A cool 48 degrees to start this beautiful morning off.

Our wish today, as it is every day, is to have enough food to go round. It’s a tough challenge with all the mouths to feed. The price of feed of every sort, from cow to cat, from donkey to dog,

and everybody in between has gone up dramatically over the last few years. Donations haven’t gone up as much as our costs. We need your help more than ever. Would you be willing to skip that donut, or special cup of coffee, or an afternoon snack to help the animals have enough to eat? We appreciate every donation, no matter how small or how large, every dollar you can spare will care for an animal for the day.

Thank you so much. www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate

An early morning visitor.

Did you know Rikki’s Refuge has 300 acres of pristine woods and wetlands just for the native wildlife? This is so important with all the hooman growth that is happening. So many wooded areas are being chopped down for more housing, more shopping, more more more for the hoomans. And where do the animals who called that home go? Many wonder to the woods at Rikki’s Refuge and find safe haven. Hoomans fill in wetlands, destroy beaver dams, steal their homes and put up hooman habitats. So many many animals displaced with the clearing of just one acre of land. And thousands and thousands of acres are being cleared every year. Help the animals. Support Rikki’s Refuge, www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

Visit Rikki’s Refuge Kids Activity Table TOMORROW, April 26, at Earth Day on the Rappahannock in Fredericksburg, Virginia

Happy Easter from Madison, Doug and and all the two, three and four legged at Rikki’s Refuge !!

Come out and visit us at Deep Roots Home and Garden Center, 28284 Constitution Hwy, Rhoadesville, VA 22542.

We’re here till 4 pm TODAY March 29th. Lots of cool merchandise. Talk to our volunteers. All proceeds go to feed the animals at Rikki’s Refuge Animal Sanctuary.

ALSO – from noon – 2 pm, Rikki’s Refuge is OPEN for DONATION-DROP OFF and you can visit the animals on self guided tours. 21410 Constitution Hwy, Rapidan, Route 20, just down the road from Deep Roots, at the Rainbow Fence, turn at Quarterhorse Ln and immediately into our gate. Doug, our sanctuary manager, will be waiting to meet you there !!!

We can only feed our animals if you help us out, please stop by, make a donation, bring food, or help us out on line.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe

The goats were engaged in an exciting game of kick ball ….

when suddenly they paused ….

here comes Uncle Paul with the Door Dash Delivery of produce !!!!

Mmmmm Mmmmm looks like we have two pallets of celery and other fresh veggies and fruits today !!!

Everybody is happy ….. except the cats

and dogs …

nothing for them today …. and they refuse to eat celery.
Would you help them buy a case of food they like? $15.36 will get a case of cat or dog food.
Can you spare a few bucks to help them out?
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe

Can you quack? I NEED YOUR HELP — last year’s duck will be in Spain this year and miss Rikki’s Refuge’s Easter Egg Hunt with a Day of Fun Activities and Easter Hat Contest.

Saturday, April 19th, the event will run from noon to 3 pm. Easter Egg hunting by age groups and so much more. Our DUCK has always been the hit of the show. CAN YOU come to help us at Rikki’s Refuge, and don the outfit and be OUR DUCK !!! No age limit as long as you’re at least 4’9″ tall to safely wear the suit, you can be 10 or 100 or anything in between. Just wonder around and QUACK to the kids !! If your time is limited. 12-1 is the most important time for DUCK’s presence !!!
Thank you, please let us know asap if Rikki’s Refuge can count on YOU !!!
Thanks !!
email: Events@RikkisRefuge.org or message us at facebook.com/RikkisRefuge/

Hey Patrick, Riley, did you see how empty the pantry is? I’m not sure there’s nuf cans for dinner. What’s this presidents’ day thing all about? Show me all the green president papers you got this week.

We need to work together here to collect ‘em all so we can take the goat cart to the cat food store and get more. Riley, can you count?

Patrick, how many cans can we buy with all these presidents? I don’t think it’s gonna be nuf. Hey YOU, yes, YOU hooman reading this. Will YOU help us, pleaz? WOW can you imagine how many cans a benjamin paper would buy!!! I never seen one of them. But if you have a spare one ….. an andrew will buy is a case, like 24 cans. Did you know we need 26 cases everyday for us each to get some for breakfast and dinner. And we really like our canned nums, especially when it’s so cold. But even a george or two will really help us out !!! Green presidents is all good cus the cat nums store will trade them all !!
Thank you so much, Mufasa
PS when I get rich and famous, I promise to take you out for nums too!!

You can make a deductible contribution in so many ways !
by going to our website
https://RikkisRefuge.org/donate
or by mailing a check
Rikki’s Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960
or on the site of your choice
Paypal https://paypal.me/RikkisRefuge
Paypal mail@RikkisRefuge.org
Square https://RR-square.shorturl.com
Venmo Rikki’s Refuge
Zelle mail@RikkisRefuge.org

or by sending a care package to us at
Rikki’s Refuge, PO Box 66, Rapidan VA 22733

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Walmart4Rikkis.shorturl.com

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US!!!

WE ALL LOVE YOU !!!!

LOTS !!!

Happy Valentines

from us furry and feathered critters at Rikki’s Refuge !!! I’ll send you all my love and a heart full of purrs … will you send me a can of nums? Pleaz,
www.RikkisRefuge.org/FeedMe
Love, Butterscotch

Wet Food Wednesday here at Rikkis Refuge Animal Sanctuary

YES !! It’s Wet Food Wednesday !!! And the cats and dogs NEED YOUR HELP !! Please send them a case. They’re not picky, any kind will do. We’re having to scrounge the local store shelves to find enough each day right now. PLEAZ send some !!!

You can use our wish lists, we do our best to keep them updated with the best prices:
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You can mail packages to
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 66
10910 Barr Ln
Rapidan VA 22733

If you’d rather go shopping, you can drop off at Re-Tail our Thrift Shop in Fredericksburg, 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Or in the donation box alllllll the way down Barr Ln, just before the gate. Or at Giant at Hilltop Shopping center in Fredericksburg. OR you can come visit us on Saturday, 10/26, from noon-2 during Donation Drop Off when the gate on rt 20 will be open.
21410 Constitution Hwy, Rapidan. That’s at the corner of rt 20 (Constitution Hwy) and Quarterhorse Ln, at the end of the RAINBOW FENCE. Do not go down Quarterhorse Ln, a small gravel road, or you’re in the wrong place. You gotta come in our gate to Life Center Way!!!

And I’ll even make a deal with you if you don’t wanna be bothered looking on line or going shopping if you send me some green trading papers, I’ll learn to drive the goat cart tonight and go shopping for you !!!
https://RikkisRefuge.org/donate

Crybaby says these things (paper towel rolls) are great to play with after the big 2 legged creatures use all the white paper off of them. But, they need more please? I promised not to gack any hairballs till they have more paper towels, but I have a lot of hair, and I like to keep clean, and ….. please hurry ….. I feel a good gack coming on ……

Can you see who’s up on the roof together?

We just can’t get our ducks together ….. but we’re doing pretty good on lining up the cats !!

Who’s hungry ?????

Yuck!! This water has NO flavor.

Mmmm so much better over here ……

Hey YOU … yes YOU …. would you do me a favor and bring the hoomans some bleach … they’re always complaining about the flavoring we add to our water and saying they have to sanitize our homes ….. silly hoomans.

It’s a potato plant, in Piggy Paradise!! Now how’s that get there? The pigs missed eating a potato and it started growing. I wonder how long it will grow before someone decides to eat it !!!

A couple persimmons left on the tree and the pigs are already fighting over who’s gonna get ‘em!

Love from Charlie

YOUR official SpokesKat
PS: can you help me be a good SpokesKat on my first Wet Food Wednesday?
https://www.rikkisrefuge.org/FeedMe
Pleaz?

Another beautiful day on planet earth !!! What a wonderful planet to live on!

Hey YOU! Are you coming out on Saturday the 26th to visit us? And bring ME NUMS?
Saturday is a DONATION DROP OFF DAY
and that means the gate will be open from NOON to 2 pm
21410 Constitution Hwy, Rapidan. That’s at the corner of rt 20 (Constitution Hwy) and Quarterhorse Ln, at the end of the RAINBOW FENCE. Do not go down Quarterhorse Ln, a small gravel road, or you’re in the wrong place. You gotta come in our gate to Life Center Way!!!

Patrick high fives Doug for serving delicious nums ….. and cleaning up for all of us.

Wouldn’t it be a great day to have your nums delivered while you laz around in the sun? Them lucky sheep. Why do we have SpokesKats that have to work when everybody else around here just lazes in the sun?

Here’s a quiz for YOU! Let’s see if you can guess where Shadow has found some shade to hang out? Come on, tell me your guess?

We all know where he is, but we’re not telling. It’s a really cool place when it’s not facing the sun and the day started out chilly and no hooman has used it yet today.

  

Love from Charlie
YOUR official SpokesKat

PS: can you help me have enough to feed everybody breakfast tomorrow?
https://www.rikkisrefuge.org/FeedMe
Pleaz?