Anyone know of any books to help children deal with the death of a pet?

[winestein]

My DS is 3.5 and it is likely that his lifelong companion, my dear, dear dog, will have to be put to sleep soon.

I want to try and find a book that helps young children deal with a pet dying. Is there such a thing? Does anyone know of anything suitable?

[mamabea]

Mog- The last in this series is very very

[AttilaTheAntiHun]

Gotta be Goodbye Mog

[wrinklytum]

The last Mog book.

[DANCESwithLordPottingtonSmythe]

I second Mog. Awww, I love Mog

here it is

[RosaLuxembunting]

Has anyone said Goodbye Mog yet?

[RosaLuxembunting]

Has anyone said Goodbye Mog yet?

[RosaLuxembunting]

Has anyone said Goodbye Mog yet?

[funnypeculiar]

God that books makes me cry every blardy time
Ds looks at me like I'm some kind of idiot.

[RosaLuxembunting]

Gawd, what happened there? Anyway, OP, I take it you know what to do now?

[winestein]

PMSL

I'm getting the drift, that's for certain! Thank you all

[mamabea]

but be prepared for sobtastic reading.

[DANCESwithLordPottingtonSmythe]

Dogger gets me every time. Reading it to my class a while ago, got a catch in my voice, one of the children at the front says very loudly and accusingly 'are you crying Mrs Dances?'

[winestein]

Dogger? That sounds interesting... as said pet is a dog and he has a teddy called Dogger...

Will Google, thanks!

[winestein]

mamabea - sobtastic reading - TSH! I sobbed when I read the words "Goodbye Mog". I'm not going to be much of a help to my son as I'm just going to blubber all day long.

[wrinklytum]

Dogger is a toy dog,and gets lost,not so much a death of pet scenario,but a truly lovely book,gives me a lump in throat too,Dances

[Fennel]

I would perhaps try and be prepared for your 3yo to be a bit less traumatised than you anticipate. 3yos - well mine anyway - can have a bit of a bracing approach to death. Our cat died last year when dd3 was 3, she kept asking for us to dig up the corpse again so she could have a look at it. And now Grandpa is dead she does go on rather cheerfully about how he's probably getting wet, underground without a raincoat.

[winestein]

Lol Fennel.

I see what you are saying... DS happily tells everyone that his grandad died. I suppose I just want something in for "in case"

[Smithagain]

"Up in Heaven" by Emma Chichester Clark is a lovely, gentle story from the point of view of a dog that has died and is looking down on her owner.

Sounds bizarre, but it's rather touching and quite comforting.

Depends what you want him to think about heaven mind you ...

[winestein]

Sounds lovely Smithagain. Will check that one out too

As and aside I found Dogger in ASDA today for £3.47 so bought that for him for a non-pet-death time... won't be reading it tonight though as have lost my voice [croak]

[ChasingSquirrels]

ditto fennel, our dog had to be put down last week, ds1 is older (5.9y) and has had a handful of sad times (10 mins) and a few gory ones - wanted to know if we could get her bones back from he crem ("but I wanted her bones" ? - the mind boggles). But mostly has been fine. 2.5yo is pretty oblivious, have had a few "dog?" but only the first couple of days.
Sorry to hear your news though, it is a wierd feeling when they are no longer there.

[Littlefish]

I think there's one called "all dogs go to heaven". I'll see if I can find it.

[Littlefish]

I've found it, but it's not the one I'm thinking of. Sorry.

[taliac]

Oh god just thinking about Goodbye Mog makes me want to howl...