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Thank you
Angharad thank you for another episode.
It is hard enough for adults to understand why animals die, let alone having to explain it to children.
Brian
sounds like
you're speaking from experience.
Angharad
Angharad
It is Even Harder
to explain the death of their wee sister, believe me, Brian. I wish so much that I had never had to.
I feel like Catherine, there is no sense to or reason for the universe, it can perahps best be explained ss an elaborate and cruel joke, with humans as among the biggest objects of amusement in it.
Briar
Briar
The way of the farm
Growing up, it seemed doubly injust to be eating a freshly cooked fryer, that had scant months ago been a cuddly little chick, or a steak off the leg of a calf I'd seen born myself. These days, I have little attaction for animals except to be quite certain that those who are placed in my care are treated humanely. I did become very attached to a little multiple colored, long haired Pomeranian that my X had purchased and tired of. In the end, I lost him too. It is not good to get attached of things. They have a way of being taken from you.
K
An important lesson in death and it's reality.
Isn't that what pets are for? To teach kids about death so that they'll understand when a family death arrives.
That's when kids learn that 'You can't even wriggle' when your dead.
Good story Angie.
Still lovin' it.
XXX
Bev.
Growing old disgracefully.
I Hope Not !
Beverly,
I most sincerely hope that it is NOT! The reason for having pets is to teach kids about death? I always understood it was to help them learn how to look after and love living things, and for adults it seems they perfom the role of substitute children, for those that have none, or whose children are now adults and have left home.
Briar
Briar
To live attachments are needed
The companionship of pets is such a necessary part of life. Sharing yourself with pets, loving them, helps to keep us alive. We have been fortunate that most of our dogs and cats lived to be fifteen or twenty. We enjoyed the time they spent with us and morned their passing. We still remember them.
Just like the love we have for our parents and siblings and children. We morn their loss but live through the attachments we have with them. Attachments are needed to keep us alive. I'm glad of the attachments I have.
As we lose those we are attached to, memories of them get us through the days.
Much Love,
Valerie R
Much Love,
Valerie R
Hard lesson for kids. Some
Hard lesson for kids. Some of us never really learn how to say goodbye.
CaroL
CaroL
Cathy seems to have handled that
as well as anyone could. Glad Trish came back to her for comfort in the end.
One of the things...
...I like about Bike is that you get the family, warts and all.
Thanks A+B: life isn't always nice, and I do appreciate that you don't gloss over events such as those in this Bikesode.
Practical Stuff
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
The Power of the Dog.
The Power of the Dog
THERE is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie--
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find--it's your own affair--
But...you've given your heart for a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!);
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone--wherever it goes--for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart for the dog to tear.
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long--
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Rudyard Kipling
dreams & deer
I'm curious about the time of death and kathy's dreams when she woke up. it would be interesting if timing was simular. it was stated she had this cold feeling @ time. and was glad she could snuggleup to Simon.
i'm curious tho about the boy ... gotta feeling there's gonna be more issues yet to arrive.
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.PS - if it was time for the fawn to die. better sooner or later, B4 the kids really did attached to it. bad thing to say, but truthful. OH YEAH, never name someting before it's strong enuff to live normally. I made that mistake way too many times.
When Trish is 14
She is going to be an even bigger terror than she currently is.