Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

We put our dog to sleep today. I've never done that before--they usually just die on their own. We've had Pooh for several years and so I'm feeling the loss. It's really good that I'm feeling the loss. My old way of thinking did not allow for such messy feelings. The "putting to sleep" process involves two steps: #1--anesthesia to make him sleepy, #2--an overdose of anesthesia to stop his heart. It was quick and apparently painless. Pooh has cushings disease, a collapsing trachea, and a host of other issues. His breathing had become at times labored and he had a hacking cough that was becoming non-stop. We thought about putting him down way back around Christmas but he seemed to recover--not unlike that poor stiff in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie, "I'm feeling better (British accent). Really, I think I'm ok". So...do dogs go to heaven? St. Francis thought so. The book of Revelation 5:13 states that John saw in his heavenly vision, "every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea" worshipping God. Hmmm...