Yet in the opening weeks of WW-II England put down nealy a million pets.

They expected a massive aerial bombing campaign, enormous casualty lists, and problems with feral cats and dogs gnawing on corpses.

The well known pictures of the London kids coming back from the countryside after the blitz threat lowered usually don't elucidate the followup to "Where's Grayfriar Bobby?" was too often "You did WHAT?!?!"

Even now the "official total" is listed as "50,000 pets died during the blitz",
but the BBC History links list 800K- 1 million killed to get ready for the blitz.

Jammer



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