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please, help with Rainbow Bridge

twinkles**stars — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:20:48 GMT

Some time ago there was mention of a site that allows pics of pets to be placed in pic of rianbow bridge which helps children understand and accept the death of a loved pet.

I have been unable to locate such a site and hope someone can help

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:29:27 GMT

not sure which one it was but have found this

http://www.petloss.com/newforms.htm

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

twinkles**stars — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:36:06 GMT

thanks meep but not the one. It allows you to print out a picture of your pet surrounded by rainbow bridge. years ago when my Amber passed away I simply stuck a pic of her on a pre printed rainbow bridge.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

cherples — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:38:51 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Some time ago there was mention of a site that allows pics of pets to be placed in pic of rianbow bridge which helps children understand and accept the death of a loved pet.
I have been unable to locate such a site and hope someone can help

Excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is rainbow bridge and what has it got to do with children learning about death?

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

bluecat*dancing — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:43:51 GMT

Is this the one, Twinks?

http://www.zazzle.com.au/pet_memorial_rainbow_bridge_plaque_personalise-200234731513183472

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:47:18 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
thanks meep but not the one. It allows you to print out a picture of your pet surrounded by rainbow bridge. years ago when my Amber passed away I simply stuck a pic of her on a pre printed rainbow bridge.

sorry. i can't find anything....maybe you could find some info here

https://www.facebook.com/rainbowbridgecelebration

or someone here can do one for you. I could give it a go if you like, then you can just print it.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:52:26 GMT

if you could choose a pic from here and then post a pic of the pet

edit: if you google rainbow bridge images and pick one from there.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:51:10 GMT

@cherples wrote:
@twinkles**stars wrote:
Some time ago there was mention of a site that allows pics of pets to be placed in pic of rianbow bridge which helps children understand and accept the death of a loved pet.
I have been unable to locate such a site and hope someone can help
Excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is rainbow bridge and what has it got to do with children learning about death?

That's where pets go after they die. Over the Raibow Bridge.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

twinkles**stars — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:52:52 GMT

thank you... it was a free download site.

meep...thanks for the offer

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:57:49 GMT

I guess you could have one with other pets already there, or just your pet. If you can't find the other site.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:03:48 GMT

Call me a jaded old cynic, but how does telling kids their pets have gone to some happy land over the rainbow bridge teach them to cope with the reality of death?

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

*pepe — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:11:15 GMT

i'm really wearing out the kudo button today.

why not just tell the kids the pet has passed away, no more pain, no more suffering.

filling their heads with mythical places of rainbows and lollipops is just going to confuse them, especially when their peers laugh at them over it.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:13:11 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Call me a jaded old cynic, but how does telling kids their pets have gone to some happy land over the rainbow bridge teach them to cope with the reality of death?

it would be like believing in souls crossing over. life after death concept. people go to heaven, paradise...or whatever that place is according to different beliefs....Pets have a place that is over the rainbow bridge. Some people believe death is the end, others dont....i dont see why it shouldnt include pets....

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

cherples — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:22:26 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Call me a jaded old cynic, but how does telling kids their pets have gone to some happy land over the rainbow bridge teach them to cope with the reality of death?
it would be like believing in souls crossing over. life after death concept. people go to heaven, paradise...or whatever that place is according to different beliefs....Pets have a place that is over the rainbow bridge. Some people believe death is the end, others dont....i dont see why it shouldnt include pets....

Ok, thanks for the explanation but I'm not one for telling kids that death leads to a wonderful paradise rather than the mundane here and now.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:26:37 GMT

You're welcome. Sorry, it was not my intention to suggest that was what you should be telling your children.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

azureline** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:33:10 GMT

My grandies coped just fine with the rainbow bridge................ and their poppy is a star, the brightest one they see at night, they were 2 and 3 when he passed away and far too young to understand death. Now they are 5 and 6, they get it but still see the star.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:52:46 GMT

When I was a child I lived on a farm and every year we kept a pig for our own consumption. They were slaughtered and butchered on the farm, very swiftly and efficiently by the local butcher. I watched it happen. I also saw my dad wring the necks of chooks. It never occurred to me to believe these animals were going to some happy land over a rainbow bridge. they were dead; d e a d and the only place they were going was into the oven or the cooking pot.

When I was 10 my puppy got run over, he suffered a badly broken leg and probable internal injuries. Hewas in a lot of pain and there was no possible way my parents could afford expensive veterinary treatment. That night after I'd gone to bed my dad put a rifle to his head and shot him. My mother came upstairs and told me- she just said dad had put him out of his pain. She didn't waffle on about rainbow bridges, she just told me how sorry she was, that she knew how much I was hurting and held me in her arms while I cried. I grieved for that little pup for a long time and nobody told me I shouldn't or tried to cheer me up with fantasies, but eventually I came to terms with the loss and moved on.

As a result of that experience I learnt a lot about grief and my ability to cope with it - and it's just as well I did, because 25 years later I had to sit helplessly on a Flying Doctor plane and watch my two year old son die. Those previous encounters with death didn't lessen my grief, but they sure as hell taught me how to cope with it.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

debra9275 — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:54:57 GMT

I don't know anything about it twinks, so I can't help

but I am sorry about your dog

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

azureline** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:55:18 GMT

10 yo is a little different to a 3 yo? I guess we all do what we feel is needed...................... like santa, easter bunny and afterlife etc.

Condolences to Twinkle for Toby's walk over the Rainbow Bridge.

Re: please, help with Rainbow Bridge

**meep** — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:09:52 GMT

we all have to accept death as a natural part of life. we have no choice. i'm not quite sure how our personal beliefs in the 'afterlife' can change that.