February 8, 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 )
Today it’s all about cats !!!
Why?
Clarence was the only one who had time for pictures and he spent most the day working with kitties. Lucky guy !!!! And he loves his kitty charges !!! And they love him!
Garfield shows off his prowess at climbing tall trees
and leaping to rooftops in a single bound!
Cold this morning, but the sun is out beautifully! Look at this cool ice pattern.
Colleen the Calico looks up to her hoomans with love
Alfred’s soaking up some morning sun
Little Buddy wants a nose kiss
That’s Smurf in the background, a very old mama kitty who’s living out her retirement years here after delivering may many litters behind a restaurant at a truck stop. Now her life is happy and carefree. She loves being out when the sun is shining.
Bagheera howls, BRING ON THE NUMS !!!
Tonya the tabby cooly watches the morning goings on
Waldo, Clarence’s shadow, being Waldo
Mouky patiently waiting for the platters of nums to be laid out
Help Mouky and his friends to always have enough for breakfast and dinner. Any brand of cat food makes them happy. Amazon and Chewy often have special deals on canned cat food. The kitties rejoice everyday when the box bringing hoomans come to the gates delivering pressies !!!!
YOU can make their day !!
Rikki’s Refuge
10910 Barr Ln
Rapidan VA 22733
or www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate )
and we’ll do the shopping for YOU !!!
The protected outdoor space of the cat houses.
A lot of study into the play habits of our felines went into the design of the cat runs. How big should they be? What will materials cost? How will our volunteers build them? And most importantly of all, what do the cats want? How long a run do cats need to get up to top speed in games of chase? How wide is the turning radius of a cat galloping at full speed? How high does a cat typically climb when leaping on a pole at a full gallop? All that and MORE.
We set up temporary area after temporary area, experimenting with all kinds of dimensions. We hired (for food) several cats to help us with the study and let them test and play and climb in each design. The ultimate plan of 100’ long, enough to get up a good gallop and about as much as they usually run full speed ahead when playing, 20’ wide, enough turning radius so they can do laps if they’re in an intense game of chase, and 12’ high cus most tapered out around 10’ so 12’ gave us room to add perches at the top !!!
And I bet you thought we just threw up 4x4s and fencing !!!
Ol Man has lived with quite a while, despite being elderly when he came.
We sure hope he’s with us many more years!!! We love our super seniors !!
Scotch is following around on morning rounds today
Manilla Gorilla is a little shy and follows at a distance.
There’s always a wait at the porta potty !!
Night night !!!
Everybody loves their life and home at Rikki’s Refuge
where we care for over 1200 animals each and every day
because YOUR help made it all possible !!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
THANK YOU !!