The Rainbow Bridge

If you love dogs you've heard about The Rainbow Bridge. The story is told about a place where the souls of all of our departed pets go and wait for their humans to catch up with them after they die. The pets wait on the other side of the bridge in a wonderfully happy place where they are free from all of the pain and disease they endured while on Earth. The lame and crippled can walk and run again, the blind can see again and there is no more hunger or suffering.

Then on some particular day, one by one, each dog suddenly sniffs the air and cocks their heads to listen to a long remembered sound because one of their humans was walking across The Bridge and they run to greet them. It is a beautiful, heartwarming story that reveals the depth of love that exists between people and their four-legged pets.

You don't have to be particularly religious to believe in The Rainbow Bridge, while some people doubt that animals have souls, one recent Pope of the Catholic Church said while he had no proof they had souls he imagined that God would not have created such loyal and loving animals and not given them an Eternal life. Or you can just embrace the thoughts of Will Rogers, the American humorist who said:  If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. I sort of lean in this direction.

So I decided to visualize what I would find when my time came to cross that bridge. 

From the top: Nikko, Felony, Mocha, Sassy, Axl and his mom and my big boy Ruffin.