Ha...Jehovah hates cats! Love it.
JWs say animals were not made to live forever and the resurrection hope doesn't apply to them.
Actually, in all seriousness I strongly believe cats (and even dogs as much as I'm loathe to admit it) have immortal spirits and are covered under Christ's atonement. When I look into their eyes I see an intelligence that can't be just snuffed out. Each had a personality and when they die their bodies look every bit as empty as a human shell.
I've had many friends in law enforcement over the years and one thing I'm amazed to hear is that people, when they've been dead for awhile, look more like manikans than actual people. Cops hear it all the time when visiting crime sites, from witnesses and other cops. Yet no one compares people on the beach to manikans. In fact, when I was a kid I was both fascinated and repelled by funeral parlors and bodies of people I had known. Anyway, there's just this absence of something that's difficult to describe. The animating force early Christians believed was the spirit within man was certainly not a Greek idea that became embedded in Christian dogma three centuries after the apostles vanished, but it's a popular theory amongst adventist sects.
Anyway, I've never been clear on the whole Paradise Earth thing to begin with. Do animals born then die or are they immortal? And if they're immortal, isn't that unfair to the animals that came before? If they're not immortal and die, then Jesus did not exactly defeat death. But then, if an animal is born and is subject to death and if it fails to receive it back again, it could be argued that Jesus failed to redeem that animal from the fall. (And if you don't think a cat isn't self aware, just try not feeding it!)
"Imagine a cat. Now take away its independence, its cleanliness and intelligence. What you have left is basically a dog."
From 'Dear Kitten'