"The Rainbow Bridge is a meadow where animals wait for their humans to join them, and the bridge that takes them all to Heaven, together."

The Toledo humane Society would like to honor the pets who have touch our lives and gone to the rainbow bridge. At this Year Bark in the Park event, we will feature a stretch of our race route as our "Rainbow Bridge Memorial Way".

Make a donation in memory of your beloved pet, and we will create a sign which will be one of many lining our Rainbow Bridge Memorial Way. Photos can be added and must be shared digitally via email.  At the end of the event, you are able to bring your sign home with you!

Memorial Sign Examples

The story tells of a lush green meadow just "this side of Heaven". Rainbow Bridge is the name of both the meadow and the adjoining pan-prismatic conveyance connecting it to Heaven.

According to the story, when a pet dies, it goes to the meadow, restored to perfect health and free of any injuries. The pet runs and plays all day with the others; there is always fresh food and water, and the sun is always shining. However, it is said that while the pet is at peace and happy, it also misses its owner whom it left behind on Earth.

When its owner dies, they too arrive at the meadow, and that is when the pet stops playing, turns, sniffs at the air and looks into the distance where it sees its beloved owner. Excited, it runs as fast as it can, until owner and pet are once more united. The pet greets its former owner in great joy while the human looks into the soft, trusting eyes of the pet, who might have been gone and absent on Earth but never absent in the heart. Then side by side, they cross the Rainbow Bridge together into Heaven, to play again and be together in love and happiness, never again to be separated.