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.