Some 7 years ago, me and my girlfriend got us a dog. It was a jack russel and we called him Oge. Times went by, the family exanded with 2 little children, both very fond of the dog. One day we decided to move all across the contry since me and the missus were done with university studies. We brought the dog along, but he didn't adjust well to the new location. Partially because he had to be left alone in the new apartment for exceedingly long periods of time.
The neighbours complained that he was howling and we too saw that he didn't really got the kind of stimulance (physically or mentally) that a dog needs. So, one night I called up my friend who had told me that his parents could take care of the dog for us and asked him to take us there.

The next morning I told the kids that Oge had gone to live with two older persons who lived on the country side and that he'd be much better of there 'cus he'd have all the space and interesting things he'd need. They even had a dachshound for him to make friends with. My olders child constantly talks about going to visit, but I reject the proposal since we don't have any car and I think it is better for the dog if he is let alone in his new setting.

Pretty soon my girlfriend came to realise that the scenarion I was telling were quite similar to the classic lie-to-children that parents pull whenever a loved pet is, how to put it, terminated. And I agree, it is, with the difference that this really happened.

Or did it!?!?