Dr. Johnson believed in a future life for animals, as also did Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Jeremy Taylor, Agassiz, Lamartine, and many Christian scholars. It seems as if they ought to have some compensation for their terrible sufferings in this world. Then to go to heaven, animals would only have to take up the thread of their lives here. Man is a god to the lower creation. Joe worships you, much as you worship your Maker.
Dumb animals live in and for their masters.
They hang on our words and looks, and are dependent on us in almost every way. However, we've got nothing to do with that. If it's right for them to be in heaven, we'll find them there. He has been such a good dog. Just think how he has loved and protected me.