Here's the first religious topic since the experimental ban lifting.  This is sort of light on purpose, just to get the ball rolling.  Please remember, the idea is to state your own views, not trash someone else's.  
   I picked the third option.  If heaven is the ultimate in joy then my dearly departed animal family members have to be there.  Otherwise there would be something missing in my happiness and it couldn't really be heaven.  Simple as it may seem, that's my logic.  If I'm so fortunate as to make it past the pearly gates I very much expect to see, along with human family members of course,  Poochie, Jemema, Schnitzle, Natasha, Comet, Pokey, and if I happen to outlive them, Kali and Odin all sitting there happily waiting for me.  Otherwise it's someone else's heaven.

I agree with Rat Man. My dogs are just as much a part of the family as me and I'd fully expect to see them in heaven. As a matter of fact, I couldn't imagine a heaven without pets.

Third option, and pets are my heaven on earth  
Greetings,
Mauro.

A generaly nice light topic, kinda hard to actually prove most of the options though. I love my dog, but the first option rings seems right on to me.

Of course being a naughty old atheist itook the "no heaven" option.   Should I be wrong, I'd have accumulated quite a menagerie by now...   At least a dozen dogs, a couple of turtles, sundry snakes and lizards, a mole (really) and a Missouri tarantula.

I'm withholding judgement till I'm dead - but if such a thing exists, then yes my dogs will be there, or I'm going somewhere else

I don't believe in heaven, so I voted the no, because there is no heaven option. But if I did believe, then they quite certainly would go.

   Yours is a good point,  Piakru, but you're asking a separate question.  I asked if our beloved pets go to heaven.  Whether or not all animals do is another question.  I would imagine so, but I'm not sure.  
     If someone loved a pet spider and wanted it in heaven with them it wouldn't be a problem.  Those afraid of spiders here would have no fears in heaven, right?  It's heaven after all.  We'd all see the spider as the beautiful animal it is.  
    On this level it's impossible to prove any of this of course.  It's all speculation and hopeful thinking, unless you have very strong faith.  If there is a perfectly joyous afterlife and if I'm fortunate enough to be included in it my pets will certainly be there or my joy is incomplete.  My heaven has dogs and other pets running around it.