Will my dog be in Heaven?

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Iconic scene from All Dogs Go to Heaven.
 
Imagine if all that money spent of pets could have been used to help people.
 
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Imagine if all that money spent of pets could have been used to help people.
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God created the pets as well. I belong to the Humane Society and the ASPCA and donate every month. Animals are God’s creatures and deserve love and respect. I’m not saying humans don’t, just that animals do as well. I will spend anything necessary on my pets.
 
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We must be careful we don’t succumb to animal worship again.

That is the point the pope made here:

Pope Francis is right. We do love our pets more than our children

Paragraph 2418 says: “It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. It is likewise unworthy to spend money on them that should as a priority go to the relief of human misery. One can love animals; one should not direct to them the affection due only to persons.”

http://catholicherald.co.uk/comment...y-pampered-compared-to-many-people-in-africa/
 
I can’t speak for others, of course, but I am in no danger of worshipping any animal, even my own beloved pets. There is a big difference between love and worship. I love many people and all animals; I worship only God in the Holy Trinity.
 
Actions can speak louder than words.

And I didn’t mean you specifically. Nearly 63 Billion dollars is spent in the US on pets. I think that is poor stewardship of our resources.

That money could run and keep open all the Catholic Schools. 😀

It could cover healthcare and food for a great many people.
 
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I suppose a lot of that can be explained because almost all pets give unconditional love. Almost all humans give conditional love, sometimes even to God. (I’m speaking only in generalities here, not speaking about any person in particular. I want to point that out.)

I think a lot of the resources of the US could be better used to serve the poor and needy. And I think a lot of people could and should give more time serving at hospices, homeless shelters, etc.
 
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Yes, I have heard over and over about pets giving us unconditional love.

That is not what we are called to do. We are called to give unconditional love to other humans.
 
I think we’re called to give unconditional love to all of God’s creation. We are charge with taking care of it, at the very least. To me, that means loving it. No one is going to stop people from loving and indulging their pets. No one will stop me. We can, however, exhort others to give to charities that benefit humans, to volunteer at places that benefit humans, etc. I am a hospice and homeless shelter volunteer. For example, I’m not one who worries about what to have for Christmas dinner because I work at the homeless shelter then. I wish more people would. We can sure use their help. And donations of canned goods, etc.
 
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Oh man now I am going to feel guilty when I buy cat toys. I already look for the cheapest ones. We do spend a fair amount on cat food because if we don’t buy grainfree they both get allergy symptoms.
 
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Oh man now I am going to feel guilty when I buy cat toys. I already look for the cheapest ones. We do spend a fair amount on cat food because if we don’t buy grainfree they both get allergy symptoms.
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Don’t feel guilty at all. God created the animals, too. Love them all you want. Just love humans, too.
 
St. Faustina strongly implied that animals are in heaven. She writes:

“Today I was in heaven, in spirit, and I saw its unconceivable beauties and the happiness that awaits us after death. I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God. I saw how great is happiness in God, which spreads to all creatures, making them happy; and then all the glory and praise which springs from this happiness returns to its source; and they enter into the depths of God, contemplating the inner life of God…”

To me, it makes zero sense that Jesus would redeem the Creation and then have Heaven be a barren wasteland of clouds, angels, and humans.

I imagine Heaven - and especially the New Heavens and Earth - to be closer to this:

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Than to this:

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To me, the former pictures look incredible, and I hope to go there. The latter pictures look dull, bland, and boring.

Not sure why so many people seem to want the bland empty cloudroom over a luscious paradise.

Heaven (fulfilled in the New Creation) is going to be a renewed Garden of Eden, a glorified Earth - the word paradise itself means a “pleasure park” in the sense of an enclosed “beauty park”.

There will be abundant plant and animal life there - although sealife, reptilian, amphibious, and insect life is doubtful for various reasons.
 
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We should be careful however, to not be dogmatic about this.

This is a question which falls under “theolegoumena” - meaning various theological positions are acceptable.

I think the quote from Dr. Peter Kreef earlier in the thread is worth repeating:

"10. Are there animals in heaven?

The simplest answer is: Why not? How irrational is the prejudice that would allow plants (green fields and flowers) but not animals into Heaven![69] Much more reasonable is C. S. Lewis’ speculation that we will be “between the angels who are our elder brothers and the beasts who are our jesters, servants, and playfellows”.[70] Scripture seems to confirm this: “thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord”.[71] Animals belong in the "new earth ,[72] as much as trees.
C. S. Lewis supposes that animals are saved “in” their masters, as part of their extended family.[73] Only tamed animals would be saved in this way. It would seem more likely that wild animals are in Heaven too, since wildness, otherness, not-mine-ness, is a proper pleasure for us.[74] The very fact that the seagull takes no notice of me when it utters its remote, lonely call is part of its glory.

Would the same animals be in Heaven as on earth? “Is my dead cat in Heaven?” Again, why not? God can raise up the very grass;[75] why not cats? Though the blessed have better things to do than play with pets, the better does not exclude the lesser. We were meant from the beginning to have stewardship over the animals;[76] we have not fulfilled that divine plan yet on earth; therefore it seems likely that the right relationship with animals will be part of Heaven: proper “petship”. And what better place to begin than with already petted pets?"
 
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Seems to me this answer is meant not to offend.

Maybe we are not so special after all.
 
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And I didn’t mean you specifically. Nearly 63 Billion dollars is spent in the US on pets. I think that is poor stewardship of our resources.
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Here is 100 of that 63 billion…


Or perhps this:
 
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