My husband was evacuated from London at age 4. It had an awful effect on him. And it drove his mother to a complete mental beakdown from which she never recovered. She was hospitalised for the rest of her life. When my husband eventually got to see her it was years later and she did not recognise him and told him to go away.
But it is strange that no-one mentioned the animals. And I have known a lot of people who lived during the war. So that is downright weird.
Dogs probably had it worse than cats. A cat could be kept 'because it controlled vermin' so that would be a good excuse to keep a cat. But apart from essential working dogs (guard dogs, sheep dogs etc) many dogs must have been killed.
I think the problem was seen as the idea that non-essential animals would eat up food which was rationed or in short supply. What a dog could eat in a day could have fed a child, for instance....
But I am sure the book explains it more in-depth.
I know one thing for sure. If Misty and I ever had to time-travel back to the war we would share rations!
But it is strange that no-one mentioned the animals. And I have known a lot of people who lived during the war. So that is downright weird.
Dogs probably had it worse than cats. A cat could be kept 'because it controlled vermin' so that would be a good excuse to keep a cat. But apart from essential working dogs (guard dogs, sheep dogs etc) many dogs must have been killed.
I think the problem was seen as the idea that non-essential animals would eat up food which was rationed or in short supply. What a dog could eat in a day could have fed a child, for instance....
But I am sure the book explains it more in-depth.
I know one thing for sure. If Misty and I ever had to time-travel back to the war we would share rations!
