Will there be animals in the new heaven and new Earth?

Scripture doesn't answer this directly or in detail, but several passages suggest a genuinely hopeful, though speculative, answer.

Paul writes that "creation eagerly waits" and will itself "be set free from the bondage to decay"—language describing the entire created order, not only humanity, as included in God's plan for final restoration. Isaiah's vision of the coming peace includes vivid animal imagery: wolves and lambs together, lions eating straw—symbolic language about the reversal of predation and violence, though scholars debate how literally to press these specific details as opposed to reading them as poetic pictures of comprehensive peace.

Whether this includes specific individual animals—a beloved pet, for instance—goes beyond what Scripture explicitly addresses, and it's honest to say this remains a matter of hope and inference rather than a directly stated promise. Many Christians hold this hope warmly without claiming certainty about its exact details.