# Animals in Hell? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452 "2025-06-02T15:47:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cade\_One](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/cade_one/32/34_2.png) [@Cade\_One](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Cade_One)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/1 "2025-06-02T15:47:32Z")
Christians often ask if there will be animals in Heaven. What about animals in Hell? ---
**Author:** ![bill5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@bill5](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/bill5)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/2 "2025-06-02T19:00:13Z")
As I said in the other thread, nah. Animals are without sin, so no Hell for them. ---
**Author:** ![Cade\_One](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/cade_one/32/34_2.png) [@Cade\_One](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Cade_One)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/3 "2025-06-02T20:13:19Z")
> [@bill5](#): > > Animals are without sin, so no Hell for them. What if a dog kills an infant? What about the serpent who lead to the fall of man? ---
**Author:** ![Literalman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/literalman/32/117_2.png) [@Literalman](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Literalman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/4 "2025-06-02T21:02:21Z")
St. Paul said that creation groans. It is not what it should be, what it will be. I saw a blue butterfly today. I think that there may be insects like that in the new Earth, maybe all kinds of insects that have a natural place and don’t bother the children of God. Bees, for example, might pollinate flowers and make honey but not sting people. As for a dog that kills a baby, it isn’t committing a sin. It cannot make moral choices. The serpent? I think it was possessed by the devil, or the devil took that form for a while. If the devil is a physical serpent, we could kill it with a stick. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Josephine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Josephine](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Josephine)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/5 "2025-06-06T05:45:39Z")
The serpent was the embodiment of Satan; and he is in Hell. Animals have no free will, they follow natural instincts. When man sinned, all nature fell; now living things can hurt each other. When the earth will be recreated, the lion will lie next to the sheep, a simile from the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![Cade\_One](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/cade_one/32/34_2.png) [@Cade\_One](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Cade_One)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/6 "2025-06-06T14:23:09Z")
…and they will all eat grass ; ) Everything you and @Literalman have said is great! You both make very good points. Thanks : ) ---
**Author:** ![MorganPJD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/morganpjd/32/1146_2.png) [@MorganPJD](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/MorganPJD)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/animals-in-hell/2452/7 "2026-10-11T12:42:25Z")
St. Pio spoke of seeing dogs from Hell jump through a window to attack him. This was a vision but by the sounds of it, one which appeared as if real. Would have been Satan in disguise. You do get violent animals yet which are either acting instinctively or have been reared to be like that. You get extremely ignorant people around. This is, to link to another thread concerning the blessing of animals, why extra blessings are also important for animals over-and-above the fact that they are innocent on a natural level. So, no, I don’t believe there would be animals in Hell.