Parents put down the dog without telling us?

[pilotscat]

Hello, so just to preface, our family has had issues and disagreements with our mom and stepdad for the past year or so religion wise and finances with renting.  Anyways, just this week, they decided to have the family dog (who lived at their house) euthanized, it was indeed sick.  I am the only one out of my siblings that believes the dog was sick and believe it was humane to put it down and put it out of its misery. However, they did this without telling us.. so nobody got to say goodbye.  I don't agree with keeping it a secret from us.  Everyone else seemed to  had wanted to be selfish and let the dog live and suffer. I think thats why our parents decided to do it and not tell anyone.  Now because this happened I'm afraid the family is permanently torn apart. My siblings refuse to speak to our parents anymore. I am the only one talking to them and they are starting to villainize me too thinking i'm siding with them.  I am probably losing some of my family because of differing opinions surrounding this tragedy.  I am not sure if any of you have gone through something this messed up.  But I need some advice cause this is horrible that it's happening right before the holidays too.  I doubt the other kids will ever forgive them for doing this.  But, will this ever get better? Or are we done being a family?  I'm worried that this is the end.  

[Batya33]

I'm so sorry for the loss of your dog and I agree your parents should have told everyone in advance.

[Seraphim]

I am sorry for the loss of your dog. I think it is best to stay out of “ agreeing “ with anyone . 

[catfeeder]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Your parents are grieving too, and they likely didn't have the bandwidth to argue with anyone given the urgency of the poor animal's suffering. But I'd stay out of this and demonstrate only respect for everyone and their feelings as individuals in this moment.

Time heals, but don't compound the problem by trying to play messenger--we all know what happens to messengers.

My heart goes out to you.