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to be crying at the passing of a guinea pig when the kids are totally fine...?

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 17:52

I cried at the vets

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LaurieFairyCake · 22/05/2009 17:54

yanbu It shows sensitivity and empathy

I cry terribly when pets die.

Tryharder · 22/05/2009 17:54

Heartless kids!! YANBU

Lulumama · 22/05/2009 17:55

it is still a living creature. poor you

although i did not mourn the passing of Scooby the goldfish..

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 18:09

aww thanks - was starting to feel a bit silly!

Lol @ Scooby the goldfish lulu - goodness knows what the guinea pigs would have been called iof the DSs had named them!

The vet was lovely and didn't make me feel like an idiot.

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FabulousBakerGirl · 22/05/2009 18:10

I cried when the hamster had to be put down. On the vets. The kids were sad and went off to play. I am a wreck and when the cat goes look out for Kent being flooded.

CornishKK · 22/05/2009 18:10

I cried my arse off when Disco Biscuit had to be put down, in front of a very attractive vet. And then I nearly cried again when I got to work and my boss asked me how it went at the vets.

Still, he had been a great source of amusement to me during my Bridget Jones years.

YANBU.

I remember my Mum (who had a reputation for being the hardest assed teached in school) having to take the day off when our dog was put down.

I cry at Lassie and gravy adverts. Compared to me you are normal.

Lulumama · 22/05/2009 18:10

luckitly, shaggy is still alive !

i think it is shaggy

i can;t imagine what it will be like in lulu towers when the dogs go to the big Kennel in the sky.

Picante · 22/05/2009 18:11

I cried when my guineapig was neutered.

for your loss.

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 18:15

Thanks for making me feel better everyone!

Lulu - you are right I am glad the boys are ok. DS1 was a bit sad and wanted a lot of explanation but he is fine now and DS2 waved her off as if she were going on a day out somewhere bless him! Quite a bizarre scene actually - he was still dressed as a policeman after nursery today!

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Boco · 22/05/2009 18:16

Schneebly was it you whose guinea pig had runny poo the other day? I've been worrying about that guinea pig but couldn't remember who had posted it.

NervousNutty · 22/05/2009 18:17

My kids did this when my dog died. It didn't live with us but my kids had grown up with seing her at my dads every weekend.

When my dad rang to tell me he'd had to have her put to sleep, both of us were sobbing, and I dreaded telling the kids.

IIRC they said 'oh dear' and carried on playing

bluejeans · 22/05/2009 18:21

I read DD the Peppermint Pig whch I had (and watched on tv) as a child. I was dreading reading the final chapter but DD was fine and I was the one in tears - think it could be an age/hormonal thing?

Lulumama · 22/05/2009 18:30

yes, i saw the boys at home time today with your DH. excelletn costume!

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 18:36

Boco - no not me. She has seemed fine though I have maybe paid a bit less attention than usual because I have been on teaching placement this past fortnight

Lulu - £4 in tesco! The only extra was the handcuffs which we already had.

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pinkstarfish · 22/05/2009 19:06

YANBU

I had to pull a sicky for work when my beloved bunny died I was truly heart broken.

notcitrus · 22/05/2009 19:28

The only time I've seen my dad cry is when our guinea pig died. His parents deaths...no reaction.
I only cried four years later when I found out my mum had lied about the gp being buried in the garden - I'd tended the grass over the grave and everything.

nickytwotimes · 22/05/2009 19:31

Yanbu at all.
I have always sobbed when my pets have dies (except fish - sorry fish, but I never cuddled you)
Guineas are lovely wee things. Very easy to get fond of.

EffieGadsby · 22/05/2009 19:36

YANBU. I still have a little cry from time to time when I think of my lovely, dear departed childhood bunny, even though he died about 12 years ago. Guinea pigs are gorgeous animals. Cry all you want to. And take comfort in the thread from earlier this year, with the brilliant guinea pig commemorative poems.

girlandboy · 22/05/2009 19:40

YANBU - I cried like a baby when I took the gerbil to be put down a couple of months ago. I came home and sobbed my socks off.

I then had to break the news to the dc's after school. Though I did omit the bit about being put down - they think she just died.

nickytwotimes · 22/05/2009 19:40

Effie, I remember that thread.
It is utterly fabulous!

Mintyy · 22/05/2009 19:48

I am welling up and I didn't know your guinea pig. I didn't even know you had a guinea pig. But, still, sniff, YANBU.

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 20:10

Talking of commemorative poems the quite nice thing is that I am on a teacher training course and one of my English assignments just recently was to write a story for children and I wrote one about our guinea pigs. I have it bound and everything with my own (poor) illustrations of Ruby and Snowflake (who is still with us).

Off to look at that thread...

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schneebly · 22/05/2009 20:24

pure genius on the poem thread! Made me. Thank you.

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EffieGadsby · 22/05/2009 20:48

I'm glad it cheered you up! I've just been re-reading it too; some of them are quite wonderful.

Pyrocanthus · 22/05/2009 22:00

So sorry for the loss of your guinea pig. I wept buckets when one of our four died last month. Think I might start again now.

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