In Memory
Sad Hearts, Happy Memories
This page is devoted to those beloved Labs who are no longer with us. If you have stories or photos to share, please click here. To make a donation in a particular Lab’s memory, click here.
Paxton
August 10, 2011 – August 12, 2024 Our sweet, beautiful boy Paxton crossed the Rainbow Bridge on August 12, 2024. We adopted this amazing hairy beast (a.k.a. Pax, Paxxy, Paxxy Pax, Paxwell, Chunkers, Yellow Dog, Money Pit ) from CILRA in March 2012. From the moment we saw Pax on CILRA’s website, we knew he…
Rosie
We recently received a generous donation and heart-warming/breaking story in memory of CILRA Lab, Rosie. Click the link below to read about Rosie, and her amazing adopter, Mary M. Rosie – Mary M-August 2024
Shadow
Shadow was one special furbaby. Every time I made her bed she didn’t like it so she messed it up again. I just learned it was her bed not mine. Our hearts are so broken; we feel lost. — Kathy W. and Family
Zoe (Sara)
We lost our Zoe (Sara) on November 4th, 2023. 14 years from the day we adopted her, 11/01/2009. Zoe was introduced to us by my brother and sister-in-law that fostered Labs for CILRA, I had asked them to keep an eye out for a pup for us and my sister-in-law said she was going to…
Max
In memory of my beautiful Max. I have always hated the C word as I have lost many wonderful people in my life….but today I have another reason to hate it. RIP my beautiful Max. You were my doodlebug, big smooshie, love bug, snuggle bug. Blind at 9 months, you “saw” the world full of…