Rainbow Bridge

Established 1997

Our dogs love lying on their Kuranda beds. They keep them off of cold drafty floors during the winter and provides excellent ventilation in the hot summer months.

Though they benefit greatly from Kuranda beds, we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price so another rescue dog can sleep in comfort, you can do so directly from the Kuranda web site.

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Cassy is shown enjoying her Kuranda bed.

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Just this side of Heaven is a place called RainbowBridge

When an animal dies - one that has been especially close to someone here - that pet goes to RainbowBridge. There are meadows and hills for our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food and water, sunshine and cozy beds, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing: they each miss someone very special, someone who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; his eager body quivers. Suddenly, he breaks from the group, flying over the green grass - his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain on your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet - so long gone but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross the RainbowBridge together.

Author Unknown

Gus
From the time Gus entered our care in the spring of 2013 he was a happy, heathy young Rottie. Then, on a late November afternoon, his foster dad found him vomiting, with a slightly distended belly and in obvious pain; by the time they got to the vet’s office, the pain had increased greatly. Gus received emergency care to stabilize him and was admitted for overnight observation; the tentative diagnosis was the beginning of bloat (gastric torsion) and he also had a fever, thought to be originating in the GI tract. Gus was well enough to come home the next day to recuperate and he seemed to be recovering satisfactorily until on January 4, his foster dad started the evening feeding and found Gus in his run, sitting down and yelping in pain, necessitating another emergency trip to the vet where he was again hospitalized, x-rayed, and a host of other procedures performed; once again he stayed the night for observation. We are sad to report that this time, Gus did not recover—he passed away the next morning from what the post-mortem showed to be septic peritonitis, cause and site of origin unknown; he was cremated and his ashes taken home by his foster.