Quote Originally Posted by tailfins View Post
Pets serve the purpose of letting children practice taking care of a helpless creature. Think of the lessons your son learned from having Jerome around. Those lessons don't die with the dog. That does make it awkward to explain to children the act of euthanizing a pet. I hope that doesn't teach kids a lesson about what to do with ailing parents.
I hope in some weird way this was meant to be your way of being nice? I read this yesterday while in a very sad mood, and it made me even sadder, as if you were hitting me while I was down. I hope I took your post the wrong way.