Not only is Man’s Best Friend anything but in Christian hymns, the poor beast comes off no better than vipers in the Bible. I think we have an answer to the question “do all dogs go to heaven.”

Proverbs 26, 11: Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

Proverbs 26, 17: Like somebody who takes a passing dog by the ears is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.

Psalm 22, 16: Packs of dogs close me in, and gangs of evildoers circle around me; they pierce my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

Psalm 22, 19: Save me from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

2Kings 8, 13: Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is a mere dog, that he should do this great thing?”

1Samuel 24, 14: Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?

2Samuel 3, 8: The words of Ishbaal made Abner very angry; he said, “Am I a dog’s head for Judah? Today I keep showing loyalty to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me now with a crime concerning this woman.

2Samuel 16, 9: Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”

Isaiah 66, 3: Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering, like one who offers swine’s blood; whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and in their abominations they take delight.