Author Archives: Kerry Hilliard

January 14, 2021 Thursday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 14, 2021 Thursday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Full Bellies and Blue Skies

Good Morning, welcome to Feline Fields today !!


Splish Splash I Was Takin A Bath …

It must be National Dump Your Food To Eat It Day !


ever have one of those days at YOUR house?

Wanda’s having a picnic

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Hey Hooman! We got any silverware around this place ?

Sun is starting to set over cows as Clarence finishes up there

Tina says what more could you possibly want in a job

than to be able to watch the sun come up and
the sun go down and the moon and come out !!!

Everybody Lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 13, 2021 Wednesday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 13, 2021 Wednesday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

From sunrise



to sunset

it was a beautiful day.


Warming up on the hood of Doug’s car

before the sun had warmed up the day.

Wanda is so happy to see Doug this morning

Howler lives up to his name

as he follows Doug around while they check up on all the animals.


A morning medley of animals

Something isn’t right here ….

Lucky the black cow

Do you see his best friend, Eddie the miniature horse behind him?

Riley loves living on the edge !!

Ben reaches out to grab his nums

Crybaby gives it a roll





Everybody Lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 12, 2021 Tuesday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 12, 2021 Tuesday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

OH !!! Hi there …. Good Morning

Ummm Excuse me

Could YOU open that door please?
The wall of all rooms that face the hallway in the 9th Life Center were replaced with fencing so everybody can keep an eye on what’s going all over the place all the time.

We just want to come out and meet the new residents …..

they look VERY interesting !!!!!

Look who just arrived !!!

Do you know what kind of birds these are?

They’re baby quail.

They’re raised for both “game” and food.

These babies were advertised on craigs list to be bough, kept a month or two, killed and eaten.

One of our supporters saw this ad and rushed out to buy them and save their lives.

Then started wondering how they were going to care for them properly in their home. Soon they ended up at Rikki’s where, when they get a little bigger, they’ll be able to live happily in one of our aviaries.

Did I have any idea some of the species that would need to call Rikki’s Refuge home when I started the sanctuary? NO WAY !!!! But I love everybody and they’re welcome to live in peace with us, away from the worry that they’ll be eaten. And no, they won’t get to meet the cats up close !

Running the gauntlet when the dinner bell rings ….


STOP!! HONK !!! STOP !!!

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE HOOMAN !!!!
QUALITY CONTROL CHECK

the quantity of food coming out must be examined for accuracy …. and taste !!!

Wanda says, THANK YOU

For the pressies !!!

Just look at all that dog food.
The dogs are always in need of your help. So many more people send cat food and make cat specific donations. Us doggies like to eat too !!! Forget them flea drops. We hate those. You can give those to the cats. But please think about us more often!

Good camouflage ….

the emus blend very well into their habitat

Afternoon nap time

Somebody’s about to get jumped !

Everybody’s HAPPY at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 11, 2021 Monday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 11, 2021 Monday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Hi!! Am I cute?

Breakfast time

and somebody is missing …..

Miss Piggy !!!!!!

Are you out AGAIN?

Get back in here !!!

An after breakfast roll in the mud

Emily Emu takes a break in the shade

Ducks take a swim

Titan gets ready to take a “sip”

a cow sip is gallons !!!!

Oh no the Car Theft Gang is at it again !!!

Pretty Tabby, Flipper and Batman sit around looking all innocent till you’re not looking, then quickly hotwire the car and take off ….

Oh LOOK pressies !!!!

It makes our day when the mail hooman brings us nums !!!!

YOU can send food to the cats, or anybody else, at
Rikki’s Refuge
10910 Barr Ln
Rapidan VA 22733

They’ll bring it right to our gate !!!!!

Right now the best price we can find is Chewy’s 9-Lives. Last time I checked Amazon was out.

BUT WAIT …. do THIS before you ever shop AMAZON again !!!
Sign up for Amazon Smile and choose LIFE UNLIMITED OF VIRGINIA INC (that’s us!) as your charity of choice. For every purchase you make afterwards, a donation will be sent to Rikki’s (at NO cost to you!). Just another easy way to help the animals of Rikki’s Refuge!
Just click: https://Smile.Amazon.com/ch/54-1911042

Do YOU know what helps us the most? If you sign up for an automatic shipment of cat food from Chewy or Amazon !! Just pick the day of the month or week you’d like to feed some kitties, and send a case or two !!!
Thank YOU !!!

All day long, everybody is strolling all around

Who’s in there?

Awww guys, don’t be scared

the hoomans don’t hurt us here, they FEED us !!!
The ferals get a lot of reassurance from seeing other kitties interact safely with the hoomans. Getting used to seeing that, takes a while.

Yeah, the hoomans here are pretty cool !!!

Most ferals will eventually loose the worst of the fear and start to hang around the legs that feed them.

Hanging out in a safe outdoor play area

Or on perches inside

By for now !!!

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 10, 2021 Sunday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 10, 2021 Sunday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Houseplant Appreciation Day? What can you do with that at an animal sanctuary? Can you imagine nearly 600 cats AND houseplants? I suggested our wonderful photographers kept their eyes open for any plants.

Then Tony said, “LOOK what I found !!!” It’s Theresa’s mural at the Life Center. When finished it will be our Tree of Life with memorial pictures of past residents of Rikki’s Refuge !!!

Panda loves being snuggled

The ferals love their hammocks

The pigs love napping in the sun

The cows love each other

Who can resist just hanging out and resting in the sun?

Eddie gets up to come get a pat and treat

Goose and Peacock are taking a stroll

There’s always time for a laugh

Meow

Friends love hanging around together … no matter the species

Everybody is having a lazy sunny day …. except the hoomans … but they love working on nice sunny dry days too !!

And everyone lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

 

 

January 9, 2021 Saturday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 9, 2021 Saturday at Rikki’s Refuge, Save the Eagles Day

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Good Morning Sunshine !!!!

It’s Save the Eagles Day. We occasionally see an eagle flying overhead, or sitting in a tree down by the creek. But no eagles today.
Mr. Peacock says he’ll fill in as the honorary bird of the day !!

And we have guineas

and ducks !!!!

Meet Archie

How does his picture make YOU feel? When I saw him a few a days ago my heart totally went out to him. He’s terrified. He was a stray. He was trapped. He’s terrified. He’s sick. He’s injured. He has not home. It’s believed he’s 9 years old. Nobody wants him.

I took one look at his eyes and said, “Oh Archie, come to Rikki’s and let us make you happy and teach you to love again.”

Archie will be joining us on Friday. I can’t wait to meet him.

It’s animals like Archie that made me start Rikki’s Refuge. All the animals that so desperately need somebody to love them. But that nobody wants. They think they’re icky to look at, they’re hurt, they’re dirty, they’re scared. The ones that are passed by in shelters, passed by on the streets. The ones left to die cuz nobody cares.

They’re the ones I want to always be there for. They’re the ones I created Rikki’s Refuge for. It doesn’t matter the species. It’s their souls that matter, their eyes. How can you look into those eyes and turn away?

Archie will need quite a bit of medical care when he gets here. Thank God our vets love these poor souls as much as we do and go way above and beyond to heal them.

YOU can HELP ARCHIE out too.

I have been so thankful to YOU every day for the last 8,187 days that YOU have made my dream of Rikki’s Refuge a reality thru YOUR kindness, YOUR help, YOUR donations, YOUR support. We may not know each other, but YOU are so very important and special to me. Thank YOU.

Uh Oh

See the light that’s out? Have you ever been in our thrift shop? It’s called Re-Tail. It’s huge, 8,800 square feet of bargains just for you !! And look up up up at those ceilings …… it’s over 22 feet to that burned out light bulb !!!! Luckily I have a very daring brother who can climb like a monkey !!! He’ll load up the scaffolding and the extension ladders and drive the truck into town and build the scaffolding under the light, and then the ladder on top of that and up, up, up he’ll go, and put in a new bulb to make the store light and bright!!!

Stop in and visit sometime !!! 9 am – 5 pm Wednesday – Sunday
Re-Tail is at 3503 Lafayette Blvd in Fredericksburg
check us out www.facebook.com/ReTailThriftStore

We count on YOUR donations to survive and to make money that we turn into food for the animals !!!
Donation Drop off is Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from noon to 4 pm
We appreciate your gifts of gently used clothing and household items of all sorts !!!!

NUM NUM NUM … NUM NUM

THIS is what we’ve been waiting for !!!!

Panda takes a rest from scrubbing water bowls

Peek-a-boo

No matter how big or how small …. we all Live HAPPILY EVER AFTER at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 8, 2021 Friday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 8, 2021 Friday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Good Morning from Grizzly !!!!

if you wake me up …. I deserve a treat !!!

Picnic anyone ?

I hear somebody on the other side of my wall

The chicken ate it all, can we have more ?

Why are there chickens in Cat Houses?
Well, did you know that our birds are the only animals at Rikki’s Refuge that we can’t neuter? That’s right, it’s all cus of their anatomy. The testes are internal, sitting atop the kidneys, connected to a large flow of blood. Anesthesia is difficult and dangerous in birds and after they’re only a few months old, the risk of bleeding to death is quite high. So simply, it’s too dangerous.

We can control population growth thru egg management, letting the dogs or wildlife eat them.

But Roosters get mighty aggressive unless they have a colony of ladies all to themselves. They will fight to the death. They will attach humans too. And OUCH that hurts!!!! A rooster can sneak up behind you and charge, fly up and kick, and leave huge bruises on your behind !!!! And NO, I’m NOT sharing THOSE photos !!!

We found they’ll get along fine with cats. No idea why, but they won’t attack the cats and the cats don’t bother them. They live side by side happily. And they eat out of the same bowl. The roosters also get corn and scratch (chicken food), but as gross as it seems, they love cat food. They do eat a lot of bugs after all.

WOOF WOOF

don’t forget us doggies !! Yes, Rikki’s Refuge has doggies too. You see lots more cat pictures cus there are far more than 10 times the number of cats.

WHY?

Well cats are smaller, eat less, need smaller doses of meds, require less space per animals. Cats have better social skills and can live in houses of 30 or 40 and get along fine. If they do argue, it’s a minor scratch or worst case an abscess from a bite and easy to fix. Too many dogs, or certain dominant dogs, and they can very seriously injure or kill each other. Many dogs consider our geese and chickens and even the cats as prey, so they can’t run free.

And interestingly, there is more funding for cats than for dogs. Some people designate what their donations are to be used for, others send species specific food.

Diesel here says if you’d like to help the dawggies, just say so on your donation !!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

Oink Oink

Piggies LOVE the mud

Piggy Paradise was once grass covered, had trees and was very green. That didn’t last long at all. Piggies root. That means putting their nose to the ground and digging for truffles and any goodies they can find. It’s an irresistible urge. If you don’t want your back yard to look like this …. a piggy isn’t the right pet for you !!!!

And it’s the reason we have so many. So many people don’t think ahead and learn about the animal they want to adopt. Ohhh a cute little baby 10 pound piggy sounds like so much fun!!!! Ohh they say they’re like dogs !!! Than people find out how fast and bit they grow. Even miniature pigs reach 100 pounds fast, and in a few years many will be 300-400 pounds. Farm pigs will grow to 900 or 1,200 pounds. And they can’t stop rooting. Asking them to, or punishing them for it, or putting rings in their noses so it hurts to root, is cruel. Nature makes them need to root.

And rolling in the mud is when they’re the happiest. Even cold mud !!! They love the feel of it coating their skin. Hey, you even hear of people putting mud masks on their faces, don’t you? It softens the skin, quells any itches, keeps bugs off, and prevents sunburn. Pigs need mud.

Clarence says, “Nothing stops us from caring for our animal friends, not rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor mud,”

as he wades out into a huge mud hole they’ve dug up and shoved one of their houses into. WHY? Cus they wanted to sleep neck deep in the mud. But it’s going to get COLD tonight and though we’ve never seen a piggy stuck in frozen mud in the morning ….. the thought just sends shivers thru us.

Clarence has moved the house these two claimed to dry land, filled it with straw to burrow down in, and now they’re happy to settle down for the night.

Most of the piggies will go in the barn and into the nice dry straw and pile up together for the night.

With all the rainy weather we’ve been having, all the hoofed animals create mud in the areas they like to trample. It’s just that soft wet ground and those big heavy hooves.

The ducks and geese love the shift thru the mud too. They shove their beaks in and sift thru it looking for only God knows what to eat. And it’s not from any shortage of ducky food about !!! It’s the delicacy !!

Poor turkey

she’s been spending her days inside the hospital with a foot infection called bumble foot. It’s such a lovely day our and she’s so restless, she’s out for a stroll before it’s time to clean and medicate her foot again. We’ve had chickens and ducks and geese with bumble foot, this is the first time we’ve had it in a turkey. A little harder to get cooperation from. And much harder to make her soak it than with geese of ducks who are thrilled to swim around in a bathtub of warm water for hours !!!

Let the Sun Shine In !!!

Every one is enjoying the sun !!!! After lots of cloudy days …. ohhhh it feels so good !!!!

Wild animals share the Refuge with us.

Many more birds come in the winter when it gets hard to find food.

Some are passing thru, like many of the geese flocks that stop to refuel and rest, others will stay close by for the winter.

In the evening and mornings we’ll see deer in with the goats or cows dining on some hay.

The skunks and opossums and raccoons and occasional bobcat and bear pass thru at night, the squirrels and chipmunks and wild birds are about in the daytime.

How many cardinals can you count ?

Everybody Lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 7, 2021 Thursday at Rikki’s Refuge


January 7, 2021 Thursday, Breakfast and Beyond at Rikki’s Refuge
all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Frosty Morning – Frosty Sheep

With all that thick luscious wool, just about nothing bothers them !!!

Siamese Twins?

No, it’s Fzzy Wuzzy and Charcoal showing up for duty on this cold and frosty morning.

On to Horsey Haven

Thank you, I’ll take that !

Ohhh look at those burrs in her mane!!!

Somebody is going to the beauty shop today for a bush and snip!

Always gotta stand on somethin !

Is that sheep streaking ?

Isn’t she lovely?

She’s the elder matriarch of our Angora Goat herd.

The elder patriarch of Horsey Haven

Is somebody reading a map there?

Planning an escape with my RV?

You seriously expect ME to eat sweet feed?

Boyfriend lives at the Life Center. Just on the outside. He’s welcome to come in. He did that for about 15 seconds once a year ago. He bolted out fast. But he loves to hang out and look in the windows. He meows and greets everyone and acts like the wants in. But when the door is offered to him, he bolts.

He got his name, Boyfriend, cus Amiee lived in the Life Center. A stately gray lady, who wanted to go outside. But she wasn’t allowed. She sat on a cat tree in the window on the inside, and Boyfriend came courting on the outside. At first we think Boyfriend had nefarious ideas abut Amiee. But then we caught him and he got a trip to the Speuter Clinic. He still hung out and courted Aimee thru the window.

Several years ago Aimee for a furrever home with our friend Lia far far away in Connecticut. Boyfriend misses Aimee, but now he courts Riley. I’m not sure he’d be as impressed if he met her with out that layer of glass for protection. Riley is …. well … Riley !!!!

Sunshine showed up as little kitten

though old enough to be thoroughly feral. We thought someone had dumped him here, but soon his siblings and mom showed up, and then more. Turned out a bunch of cats had been evicted. Cats that weren’t “fixed”. Cats that had been breeding. Homeless and hungry, they found our barn, some mice and Boyfriend’s food.

We’re trapping and speutering. An unexpected expense this year when money is hard to come buy. It’s costing us about $100 to fully vet the girls, and $75 for the boys.

We’d certainly not turn down the offer to help us get every last one speutered !!!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

Sunshine thinks Boyfriend is his Daddy.

But we know better! Even if he has learned to pretend he wants to come inside and loves being a peeping tom !!!

Hey! HOOMAN ! It’s about time for FOOD !


FINALLY ! Contented kitties !!

And everybody is WELL FED at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we have saved and provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate


And everybody is WELL FED at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we have saved and provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 6, 2021 Wednesday at Rikki’s Refuge

January 6, 2021 Wednesday at Rikki’s Refuge

all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Humans have a way of thinking they’re the smartest species. But ohhhhhh ….. our animals are always teaching us otherwise !!!!!

Miss Piggy decided to show up us hoomans today !!!

And head out on a walk about. It’s not too hard for a 700 pound piggy to root and dig and shove and push and work their way out of just about any fencing we can build. All fence lines are checked every morning. It gives the hooman miles of exercise walking !!!

Luckily nobody ever goes far when they do bust out. They don’t want to leave their friends for long.

Bet getting them back in the door can be challenging !!!!

They tend to think “see if you can catch me” is a fun game. The hoomans don’t always agree. And then they get to play “fix the fence”. And we never have enough fencing material so always have to make do till we can raise the money for new parts.


Each panel is $23.99. Miss Piggy damaged one badly enough it will never be very secure and needs to be replaces. Two others have become bent over time and will be the next exit point. So really, Miss Piggy better figure out how to raise an extra $71.97 if she doesn’t want to miss a few meals when we take it out of her meal budget !!!!

A bag of piggy food is only $9.99. That’s a 50 pound sack. It takes about 2 and half to feed all the pigs every day. And that means 7 less bags of feed this week if we divert the money to buy fencing.

Ughhhhh would you like to help Miss Piggy out?
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
PS we never starve our animals or make them pay in food for their misdeeds !!!! But we have struggled everyday since covid shut things down and our supporters have less to share with us. A year ago we would have had extra funds for some fencing. Now we struggle for food and medical care and sanitation on a daily basis. We certainly appreciate any help you can offer.

Chasing Miss Piggy down and fixing her fence enough to hopefully keep her in till we can get some panel has delayed everyone else’s meal !!!

And look who’s arrived !!!!!

It’s Lyn with her vehicle full of donations !!! Lyn drives to our Donation Locations in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania and picks up items from the stores that are nice enough to keep a donation box for Rikki’s Refuge !!! Today she picked up from the Hilltop Giant at 10346 Courthouse Road in Spotsylvania and from 360 Feed & Supply at 5037 Plank Rd in Fredericksburg. YOU can stop in either anytime and buy a few cans of cat or dog food for Rikki’s and leave them in our donation box for Lyn’s next trip out !!!

THANK YOU LYN !!!!!

LUNCH !!!!!! LUNCH !!!!!! LUNCH !!!!!

Hanging out on the sun deck after lunch.

Or hiding in their beds

if they’re relatively new feral arrivals who are still frightened of hoomans.

Time to feed the cows, and that means moving thousand pound giant bales of hay. Something that used to be easy, but will be more difficult until we can afford a new battery for the tractor. I’ll let Tony explain, “I really need a new tractor battery, ours isn’t holding charge and it can be pretty spooky when it cuts off and you have a thousand pound 6×6 hay bail just hanging in the air.”

“For example I have to lift the bail over the fence at least this high so when the power cuts out and you’re going forward, it stalls, lifting the rear tires off the ground. Has me worried about the damage to the tractor if we tip over.”

Unfortunately that battery will cost about $120.

Yikes !!! A lot more than a car battery. But it’s got to start over and over in the cold, be powerful enough to keep the hydraulics working, withstand all the shaking and vibration of a tractor.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate if you’d like to help Tony out !!

And last, but certainly not least for the day, Tony finds a tree down on the fencing. It can’t wait until tomorrow. A critter will find it over night and go walking about. They need the safety and protection of their fencing.

Luckily it’s not a big tree so the job won’t be too long to get it cut up and off the fence. When you get extra chores like chasing pigs, dealing with tractors in need of repair, or cutting fallen trees and fixing fences, you still don’t get to skip any of your vital animal care jobs for the day.

Tony will be working well into the night tonight.

And he’s going to need one panel of fencing here, and at least 2 tposts to make a proper repair. Tonight he’ll just do the best he can with what ever materials he didn’t use on Miss Piggy’s fence. Another unexpected $31.77 needed for repairs today. And where will that come from?

While Tony’s missing his dinner to make sure everything is safe for the animals and they’re fed and happy

All the animals are CONTENT at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!
Animals who had nowhere else on earth to go.

Thank YOU for making it all possible.

www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate

January 5, 2021 Monday at Rikki’s Refuge, National Bird Day and National Monopoly Game Day

January 5, 2021 Monday at Rikki’s Refuge, National Bird Day and National Monopoly Game Day
all in a day’s work …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )

Well Birds are easy to come by at Rikki’s Refuge … but board games ???
We did catch this trio playing cards one morning …..
who knows what goes on at night when the hoomans aren’t watching !!

Rikki’s Refuge is home to many birds.

Chickens


Geese

Turkeys

What on earth is that crazy Unicorn up to? Milo is scratching his chin on the shingled roof !!

Many wild birds live with us too.

They fly in and out as they wish. More coming for breakfast when it’s harder to find food in wild.

The cardinal photos are from this day last year when we had snow. Luckily we don’t any today !!

Pheasants are often raised as game birds and used to train hunting dogs. Occasionally they end up with us when they’ve been injured and are no longer useful.

Most of our animals went thru a sad and hurt part of life. Generally that is what brings them to us. The most wonderful feeling in the world is rehabilitating them and watching them become healthy and happy again !!!

Ducks

and pigeons

and peacocks

Turkeys and peacocks eating pumpkins !!

Arlo and his chickens.

Reeses says, “I’ve got a black cat!! Do I count? Can I get my picture posted?”

Our guard Alpaca Jupiter watches for the nice delivery hoomans to bring out pressies for the day …

Look !!!  Pressies today !!!!   We get to eat !!!!

Crybaby wants snuggles before lunch.

NO hooman, you no can leave me and go feed horses and sheep ….

BIG horses

Little horse

Eddie is a miniature horse. He’ll be 25 years old this year. He tries to boss big horses around and that’s not so good. Even without horns he’s able to boss some goats around and for the most part be their friends. But he didn’t have a true best friend till Lucky the cow came along.

When Lucky arrived he was very young and about the same size as Eddie and they bonded and became inseparable. And Lucky grew. Now a big adult cow, he still thinks Eddie is his best friend and he’s scared of other cows !!!

Baaahhhhhhh


Everybody is HAPPY at Rikki’s Refuge.

With YOUR help we can save and provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each and every day !!!!

Thank YOU for making it all possible.

www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate