Do Pets Have Souls?

Visit this cemetery in Hartsdale, New York--where the tombstones bear names such as Martini, Smokey and Lucy--and you will get a sense of how many people believe their pets go to heaven.

And a sense of why.

As they prepare to cremate their dog, Linus, Cheiko Sonnenfeld and her family find great solace in the belief that the dog is in a better place.

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The Sonnenfelds will find agreement from the authors of a growing number of books on animal spirituality.

Some of whom attended a first-ever panel on the subject at the yearly Animal Rights conference last month in Washington.

If pets don't go to heaven and animals don't go to heaven, there probably isn't a heaven.

shows most pet-owners say heaven simply wouldn't be heavenly without the comfort of creatures.

If there's going to be anything that's going to heaven after life it's going to be a dog.

One can hope, however, that in heaven the dogs are more cooperative during fetch...and nicer to strangers.

Just look at her! How does this not have a soul?

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