How do you tell your kids it is time to put the family pet down?

Our cat is diabetic and on insulin for about two years now. We have switched to no grain food and do the shots twice a day. He has loss a ton of weight and all was well until recently. He is peeing all over the place again. We have upped the insulin had him checked for UTI. He does nothing but sleep and barley eats. Because he is peeing everywhere he has been regulated to the basement and front all where if he has an accident it won't get on furniture or carpet. I feel like his quality of life is poor now and it is time to put him down. He is just over 11 How do I tell the kids.Nyan it is called hospice where people stop all life furthering treatment s and go for comfort care until they pass essentially speeding up the end because treatment is going no where Also I love my cat but I not treating him like a person because he is a cat Finally I have no space to set up a room like that really who does

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You tell them the truthDon't tell them nonsense like the pet when to a better place, that it went to the 'farm or over the rainbow bridge or when t to god and other silliness. You need to tell them the simple all out truth. The kids will be better for it then you telling them a make believe story. Tell them the dog is very sick and will not get better and he is very old for a dog and you have to take hm to the vet to have it euthanized. Don't use the terms put to sleep. It often makes kids frighted to go to sleep

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• Explain that he is very sick, and will be in a better place. That he doesn't deserve sickness. And let them say their goodbyes before it all happens.
• Tell them he's in pain and the vet will give him a shot to make him not suffer anymore. If you are religious you can include that in your explanation.
• Just sit then down and explain that he is in pain and suffering and that he will be in a better place and will not be in pain anymore then maybe explain that all the vets do is give him a needle and he goes to "sleep" and won't wake up then let them say their goodbyes
• You should discuss the situation with the vet, who would be better qualified to determine if the cat should be put down. If he/she decides this is the best thing to do, tell you kids that cat was sick and in terrible pain and has gone to Animal Heaven, where God, and the angels will look after him.
• No matter how you put it they will still be sad...So treat him like a human.make a special big room for him, and place the floor with sand or grass, believe that he can still be fine and live till his own will.
• Sorry you and your cat are going through this If you want to go another way, you could treat diabetes the way it should be treated. And that's not a jab against you, you are doing what the vet told you to do. But there is a better way to treat diabetes in cats, it dose take work, more than just giving two shots a day. It's called Tight Regulation (TR) first you need to feed a low carb food (>10% carbs) NO DRY FOOD, you also need to test your cats B/G's before giving insulin ( the same way people do ) than you give the right amount of insulin for what there B/G's are. There is a site called Diabetic cat care http://diabeticcatcare.com/forum/index.php If you would like to join (its free) you could try this before putting you cat down.