can animals go to hell?

Well that is passing strange, holding on to something that is no longer of any use.  I don't think fishermen hold onto their old reels, or tuba players onto their old tubas, or bowlers on to their old balls.  Well that is an odd one isn't it?  Surely bowling balls don't wear out.  Why, once you had a bowling ball would you ever want another one?  I think your piano example is a red herring.  I never knew anybody like that, and if they were it was only because it was too hard to haul it down to the dumpster and they always hope little Johnny will come upstairs and plunk on a couple keys and the next thing you know he will be a pop sensation,

You play guitar don't you?  I expect you don't hang onto your old guitars.  See, as a good protestant, well as someone who used to be a good protestant, I get the heebie jeebies when I hear the term sacred object.  I think some of our freedom loving Afghan allies recently stoned to death and tossed into a river a woman because they thought she had burned a quran.  But then it turned out it was just a Persian prayer book, kind of late to say they were sorry though.  Well I thought you gun nuts were nuts anyway so this is no revelation.

I remember when Sue bought her horse.  I'm not sure if I remember the story exactly right, but she spent so much time watering and haying and riding on the whatever and feeding it carrots that she had no time for a real job, but luckily she got one where she could slave all day at the stable for pennies, and, as Bruce explained at the time, she was never happier in her life.

It was kind of a stereotype of western lore that the cowpoke loved his horse more than anything. but then in the movies they are shooting at the Indians using the belly of the dead horse for cover and not sheddng a tear, and they are always eating them when there is nothing else to eat.  What about those war horses, where cavalry attacked cavalry, and maybe the soldiers' heads were full of dreams of glory but what about the poor horses who only wanted to go home to a warm stable and a bale of hay?  It just seems so cruel, but they say that war is hell.

Of course only people go to hell.  Every now and then you run across some article about do animals (particularly Fido or Fluffy) go to heaven.  And anybody bringing up that idea probably thinks they do.  But you never see an article about do animals go to hell.  Seems to me that if you can't go to hell, you can't go to heaven.  Maybe that is something we can discuss.

Was that Old Man Fochman who tried to chase you out of his lot?  I expect maybe he thought you were too nattily dressed and  were going to waltz over to the Classy Clothes Emporium and buy some spats and a new fedora and then drive off to your fancy rented trailer without so much as a by your leave.  Was it a good battery?