Book Description:  Will Dogs Chase Cats in Heaven?: People, Pets, and Wild Animals in the Afterlife

Although this book will certainly comfort and encourage people grieving over the death of their pets, there is much more to the book than the eternal destiny of pets. If you’ve previously read books on this subject, you’ll immediately see why my book differs from other in this genre. It’s not sentimental fluff. Nor is it a superficial treatment of the topic. Will Dogs Chase Cats in Heaven? is written for ordinary readers, yet it is comprehensive enough to satisfy the theologically and scientifically minded. At the same time, the book is just plain fun to read. I include many of my personal experiences as well as anecdotal stories and accounts from popular novelists, animal researchers, and even well-known theologians and scholars.

Most fascinating of all, I look closely at the biblical evidences for the immortality of animal souls, and provide compelling evidence for why we can be certain that earthly animals will be resurrected alongside God’s people, and join us in the prophesied new heaven and earth. I know this is an incredulous statement, but this book will demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that it’s true. Amazingly—as I’ll also show—this conclusion is supported by modern studies in animal behavior and brain science.

Written from a Christian perspective, Will Dogs Chase Cats in Heaven? reveals God’s great love, concern, and provision for the animals He created—here on Earth as well as in Heaven—and the tremendous joy and pleasure He derives from all non-human life. The book explores the biblical record of human/animal relationships on this Earth, what the “New Earth” (Heaven) will probably look like, where it will be located, and the relationship between humans and animals in Heaven.

Altogether, Will Dogs Chase Cats in Heaven? is a gratifying book: a thoroughly researched and thoughtful treatment of the relationship among God, humans, and the animal kingdom—here on Earth and in the Afterlife.