My son cried all the way to Divine Liturgy. When we had walked in and lit our candles, my son asked to see the priest. Fortunately, I was able to catch him between hearing confessions and the start of the service. After a hushed explanation from me, he came over to the chair along the back wall where my son was sobbing quietly. The priest, a father of five himself, put his hand on my boy’s head and gentled tousled his hair. My son looked up and asked, tears streaming down his little face, “Father, will I ever see my dog again?”

Our priest bent down, looked straight into my son’s swollen, splotchy face, and said, “Don’t you believe God loves you and wants you to be happy?” With that, the priest straightened up, and went to commence Divine Liturgy. https://orthodoxreflections.com/animals-in-the-resurrection/