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Oh gawd the dead bee ds has been carrying around for days and thinks is his pet, is crawling with lice :-o

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FrannyandZooey · 09/03/2007 09:04

Have I:

a) traumatised ds for life

b) infested the house / our bodies with some hideous parasite????

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FrannyandZooey · 09/03/2007 09:26

point taken

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colditz · 09/03/2007 09:27

It will make the bee's death final for him. This is what we do, be bury it, then it is a happy vbee and we don't have to worry about it any more. dead things like to be buried.

I was an odd child.

JackieNo · 09/03/2007 09:27

YOu know what, Franny - I missed you while you were on your break from MN, but I think I missed your DS more. He's fab. And lol at Colditz's brother's mackerel head.

NotanOtter · 09/03/2007 09:27

ds once had a pet jellyfish

I have lovely photos of him wailing when we had to leave it!

Twiglett · 09/03/2007 09:28

I think you need a very official funeral service

kids love burying things

a matchbox
some tinsel
a small pagan ritual

Twiglett · 09/03/2007 09:29

Colditz I have relished that story for years now .. love it love it love it

DrMarthaMcMoo · 09/03/2007 09:30

Not an item you'll consider for your wanky baskets then, Franny ?

Twiglett · 09/03/2007 09:31

Moo .. no no no .. they're wnaky baskets aren't they?

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FrannyandZooey · 09/03/2007 09:32

It was dead when we found it, though - the only bereavement ds has suffered is having to part from its louse-ridden company

Jackie

No I think the baskets have enough wildlife in them at present - a very blue lemon rescued just in the nick of time before this week's session

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DrMarthaMcMoo · 09/03/2007 09:33

Takes me back though...I had a mostly dead pigeon once (cat got it). I kept it in a shoe box in the garden (Mum wouldn't let me bring it in the house) and tried to get it to eat worms. I wept buckets...well, for at least 10 minutes...when the inevitable happened.

We had a lovely service though and I made a great cross out of wooden lolly sticks with R.I.P written on in felt-tip.

DrMarthaMcMoo · 09/03/2007 09:33

I stand corrected...wnaky baskets.

TinyGang · 09/03/2007 09:35

Well you learn something new on mn everyday....yesterday it was anal glands (vom) now ...bee lice .

On the bright side - he now has lots of pet lice instead. Maybe not

noonar · 09/03/2007 09:36

well done for encouraging respect for living (or dead) things. sounds like even the lice were treated with dignity

we just got back from marrakech and at the airport, a 3 yo boy with a v chavvy mum was enjoying repeatedly stamping on a moth my dds aged 2.5 and 5 gave him a lecture on respect for living things in a VERY loud voice. it was a bit but also i felt quite proud of them.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/03/2007 09:44

Oh good on them noonar

Anal glands??

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filthymindedvixen · 09/03/2007 09:45

I have wet my seat at this thread.!

I had a beloved goldfish called Robert, but I had to keep him on top of the wardrobe (as we had several cats). Unfortunately, though I loved Robert dearly, I only loved him dearly when i could actually see him...
I think you can guess where this is going.

Anyhoo, some time later I had a friend round to play and she glimpsed the edge of the bowl on top of the wardrobe and pulled a chair over to take a look.

''Oooh she said, why have you got a white fluffy ball in a bowl up here?''

Hem hem, the water had all evaporated, leaving the white spore covered bloated corpse of the Very Late Robert resembling a fluffy golf ball.

I was too absorbed in Sindy dolls to stop her reaching into the bowl to get a hold of fluffy object...She's probably still in therapy.

I went on to have Robert the 2nd, 3rd and 4th before my mother decided that a more Interactive Pet and Visible pet might be better for someone with a bad memory like mine.

DrMarthaMcMoo · 09/03/2007 09:48

PMSL @ fmv. Poor Robert. Hope you made him a R.I.P cross with lolly sticks.

filthymindedvixen · 09/03/2007 09:50

Funnily enough, I became quite talented at the construction of lolly stick grave markers...

hatrick · 09/03/2007 10:06

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FrannyandZooey · 09/03/2007 10:49

I can't see the bee

I think a bird has eaten it

do you think ds will be convinced by "Burial by Air"???

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shonaspurtle · 09/03/2007 10:59

Will he like the whole "circle of life" idea? Bird eats bee, bird poos out bee, helps flowers grow, bees make honey from flowers....

I don't have much experience of small children but it involves death and poo so all good stuff surely?

pinkmagic1 · 09/03/2007 11:01

Buy him a goldfish, he will soon get over it!

Nockney · 09/03/2007 11:11

Yeah, circle of life is the line to take now, I think. Bury something else, later.

Flower3554 · 09/03/2007 11:13

This has reminded me of the time my ds1 aged 5 found a frog in the garden. He was adamant he would let it go but only after he had taken it to school first. They did this thing on a Monday re "what I did at the weekend" and all the children took turns to tell the class what they had done.

Ds wanted to talk about "rescuing the frog from the forest" ie our garden.

Stupidly DH agreed to this and we then had the problem of where to keep the slimy begger until the next morning.

Well I'm nothing if not resourceful so here's what we did:

We found an old plastic fish bowl, put some grass in the bottom and then to stop froggy doing a runner or a jumper I forced a pair of tights over the bowl fastening the legs together.

The poor little frog kept bouncing up hitting the tights and falling back onto the grass, went on for hours until we felt so sorry for it we took it outside and let it go. Ds was so not amused when he got up next morning and we told him the frog had run away

doggiesayswoof · 09/03/2007 11:18

Oh Franny I must be hormonal or something - I am lol and also nearly weeping at this thread - bless 'im.

Another vote here for the 'circle of life' explanation if the bee is truly gone

KathyMCMLXXII · 09/03/2007 11:20

My grandma let my brother's mice out and pretended they had run away.