Help, we've a dead fish...!!!!!
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Our 6 year old now has a dead Goldfish through an unfortunate accident. This was no fault of his ( or ours ), & he doesn't yet know. He will be horrified if he finds out, he loved the bleedin' thing.
How can we quickly get a replacement lookalike in before he notices..., given that it's gone ten on a Saturday eve????
HELP.....
How can we quickly get a replacement lookalike in before he notices..., given that it's gone ten on a Saturday eve????
HELP.....
Just be honest with him. Tell him its died and take him to get another one.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them. Mum told me and then we went and got some more whils dad beefed up the hutch.
Sure I was upset for a bit, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them. Mum told me and then we went and got some more whils dad beefed up the hutch.
Sure I was upset for a bit, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
Edited by chris1roll on Saturday 26th September 22:22
chris1roll said:
Just be honest with him. Tell him its died and take him to get another one.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
I'm sure it was painful at the time, but even so,
chris1roll said:
Just be honest with him. Tell him its died and take him to get another one.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
^^^^^^^THISFor my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
now is a good a time as any to discuss mortality
Kermit power said:
chris1roll said:
Just be honest with him. Tell him its died and take him to get another one.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
For my sixth birthday I got 2 guinea pigs.
The day after my sixth birthday the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Sure I was upset, but you need to learn about death sooner or later.
I'm sure it was painful at the time, but even so,
Edited by chris1roll on Saturday 26th September 22:29
chris1roll said:
Just be honest with him. Tell him its died and take him to get another one.
You need to learn about death sooner or later.
This is very true.You need to learn about death sooner or later.
Explain to the boy that Goldie has shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to join the choir invisibule.
You could also get the lad to assist you in the autopsy, in order to establish the exact cause of death. Watch a couple of episodes of "CSI", or even "Quincy M.E." for inspiration. You don't need no fancy lab or mortuary, just do it on the chopping board in the kitchen. You'll need quite a small knife though.
Think of it as edutainment. He'll thank you for it. Eventually.
chris1roll said:
the cat hooked both of them out of their run and ate them.
Beautifully descriptive yet succinct!As for the lack of goldfish, you can either tell him it's snuffed it, or has gone to goldfish heaven (while you're at it despatch Santa Claus as well) - or put a Del Monte peach slice in the tank and hope he doesn't look too closely.
My brother-in-law is a big Fish and animal lover and they have animals everywhere, in the house and garden. Anyway he has a pond with koi carp and other fishy type things. Recently he had a new, larger pond made; took ages to dig it out and get it all ready, anyway he finally got it all finished and transferred his fish into the new pond.
The next day when he got home from work he found that his prize fish (that he'd had for 20 odd years) had somehow 'beached' itself on the garden whilst at the same time the pet rabbit had fallen in the pond, both had 'drowned' (or whatever fish do out of water).
He was very upset and wasn't amused that everyone else found it so funny...
The next day when he got home from work he found that his prize fish (that he'd had for 20 odd years) had somehow 'beached' itself on the garden whilst at the same time the pet rabbit had fallen in the pond, both had 'drowned' (or whatever fish do out of water).
He was very upset and wasn't amused that everyone else found it so funny...
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