Anything else I could've done?

Doooford

aliasojo wrote: »

Ditto. :undecided

I'm all for education but this is the kind of thing that would affect my daughter (in a bad way) for life. Of course many kids would be able to deal with this well, all depends on the character I guess.

Isn't it a good thing if it affect them though? It's all very well letting your children seeing you buy meat in Polyeurethplasticyolystyrene wrappers and thinking "I'll teach them one day".

By the way, I'm not mental and he's not going to be watching the branding and slaughter but he will get to see a pig go in alive and then the next day we'll get some sausages. So it'll be as sensitive as it can be. BUT, really, if we choose to eat meat I think it's a great education. Might even sell some cheap tickets if anyoe fancies a day out. Say £3 and you get a dozen sausages. It's a good money saving stroke education.

suki1964

Well you learn something new every day.

I never knew you took a dead cat to the vet either - and Id be interested on how many people did know that

Not sure the vet here would appreciate peeps turning up with the tens of cats killed on my road every week mind.

Here if they are found dead outside your house you bury them if you are bothered - or find a neighbour to do it for you.

Else they are left as rook/crow/magpie pickings

So good one OP for burying the wee thing.

aliasojo

Doooford wrote: »

Isn't it a good thing if it affect them though?

As I said, it depends on the character of the child.

I promise you I am not exaggerating when I say watching an animal being slaughtered would affect my daughter so badly that she would need professional help to deal with it. I do understand all children would not be like this though. It's just being able to correctly assess your own that's important.

However your 2nd post seems a bit different from the first....the first you said....

'I'm actually taking my family to watch 2 pigs of our neighbours be killed soon'

wereas you said in your second post...

'he's not going to be watching the branding and slaughter'

so that's a slightly different situation.