THE MEMORIAL PAGE

All Pets Go To Heaven

There is a very special place where beloved pets go

after they die. This is only a temporary location.

But there are trees and grass and lakes, and

everything they love. Here they can play and eat

and sleep, even better than they did, before they

died. Now, there are no aches or worries or dangers

of any kind to trouble or threaten them. The only

joy missing is their beloved human companion, you.

All health is restored completely, and all injuries

are healed. Dogs and cats play with each other like

youngsters, and they do not have time to feel

lonely for you. They miss you, and with the special

wisdom that animals have, they trust that this

condition will get better. And they confidently

wait as they frolic.

A wonderful day will come for each of them, when in

the middle of playing they will suddenly feel

something is different. And all their senses will

be at the height of excitement and exuberance. They

will sniff the air and look off in the distance

where they recognize that dearly loved special

presence. Then they will call out in elation, and

with eyes shining and tail going wild, tear off at

a full gallop, almost flying over the green grass.

Your expected arrival has been sensed, and now

there is nothing that can keep the two of you

apart, ever again. As you run toward each other the

tears flow from your eyes. Your pet leaps into your

arms, and you cling together in jubilant reunion.

The joyous kisses are all over your face, and you

kiss back, just as ecstatically. Your hands so

lovingly caress once more the beloved fur, the head

and neck and body you knew so well. And you look

into each other's loving eyes, and all those old,

wonderful shared feelings are back, again.

And then something will call the both of you on, to

a different field of warmth and nurture, where all

the love you knew now comes to fruition. With your

pet, you leave that special waiting area, walk into

the main part of heaven, and begin a new existence

there, together.

If you accept that pets can love us as much as we

do them, then the logic is clear and cannot be

denied. If you believe that there is a heaven for

people, then they must be there, waiting for us,

when we cross over. Heaven is love, and pets always

share that with us.

--Wallace Sife, Ph. D. The Loss of a Pet (Revised

Edition, 1998)

And the evening and the morning were the fifth

day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the

living creature after his kind, cattle, and

creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his

kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of

the earth after his kind, and cattle after their

kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth

after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

GENESIS 9: 14-17

When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow

appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant

between myself and you and every living creature,

in a word all living things, and never again will

the waters become a flood to destroy all living

things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see

it and call to mind the eternal covenant between

God and every living creature on earth, that is,

all living things. `That' God told Noah, `is the

sign of the covenant I have established between

myself and all living things on earth.

JOB 12:7-10

You have only to ask the cattle, for them to

instruct you, and the birds of the sky, for them to

inform you. The creeping things of earth will give

you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you an

explanation: there is not one such creature but

will know that the hand of God has arranged things

like this! In his hand is the soul of every living

thing and the breath of every human being!

PSALMS 50:10-11

For all forest creatures are mine already, the

animals on the mountains in their thousands. I know

every bird in the air, whatever moves in the fields

is mine.

ISAIAH 11:6-9

And the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

and the leopard shall lie down with the kid,

and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;

and a little child shall lead them.

And the cow and the bear shall feed,

their young ones shall lie down together,

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,

and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.

They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,