thank you everyone for your well wishes- I had tears rolling down my cheeks reading them and it will probably happen a number of times in the coming days as I come back to this thread....
Copper touched a lot of people- we’ve been getting calls from everyone all day to say how sad they are to hear the news- even the vet called when she found out to say she was broken hearted....
I really hope dogs do go to heaven- I think of all the miserable things I’ve done in my life and only hope there is a place for me above- then I think of how wonderful little Copper was all the time and how much love she gave and how deserving she is of a spot in heaven-
the doctor said she diead of heart failure- I told the doctor little Copper had so much love in her heart to give it probably all busted out- she was truly a gift from God....
Martin Luther thought so. So did John Calvin and John Wesley. There is an author, Niki Shanahan, who has authored several books that I found helpful and comforting. Her website is: http://www.eternalanimals.com
I'll leave you with a quote from John Wesley's sermon The General Deliverance:
Nothing can be more express: Away with vulgar prejudices, and let the plain Word Of God take place. They "shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into glorious liberty," - even a measure, according as they are capable, -- of "the liberty of the children of God."
To descend to a few particulars: The whole brute creation will then, undoubtedly, be restored, not only to the vigor, strength and swiftness which they had at their creation, but to a far higher degree of each than they ever enjoyed. They will be restored, not only to that measure of understanding which they had in paradise, but to a degree of it as much higher than that, as the understanding of an elephant is beyond that of a worm. An whatever affections they had in the garden of God, will be restored with vast increase; being exalted and refined in a manner which we ourselves are not now able to comprehend."