Thanks for your input and your sympathies folks.
My upper lip will definitely quiver at least over this.
In all seriousness it will be bad I adore the little guy and I remember the gruff pats on the back and cries of 'chin up!' when my mother died two weeks after my third birthday. I resented it for years that no one openly grieved with me.
Now obviously losing the dog is not quite on the same level but my DD has known him all her life (nearly 9.5 years). And I want openly grieve with her over this loss but I am anxious about this upsetting her more because she is such an empath.
We never watched Bolt all the way through, for example, because she so pitied him when it was revealed that he didn't have any super powers that she was inconsolable until we switched it off.
Last edited by madeinuk; 07/10/14 01:28 PM.
