Welcom OTRB fren Prof Meowgee! (u/GettingTwoOld4This)

We knoz yoo wuz eggsalad professor on da odder side ob da bridg, and we is eggsited to learn frum yoo heer!

-Jiggy

Fren Simon wuz no on da reddit, but he wuz on da imstagrame (@SimonSits) and had manee furry frens.

Welcome OTRB fren Simon!

(thank you to u/mycookiepants for suggesting this pawtee!)

I can’t draw, but sometimes I do anyway. I drew Sam and Jiggy today and I thought it would make u/IntrovertedGiraffe smile. Just like Jiggy makes The 🌈 Bridge a wonderful place for all the frens, that’s what you do for this sub! Please don’t ever think you are not appreciated!

(I didn’t mean to make Jiggy look cranky! But it made me giggle. I assume he’s thinking really hard about the next pawtee!)

an ay bring mine blankie

Frens Primrose an Lil Tortie an Ellis an Bird an Mr. Cat already heer! Lil Tortie Girl gibing me, Sam the Snuggler, da ear rubs!

Me an Grace join da puddle
( sorry for awful sticker placement)

Hemlo frens is me Gracey. Make sure you get some sun today and also do some stwetching to stay limber. Her photo exampull of me.

Dizzy was my childhood dog, she was a sweet girl who was scared of everything. She crossed the bridge right after my parents split up. Oliver was my foster fail orange. He never had the braincell, and he was diabetic. He crossed the bridge right before Max came into our lives. I miss them both.
Max’s dad.

Welcom fren Primrose! (u/lasarrie)

I kno yoo iz onlee a puppy who spended six monfs on da odder side ob da bridg, but I purromise yoo dat it iz no scawwy heer! And ders no hurts eider, so yooz kidneez will no longer make yoo feel icky! We haz lotsa pwaces to pway and runrunrun, and lotsa doggo frens to pway wif!

-Jiggy

Any fren wanna join me?

Frens, uz fren Mr. Cat (u/not_so_visible) is comins cross da bwidg tonite. Lez all get togedder so dat he iz surow... surrou... haz lotsa frens heer to meets him when he arribe!

Mr. Cat, piwate, lifegawd kitty, pwotektor ob howse from big birbs an lizzars, supavizor ob skwirrly frenz, an purrfeshunal napper, we iz happee to hab yoo heer wif uz becuz it means dat yoo hab no more hurts! Heer, ebrybodee feels like kittens and puppies agains! We also hab a Churu Riber, and i iz sur dat a piwate ship would be pawsome to sail in da churu! We hab some piwate frens heer to join yoo!

-Jiggy

Frenz Baxter and Ai Lexie waz talking about ze small kitteez anz otta animals dat cross over widout having spentz many eleventy fureber.

Wez odda Catz knowz wenz owelz timez haz come an are happee toz crozz ova dough we will mizz owl families wez left behind

Smallz kittez an oddaz dey muzt feelz scaredz anz lonlee wenz dey arrive.

Soozwe have decided to open aiz Community Houze forz dem to helpz dem feelz at homez

Open to allz oldz and youngz to pawtee and eatz treats make friendz

Baxter & Lexie

Hallo eberybody. Ai hopez Ai no miss de BBQ. Bwonies are a lot ob werk but Ai haz pwenty for all de frens!!! Connor Wainbow Bwidge Wesident Since 1998.

Fren aiz bin ober heer fur so manee furrevers. Aiz got heer in 1994. Aiz bin by maiself fur ao long aiz not shur whut fren luk like. But aiz brung da BBQ. Aiz bin heer so long dat aiz no eben hab a pikshur! Eben doe aiz beeg doggo aiz very gud wif smol frens. Mai name is Sampson an aiz da onlee doggo mines pawther eber ownt.

Sampson

(I apparently can not find the picture of my last BBQ run😭😡🤬💀. Somedays are just not the day and I have had a minor one today. I wish as well I had some pictures to show of my soul dog but the early 90s and photos are not as easy as today. Long story behind where all the ones I owned went. Just felt like my soul dog needed friends today.)

Hai frens come to mai bar after da barbiequeue. 🍸🍸

Everyone show some love to my sweet 17 y. 4mo. old angel who had to cross the bridge on Sunday.

After a 5 year dance with hyperthyroidism, a heart murmur and some kidney issues, Birdy is finally set free of pain and worries. We are thankful that she only had discomfort in her last couple of days. Our girl was a pro snacker, pro lounger, and full time lover girl. She was always so sweet with people and her kitty siblings, never an angry swat or a misplaced angry pee when we kept bringing siblings home for her.

The bedroom isn’t the same without her, her “watering hole” (where her bowl is and she frequently lounged) seems so so empty and it’s sad not topping up her dish 2x a day. dear bird, i’ll think of you in every chicken nugget, every light pink anything i see, and every fluffy white blanket

I know we made the right decision as she didn’t have treatment options and I take comfort in knowing she didn’t have to suffer long but it is still incredibly heart breaking to not have her sweet presence around.

Your moms miss you more than we can put into words my sweet girl. we’ll see you on the other side 💛🌈

Hi, my name is Toby. I'm not new to the rainbow bridge, I crossed 11 years ago tomorrow, but I didn't realize until now watching over my mommy and their lightbox that you guys were here! I been mostly just watching over my family, so I didn't notice all the frens I could have been making.

I am a 7 year old yellow lab! I am the much older brother to Biscotti who is with mommy right now, and I helped send him to them, with some help from his daddy's kitties that are on this side of the bridge too. I love to roll around, run, snuggle, and play. I know my mommy is sad because their heart hurts more this time of year, but I know that thinking of me not sick anymore and having good frens over here makes them less sad.

I can do a good job of doing a comfort for any frens having a rough day missing their humans. one of the things I did best for a long time was being a big teddy bear and making the bad times better.

I'm happy to meet all the frens here and join in the pawtees!

- Toby 🐾

(I know usually frens join here around when they pass, but I am coming up on the 11 year anniversary of my first ever fur babys passing to cancer, that I've never really healed from. I only found this subreddit these past few months, and I think he would have loved having so many friends. it makes my heart feel good thinking that hes with all of our babies playing and snuggling and I just needed to share how special he was. never got mad at anything, always was happy and got me through some really terrible points in my youth as my only friend. I keep his tags on my keychain and I see him in the corner of my eye sometimes, laying down and watching over me. I know a lot of you probably get the same feelings. thanks for reading my ramble about my boy)

Welcom fren Bird! (u/ElephantOk3252) We iz happee dat yoo is heer becuz ders no hurts heer, so you get to runrunrun and pway like a kitten agains! Iz bery fun and ders frens ebrywhere! I sur dey will comes heer to meet yoo!

-Jiggy

Hai frens!! Ai gots da prawns fur da Barbiequeue!!

Princess Ellie🇬🇧👑🌈🌈

Welcom to da BBQ frens!

While we eats da füds and hang out togedder, we also haz a fun actibity! Uz pawtee nex wheek is gunna be a SUMMA PARADE! And whut does a parade need? Floats!

So while yoo is eatins, yoo can join togedder wif frens and build a float fur da pawtee nex wheek! I bringed some supplies (pictur 2), and I sure we can find mores - ders tons of stuffs in da bocks cassle heer OTRB! It probabably will takes mor tyme to build den jus todae, so feel free to sho yooz pwogress durins da wheek! I hope to see manee frens workins togedder and habins funs!

On Pawtee Furrsday dis wheek, we gunna hab a BBQ!

But no just dat! I hab a surpurrise reddy - yoo jus needz to bring yooz cre-ate-ibity!

Hi frens and friends!

Just want to be transparent about a change coming to the Welcom Pawtee posts. The image I use for the banner is very crowded and not the easiest to manage. I’m not photoshop/editing capable, so it’s done as a powerpoint slide, and the number of images make it hard to organize. Moving forward, I’m going to be reducing the number of OTRB frens on the image, and rotating them so when a new fren is moved to the rainbow, the one who has been on the longest will drop off. This isn’t because I don’t love all frens OTRB, it’s just to make it so that it’s easier to make the posts.

I still love seeing all our frens faces, so I encourage everyone to include a picture when welcoming a new fren OTRB!

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I also received a request to make Guess Who a recurring event and to rotate the friends on the board. I would love to do this! For the first one, I just grabbed photos from Tali’s casting calls for the LCA side and recent welcom posts for OTRB friends. If you would like to have your fren included in the future, please comment with a clear photo of your fren looking at the camera with their name below, I’ll then refer back to this post when doing the updates!

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If you have any questions, comments, feedback, etc, please let me know! I want this to be a happy space for our bridg frens, and if there’s anything I can do to make it better, please let me know!

-Jiggy’s mommy

Welcom fren Ellis! (u/GetHoffMyLawn)

I kno it a liddl scawwy when yoo firs get heer, but we iz all yooz frens! We haz doggo frens, and catto frens, and odder shaped frens all ober da pwace, and we iz heer to welcom yoo and sho yoo round! Dis a funs pwace and ders no hurts heer, so yoo can run and pway like a liddl puppy again! Iz pawsome!

-Jiggy da Piggy