[Springlands]

I had heard before about how pets were culled during WW11 but this article from the BBC brings it home.   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24478532

[snowdrops]

I've never heard of it or ever considered how pets would have been fed,how very sad.

[Kate and her Ducks]

Not sure I can bring myself to read it. One of my mum's earliest memories was being at a mothers meeting where the speaker was a butcher teaching them how to tell the difference between rabbit and cat so they weren't ripped off!

[joyfull]

aww that was awful to read but thanks to the likes of Battersea and the Duchess of Hamilton some were saved.

[spottymint]

My mum was a kid in the war, she told me 2 stories,

My aunt rehomed a dog from a shelter, one day a man in uniform (soldier) shouted out a name, the dog responded by running to him, it was the man who gave him up.

The other is, her brother was born in 1945, the midwife would not have dogs in the house, so her mum had them "put to sleep", the day he was born, a different midwife turned up to the birth. 

[Auntiemogs]

I can't read it either I'm afraid (love my fluffies). 

Mum told me about their pet rabbit.  My Nan paid a neighbour a shilling (a lot back then) to kill it for the festival dinner, but no-one could eat it, so the neighbour ended up with a shilling and a rabbit...