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To submit a memorial or honorarium on our website, you can make a donation using PayPal and then email your pet’s picture and story or you can complete our donation form and mail it along with the story and picture to us at:

 

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ARF-IL
PO Box 4423
Wheaton, IL 60189

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 our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had 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 to be 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 the 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 from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...

~Author Unknown

 

In Honor & In Memory of 
Animal Lovers &  Beloved Pets

In Memory of
Bill the Cat

From ARF
August
2010
In Memory of
Java
From ARF
July
2010
In Memory of
John Grills
From ARF
April
2010
In Memory of
Halle McCaffrey-Hitzeman
from Ellen Lollini
March
2010
In Memory of
Preston Conley 
from The Douglas Family
December
2009
In Memory of
Rob Zelenka
From ARF
October
2009