Dog homage To Lose You In Real Life, Rainbow – The Do

Cầu hoa Lake Lure (LLFB) được biết đến với cảnh quan tươi tốt và động vật hoang dã đa dạng. Với hơn 30 khu vườn nép mình dọc theo một cây cầu đi bộ nở rộ, điểm thu hút có trụ sở tại Bắc Carolina mời gọi tất cả các loại cuộc sống.

Các khu vườn đều phục vụ mục đích riêng của họ, mỗi khu vườn đều đẹp như khu vườn tiếp theo. Một số được lấp đầy với các nhà máy thụ phấn hưng thịnh cho động vật hoang dã địa phương để tiêu thụ, trong khi những người khác phục vụ cho trẻ em tò mò sẵn sàng tìm hiểu thêm về thiên nhiên.

Nhưng một khu vườn, đặc biệt, chào đón du khách với lối vào cầu vồng – và nó tiếp tục khiến họ không nói nên lời.

Local artist, Amy Wald, created the Rainbow Bridge in May of 2022. According to Spectrum News, Wald was strolling along the LLFB shortly after losing her dogs, Molly and Barkley, when she came up with the idea.

Having come across an empty spot in front of the River’s Edge Dog Garden, Wald was instantly reminded of a poem she’d read about animals’ spirits crossing a rainbow bridge.

So, she decided to build one.

Wald constructed the bridge and painted a vibrant rainbow across it. She attached Molly and Barkley’s collars to the railing, in addition to 10 of her previous pets’ collars.

She posted comforting signs around the bridge explaining its purpose and the poem that inspired it, then waited for more pet parents to find it.

It didn’t take long for the community to discover the Rainbow Bridge and adorn it with their late pets’ collars.

Word continued to spread about the Rainbow Bridge, and soon, people from other states were driving over just to see it.

One visitor, Anna Lopez, traveled from Florida to visit the Rainbow Bridge.

Having recently lost her dog, she was hoping to find solace and a place to honor him at the bridge.

In the end, the bridge brought her even more comfort than she’d imagined.

“The first thing I saw when I came to the bridge was a dog tag with my dog’s name on it, Chester,” Lopez told The Dodo. “I felt like Chester wanted me to be there.”

Lopez was taken aback by the Rainbow Bridge’s beauty and tranquility, but she wasn’t the only one left stunned.

Her friend’s dog, Ketsia, also seemed to have an emotional reaction to being on the bridge.

“Ketsia looked at and sniffed the collars and harnesses. A few seconds later, she got up on the guardrail and got in the ‘prayer’ position,” Lopez said. “It’s like she knew why we were there and what the bridge represented.”

Another visitor, Ryan Everhart, noticed a change in her pup, Jude, as soon as they got to the bridge.

“He’s usually on the go, but his energy shifted as soon as we walked upon the bridge,” Everhart told The Dodo. “He gave every single collar a sniff tribute.”

Everhart has since been inspired to build a similar rainbow bridge in her hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Today, the Rainbow Bridge houses hundreds, if not thousands, of pet collars and was recently expanded to allow for more.

It’s not easy to maintain the ever-growing amount of memorials placed at the Rainbow Bridge, but the LLFB crew wouldn’t have it any other way.

“We hope that by leaving tags behind, people will leave some of their grief, as well,” LLFB wrote on their website. “[T]he paw prints fade as the pet crosses the bridge and, in Amy Wald’s words, ‘goes on to whatever that magical place is, wherever that safe and happy place is.’”