have u ever?

Question

replaced a childs pet when it has suddenly popped its clogs and hoped that he/she wouldnt suspect anything

Answer 1

Thought it was strange my dog is 58yrs old am I missing something.

Answer 2

I have to hold my hands up to this !! 7 years ago when my daughters gold fish popped it`s clogs after i knocked the bowl over and couldn`t find the fish ! " it had landed in her shoe under the table " ! I took the dead fish around all the pet shops in our area looking for a twin ... found 1 ... replaced it in the bowl and carried on as normal . Twin fish is still swimming strong ! but now you have made me feel guilty i`m gona have to tell her lol , she`s 13 now i think she will understand .

Answer 3

No, wouldnt recommend it either, children accept death a lot easier than we do. Let them see the dead animal, unless its met a gruesome end i.e. there is lots o blood.
Anyway once you start when will you stop replacing the dead pet? Imagine how you'll feel when yr son/daughter wants to enter the 50year old pet for the world record?

Answer 4

When I was a kid, I woke up one Xmas morning and there was something tall, covered in a sheet in the corner of the room. After opening all our small presents, my sister and I were told that our beig present was under the sheet. My Dad promptly whipped off the sheet and we were presented with a dead budgie in a cage. The budgie had hung itself on the v-shaped perch in the cage! Years later, I had a friend who was being driven mad by his sister's budgie tweeting all day and night. While the family were out one day, he lost his rag and drowned the budgie. He used a hair dryer to blow dry it and put it back in the cage and the family thought it had just died of old age.

Answer 5

You can get away with it while the child is very young like up to 4 at the most. But after that they know. My firends parents did that to her with her budgy and then her rabbit and she knew right away. Death is a natural part of life and it cant be avoided. Its better to teach children about death than pretending it'll never happen.

Answer 6

yes, a guinea pig, but we had to get a girl instead of a boy, so she was called Buster , and we told our son the reason his guinea pig had short hair now instead of long was because it had moulted for the summer. luckily he bought it at the time., he wouldnt now! He was only 4 at the time and had lost his cat the month before, so he was aware of life and death, but it seemed unfair to break his heart so soon again.

Answer 7

No, why should I? It's good for children to learn about life and death - hopefully first through pets, before a close family member dies. You can't protect children from everything, nor should you.

Answer 8

No...they have to learn about death sometime.

My son had 5 1/2 went his first hamster died. Tears flowed...questions asked...questions answered for a child that age to understand and not to confuse him.

Answer 9

I never had to, but as my kids are 10, 11, 14 and 17 I don't think I would need too. They are old enough to understand that death is apart of life....... It's sad but true

Answer 10

No, and I wouldn't.

Everything in life can be a teaching experience, and this is one of them. Death is difficult to deal with, but it's part of the circle of our human existence. Use the opportunity to teach your child about it; it will make them stronger, more healthy people in the end.

Answer 11

actually funny thing just happened to me yesterday.. i was talking about my last cat which I've had for 13 yrs since my mum and dad divorced and a few months ago i had to out her down as she had tumours.. anyway i said to my mum how much i missed her and said she was the only cat Ive had that's stuck around so much, see my dad hated animals, and always got rid of them, once they bought my brother and me 2 kittens.. and my memory isn't probably so good seeing i was only about 4 or 5, but i seemed to think we only had them for the day and dad was yelling and they ran away and we never found them..
but then mum said we had had them for a few months and he donged them on the head to get rid of them.. i was like what.. he did what.. i was really pissed after she told me that.. trust my dad to do that, the **** hole