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[quote=Anonymous]ok first, please ignore 17:46, who needs to look in the mirror re mean acts.

Second, I agree with the "wait" crowd, because you can comfort them.

If it's possible to tell them in the morning (like if you pick them up in the morning), I'd tell them then--learned from a psychologist that kids (or anyone) do better with bad news in the morning, because as they do other things, their mind processes it all day, then going to bed is not as hard.  The worst is telling them before bed, because they then go into their room and their mind fixates on it, and it then takes on a life of its own, and can take up to three months longer for them to get over it.

The best is (this happened in our bad news situation--tell them their favorite cousins are coming over, tell them the bad news, then the cousins appear and there is fun and distraction all day and then bedtime isn't so rough.

But the other thing is OP it's essential that you have a memorial for your pup (like, in your back yard).[/quote]

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