do that right here:
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe

Thank you for your help !!!   Every little bit makes a huge difference !!

Ohhhhhh Uncle Paul THANK YOU so much for making the three hour round trip

to bring us all these nummy tomatoes

and cantaloupes !!!


Mmmmmm donated by a grocery store warehouse when they have left overs or short dated items. YOU might think an overripe tomato or a cantaloupe with a small soft spot is yucky, be WE think it’s DELICIOUS !!!!!

Love, the Pigs, Goats, Cows, Horses, Donkey, Sheep, Chickens, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, Emus and Peacocks of Rikki’s Refuge

November 10, 2023

Good chilly wet morning ………  never forget … no matter the weather … the animals get taken care of …  in the rain … in the dark ….

Katie uses the truck as an umbrella this morning !!

Nobody is happy with the weather today.

November 6, 2023

See how peaceful I am? All of our friends here who in other places may be thought of as a meal (like our cows, pigs, chickens and ducks and geese) feel just as comfortable and relaxed as me, cause they know they won’t end up on the barbeque or in someone’s oven!   Isn’t that wonderful !!

Thinking about eating in a kinder and more gentle way?  Why not start today on what we call Meatless Monday.  Change one thing at a time.  Make it a snack, make it one meal, use vegan butter instead of dairy, use non-dairy creamer in your coffee.  When we change everything at once it’s too much and our intentions fail.  Small changes add up!  You begin to see it’s not that hard to eat kinder.  Want recipes and guidance?  Check out Rikki’s Refuge’s Opie’s Edibles on Facebook for thousands of great recipes.

Follow us for great plant based recipes at Opie’s Edibles: www.Facebook.org/OpiesEdibles

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