What if it’s a pet you didn’t especially like but were morally stuck with, like an abusive Ex-husband’s smelly hunting dog? You got rid of him, but still cared for the dog because it wasn’t their fault your Ex was a jerk?
What if it’s the neighbor’s Pit Bull that killed your beloved kitty cat, but that neighbor really, REALLY loved his sadistic, evil, dangerous dog and believed that dog had a ‘soul’? Does THAT dog get into Heaven? And to what end? To chase the soul of YOUR beloved Kitty cat and torment HER for ALL of eternity? LOL!
What if MY idea of Heaven is the end of CATERING to the never-ending needs of pets and livestock? Maybe, to me, Heaven is a place where I don’t HAVE to milk cows, or I don’t HAVE to slop the hogs, or I don’t have to scatter corn & collect eggs, or I don’t HAVE to run the dogs 2x a day or I don’t have to lift yet ANOTHER cat turd out of the cat box or clean up the lawn with the Poop Shovel?
Hmmmmmm? Hmmmmmm? ;) LOL!
You’re barkin’ up the wrong tree if you think you’ll convince me that animals have souls and that they’re anything other than animals. Useful? Sure. Loving? You betcha! Souls? Nope.
(And many days, I wonder about the souls of the HUMANS I have contact with, LOL!)
Adding these comments to your others is truly showing. Don’t worry though, Lord willing I’ll have room in my part of heaven for your animals.