In before the first poster to comment that since dogs don’t have souls they can’t go to heaven? How’d that happen?
Don’t get me started on that one... I always wondered if God wanted us to have the afterlife be a true paradise would we not only out previously arriving family and friends, but be with the 4-leggers we had a bond with? My wife being Orthodox Christian, and me from a Protestant background... Our son goes to Saturday Orthodox School, and one of the priests told him exactly that (animals have no souls). This provided an interesting discussion. We told our son to listen to the Father re: Jesus, but quietly disagree on the animals in heaven part..