# So, is your pet Rapture-ready? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718 "2010-01-05T04:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/21 "2010-01-05T20:31:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > All the lawyers will still be here… Yeah, I guess there could be a class action lawsuit. I can see the “It was MY money and my pet needs food NOW!” ads already. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/22 "2010-01-05T20:49:27Z")
September’s thread on the Eternal Earth-Bound Pets: [Atheists offer to care for Christians' pets after the Rapture - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=530354) ---
**Author:** ![bettyporkta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@bettyporkta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bettyporkta)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/23 "2010-01-05T21:25:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > That was the Other Guys, not heaven. Watch your ass. > 🙂 do asses get left behind too…? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/24 "2010-01-05T21:48:15Z")
> [@bettyporkta](#): > > do asses get left behind too…? 😃 Yep. The SDMB should continue quite well I would think 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/25 "2010-01-05T22:17:31Z")
> [@bettyporkta](#): > > do asses get left behind too…? 😃 Jesus said something about that…or was it a camel?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/26 "2010-01-06T00:05:35Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Bah, no self-respecting fundie would leave their pets with some … _sputter_ ATHIEST! What about if they promise to convert **immediately after** the rapture? I might. Especially if there’s money in it beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/27 "2010-01-06T02:42:43Z")
Jack & Rexella Van Impe differ with the basic premise. They believe that Christians’ pets DO get Raptured. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/28 "2010-01-06T02:43:38Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Jack & Rexella Van Impe differ with the basic premise. They believe that Christians’ pets DO get Raptured. Why are they ascribing my religious views to my cat? My cat is Saved. He told me so. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/29 "2010-01-06T03:29:32Z")
How do intestinal fauna fare? Do they tag along or fall on the ground in a clump? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/30 "2010-01-06T03:32:58Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > How do intestinal fauna fare? Do they tag along or fall on the ground in a clump? I’ll tell you one thing… If the rapture happens, no mattter how it works out, there certainly WILL be a clump of MY intestinal fauna sitting outside somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/31 "2010-01-06T03:51:30Z")
This is a great opportunity for Jews. These so called atheists, of which there are none in foxholes, merely must decide they love Jesus after all at the last moment, and they are gone. We ain’t going, no where, no way. And I have garden pools to take care of fish. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/32 "2010-01-06T04:02:53Z")
Is he selling franchises? ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/33 "2010-01-06T14:30:08Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > Why are they ascribing my religious views to my cat? My cat is Saved. He told me so. How did you manage to get him to shut up about it? Could come in handy with door-to-door proselytizers.. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/34 "2010-01-06T14:55:02Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > Why are they ascribing my religious views to my cat? My cat is Saved. He told me so. My cats don’t need to be Saved. They are gods already, in their minds at least. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/35 "2010-01-06T18:27:51Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > How did you manage to get him to shut up about it? Could come in handy with door-to-door proselytizers.. He won’t. He’s constantly singing hymns and trying to get me to read psalms and such. The nice thing is when the door-to-door prosletyzers come around I just leave him with them and by the time I’m back with refreshments they’ve agreed to love the sinner, not the sin. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/36 "2010-01-06T19:21:22Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > Do they do exorcisms too? 'Cause I have a Pug/Beagle who I’m pretty sure is possessed. I haven’t actually found the 666 mark, but… I’d have to ask one of the priests. Do you have any holy water? Maybe if you put it in his water bowl…or ask for some blessed, but unconsecrated Communion wafer (they make this, trust me) and you can give that to him as a treat. It might work. Let me know how it goes. We have a cat named Luci. Her nickname is “Lucifer.” I think you can figure it out… ETA: but um, don’t blame me if Fido’s head starts spinning around all the way. I’m not an expert at this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/37 "2010-01-06T20:26:55Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > Actually, I’m pretty certain that my cat is getting Raptured and I’m the one being Left Behind Kirk-Cameron-style. Won’t someone start a business to take care of us hell-bound furparents? For the low low price of $99.95 I’ll come and live in your house and eat your food and watch your tv while I take care of you. Payment must be upfront and I will not be moving in until the Rapture. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/38 "2010-01-07T01:55:56Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > For the low low price of $99.95 I’ll come and live in your house and eat your food and watch your tv while I take care of you. Payment must be upfront and I will not be moving in until the Rapture. Sounds good. Do you cook and clean? I figure as an attorney I’m going to be automatically re-assigned as some sort of underling to a 3rd tier demon. Fairly certain that some household assistance will be necessary as I run after Under-Secretary Hornswaggle saying “Yes sir, right away sir, I’ll be divesting those non-saved orphans of their inheritances promptly Sir!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/39 "2010-01-07T02:24:27Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > I figure as an attorney I’m going to be automatically re-assigned as some sort of underling to a 3rd tier demon. I had no idea you fellows were so realistic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718/40 "2010-01-07T18:24:53Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Cripes, why can’t I come up with business ideas like this? Because you have integrity? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-your-pet-rapture-ready/523718.md?page=3)