Rainbow Bridge

[Mr. Kilt]

These poems and stories manage to make my eyes leak every time I read them. Guess I'm just an old softie after all.

I found this one last summer when our cat was very ill. It was written for cats, but would be appropriate for dog lovers as well.

A Kitty’s Conversation
By Carol Notermann

“Where’s Mommy?” The wee small cat, asked the One who lifted it.
“She’ll be along.” His voice replied. “We’ll only wait a bit.”

“But she was holding me and crying. I felt her shoulders shake.”
“I know. You see, she made a choice, the hardest she could make.”

“But I went to sleep inside her arms?” the little cat replied.
His voice was soft, “I know, and that was why she cried.”

“I stood beside your Mommy, when the vet was bending down.
I gave her strength to hold you, as her tears fell all around”

“Will you stay with me till Mommy comes?” the kitty asked the Man.
“I’ll be here each day to see you, until she comes to you again.”

“For right beside that Rainbow Bridge, is where dogs and kitties wait,
And when you’re human’s time has come, I’ll take you both on through the gate.”

“Thank you Sir”, the kitty said, “That day will be so grand!”
And too himself he wondered “How He got the scars upon His hand?”

[ByDand]

Reminds me of when I was a young boy (long, long time ago) and I went with my brother on his paper route. It was collection day and if I carried the papers I got the tips. We stopped at a Catholic church and the Priest invited us in to his office to pay for the papers. With him were three standard Poodles, incredibly well groomed and behaved. I had just lost my dog about two weeks prior and I asked the Priest if dogs went to heaven when they died. He told me that of course they went to heaven because if they didn't no one else would want to go either. Made my day!

[GMan]

These words are all so heart wrenching, but also very comforting.

I am so glad that they bring so much comfort to us all.

[Big Paul]

If dogs don't go to heaven when they die, then when I die, I want to go where they go!!!

My boy, Luke..

[GlassMan]

I agree, with the amount of love, caring and self-sacrifice evidenced by dogs I can't imagine that they go anywhere but heaven. I often think that my dog is the best example of pure Christian love I've ever seen.

This is a picture of my little girl Chloe back from Christmas of '01. She does a great Max impression from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

[KiltedKnight]

A while back I was sent an email with a great little story, I'll try and re-tell it here.

It seems that an old man and his dog had departed this life together and found themselves walking along a dirt road. After walking for quite a while they came to a very high white wall and after following it for quite a ways they came to a large golden gate covered with precious gems and stones and sitting at the gate was a man. The man and his dog approached the man at the gate and asked; "Is this Heaven?" and the man replied, "Why yes, it is and welcome to you sir come on in". and the man and his dog started to walk through the gate when the gatemen said, "Oh no, you can't bring the dog in, dogs aren't allowed in here!"

"Well", the old man said to the gatemen "if my dog can't come in then neither will I" and the old man and his dog continued walking on down the road.

Eventually they came to a wooden split rail fence and after following that for a distance they met another man at a break in the fence. The old man asked the man at the fence if he had any water because they were very thirsty and the man said that just inside the fence was a waterpump and he could drink his fill and the old man asked if his dog could have a drink as well and the man at the fence said "Yes, you'll find a bowl at the pump for your dog too". After drinking his fill the old man told the man about heaven down the road that wouldn't allow his dog to come in with him.

The man at the fence then told the old man; "That wasn't heaven, this is heaven. That was a test of a man to see if he'd leave his friends behind".


Chris.

[GlassMan]

There was an old "Twilight Zone" episode like that. The old gent and his dog died and they came upon a gate where the attendant tried to convince him to come in but that he'd have to leave his dog behind. The dog was very agitated by that place and the old man refused to go without his dog. Later he found out that it had actually been the gates of hell and his dog had been what had saved him from eternal damnation.