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Went through this with my youngest son.
He held a baby chick one day and held it so tight he killed it.
2 months later he was playing with a lighter and burned 3 bedrooms out of the house last summer.
My mother in law freaked out and said we had the devils child and we had to start him on counseling. She was afraid he was starting a phsycotic path.
So after a year of doctors testing this kid we learned what he did was very normal for kids to do.
Afer spending thousands on doctors the results were:
1. he has a high IQ and is highly curious.
2. he started the fire because he's a kid and he didn't know any better.
3. he killed the chick because he was afraid the chick would fall so he held onto it tightly to prevent that not knowing the results would be killing the chick.
So to hear a 4 yo killed a hamster to me it's not so unusual. Maybe have her checked ... but in doing so be careful your not opening a pandora's box and telling the kid she will get special attention if she kills another animal ... because thats the real way serial killers start. They look for attention and when they get the wrong attention they continue looking for it.
If this was an isolated incident I wouldn't make much of it.
Now if you have fears this kid was molested thats a seperate incident all together. Keep the inceidents seperate and have the girl checked. Don't make a big deal of it until you know whether she has or not. If she has ... then it's time for blood from the mother fucker who did it. If she hasn't then all she should know is she went to the doctors for a normal checkup. Don't plant shit in her head and steal her childhood.
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