it is a tough thing for them to understand. My great granddaughter is an extremely practical child and she got this figured out by 3, but I think having pet gravestones where she can visit really helped. Her mom and her made concrete stepping stones decorated with glass mosaic bits for several of them and I think it helped the process a lot. At 6, she still says “can we go visit Sammy and Charlie?” and heads off to where they are buried and their markers.
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Thank you so much we’re thinking of a memorial tree as well. My wife is going to love this idea. It’s right up her alley.
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@KenM , we got kits like this
Milestones Mosaic Stepping Stone Kit
And made one for each of the critters, each our own design. Since the great grandbaby helped, it gave her a way to sort it out.
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Thanks again, Honey passed this afternoon and I’m getting a spot set up for her memorial.
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@KenM, sorry to hear that, glad Honey had you to love her.
They do mean a lot to us. 
Until a few months ago, I had 5 dogs, 4 motion spots w/cameras, 2 doorbell cameras (only 2 of my doors are operable w/ anything short of a battering ram). It’s intentional. It creates a funnel with only one way to reach the living area where anything worth stealing is. Have a 300 pound steel and marble kitchen island on wheels about 5 feet from the top of stairs, that I can use as cover and push down stairs to block or make it very difficult to come up. Hurricane windows throughout.
1 Jack Russell, he’s the noisemaker, 1 Pit big baby but looks fierce, 1 American Bulldog K-9 trained, 1 Rottweiler K-9 trained, 1 Siberian Husky big baby, but when you see a flood of dogs coming down at you and 3 have big boy voices, and the Bulldog and Rotty, are not coming to play. I have had exactly 1 person in 16 years make it to rattle the doorknob. Rotty and Bulldog live with my daughter now. Found a good home for the Pit. He was a long term project foster. So right now I only have the Husky and Jack Russell. Will probably go rescue some more house feels empty with only 2 puppers.
Still have the tech and I am home pretty much all the time. Jack Russell barks at anything, and everything and if he runs out I know to start checking camera’s.
This pretty much sums up my feelings on breaking into my home.
The above is a joke, but it does encapsulate my feelings if you have come to do harm to me and mine.
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Beautiful GSDs folks. No Rottie’s in here?
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How are the puppies??
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