This is the bird show.

Parents, I need you to learn from my mistake.

If you have a pet that is about to cross the rainbow bridge, I'm going to give you some

tips on how to relay that message to your child because I did and I did not do it correctly.

All right.

So our old man, Leroy Brown, 17 years old, he has crossed the rainbow bridge. And I was doing, I'm not going to call it research, because I feel like the word research should be relegated for like scientists. I was doing a lot of Googling, all right? Reading articles about how you should relate to young kids that this is happening.

Like the best practices to get them to understand what is happening.

Should they be there?

Should they not be there?

How should you tell them?

And so from everything that I read online, it was like, because, you know, Jimmy is for and kind of has an understanding, yes, you

should give them the opportunity to say goodbye.

No, they don't need to be actually present when the act happens.

And you have to be very plain with your language.

So go ahead and give you the trigger warning here because you know we're talking about pet loss. You have to be very plain with your language. So go ahead and give you the trigger warning here because you know we're talking about

pet loss.

You have to be very plain with your language.

You can't be like, Leroy's going to go to sleep now because then your kid's going to

think, well, when I go to sleep, I'm never going to wake up again.

So you can't say that.

You literally have to be like, Leroy's going to die. And it's just so weird because that's not how you,

like,

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