All Dogs (& Cats) Go to Heaven

Mary Ellen Hettinger

2 years ago

Longshot of a man and his dog walking down a dirt path.

All Dogs (& Cats) Go to Heaven

Will we see our animal companions in Heaven? I firmly believe so—and agree with a priest who once told a young friend of mine, distraught over the death of her cat, that, “It wouldn’t be Heaven without them.”

I was able to give a woman evidence of this when, during a mediumship reading, I explained how her late husband, I’ll call him Joe, was standing behind her when she was in her favorite chair. As I saw him, he was stroking her hair.

I asked her, “Do you ever feel Joe’s presence?”

“No,” she said, “but the dog does—he sits up straight and stares.”

“You have two dogs,” I said, seeing another golden retriever.

“No, just one.”

At this point, I’m looking at Joe standing off to my left, with another dog beside him.

“Hmm…Joe is showing me another dog,” I said.

After a brief pause, she gasped: “Oh! We buried our other dog’s ashes with Joe.”

Just popping by to say ‘Hello from the other side’

One of our dogs was fond of jumping on the bed. The coverlet we had was beautiful and getting fragile at 20+ years old. So before leaving for work each day I piled books on the bed so she wouldn’t jump up.

That didn’t faze her, nor did noise from things rolling off. I finally gave up and put a sheet over the bed each day. After she sailed over the Rainbow Bridge, from time to time I would still see the outline and imprint of her 40-pound body on the bedspread, as if she’d just hopped down.

Like people, any illness or disability our fur and feathered babies may have had on earth is healed. And of course, though our loved ones on the other side, animal and human, show themselves to us in physical form so we recognize them when they send messages, they are no longer in this form.