Very sorry to hear that Grumpy Cat (Paws Be Upon Her) has passed away at the tender age of seven.

But this does raise some questions:

* Do cats go to Heaven?
* If Grumpy Cat reaches Cat Heaven, will she have an unlimited supply of mice?
* Can cats receive exaltation, or would a celestial ladder be needed to rescue them from trees?
* Would Cat Heaven be Mouse Hell? Would the mice she eats be naughty mice? Or telestial mice?
* Are there degrees of glory for cats and mice? Can they be sealed to a spouse? Or are they polygamous like most cats are?

Some thoughts possibly related to your topic, Surly Cat:

Did Joseph Smith teach that there is an afterlife for all animals?

Some people who have lost pets say that they experience the continued presence of pets in the form of apparitions, etc. For example, they may say they sometimes hear and feel their deceased cat jumping up on their bed. Or see the form of the cat out of the corner of their eye. So one might raise the question as to whether these experiences are evidence that their pets have survived death, or are they sights and sounds produced by the pet owners' minds.

Some people who say have out-of-the-body-experiences have said they have encountered deceased cats and other pets.

Assuming cats and other pets survive death, one might ask how their identities are sustained in that state. And in the case of cats, do they retain their cat-like form indefinitely? It might be worth considering that the form of cat, for all its beauty, seems to have evolved to enable it to be a very efficient killing machine. Is such a form needed in the afterlife?

Some believe that if an animal, say a cat, becomes someone's loved pet, that cat will survive death as an individual cat. But the consciousness of feral cats who have never had any significant interactions with humans, at the point of death will merge into a collective "cat consciousness."

I'm not necessarily advocating for any of these views. These are things, though, that I've heard about cats and other pets.

I'm waiting for ShrodingersCat to weigh in on the matter.

We won't know if he's alive or dead until he does!

The Law of Mutual Exclusion is hereby suspended, Huberto. Whatever your position, I will not, cannot, argue otherwise,

The only important question is will Grumpy Cat still be grumpy?

I assume so, since Elohim is obviously grumpy. In fact, obviously omnigrumpy.

He will get his own planet, but only if he remembers the cat handshakes.

What about purr-gatory?

that the evolutionary path of humanity will eventually be superseded by the evolutionary path of cats.

Yes, folks. You heard it here first. In less than 1 million years from now, pursuant to a series of calamities and herky-jerky twists and turns, humanity will devolve at an even faster rate than has been the case recently...and cats will take over.

They will talk, they will use tools and they will continue to knock superfluous objects off of table tops and counter tops until they achieve total domination over the world and take their rightful place as the most intelligent species. Planet of the Apes? Nope. Primates have already maxed out. The future is Planet of the Felines.

Interestingly, studies have shown that these future super-intelligent cats will be about the same size as housecats are now, so cities, skyscrapers, trains and such will be more advanced than today's human versions, but will take up much less space.

Other studies have shown that the species who have the most to fear from the eventual ascendancy of cats to the top of the food chain are fish and birds. When contacted for comment, however, the fish and birds had nothing to say. Scientists suspect that this is because fish and birds are not smart enough to know what's going on and definitely not smart enough to say anything about it.

One of the big tests in the metaphysical/cosmic realm to determine whether cats will have a better run at the top than humans will be to see if a cat named Joseph Smith eventually pops up and starts telling transparently self-serving lies about angels and visions and, if so, if any significant number of other cats believe him. If this does happen, it will be an indication that all of history is cyclical and cats are ultimately just as doomed as humans.