Foley's Tales from Rainbow Bridge - Molly. A True Original

 

With each passing day, we are getting further away from the cyber place where so many of us met and made lifelong friends.

I think of that place each day, as I walk the streets of Rainbow Bridge, seeing the many friends I made there when we were young, invincible, and the days lay before us, seemingly an endless amount.

There are only a pawful of original DS members still on the mortal side.

This week that number decreased by one, because Molly from Fall River crossed the Bridge.

When I first met her she was a newly minted rescue, who, like all of us, was bound to change the world one human at a time.

Most of us were content to share stories about our days and spin mighty yarns about our adventures. We got some humans who weren’t comfortable being themselves on social media, coming out of their shells, walking behind their dogs, who were in the spotlight.

Our parents were happier with us being the ones getting attention, and when they saw how much their pups were loved, they began doing something that they had said wasn’t for them: Recounting their day on social media. 

But Molly, a rescue, knew her siblings, Sully and Nora, could fill that void. Molly was to change her mom in a more personal way.

Molly came into Momma Lisa’s life as the dog not chosen. There were two dogs available when she looked at the dogs and someone was coming in to take one. Momma Lisa said she would take the remaining one, on such decisions worlds can change.

Molly was left behind, and Momma Lisa welcomed Molly into her pack.

Molly repaid her by being the sweetest,  happiest dog in the world, and inspired Momma Lisa to become involved in the rescuing world. She began volunteering at a rescue, doing home visits, and transports. Molly led her to volunteer, where she helped countless dogs, and gave her a feeling of contentment nothing else did. Momma Lisa has made lifelong friends in rescues and helped bring another Molly, another happy dog, to a family in need of joy. 

Now Molly has graduated to the Bridge, leaving her family and friends, because the Powers That Be need a dog angel to work with dogs without hope, to help them find it, which will lead them to their forever home.

Momma Lisa has lost many dogs, and the pain is never the same, but the passing of Molly, who brought so much into her life was particularly hard.

But, Molly wants her mom to know whenevver there is a dog surviving on the streets, or when a rescue is brought into a home, or a rescue is being transported by Momma Lisa to a new family, to look in the dog’s eyes and she’ll see Molly.

As with every passing the mortal said is lessened , and the immortal side is enriched, but it was especially true in this instant.

There is a new reason for rescue to hope..

And she is called Angel Molly