The sodding dog has eaten the sodding Class Bear. WIBU not to own up?

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I've mended the bear as best I can - he has a pocket which had a flower attached on some pink ribbony stuff. I've managed to reattach the bits of ribbon (luckily I had some cotton in the right shade!) and tucked the flower in so it almost doesn't show. Can't do much about the missing eyebrow but the bear was reasonably tatty so I can't be certain that the dog was responsible. The label is well and truly going through her so that's a lost cause.

And what the hell does DS2 write for the weekend story? "Nici Bear had a lovely time at my house this weekend. We did karate and a picnic and the dog tried to eat him for tea so we went to hospital to get him made better. "

Argh! WIBU to tuck Bear into Bag and not let on? What would you write in the book?

OP you have my sincere sympathy. I made the mistake of washing the class bear when DD was in reception. My standards are appalling but even so I thought it was a health hazard. (Possibly last child had dog that weed on it?)

Anyway it disintegrated. Its head came off and one of its paws had stuffing sticking out of it. Luckily I'd put it in a pillow case as it looked a bit delicate.

Tried to sew damned thing back together. Gave up. Confessed to DD's teacher. Was told bear was due for retirement at half term anyway and was going to be replaced so they just bought it forward a couple of weeks.

So as someone who BEHEADED the class bear my advice would be own up unless you're sure of your repairs. Alternatively let it go on for the next parent to destroy

Can you post a picture and we'll try and find you one. Then you could 'forget' it for a couple of days and voila!

My cat are the class hamster when I was a child. Dm fessed up and swears to this day that my teacher was delighted!

Don't mention it, I doubt they will notice.

Fabulous thread!

I let the class gerbil fall down the stairs when I was a child (I had set up a gerbil run, with books against the bannisters, but unfortunately the gerbil found a small gap right at the top of the stairs). My dad let me fret all night before explaining the next morning about surface area to volume ratios and air resistance and why the gerbil was alright. The gerbil got its revenge a couple of days later when it hid behind the kitchen cupboards and my dad had to move the washing machine to get at it.

My best friends dd had the class hamster at home for half term. One day, when they were letting it have a run around on the floor, her eldest dd walked around the corner and stood on it by mistake. They had no choice but to fess up!

Perhaps try to turn it into a Halloween type story about how bear and ds had to fight off a werewolf?

It's nearly Halloween, send it back as zombie bear.

beans type fillings wash. the class toy got a scrub in the sink, a play in the bath, and a trip in the washing machine as he was grim. it survived another two years as I washed it again on its next visit.

I would write a long story about the bear being very brave during a shark attack...

Write about bear wrestling a lion with sharp claws?

Combine it with Jingle's story and say bear picked up a bit of rough?

We once left class bear on a train, as in never to be seen again. I sent in a random small bear.

We had a holiday bear and we took it to Sri Lanka. It was awful, I was terrified the whole time we'd lose the sodding thing.

We didn't lose it but it did get stolen by a monkey, heartily shagged, and dropped in a pond.

I washed it.

Sash brilliant. I love it. xx

Ohhh zombie bear, i like it.

I first bonded with some of our testers over zombies. In life, you meet all sorts, xx

As a parent I would have been delighted to find out that the bear had been savaged by the dog.

I am sure that DD2 put her hand up every other week to have Pepper the bear. It became known in our house as Sodding Pepper.

It didnt help that we were living in the Netherlands so I had to write the 'what Pepper did' story in my ropey Dutch.

Priceless!

It's like a mutant version of that Henry the Eighth rhyme ... Beheaded, shagged by monkeys, dried, disembowled, eaten by dog, survived!

My sister allowed the school stick insects to get eaten by mice on her watch ...

We had a school bear the other week. It was ( I assumed) a grey tatty teddy style bear. Had a few stains so after a bit of a surface wash I threw him in the machine with the school shirts and some vanish... He reappeared as a shining white polar bear!

I think most parents in the class will be ecstatic if the bear is rendered unusable. Can't you just finish it off and write about it's trip to teddy heaven?

I too, as a parent would be delighted that friggin bear had been eaten by said dog.
' at least they'll be less chance of us having to look after it next weekend' - would be my thinking.

I live in fear that the class stick insects will be sent home with L. As it is, we have the sodding stuffed turtle for half term. WTF can you do with a stuffed turtle?

Say that you went away on a drugs run over the weekend and the bear was ripped open to smuggle the drugs through customs

I spilled a full glass of red wine over the class bear's diary. All lovingly written by the kids in reception. I was absolutely mortified so I did what anybody would do under the circumstances and poured black coffee on top to hide the red wine

Once upon a time, MumsNet had its own class bear called Pomtoo.
Pomtoo was born with one leg but had a donor leg surgically attached
A lovely lady called Norks made her a little travelling case and patchwork quilt and accoutrements.
In theory, Pomtoo was going to be passed around the MN community, to be shown mainly drinking gin, smoking, pole dancing and riding bikes without a helmet.

Sadly one day Pomtoo went to a NORTY pie-selling Mumsnetter in East Anglia...and was NEVER SEEN AGAIN.

The end

Loving the idea of a MN class pombear