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Not to tell dd that her goldfish has died

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Frascati · 17/04/2007 08:53

Now I will need to fill you in with a bit of background with dd.
She is nearly 8 and has Aspergers.
Her fish died Sunday night and I can't face telling her.
It was her first day back to school yesterday and she usually finds it hard anyway so I was thinking she would have had a hell of a day if I did tell her.
She hardly ever looks in the tank anyway but I do feel bad as I know it could affect her all week.
What do I do? I am thinking of buying another one but worried as we have another fish and that may be ill as well........

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belgo · 17/04/2007 08:57

Can you just buy another fish and put it into another tank?

When I was a child, my parents looked after the neighbours budgie. Well they were supposed to look after it ......our cat caught it and devoured it

My parents bought a new budgie, very similar looking, and none of the four children of our neighbours were any the wiser.

Frascati · 17/04/2007 09:17

I am considering that but the last one died about 2 months ago. the other one that is still alive has had a lump for about a month and I thought that one would pop it's clogs before this one.
Not sure what to do really....

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Frascati · 17/04/2007 17:29

Just told ds and he couldn't care less

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belgo · 17/04/2007 18:00

what about your dd? Will ds tell her?

Wotzsaname · 17/04/2007 18:02

This happend to me and it took 3 weeks for them to notice and they weren't too upset either.

Heartbroken when the cat died.

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