Tributes

Rainbow Bridge

There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. It is called the
Rainbow Bridge because of its many colors.

Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge, there is a land of meadows,
hills and valleys with lush green grass.

When a beloved pet dies, the pet goes to this place. There is always
food and water, and warm spring weather. Those old and frail
animals are young again. Those who have been maimed are made
whole again. They play all day with each other.

But, there is one thing missing. They are not with their special
person who loved them on earth. So, each day they run and play
until the day comes when one suddenly stops playing and looks up.
The nose twitches, the ears are up, the eyes are staring, and this
one suddenly runs from the group.


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

Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together, never again to be
separated.

- Author Unknown


"One who possessed beauty
Without vanity,
Strength without insolence,
Courage without ferocity,
And all the virtues of man,
Without his vices.
This praise would be unmeaning flattery
if inscribed over human ashes,
Is but a just tribute
To the memory of my dog."

- Lord Byron


"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in."

- Mark Twain


"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."

- Holbrook Jackson


"The average dog is a nicer person than the average
person."

- Andrew A. Rooney


"To his dog, every man is King;
hence the constant popularity of dogs."

- Aldous Huxley


"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that
certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very,
very few persons."

- James Thurber


"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god
and a dog to a man."

- Ambrose Bierce


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend:
and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

- Groucho Marx


"A dog is not "almost human," and I know of no
greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as
such."

- John Holmes


"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you
in the face, you should go home and examine your
conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson


"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with
people they know and the oppoWebsite with those they don't
know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a
lover of learning since it defines what's its own and
what's alien."

- Plato


"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make
a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not
scold you,
but he will make a fool of himself too."

- Samuel Butler


"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and
make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is
the primary difference between a dog and a man."

- Mark Twain


"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,
quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love
and always have to mix love and hate."

- Sigmund Freud


"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be
companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested
him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."

- Sir Walter Scott


"The dog is man's best friend.
He has a tail on one end.
Up in front he has teeth.
And four legs underneath."

- Ogden Nash - An Introduction to Dogs


"If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a
Poodle,
get them all ... adopt a mutt!"


- ASPCA


"To err is human: To forgive, canine."

- Anonymous


"I talk to him when I'm lonesome like,
and I'm sure he understands.
When he looks at me so attentively,
and gently licks my hands;
Then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes,
but I never say naught thereat,
For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes,
but never a friend like that!"

- W. Dayton Wedgefarth


"In the world which we know, among the different and
primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the
several species, there exists not one, excepting that of
the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of
man."

- Maurice Maeterlinck - 'Our Friend, The Dog'