Terrible News

[angiemw]

Shane got up late today, so he had asked me if I minded taking care of Sunny's food and water. Of course I didn't want him late for school so I said I would. Well, I found Sonny dead. No idea what happened to him. He was disease free when we had him at the vet. We fed him nothing but his normal things. No idea what happened to him. My son hasn't come home yet from school. I just don't know what to tell him. I have heard of birds being stressed out so bad that it kills them. I wonder if that might have been what happened. He was only about 3 or 4 years old. Please pray that Shane takes the bad news okay. He just loved his bird. He only had the bird for about a month maybe 2. Man this sucks!

 

[Riio]

How sad. Im so sorry for your loss. I hope all goes ok when you tell your son. Darn it.

 

[brianlinkles]

I'm so sorry to hear this. I know how you feel unfortunatley. My daughter Christina came home about 6 mos. ago to find her little linnie dead. It was awful. We all loved this little bird, it was fine (chatting away) when she left for school, she wasn't even a year yet and we do not know what happened. We did not take her in for a necropsy because at the time I had two young girls that were hysterical and I just wanted to bury her and try to comfort them.
It was a difficult time and I hope that your son is alright. I am sure it will take time, I'm sure that it will take a while for him to get over it.

 

[JerseyWendy]

I'm terribly sorry for Shane and your loss. So so sad.

 

[kc_y0]

I am so sorry to hear this very sad news.

 

[angiemw]

Thanks Everybody. Shane took the news better than I had thought he would. He did cry. He also insisted on burying him at Grandma's house in her back yard. Being it was in the country. He said a few final words that brought us all to tears.
He has also informed me that later he will get another one. Just not for a while. Poor kid. It was his first pet that passed away.

 

[momto3]

I am so sorry for your son! Losing a pet and not being able to say goodbye is very hard on children. The funeral will really help, I am sure. When my daughter continued to cry about not being able to say goodbye (a year later), we made a card and buried it in the ground next to her hamster. It did help.

Kids can learn so much from having and loving having pets. It just completely stinks when they die because it is hard for them to understand that sometimes things just happen. I hope his pain eases with every day...poor kid!!

 

[Boysmom]

Its no easier if they get to say good bye. We had to put down our 13 year old Lab who had kidney failure and arthritis and heart worms ( she had them when we got her ). The whole family left the vets office in tears and everyone in the vets office was crying also. The vet couldnt charge us, because she knew it was such a hard decision but was best for Lady. She was my sons dog and was the same age as him. He made us all put on our finest funeral clothes, he had a family friend play taps on the trumpet and our pastor conducted the backyard funeral. He made her a cross and worked for months carving out a giant rock with her name birth and death date. He still years later keeps flowers on her grave. He did take paw prints of her for his scrap book before we took her to the vets office. The vet asked why she had blue paint on her paws and when we told her she burst out crying.