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Don't we just love them? Psalm 147:9 God is concerned about all of His creation. The Bible doesn't really address the issue of pets. If God cares for animals, so should we. We should love them, and care for them and provide them with all their needs. We also grieve when they die. Please feel free to post a pic of your beloved pet.

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Proverbs 12:10 starts off with "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast". I feel like that covers both livestock and pets. Completely agreed that we should love them and care for them and all.

On several occasions I've felt like God has used my cats to remind me of certain things and serve as illustrations. One of my current cats goes through occasional periods of wanting to chew on cords. One day I thought about it and it made me think of God's discipline for us. In discouraging her from trying to eat cords I have to make sure it's not done in a way that hurts her or causes her to fear me, but at the same time it has to leave an impression to prevent her from getting hurt or killed by this bad habit. It gave me a new appreciation for God's acts of discipline.

On another occasion a group of cats living under/around my house all charged indoors the minute I opened the door, an event I have since come to speak of as the purricane. My cat was very curious about them and even started to groom one of them. Being keenly aware of feline illness I don't encourage this and do my best to keep my indoor cats segregated from the ones outside. It seemed cute and harmless and the contact was extremely brief but she developed a cold soon after. It lasted for weeks and made me think of how even a moment of sin can seem alright at the time but can have far reaching consequences.

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6 hours ago, AnOrangeCat said:

On several occasions I've felt like God has used my cats to remind me of certain things and serve as illustrations.

Hi OrangeCat:

Thank you for sharing an application of life lessons that our animals can teach us.  I love the details of your story!

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19 hours ago, missmuffet said:

Don't we just love them? Psalm 147:9 God is concerned about all of His creation. The Bible doesn't really address the issue of pets. If God cares for animals, so should we. We should love them, and care for them and provide them with all their needs. We also grieve when they die. Please feel free to post a pic of your beloved pet.

One of the best expositors of the Victorian age, G. H. Pember, wrote a short book on the Biblical aspects of animals called "Animals - Their past and Future". I believe that it was very effective because the British, for all their virtues, so love their animals that they send their children to boarding school and keep the pets at home :shock:

It might be public domain by now (published 1883)

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