Before revision: William N. Britton, author of Legend of Rainbow Bridge (1994, ) Wallace Sife, head of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, whose poem "All Pets Go to Heaven" appears on the association's website as well as in his book The Loss of a Pet However, American author Paul Koudounaris, a member of The Order of the Good Death published an article in February 2023, in which he detangled the history of the poem and provided proof, including the original handwritten manuscript of the text, which make it clear that the author is Edna Clyne-Rekhy, who wrote it as a teenager in Scotland in 1959 to mourn the death of her dog Major.
After revision: ,William N. Britton, author of Legend of Rainbow Bridge (1994, ) Wallace Sife, head of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, whose poem "All Pets Go to Heaven" appears on the association's website as well as in his book The Loss of a Pet However, American author Paul Koudounaris, a member of The Order of the Good Death published an article in February 2023, in which he detangled the history of the poem and provided proof, including the original handwritten manuscript of the text, which make it clear that the author is Edna Clyne-Rekhy, who wrote it as a teenager in Scotland in 1959 to mourn the death of her dog Major.