“When God reforms the new Earth, do you believe it will be so much unlike the current earth that there will be no animals? “
No, my presupposition is that there will be animals there.
What I’ve been trying to address is the notion of a particular animal (my dog Joe) getting resurrected, making a personal appearance in heaven, and become part of the New Heavens and New Earth. I think only souls are eternal. I don’t think Joe has a soul.
However, I don’t deny there could be dogs on the new earth. Just not Joe in particular. I think he’s going to die like the trees and the fish. Not get resurrected and etc.
If your dog Joe is anything like my (specific) dogs and cats I owned, THEY are a HUGE part of MY soul. So, if MY soul goes, so do they. It can’t be separated.