• Replies 2 replies
  • Subscribers 28 subscribers
  • Views 362 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Dealing with the death of our dog,Bonnie

M1chelle

Hi everyone. Hope someone can give me some advice. We had to have our 12 year old boxer dog put down this afternoon after a short illness and our son WLilian is distraught. He is 12 years old and has ASD, epilepsy and moderate learning difficulties.

we had to have Bonnie put to sleep whilst he was still at school today as she became so ill very quickly. We knew this was going to be extremely hard to deal with as William had been with us to the vets before. We did know Bonnie was going to die as she had cancer and we had tried to prepare William for this but I just can't seem to find the right words to explain things to him as he keeps thinking she is going to be coming back...

i don't want to make him more confused so if anyone can help I would be very grateful.

thanks so much and sorry if I've posted this in the wrong area but I'm new and my heads all over at the minute 

Michelle

  • I am sorry to hear about the death of dog

    Time is a good healer. It will get better

    Keep talking about the good times to keep the dogs memory alive. Remind everyone that the dog had the best years of it's lives living with you all and so the dog life and death was not wastedhappy. The dog is no longer suffering in pain. The dog was extremely happy whilst in your care

    Best of luck

    Enfield Childminder

  • Hi I don't know if this is too late but this pretty much explains what I was going to say but better: www.autismspeaks.org/helping-child-tragedy

    also, I always found getting to look at and touch the body of the dead pet really helpful because I could see that they were really dead and there hadn't been a mistake and then I would help prepare the body by wrapping them in their blanket and burying them with their favourite food and toys. That helped me to say goodbye and to have a kind of closure. I also found it helpful to see my mum or brother crying so I knew I could cry too Which is a normal expression of grief. 

    Hope this helps and I'm sorry to hear about your dog.