People have Rainbow Bridges too

14 April 2010 by admin.

Day 2 of our vacation was a much more solemn day.  Mom doesn’t talk about it much, but she had another reason for this special trip to Colorado.  She had promised my two legged dad that she would take him and his heart dog, Sassy, to a special place in Colorado for their final stop on earth.  Now I didn’t get to know my two legged dad very well because when I came home he was really pretty sick already.  Mom said he had cancer.  She tells me that it was because of my two legged dad that I came to live with her and the girls.  He had been in remission when he and mom decided they needed another bird dog and that was perfect timing because my two legged grandma was ready to have another litter (that was me and my brothers and sisters).  Mom had already put the deposit down on me and it was just weeks before I was born when my two legged dad found out that he had a very limited amount of time left.  Mom was ready to give me up when he told her in no uncertain terms that she was to go ahead and get me because she would need me.  I am sure glad he felt that way because I love my mom and sisters.  I can’t imagine not having them around.  Anyway, mom picked me up the end of July and I did everything I could to make her smile during the dark time.  Dad insisted I learn to swim, so we spent the last few weekends we had together with mom teaching me to swim and dad supervising from his chair on the beach area at Lake Travis’ Pace Bend Park.  I even wrote an earlier blog on my swimming lessons.  At the time, I was really too little to understand much, but I just knew I had to make mom laugh whenever I could.  She still calls me her happy boy to this day, and I am sure that is because of my early efforts. 

My two legged dad crossed the Rainbow Bridge in September 2008 when I was just a few months old, but it took almost a year before mom could make the final trip to scatter his ashes in a place he loved just about more than anywhere else on earth.  So, we rented a jeep and made the trek over Cinnamon and Engineer Passes.  I know why my mom calls it God’s country.  Here are some pictures so you can judge for yourself.

 And some pictures of the view from my dad’s resting place on Earth.  Pretty awesome isn’t it.

Cinnamon Pass:

 Engineer Pass (It was snowing when we got to Engineer Pass, but still magnificent):

 And for those folks wondering about my reference to the Rainbow Bridge, that is a place where all dogs go and someday get to meet up with their people.  My dad and Sassy met at the Rainbow Bridge on 10 September 2008. No one knows who wrote this poem, but my mom is partial to it and so was my dad.

The Rainbow Bridge

Author Unknown

 

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

 

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, 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 to them, 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 begins to run 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 upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

 Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….

Love you dad and Sassy.

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