it’s all in a day’s work at Rikki’s Refuge …. photos by those caring for the animals
(you can help support those animals at www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate)
4:07 am and our day starts – a little cool and breezy this morning at 45 degrees. But, 70 is on the way !!! Yippie !!!!
Fabio is living on the edge !!
Riley just wants one tummy rub. No one ever does it twice! If YOU know Riley, YOU know why …. and she’s probably had YOUR blood on her claws or fangs !
Breakfast is served at the Life Center
6:02 am these guys are still very very sheepy.
6:43 am The suns getting ready to start its appearance.
The sun coming up over Dahlia.
Nibbs can just have my jacket. He’s apparently called Nibbs or Nab for a reason !!
by 11 am we have our morning chores done, everyone is fed and cleaned and we head off to Deep Roots Home And Garden Center to buy feed for our hoofed and feathered friends. This pallet of feed, will last a week ….. every week, we pick up another !
If you’d like to help us, you can call and order a few bags of feed for us, and well pick it up next time we’re there!! Thank you … here’s the info.
Deep Roots Home and Garden Center
28284 Constitution Hwy, Rhoadesville, VA 22542
540-854-5093
Their hours are Monday – Friday 9 am to 6 pm, Saturday 8 am to 4 pm, closed Sunday.
www.facebook.com/DeepRootsHomeandgarden
Wrangler All Stock (sweet feed)
Cracked Corn
Senior Horse Food
And if you’re in the area, stop in, it’s a wonderful place, and ohhhh the plants !!!!
When we got back to the refuge to unload, we found a delivery at the front gate. Cases of fluids for our hospital patients, and our kidney patients. When you’re a life care sanctuary, it means caring for everyone no matter their age or issues. Many are given up and come to us in the later years, or with medical problems. And so many cats, if they live into their upper teens, will have kidney issues which are helped so much with daily sub-q fluids. They keep our medical folk very busy !!
Yikes … this invoice is for $819.31 ….. woowzer !!!! That’s over $2 a bag more than it was last time. How long can this go on? If you’d like to donate to help with our medical bills, we’d love you !!!
CLICK HERE to help with the VET DEBT
So the boxes were loaded up on top of the feed, and everything put away …..
And it was back to Deep Roots to buy the week’s supply of cat litter. Yeah !!! Another whole pallet full !!! 600 cats use a lot of litterboxes.
And back to Rikki’s to unload another truck full.
Meanwhile Mr Turkey was strutting about and showing off ….. it’s the favorite pastime of the male birds ….. especially in the spring when love is in the air !!
What a PURRFECT day for a picnic !! Hold on I’m coming !!!!!
WOW !!! Look !!! A surprise at the gate !!!!! Donations !!!
HIGH approval rating on today’s donations !!!! Even the empty boxes become pressies for the kitties to play in !!!!!!
Our parting shot today is the happy cows grazing on all this lush green grass !!!
Everyone lives happily ever after at Rikki’s Refuge !!
With YOUR help we can provide life long homes to well over 1,000 animals each & every day !!!!
www.RikkisRefuge.org/Donate
Rikki’s Refuge, 10910 Barr Ln, Rapidan VA 22733 (shipping address for food, etc)
Rikki’s Refuge, PO Box 1357, Orange VA 22960 (secure box for checks, etc)
mail@RikkisRefuge.org
YOU are our family !!! Your kind and generous donations make it all possible !!
Thank you for tuning in and sharing our day !!
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 !!
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