Question what is a soul? I see it as the sum of who we are, whether a human, cat or frog. Does this continue after the physical has stopped? Frankly I don't know.
Our brains are amazing bits of processing goo. Study animals, they have personalities, perhaps this is the soul.
So far I have seen no evidence that anything goes on past death.

I once believed that I would see my deceased pets in my own afterlife, this as a result of having been told as child manifest untruths from the adults who were around me at the time.

If I was to have such liars at my mercy now, I would hold each and every one of them in durance vile until such time as they each demonstrated the existence of the god which they claimed.