Wheeldog ("Christie: Saying goodbye to my best pal"): My condolences, Christie. It’s something I have had to do numerous times over the years and it never, ever gets easier…maybe even harder, as time goes by. Do dogs go to heaven? I don’t know but the Inuit (Eskimoes) believe that when they die, the dogs they’ve had that have preceded them are there, waiting not only to greet them—but to judge them. They are judged on the basis of how they treated their animals when they were alive. Strong incentive to treat your animals, especially the ones you depend on for your livlihood, with respect and dignity, wouldn’t you say?

Question: Can you tell much about a person by the way he treats his/her dog?