Keep the information age appropriate. Just remember this is a child and will need a little bit of sugar coating. Allow your child to ask questions and try to answer them as truthfully and delicately as possible. If it s fitting, you can even tell your child they went to pet heaven . Don t force your child to talk about it.
Most people go through several stages of grief.
There is no particular order for going through these stages nor is there any exact time frame the grieving period should last. Each person deals with loss differently. Let yourself feel your grief, don t force yourself to feel anything different, and let yourself take as long as you need to grieve. The stages of grief include but are not limited to, denial, anger, guilt, remorse, loneliness, fear and acceptance. This could very well begin when we know the pet must be put down.