Grieving pet owners turn to religious groups to ask, ‘Will my dog be in heaven?’

Grieving pet owners turn to religious groups to ask, ‘Will my dog be in heaven?’

By Michelle Boorstein The Washington Post When her Old English bulldog Lucy contracted lymphoma and died unexpectedly, Ingrid Nelson was rocked by grief. The dog was a deep source of support for Nelson, a sometimes-overwhelmed single mom. “She was just my soul dog.” Nelson’s grief was compounded by responses she got to her sadness: Animals don’t even have souls, a neighbor said. A colleague told her animals don’t go to heaven, and she’d never se…