"They are your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are their life, their love, their leader.
They will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of their heart.
You owe it to them to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Unknown
August 12, 2000 - January 13, 2007
RAINBOW BRIDGE
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends, so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine and all our friends are warm and comfortable.
All of the animals that have been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing - they each miss someone very special to them, who had been left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face. Your hands again caress the beloved head and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone but never absent from your heart.
Then, together, you cross the Rainbow Bridge, never again to be separated.
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan.
Irving Townsend
Sierra was diagnosed with Stage III Lymphoma on November 17, 2006. She was receiving weekly chemotherapy treatments and progressing well, and then the unforeseen occurred. Sierra's immune system was unable to fight infection;
she was put to rest on January 13, 2007 with a critical case of pneumonia.
Sierra will be FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS.....
