Animals and kids are so tough. It's so hard to know what to tell them. I always was as honest with them as I could be. I think being prepared for the worse makes the worse easier to handle when it comes. My daughter had to put her dog down this weekend. Of course he was the favorite of the two they have even tho he was just a mutt. Blake was at his mothers so he didn't know about it till he came home Mon. evening. I picked him up off the bus Tues and he told me the dog had died, and even tho I'm sure Jenny and Travis explained everything to him, he still asked me why it happened....It's just so hard.
Becky
That's so sad about your daughter's dog. We sure get attached to our animals, don't we? Kids are resilient and will bounce back but I sure hate telling them about a sick or dying animal. Tuffy is by far the favorite here, none of the other horses have his silly personality.