Category: 2006 Golden Successes
Category: 2006 Golden Successes
Mattie Peacock
THE BOYS ARE RE-UNITED (7.1.2022) Mattie and Buster are back together again at Rainbow Bridge. Their Mum, Diane, told us “Mattie, our Golden Retriever, passed away peacefully on 7th January 2022 at the ripe old age of 18 years and 4 months! He appears on your ‘Tales from Rainbow Bridge’ page of your website with his
DetailsOllie Perkin
3 June 2020 Ollie has joined Max at Rainbow Bridge. Ollie and Max, Early History Life can get pretty muddy down here in Dawlish! it is one of our favourite walks and we do it nearly every day, or we go to the beach but the water is a bit cold now!! Apparently we are
DetailsLola Jones
OUR BEAUTIFUL GIRL HAS GONE (26.9.2019) On 27.9.2019, Lynne said “We are all very sad here today as we said “goodbye” to our lovely Lola yesterday. Within a little while, the most amazing rainbow appeared overhead so we know she is safe. We are all being very brave but the tears still keep falling”. Lola
DetailsMax Perkin
THE SADDEST NEWS (31.10.2019) On the morning of the 1 st November, Liz said “Our hearts are broken. Last night we said our goodbyes to Max, our loveable, obstinate, determined, funny and just daft boy . We collected him from Pauline in 2006 and that little cream coloured polar bear grew into a wonderful chap.
DetailsBonnie Power
Bonnie was adopted by Eileen and Steve. She went to the 2006 Reunion but, unfortunately, Bonnie didn’t make it into the Parade. Nevertheless, it was lovely to see her there with her adopters, .
DetailsBarnaby Howard
Went to Rainbow Bridge 26.2.07 It was a very sad Barnaby who arrived from Ireland last year. but his new mum and dad put the smile back on his face bigtime for which we are really grateful to them. He became a very happy boy again, playing happily in their garden, but he has now
DetailsMax Hockridge
Max was originally called Buddy but this changed when he went to live with Mark in Devon.
DetailsBen Mowbray
2006 turned out to be a year of dogs called BEN so we tried to distinguish them by changing their names slightly. In this case we went for Denny. When he was adopted by Tanya and Craig, the inevitable happened and they reverted to Ben, their Bournemouth boy.
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Casey Flynn
GOODBYE TO A VERY SPECIAL BOY (23.3.2015) Gwen tells us Casey started his journey to Rainbow Bridge on the 23rd March at mid-day. He had had various health issues during the last 18 months – a vestibular attack and two rather nasty haemorrhagic gastroenteritis episodes, the last of which she wasn’t sure he was going to come
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Ben O’Donnell
WE WERE ALL SAD TO HEAR THE BAD NEWS (14.5.2015) In 2015, Ben was now 10yrs and had been a massive part of the family and a best friend to them all since his adoption early in 2006. Until very recently, he was still very active and could walk forever. Unfortunately, he had to have a tumour removed from
DetailsBella Watson
VERY SAD NEWS 14 July 2013 Nancy wrote to us with the very sad news that Bella crossed over the Rainbow Bridge this morning, at the grand old age of 15. She was adored by Nancy and Wally and she will be deeply missed. IRR can’t thank them enough for all the hard work they put into Bella and
DetailsWalter Heyer
Walter’s first home didn’t work out so he went to live with Diana down in Cornwall where he enjoyed a wonderful life. ORIGINAL HISTORY Walter had been fostered by Donna and Kids. He was perfect in every way and a wonderful House guest. Here he is asleep with Alex Walter went to his forever home
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Twinkle Astor
GOODBYE TO A DEAR OLD LADY (20.1.2014) Dear old Twinkle was about 15yrs of age which is amazing and a testament to the wonderful life she had with her adopters considering, way back in 2006, she had been an unwanted ex breeding bitch who was covered in lumps that needed removing urgently. Sadly, old age
DetailsTom Tom Shore
VERY SAD NEWS DECEMBER 2013 Joan, who fostered Tom, told us that this lovely boy had gone to Rainbow Bridge. She and Brian have been in tears since hearing the news which has hit them especially hard as they are still suffering the loss of their own boy, Josh, who passed in February. They are taking comfort
DetailsSummer Scott-Miller
VERY SAD NEWS (12.3.2015) On 13th March, David told us “We had a very, very sad day yesterday as our beautiful girl Summer has left us for doggy heaven. She was our first IRR rescue from 2006 and she was the main reason for us wanting to help and foster. Bonnie has been very sad and lonely.” Our hearts go
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Paddy Holling
2004 to 31 July 2014 OUR VERY HAPPY BOY HAS GONE (31.07.2014) Jonathan tells us they re-named him Paddy (from Ronan) shortly after adopting him. He was a very happy dog who had an amazing life but he, sadly, crossed the Bridge on 31st July 2014. He said “It broke our hearts to lose our friend” Paddy
DetailsMurphy O’Neill
MURPHY HAS CROSSED RAINBOW BRIDGE (27.11.2019) On 27th November, Murphy peacefully crossed Rainbow Bridge Ian and Carole shared the very sad news with their many IRR Facebook friends and, as is normal, they rallied around and did their best to comfort their grieving friends. HISTORY Murphy came from Ireland as a young lad and was
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Molly Burdett
A FIRST CHRISTMAS WITHOUT MOLLY Christmas was very different without Molly even though she had always sulked at sight of a camera. The pups are learning new tricks, some similar to Kerry and Molly, which always brings a smile to my face remembering my girls. Love is, now, 17 months, Angel is 7 months and
DetailsKim Ward
UPDATE FROM ANDY DECEMBER ’08 Kim came to us with her 2 puppies, in a very poor state. The puppies should have been taken away from her weeks earlier, but were still suckling from her, draining what little energy she had left. The poor little thing had cystitis, and an infection of the womb. For a
DetailsFinn Smith
SAD NEWS (28 April 2015) Jackie says “It is with great sadness I have to tell you my boy Finn (once called Rufus) has gone to the Rainbow Bridge today. Cruelly, this gorgeous boy had cancer. He was such a special boy who was loved by everyone. Even today, he was still wagging his tail as he went in the river
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Buster Peacock
MATTIE LOSES BUSTER (BOO) (EASTER 2017) Diane says “Buster left us in April 2017 and it was a terrible shock. It was very hard for us both and for Mattie who had never known a time without his brother. They were very popular dogs everywhere they went. The boys were given nicknames by Sylvia who
DetailsSam Foster
FAREWELL TO OUR WONDERFUL SAM (2003? – 31.8.2016) Diana, Sam’s grieving Mum says “ Sam, who was formerly called Dylan, came to me 10 years ago when you estimated his age to be three years. He settled down very quickly and was very happy when my young great grandchildren came to visit usually nestling up
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Emma Green
UPDATE FROM HER FOREVER HOME Nick and Ali said, “We collected Emma from the irreplaceable Andy and Val in March 2006. We did not know what to expect, all we knew was she was about a year old and someone had given her away to a pound in Ireland. We were sure there must
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Connie Bailey
CONNIE made friends with little Madra whilst in foster with Sandie in Ireland. Although we wondered if they may be destined to stay together, both girls found wonderful homes in different parts of the UK. UPDATE ON CONNIE Sarah and Steve said: At last I have finally got round to loading some photos of Connie
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