And yet, the Rainbow Bridge is deeply comforting to many, many people. “I really can’t believe it,” Edna Clyne-Rekhy, 83, the author of the poem, told me from her home in Inverness, Scotland.

It is a poem, origins disputed, that launched the pet bereavement movement, inspired countless pet loss blogs and fueled a lucrative marketplace for rainbow bridge-themed dog urns and lava bead ...

Dear Annie: Several dear friends have had to put down beloved pets, and I was wondering if you could print the beautiful poem about the Rainbow Bridge? It helped me so much when I lost my ...