Mine has been tolerant. I usually don't tell the whole story to save a city girl the trauma.
"Why are there two piglets in a protien tub by the wood stove?"
"They looked like they weren't going to make it so I brought them in for the night."
I didn't mention the sow and seven others had died. I did the next day, but I'd just spent too much time with my arm up the south end of a nearly dead sow trying to save some cash. I didn't want to listen to her sniffle and talk about how she was sad. It's a hog farm. In the one that's sad. That was revenue!
I also tend to just say "Oh, that (insert animal here) died. On the farm it's never that simple. She's caught on that she usually doesn't want to know if I had to knock it on the head or shoot it.
If it happens between 9-5 and I can get it cleaned up then it doesn't count. Two years ago March we had a freak late snow storm during calving. I had two nearly dead calves in the kitchen on the floor with the heat turned up by 10 am. I sat for a while and kept rubbing them cause they kept forgetting to breathe. I went out to finish chopping ice (seriously, it was 30 minutes tops) and came back in the house to find both of them teetering around the kitchen making an ungodly mess. That one is still a secret.
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