Randy Alcorn looks at Romans 8:21-13 to answer this question. These verses emphasize that all of creation, not just humans, will be liberated from the bondage to which it was subjected. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

When you think of Heaven as people floating around on clouds, the idea of floating animals seems strange. But when you understand Heaven in terms of the New Earth, there is incredible continuity between the old world and new world. Randy Alcorn explains that animals were a part of God's perfect creation on the first earth and will therefore be part of the new one. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

There is no indication that animals have eternal souls. However, God is perfectly capable of recreating (not the same as resurrecting) an animal who has died.