Remembrance Day-the animals who served

[Catherine]

There is no doubt it was a very hard time, but it sounds like your family was resourceful. Some of the stories I heard from my father were pretty intense. The stories I have heard from other war veterans were as bad or worse.

It just seems incredible that so many people rushed out and killed their pets before anything had actually happened. As you say, it was no compulsory. The numbers are staggering. I wonder how the veterinarians coped with the work.

I hope the whole story comes out and people talk about it. That is the best way to prevent something like this ever happening again. I am sure people would never turn their children over to strangers for evacuation again. Sometimes the people in authority do not have the right answers.
Is there a memorial to the pets who died?