Can a dog die of a broken heart ?

Yes.

are you sure it wasn't the fjords

according to the bible, no. animals do not have souls, thus they can not have feelings.

dont believe me? read your bible.

which is why most people think the bible's a crock of shit.

Like I said, religion has distorted the understanding we have of animals. Fuck the bible.

What a great way to also reinforce the believe that all animals are put here to be used/abused by humans.

Some of the biggest abusers of pets and animals I know, are also huge bible thumpers.

Again, I repeat what a great brain washing tool that allows those abusers to justify their actions.

But the bible says....

Nice twisted religion you got there.

Seen it happen before.. yes...

So, how does Camel taste?

I read my bible, but animals even though they dont have souls, have feelings, maybe even a spirit.

Look into their eyes, there is something there.

They feel fear and anxiety and show love and gratefulness.

Yeah I think so.. Once I broke a dogs heart in two with an axe and it ceased to live.

I had a dog(German Shepard) that I grew up with, We had to move to United States and my parents wouldn't take the dog, it started crying and howling on the day we were leaving and within a week it died, it was depressed and didn't eat or drink anything. So yeah I think dogs can die from a broken heart.

Our dog does a little mini version of that every time my husband leaves the house. Even if just to run to the store. She mopes, and then when she sees or hears him coming to the door she barks, and runs around, jumps all over him. And that is just when he walks out to get the mail.

But when he traveled for work she would barely function.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 - 21

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Yes, I know a dog who was put in a kennel for a couple of weeks who starved himself (wouldn't drink water either). I guess he thought his owner wasn't coming back. The owner died of a heart attack a few months later. People can die of a broken heart too.

Sorry - I thumped my bible and this fell out.....I'm not so quick to say what animals have and what they don't. Only God knows......I myself believe there is way more to them than what people can perceive.

That's not an interesting question. An interesting question would be "can a cat die of a broken heart"?

I am not saying they don't form strong bonds. But in the wild the wolves work as a pack, and so it is in their genetic makeup to stick together, and bond.

Cats in the wild with the exception of African Lions I believe work alone. They only bond with their offspring really, and even they go off on their own. As I say, the exception being Lions. If you recall that video about the pet lion that was released back into the wild and after some time still recognized and greeted his owner.

So I think the bond is just different. Not as intense with cats.

One time I washed my hands and the germs on my wrists witnessed it and died of broken hearts, i felt so bad I decided to never wash again.

As humans have dominion over such creatures, they attach their wholeness to us. When the owner dies, they want to go with him/her. We ARE their gods.

When you crossover, don't forget to take all of them with you through the Door. It's your job.

Absolutely!

My good friend passed away a year ago this Sunday, he was young and it happened quickly with little warning. His beloved dog was dead in three weeks following it....


My grandfather's horse also dropped dead about two weeks after his death...

They are our companions in life and death

This is so sad :( The dog I spoke about was also a German Shepard....I think the are special dogs

where tf is it? I had read the Bible and from time to time I look in it, and I never read anything there claiming animals have no soul. I am convinced they do, I had the opportunity to make sure. Can you give me a hint which paragraph claims that animals are soulless?

Love it

If a creature:

1. Shows evidence of the ability to dream, they have levels of consciousness higher than a mineral.

2. The current of time impacts them out from the future, as it does us and all that is animate and inanimate, then they lay a recording into spacetime that is into the past. That recording is your Book of Life, their Book of Life, etc. It's about science. Time is a material. Just because it's the past, and contains no spacial characteristics, being pure time, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It only means our puny brains that REQUIRE BOTH space and time to process them to verify existence, is our problem not reality's problem.

i dunno, but my dog died of raging hemorrhoids

There is no doubt that a DOG can have a broken heart they can and most times are the most faithful animal that GOD has given us and it is no mistake DOG is God in reverse. God is always faithful to us also. If you go back to the original Hebrew in the book of Genesis chapter 1 when he Created these animals. That word is the same used for man denoting he has a soul. We can deduce that God gave some animals souls from this and DOG is most certainly one of them. Scripture also talks of many other animals that will be with us in the after life . In this world all animals will eat hay pf the earth no more flesh. In short lots of animals have feelings and experience both love and sadness. God the father loves all his creations.

here you go:

But does animal intelligence constitute a soul? Does a pet’s emotions and ability to relate to human beings mean that animals possess an immortal spirit that will survive after death?

Theologians say no. They point out that man was created superior to animals and that animals can’t be equal with him.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." (Genesis 1:26, NIV)

Most interpreters of the Bible assume that man’s likeness to God and animals’ subservience to man implies that animals may have the "breath of life," nephesh in Hebrew, but not an immortal soul in the same sense as man’s.

Later in Genesis we read that by God’s command, Adam and Eve were vegetarians. There is no mention that they ate animal flesh:

And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." (Genesis 2:16-17, NIV)

After the flood, God gave Noah and his sons permission to kill and eat animals:

"Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." (Genesis 9:3, NIV)

God prohibited the killing of man ("You shall not murder," Exodus 20:13) but he placed no such restriction on the killing of animals. Man is made in God’s image, so man must not kill one of his own kind. Animals, it would seem, are different from man. If they do have a "soul" that survives death, it is different from man’s. It does not need redemption. Christ died to save the souls of human beings, not animals.

so no virginia, animals do not have souls, can not feel or die of a broken heart. to believe so would mean you believe gays are born that way and women should have careers. all of that goes against the bible.

Fuckin' haters...