There is a place in Heaven, not only for man, but for his most faithful of companions, as well ...

Just ask Chris Nielsen, after his first encounter with another in the afterlife imagined by Richard Matheson, in "What Dreams May Come" ...

Or, you could ask Hyder Simpson, who doesn;t care to enter what he's been told is Heaven, because it won't allow his coon dog, Rip, to join him ... from an episode of the original "Twilight Zone" series ...

Or you could ask just about anyone who has owned - and been owned by - a dog.

I've decided that the Bible doesn't say anything about Heaven for pets because God figured that it was so obvious a thing that He didn't need to explain it.

Unlike almost everything else in life that the human heart can overlook, distort, or otherwise fail to understand, we instinctively grasp the significance of pets' lives in our own.

Thanks to all my friends, including those that I have not met yet, for their kind sympathy on the loss of my best buddy. He was the kindest, gentlest, most loyal soul I've encountered on earth.