Some 12 months ago when attending an open circle a lovely elderly gentleman came and sat down next to me. I could tell he looked very uncomfortable being in a spiritualist church, so in order to put him at ease I engaged him in conversation and as I suspected this was the first time he had entered a spiritualist church. He explained that he had to have his dog (of some 12 years) put to sleep just a few weeks early.
Trying to get some comfort and reassurance that his beloved pet is now being looked after by his wife who had passed back to the world of spirit some years early he had turned to a friend who was a lay preacher, the lay preacher told him that yes we do live on after so called death but animals do not, and so this gentleman found himself sat next to me looking for a second opinion so to speak.
I am very pleased to say that spirit did in fact bring his wife and little dog through and so I was able to give him the reassurance that indeed all animals do live on after so called death, just as we do. I never saw the gentleman again so I assume he received the comfort and reassurance that he had sought.