Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died?

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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 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

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