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No 'they went to go live on a farm' BS. How do you actually tell them without lying?

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

Had to go trough this with our 3yr old 2 years ago. dog got an untreatable cancer diagnosis. We bought a daniel tiger book about his fish dying and read it to her quite a few times. We also kept mentioning that the dog was sick. A couple of months later the dog had to be put to sleep, we did this during her naptime and told her beforehand that she (dog) was going to die like the fish in the book.

My daughter was sad after, but not devastated (I was) and to this day she will out of nowhere say that she misses our dog Bailey

*edit to clarify my daughter wasn't dying

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

we did this during her naptime and told her beforehand that she was going to die like the fish in the book.

You told her the dog is going to die, right??

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

We left it ambiguous, gotta keep them littles on their toes

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

You win a gold medal

[–] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that happened to you.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Thanks. It's never easy losing our furry friends. They give their everything to us while they are in our lives. Only fair we give everything when they go.