The other night I fell asleep in my chair and I awoke to find my fox terrier dog on top of me madly licking my face. I went off to bed then but he followed me up onto the bed which he never normally does and proceeded to lick my face for a further ten minutes before taking himself off to his own bed. Clearly he was concerned about me and I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t simply a concern for his own meal ticket. He was genconcerneout ME!
All of my dogs over the years have done similar things and many times I have observed some of the smarter ones actually thinking their way through the means to obtain what they want from me. I have read of accounts where family pets have thrown themselves on top of small children when a snake was about to strike and thereby taking the hit themselves. Saddest of all are the cases where dogs have refused to leave the gravesites of their owners who have died.
Please do not try to tell me that pets don’t have souls. Religion teaches that only ‘man’ is made in God’s image. What a load of conceited crap! Of course animals have souls and live on into the afterlife. Wild animals and domesticated herd animals have a kind of collective animal soul but our loved pets are in a different category. Anything that we love and that also loves us has an enhanced individual soul in part because we as their beloved owners have become more important to them than their own animal existence. Be assured that when we die our loved pets will be waiting for us at ‘the rainbow bridge’. (Look it up).
Once we accept that our pets have intelligence and that they communicate to us in their own way then it is only a small stretch to image evolutionary changes which allow them to develop the power of speech. There has been much made of this concept in many forms of literature down through the ages including movies like The Planet of the Apes, almost every cartoon character being a talking animal, the film ‘Babe’, endless fairy tales etc. etc. There have also been successful scientific studies done where young chimpanzees have been taught to respond using a computer to demonstrate not just the ability to acquire a large vocabulary of words but to use them in proper grammatical structures. For example an animal desiring food does not just press a single button associated with food. Instead it can be taught to press a sequence of keys which form a sentence such as ‘please bring me my lunch’.
In my afterlife novels certain of my characters are advanced animals that interact with the human characters in ways which highlight the animal’s special qualities. In the case of dogs what comes immediately to mind is their ability to exhibit absolute loyalty and trust; qualities which are often lacking in humans.
Pets in Heaven
All of my dogs over the years have done similar things and many times I have observed some of the smarter ones actually thinking their way through the means to obtain what they want from me. I have read of accounts where family pets have thrown themselves on top of small children when a snake was about to strike and thereby taking the hit themselves. Saddest of all are the cases where dogs have refused to leave the gravesites of their owners who have died.
Please do not try to tell me that pets don’t have souls. Religion teaches that only ‘man’ is made in God’s image. What a load of conceited crap! Of course animals have souls and live on into the afterlife. Wild animals and domesticated herd animals have a kind of collective animal soul but our loved pets are in a different category. Anything that we love and that also loves us has an enhanced individual soul in part because we as their beloved owners have become more important to them than their own animal existence. Be assured that when we die our loved pets will be waiting for us at ‘the rainbow bridge’. (Look it up).
Once we accept that our pets have intelligence and that they communicate to us in their own way then it is only a small stretch to image evolutionary changes which allow them to develop the power of speech. There has been much made of this concept in many forms of literature down through the ages including movies like The Planet of the Apes, almost every cartoon character being a talking animal, the film ‘Babe’, endless fairy tales etc. etc. There have also been successful scientific studies done where young chimpanzees have been taught to respond using a computer to demonstrate not just the ability to acquire a large vocabulary of words but to use them in proper grammatical structures. For example an animal desiring food does not just press a single button associated with food. Instead it can be taught to press a sequence of keys which form a sentence such as ‘please bring me my lunch’.
In my afterlife novels certain of my characters are advanced animals that interact with the human characters in ways which highlight the animal’s special qualities. In the case of dogs what comes immediately to mind is their ability to exhibit absolute loyalty and trust; qualities which are often lacking in humans.
Pets in Heaven