Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Pets
Reply to "Putting dog to sleep - how involved should 5 year old be? "
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]We put our dog down when our kids were 5 & 7. They knew she had cancer and could see with us that she was in bad shape. They said good bye at home and understood what was going to happen. 7 yr old then wanted to go to the dr. with DH so we let him. It did not seem to be traumatic and he appreciated that he got to pet his dog while he went to "sleep." I probably wouldn't have allowed it at 5 and if it had been their first experience with death, don't know that I'd have let the 7 yr old. But by then he'd already experienced the death of two grandparents and seen them in open caskets so he definitely knew what death was like. Shortly after that we gave both kids framed photos of each child with the dog. DS, now 17, still displays it in his room.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
