As many of you know, we have lost 2 dogs in our community very suddenly in the last 48 hours. Both owners are obviously distraught as we all would be and so I decided to look for my book called "Dog Heaven" by Cynthia Rylant and write out the words hopefully as a source of comfort to the owners who have recently lost their dogs (Sam and Pierre) and for anyone else who is grieving over the loss of a beloved fur friend...*
Dog Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
When dogs go to heaven they don't need wings because God knows that Dogs love running best...he gives them fields. Fields and fields and fields.
When a dog first arrives in heaven he just runs.
Dog heaven has clear wide lakes filled with geese who honk and flap and tease. The dogs love this! They run beside the water and bark and bark and God watches them from behind a tree and smiles.
There are children of course. Angel children. God knows that dogs love children more than anything else in the world so He fills his dog heaven with plenty of them! There are children on bikes and sleds. There are children throwing red rubber balls and children pulling kites through the clouds. The dogs are there and the children love them dearly.
And, oh, the biscuits!! Biscuits and biscuits as far as the eye can see!! God has a sense of humor so he makes his biscuits in funny shapes for the dogs! There are kitty cat biscuits and squirrel biscuits. Ice cream biscuits and ham sandwich biscuits.
Every angel who passes by has a biscuit for a dog. And of course all God's dogs sit when the angel says sit! Every dog becomes a good dog in dog heaven!
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in dog heaven and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham sandwich biscuits the dog finds a cloud bed for sleeping. They turn round and round in the cloud until it feels just right and then they curl up and they sleep. God watches over each one of them and there are no bad dreams.
Dogs in dog heaven have almost always belonged to someone on earth and of course the dogs remember this. Heaven is full of memories. So sometimes an angel will walk a dog back to earth for a little visit and quietly and invisibly the dog will sniff about his old backyard, will investigate the cat next door, will follow their child to school, will sit on the front porch and wait for the mail.
When he is satisfied that all is well, the dog will return to heaven with the angel. It is where dogs belong, near God who made them!
The dogs in dog heaven who had no real homes on earth are given one in heaven. The homes have yards and porches and there are couches to lie on and tables to sit under while angels eat their dinner. There are special bowls with the dogs' names on them and each dog is petted and reminded how good he is all day long.
Dogs in dog heaven may stay as long as they like and this can mean forever! They will be there when old friends show up. They will be there at the door.
Angel dogs.
{in loving memory of 2 sweet angel dogs, Sam and Pierre and also in memory of our faithful fur friends on YT who are no longer with us and sadly missed! You will never be forgotten!}
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