The Rainbow Bridge: A Visit to Pet Paradise

I am giving this 3 stars because it is a children's book yet somehow I wanted more. Illustrations are nice enough, story tells people that our dog is waiting for us, and that we move on with our pets. All good.

People always want to know if the dog dies in the end of a dog book. Well, in this one it dies in the beginning. It is written pretty quick maybe it won't be so painful, unless the parent stopped there and let it sink in...

There is one passage we who have lost dogs have felt:

'Over the next few days, the house felt strange. Nobody barked when the mailman walked past. No clicky-clack of claws on the kitchen floor. No wet nose at the table every time food was served.'

I didn't realize that all our pets went to the rainbow bridge. show more Guess it seems fair. There are paradises specific for the animal like dogs, cats, birds, fish. Does that mean I will have a lot of aquarium fish going with me when I pass on?

I know that the Rainbow bridge would have fields for dogs to run in, and bones aplenty, but didn't think about the couches:

Rick stopped in front of a heap of couches. The sides had been shredded by cat claws and almost every couch was occupied by snoozing dogs or cats. Koko pawed at a cushion. “We call this our lounge area.”
“And no one tells you to get off the couch?” “At first, I felt a bit guilty,” said Koko, “but it soon passes.”

In the end the boy makes a comment which perhaps points to a lesson learned, "All dogs speak, we just don't listen properly."

I always thought a book like this would be good to read to a child way before a dog gets near death to prepare them a little in advance. It would be good to have a discussion on death when we are not in the midst of it. I am not sure if there is a good passage that dogs go to heaven in the Bible, but I choose to believe that they come from heaven and then they return to heaven. show less

I am giving this 3 stars because it is a children's book yet somehow I wanted more. Illustrations are nice enough, story tells people that our dog is waiting for us, and that we move on with our pets. All good.

People always want to know if the dog dies in the end of a dog book. Well, in this one it dies in the beginning. It is written pretty quick maybe it won't be so painful, unless the parent stopped there and let it sink in...

There is one passage we who have lost dogs have felt:

'Over the next few days, the house felt strange. Nobody barked when the mailman walked past. No clicky-clack of claws on the kitchen floor. No wet nose at the table every time food was served.'

I didn't realize that all our pets went to the rainbow bridge. show more Guess it seems fair. There are paradises specific for the animal like dogs, cats, birds, fish. Does that mean I will have a lot of aquarium fish going with me when I pass on?

I know that the Rainbow bridge would have fields for dogs to run in, and bones aplenty, but didn't think about the couches:

Rick stopped in front of a heap of couches. The sides had been shredded by cat claws and almost every couch was occupied by snoozing dogs or cats. Koko pawed at a cushion. “We call this our lounge area.”
“And no one tells you to get off the couch?” “At first, I felt a bit guilty,” said Koko, “but it soon passes.”

In the end the boy makes a comment which perhaps points to a lesson learned, "All dogs speak, we just don't listen properly."

I always thought a book like this would be good to read to a child way before a dog gets near death to prepare them a little in advance. It would be good to have a discussion on death when we are not in the midst of it. I am not sure if there is a good passage that dogs go to heaven in the Bible, but I choose to believe that they come from heaven and then they return to heaven. show less