Animals Are Like Children

Everybody says their pets are "like childen."
And all young children are saved (from hell)
because they are below the age of accountability.
So, if animals are like children,  
they too -- animals -- may be saved  
because not guilty enuff to warrant damnation
 
But eternity in heaven as mere dumb animals would be cruel --
 permanent deprivation of ever gaining equality with us.
"Arrested development" comes to mind,  
eternal bondage, you might say.
 
The obvious solution is that they move up the ladder over time,
the ladder of increased capacity !!
From lowly species to a little higher,  
higher and higher over time !!
So we see that reincarnation seems to make sense -- as far as animals are concerned.