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Mog died????!!!!!!???

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S1ur · 28/09/2008 22:41

I am so sorry to you all, for bringing this to your attention,

But I have had this brought to my attention and I cannot live a lie.

Mog the forgetful cat actually died (in 2003 )

I am shocked.

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DANCESwithLordPottingtonSmythe · 28/09/2008 22:43

LOL! I was geniunely shocked when I saw the book and had to stop and read it in the middle of waterstones. Felt really sad afterwards (and still shocked!)

moondog · 28/09/2008 22:44

Don't rub it in.
Am already devastated.

bythepowerofgreyskull · 28/09/2008 22:44

What!!!!!!

ledodgy · 28/09/2008 22:44

Oh don't I have tried to forget.

Goodbye Mog

VersdeSociete · 28/09/2008 22:45

NEVER let a child see that book.

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S1ur · 28/09/2008 22:45

Oh greyskull I am sorry for our loss

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IdrisTheDragon · 28/09/2008 22:45

My children are fine with it - it's DH who can't cope.

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S1ur · 28/09/2008 22:46

I didn't know such a foul abomination of a book existed until very recently.

I blame mumsnet, I could have lived in ignorance.

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Ebberley · 28/09/2008 22:46

I have to hide that book everytime we go into the library and my children are 12yo and 9yo rufty-tufty, hard as nails boys.

I know that they would weep.

Bowddee · 28/09/2008 22:47

DS went to pick up the Goodbye Mog story in the library.

I had to distract him with a book about rabbits.

moondog · 28/09/2008 22:54

I am sandwiched between thread discussing Mog's demise and another showcasing Kewcumber's lillte boy.

I won't make it through the night.

moondog · 28/09/2008 22:55

Slur, I only found our tonight!!!

HRHSaintMamazon · 28/09/2008 22:56

what on earth are you all on about?

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S1ur · 28/09/2008 22:58

me too moony, I have begun to introduce Mog (the series of books by Judith Kerr) to my dc and now, now I am at a loss. Perhaps if I read slowly they will be teenagers by te time I finsh and the loss will be less painful for them.

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emkana · 28/09/2008 23:01

I read this to my dd's when they were 4 and 6 and they were okay, it's a good book to talk about death.

[be strong]

lilysmummy2007 · 28/09/2008 23:06

who or what is mog??

paddingtonbear1 · 28/09/2008 23:11

mog the cat,in childrens story books written by Judith Kerr. I haven't read this particular one though....

dd has Mog the forgetful cat and Mog's Christmas...

NotAnOtter · 28/09/2008 23:20

i currently have to read three mog books three times a day EVERY day!

goodbye mog is somwehere but luckily not at toddler height!

NotAnOtter · 28/09/2008 23:22

mog and me
mog in the garden
mogs family of cats

daily

without fail!

callmeovercautious · 28/09/2008 23:25

mog died? OMG

Are you sure it was 2003. I am sure I remember the books from the 80s. Or am I thinking meg and mog?

TwoIfBySea · 28/09/2008 23:26

I saw this in a shop a couple of years ago and felt bereft! Mog's Christmas got me through childhood, I still have it. I bought a collection of Mog stories for dts and that is one of them, it is a very well written story for anyone dealing with children having lost a beloved pet but still...not Mog!!!!

elkiedee · 28/09/2008 23:31

Many of the Mog books would have been around in the 80s, we had a couple for little brother/sister born in 1977 and 1980. Judith Kerr (author) must be in her 80s now as I believe the book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit in which a 9 year old leaves Nazi Germany with her family in 1933 is based on her own experiences.

bundle · 28/09/2008 23:31

you just heard?

do keep up

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S1ur · 28/09/2008 23:37

Yes I just heard. I appparently missed the 'we killed your cat' memo. I haven't read book some Flame mumsnetter bluntly dumped news on me.

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callmeovercautious · 28/09/2008 23:41

sorry bundle - being in my 30s with only one DD of 2y I have not personally read these books for a while