Horses in Heaven based on Elijah is a strong data point.

Randy Alcorn stakes out two chapters to the exploration of animals, pets past and future in his book Heaven. Fully recommend the book. You can read the chapters separately, its really a collection of essays assembled into chapters. Relentless scripture citation and a light writers tone make it easily managed yet full of wisdom.

https://www.epm.org/store/product/heaven/

Murphy is a bull terrier. Not a breed I was considering at all, but she is wonderful. She’s slowing down a bit in her dotage, but she still gets the “zoomies” at night and loves to fall asleep at my feet while I write.

We truly do not deserve dogs. They are companions with us through thick and thin.

you lead off being mad at lousy owners, then you want to kill all pit bulls.
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pit bulls are wonderful dogs, as long as the owner isn’t a fvcking moron @$$hole. if you’ve got an owner teaching the dog to be hyper-aggressive, yes, the pit is probably one of the most dangerous dogs on the planet for him to own. but there are plenty of vicious dogs that aren’t pits, and there are a lot of breeds that are damn near as ( some even more ) dangerous than a pit bull if raised improperly.
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i’ve never owned a pit, but i’ve met more than a few of them that are the most affectionate and friendly animals i’ve ever met in my life. ie – i’m a perfect stranger to them and they have precisely zero threat response to me.
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otoh, if a pit attacked me off of it’s property i would do everything i could to kill that dog. just as i would with any other breed of dog that thought that attacking a grown man was a good idea.

If it can stand up inside of a microwave, then it is not a dog. It is some kind of rodent.

Dogs are great, but lousy dog owners enrage me like nothing else, and since dog ownership has gone through the roof in the last 30 years (when I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, maybe every 5th friend of mine owned a dog; nowadays it seems like 2 out of every 3 American households has one), there are WAY more terrible owners. This manifests itself with things like waste left on public trails, barking that goes on all night, and at worst attacks on other dogs and people. My FOF response kicks in every time we’re out walking with my son and I see some skinny hippie chick walking a dog that’s bigger than she is.

Finally, if i had the infinity gauntlet, I would snap every single pit bull out of existence, and nothing of value would be lost.

I know, the rats live on forever and ever…they are the Soros/Kissinger of the “dog” world. But there is good news concerning Chihuahuas, if you need to off one package it in a box and sent it to the right Mexican villages, they raise em for meat!

After he died in my lap, I left the vet numb. That lasted until night where it hit me and I found myself on my knees weeping.

Didn’t do that about the wife.

A week or so later, I heard anguished howling. Went out to find Aria, the female, in front of Jets crate laying down howling. When I removed the crate she spend weeks sleeping in front of where it was.

The girl got me past the next two months and I got her a new guy. They are incredible at soul healing.

I figure since heaven has horses(Elijah being taken up by angels in flaming chariots, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), it only makes sense for dogs to be there too.