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Happy Dog

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Thinking back on the pet deaths in our household


......Fred the Betta died. When we buried him, my four year old daughter wailed that she wished she had died too.

.....Thomas the Betta literally jumped out of the dime sized hole in the tank and was found by my 5 year son who came to us at 7 on a Saturday morning that Thomas had jumped out, to which we momentarily scoffed

Then there is the litany of hamster and gerbil carnage accentuated by the middle boy finding the south end of Hammy after the cat presumably consumed the north end. And two days later the dying cat (this cat had been dying for years) snuck out and was mauled by the neighbor's dog, so my wife and I took my daughter, who was 8 by then, to have it euthanized while she bravely held it. What a fiasco that was.

We have beloved senior golden who maybe has 2 more years. My kids are all adults, but this is going to be by far the hardest one yet. I think kids handle it better than adults, to be honest. You just have to let them grieve in their own way.


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Posted: 11/15/2021 at 3:31PM



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