Pets at Rainbow Bridge

10/15/2025

One especially touching story reminds us of the lasting power of friendship and the beauty of life’s unexpected reunions—moments that unfold when we least expect them. This is the story of two stray dogs whose paths crossed once again after seven long years, in a reunion that beautifully captures love, resilience, and the bonds that time could never break.

One especially touching story reminds us of the lasting power of friendship and the beauty of life’s unexpected reunions—moments that unfold when we least expect them. This is the story of two stray dogs whose paths crossed once again after seven long years, in a reunion that beautifully capture...

02/22/2025

Yes. I would buy big big land for all homeless animals

02/21/2025

Don’t think so, as well - an instantaneously formed unbroken bond on display here...

02/21/2025

Well, not me! Black is my favorite color and being blind isn’t your fault! My son-in-law is blind. So I’m sure that I would love you too!.

02/21/2025

As soon as she saw me, she ran into my arms and didn't want me to let go... I let it go and he kept coming back... Then I said: no more, let's go home together!!!! Today my child chose me and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever lived! God gave me the best Christmas present ever I love you already.. We are going home!.

02/21/2025

“Room 8” ( 1947–1968 )
Room 8 was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-1960s.

News cameras would arrive at the school at the beginning of the year waiting for the cat's return; he became famous and would receive up to 100 letters a day addressed to him at the school. Eventually, he was featured in a documentary called Big Cat, Little Cat and a children's book, A Cat Called Room 8. Look magazine ran a three-page Room 8 feature by photographer Richard Hewett in November 1962, titled "Room 8: The School Cat". Leo Kottke wrote an instrumental called "Room 8" that was included in his 1971 album, Mudlark.

As he got older, Room 8 was injured in a cat fight and suffered from feline pneumonia, so a family near the school volunteered to take him in. The school's janitor would find him at the end of the school day and carry him across the street.

His obituary in the Los Angeles Times rivaled that of major political figures, running three columns with a photograph. The cat was so famous that his obituary ran in papers as far away as Hartford, Connecticut. The students raised the funds for his gravestone. He is buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas, California.

02/21/2025

My pups and kitties love to hear their stories! Can’t help it, I talk to my babies all the time!

02/21/2025

Aww, but it's the owners main and holiest job to assure the dog of how lovable they are.. dogs don't understand internet likes .

02/21/2025

Grover Krantz was an anthropologist who donated his body to the Smithsonian Museum to show how skeletons can be educational tools. His only condition was that he wanted his beloved dog next to him even after death. The museum honored his request.

02/21/2025

We adopted this face yesterday...' He is 2 years old and has been at the shelter for 40 days!!!! This morning is the first time she climbed on the couch!!!!! Look at that face!!!!!! I’ll never forget his face when he saw us when he came home and sat on the couch..... I think the picture says it all!!!!! Animals feel and understand everything!

02/21/2025

The movie "Togo" stars Willem Dafoe as Leonhard Seppala, a champion dog musher who had the job of delivering life-saving serum to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. This mission, known as The Serum Run, was about getting diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town during a diphtheria outbreak. Seppala and his sled dog team, led by his 12-year-old dog Togo, traveled 340 miles to collect the serum and bring it back, eventually handing it off to Charlie Olson and his team. Altogether, 20 sled dog teams covered a distance of 674 miles from Nenana to Nome. The conditions were harsh, with temperatures dropping to -40°F at night, and strong winds made it feel even colder, below -85°F.
Togo had to push through white-out storms and crossed the most dangerous part of the journey, over the ice of the Norton Sound. Togo's leg of the relay was almost 200 miles longer than anyone else's. Even though Togo did most of the work, the credit mostly went to the sled dog Balto, driven by Gunnar Kaasen, who finished the last 55 miles of the run. Balto got a statue in Central Park, and Hollywood made a movie called 'Balto's Race to Nome.' After nearly 100 years, Togo and Seppala finally got the recognition they deserved with the release of Disney’s 2019 film.