Dogs are awesome. When I get to Heaven I can’t wait to see Wings, Heidi, Kate, Marie Casatt, Meloncollie, Happy, Seurat, Bear, Patches, and even old black Renoir. I like to think I’ll be on THEIR turf: a place for perfect souls.
It’s a lively theological subject of debate whether dogs have souls. The Hebrew of the biblical creation account treats what men generally know as the higher creatures with the term nephesh, which refers to both breath and soul. However, it includes vertebrate fish, which no ancient source identified as being able to breathe (that had to wait for modern biology and the understanding of gills), so that suggests soul is intended. Moral of the story: next time you have fish, think of it as soul food. And if you go to heaven (John 3:16 explains how) maybe you’ll meet your dinner again, but it won’t be angry with you.