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Help Rikki’s Refuge WIN $10,000
Rescue Your Rescue Photo Contest by Tractor Supply Co.
August 18th – September 14th
Vote once every 24 hours through 9/14/14
VOTING LINK: http://bit.ly/1pumlPk
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Rikki’s will be involved in lots of fun events in the coming weeks and months! We would love to see all of our friends at some or all of these happenings!
First, two more days to keep voting for Rikki’s in the Tractor Supply Contest – we have appreciated all of your votes and thank you for voting and sharing for us. These last few days are critical, so keep up the great work! Click this picture and it will take you directly to the voting page for Rikki’s Refuge!
This weekend, Saturday, September 13, if you are in the Richmond, VA area, we would love to see you at CiCi’s Pizza ~ it’s a fundraiser for Rikki’s Refuge!
CiCi’s Pizza (North Chesterfield Location!)
11549 Busy St., Richmond, VA. 23236
Saturday, September 13, 2014
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
EAT PIZZA! HELP RIKKI’S REFUGE!
Dine at Cici’s Pizza on Saturday 9/13/14 between 10AM-4PM and let your server know you’re eating out to help Rikki’s Refuge! Cici’s will donate 10% of net sales to help Rikki’s Refuge! Bring a donation of cat or dog food! Cash donations accepted!
If you can’t make it out but would love to donate to Rikki’s, you can always do so the following ways:
https://rikkisrefuge.org/feedme
OR directly to our Paypal account at mail@rikkisrefuge.org
OR via regular mail to: Rikki’s Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange, VA 22960
Also on Saturday, September 13, from NOON – 2:00pm, we will have our Donation Drop-Off and Job Interviews at the Rikki’s Refuge Education Center (see address below). The gates will be open and interviews start PROMPTLY at 12:00pm NOON. Please note this is the gate at the corner of Route 20 and Quarterhorse Lane!
On Sunday, September 14, at 7:00pm, please come out and join us for Rikki’s Spiritual Night at the Education Center. It’s a place to talk about growing personally and spiritually, a place for transformation, to learn to be more cat-like, to love your life, to be a happier, kinder, gentler you, to be more in touch with the reality of the universe and less caught up in day-to-day drama and life…..a place to learn to purr more and hiss less. 😉
On Saturday, September 20-21, Rikki’s will be at the Fredericksburg Pet Show. This is a fun family event!
On Saturday, September 27, RIkki’s will be at the Charlottesville, VA Vegetarian Festival! Admission is FREE and this festival gets better every year!! Hope to see you there!
Do you like to run? Or even walk? Have you signed up for Rikki’s Refuge 5K Run/Walk in November? Join us on November 1, at 9:00am at beautiful Lake Anna State Park. Your entry fee is only $25 (or $30 on the actual race day) and will help the 1300 animals who call Rikki’s Refuge their home. Checks should be made to Rikki’s Refuge. Donations of pet foot and/or other supplies are welcome! Awards will be presented to the first male and female finisher and the first three in every age group.
Entry forms can be picked up at: VA Runner, Ed’s Awards & Engraving, Giant Food Stores, 360 Feeds or you can email bugbane30@gmail.com for more information!
As Fall arrives and the holidays approach, there will be many other events and opportunities for you to meet the critters, volunteer, donate and share for Rikki’s Refuge. Stay tuned to this page and our Facebook page for the updates.
And remember, we could not do anything for the animal residents at Rikki’s Refuge without YOUR help. You are a blessing to us and we are grateful to you every single day!
Yesterday we were visited by Jill, a very talented and kind massage therapist. She came to help out our beloved donkeys, Bub and BeeBee. We’re pretty sure she enjoyed being supervised by Norman the handsome and quite persistent tuxedo cat, too!
Rikki’s Refuge was one of many vendors at the National Capital Cat Show last weekend (September 6/7, 2014) at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA. We had a great time! Many thanks to all our volunteers who helped set up, manned and packed up our booth! We can’t do any of these events without you! We appreciated our many visitors too!
You can learn more about the National Capital Cat Show here:
On the Web: http://www.nationalcapitalcatshow.com/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NationalCapitalCatShow
Sharing a few photos!
You can see the rest of our photos from the cat show on any of the following albums:
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152241465142391.1073741876.169651012390&type=1
On Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/RikkisRefuge/national-capital-cat-show-2014/
On Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/sets/72157647013054569/
PIZZA PARTY!
You are cordially invited!
CiCi’s Pizza (North Chesterfield Location!)
11549 Busy St.
Richmond, VA. 23236
Saturday
September 13, 2014
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
EAT PIZZA! HELP RIKKI’S REFUGE!
Dine at Cici’s Pizza on Saturday 9/13/14 between 10AM-4PM and let your server know you’re eating out to help Rikki’s Refuge! Cici’s will donate 10% of net sales to help Rikki’s Refuge! Bring a donation of cat or dog food! Cash donations accepted!
PIZZA PARTY! COME MEET INDY!
Come meet Virginia’s own Indigo Wheeled Terrier on Saturday, September 13, 2014 between 11 AM and 5 PM! He will be at Cici’s Pizza offering kisses for one dollar to help raise funds for Rikki’s Refuge! Come dine at Cici’s Pizza and have fun! Be sure to let your server know that you’re there to help Rikki’s Refuge! Bring a bag or can of cat food with you to donate to the refuge!
CiCi’s Pizza
(North Chesterfield Location!)
11549 Busy St.
Richmond, VA. 23236
KISSES FOR YOU FROM INDY!
DOLLARS FOR RIKKI’S!
(Cici’s Pizza is donating 10% net sales to Rikki’s Refuge from all customers who come out to support Rikki’s between 11AM-5PM.)
IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND, BUT WOULD LIKE TO HELP RIKKI’S REFUGE, YOU MAY DONATE HERE:
https://www.rikkisrefuge.org/feedme
OR DIRECTLY TO OUR PAYPAL:
mail@rikkisrefuge.org
OR BY MAIL:
Rikki’s Refuge
PO Box 1357
Orange, VA. 22960
EXCITING NEWS! We are thrilled to have made it as a Top Ten Finalist in the Tractor Supply Company’s RESCUE MY RESCUE PHOTO CONTEST! Out of more than 1,800 nominations, Rikki’s Refuge was chosen as a top contender. And the grand prize? $10,000!!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! The contest winners are chosen by VOTES. It is free and easy and you can vote every 24 hours. The contest runs through Sunday, September 14 at midnight! The final prize winners will then be announced on Wednesday, September 17, the first day of the Tractor Supply Company Pet Appreciation Week (PAW).
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| Clicking this picture will take you immediately to the voting page!! |
Here is the entry that brought us into the top ten:
Rikki’s Refuge in Orange, Virginia is awesome — they help differently-abled animals nobody else wants. Domestic animals, like cats and dogs and rabbits and guinea pigs. Farm animals like pigs and goats and sheep and horses and chickens and ducks. Opie here in the picture with me, was born without hind feet. Though he gets along just fine in life and loves playing and hugging, he would have been put to sleep in most shelters just for being different. Rikki’s has blind animals, deaf animals, elderly animals, handicapped animals, animals with chronic health issues like diabetes, heart problems, kidney insufficiency. Most of the 1300 residents of 22 species at Rikki’s Refuge will never get adopted, but they will live their natural lives in peace and happiness, loved and cared for.
We wanted to share some of our photos from the tour and picnic yesterday! Everyone had a really nice time, including all the refuge animals, who enjoy visitors! Thank you staff and volunteers for making this a fabulous day for all!
TO SEE ALL PHOTOS, PLEASE VISIT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ALBUM LINKS:
TOUR/PICNIC ALBUM ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152226351812391.1073741872.169651012390&type=1
TOUR/PICNIC ALBUM ON FLICKR: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rikkis_refuge/sets/72157646726790529/
TOUR/PICNIC ALBUM ON PINTEREST: http://www.pinterest.com/RikkisRefuge/rikkis-refuge-labor-day-tourpicnic-2014/
So did you know it’s Labor Day? I hear hoomans like to pic-a-nic on Labor Day? I heard mom inviting hoomans over for a pic-a-nic …….. I don’t think she know us aminals wanna pic-a-nic too …. Wouldn’t that be fun!! If we could all pic-a-nic and let the hoomans do the labor part on Labor Day !! I think that’s the way it should be … Hoomans labor … aminals pic-a-nic …. Oh no !! There’s not nuf in pantry fo us to all pic-a-nic …. You can help me fill my basket, Pleaz? Love, Opie
http://www.RikkisRefuge/
To give electronically, you can donate here on our web site at: https://www.rikkisrefuge.org/feedme
or directly to our Paypal at: mail@rikkisrefuge.org
To give by mail (check or money order):
Rikki’s Refuge
P.O. Box 1357
Orange, VA. 22960
To give via our Amazon Wish List:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/
Good Morning !!!! And a Happy Labor Day to YOU !!!! May yours be bright and happy !!! And full of nums … I hope I’m gettin nums …. Today let’s vote for Candy !! Candy was a prize winning jumper. She did all kinds of contests. When she was 12 she had a terrible accident trying to do a jump that was just too big for her. She fell and was very badly injured. Her owner left with the ribbons she’d won …. but left Candy behind. After awhile the people who owned the pasture Candy was at said we’re gonna sell this horse to the market – not a nice place – cus nobody is paying her rent. And so Candy came to live at Rikki’s. It was another couple years before she was walking right. Now she can run and play and enjoys life. She’ll never be able to jump and she needs some special care and meds twice a day. And she’ll have love and friends and a big green pasture for all the rest of her days. Please vote Rikkis Refuge, VA, USA in the Shelter Challenge today … and every day !! Thank you, Opie
VOTE HERE:
http://www.shelterchallenge.com/web/charityusa/nomineehome?userId=53331&nomineeId=17448
COMING SOON!
Rikki’s Refuge Kitty Litter-Ature is a new program committed to creating a compassionate world for animals and children through humane education and a reading program that nurtures the human-animal bond.
Our reading program is directed by Lolly Busey! We look forward to her loving care and creative ideas!
A Facebook page has been started for our reading program:
https://www.facebook.com/RikkisReadingProgram
