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I know a lot of people are adamant that animals don't go to Heaven. I am convinced that they do, I picture an endless green pasture with a bubbling creek flowing through it, with mountains in the background.

My father really appreciated a good horse, and he passed away a few years ago. When we lose a horse we just picture them with my dad and it helps. We have lost only the one young one, but we keep our horses and retire them in old age, at times it seems like we have a nursing home for horses. We have lost 3 of our four retirees in the last year and a half. Very sad, but they lived long lives, one was 22, one 28, and the last one we lost was 32. The one remaining retiree is 23, but he is in excellent health other than some arthritis in one knee. If we lose a dog or cat, then they are with my mom, she loved all creatures, but horses scared her. (She was a ranch wife that was afraid of horses- figure that out)

We may be silly, but our animals are like family and it is hard to let one go.

The Bible scarcely addresses the subject, only as a passing reference in Ecclesiastes which could be rhetorical. ("Who knows the man's spirit goes upward while the animal's goes downward.") There could be no literal Hell for animals because they are not moral agents and as such cannot be charged with sin.