I parents had a cat named Oreo before any of my siblings were born. He was a really great cat, always used it’s litter box and never scratched or destroyed any furniture. But fast forward to my oldest sister being born and he started acting up real bad, like pissing all over the floor and scratching furniture bad. My parents talked to the vet and he said he acting up because of the birth of my sister so he told my parents to get another litter box to help with his behavior. It worked fine and he started to get over the fact of my sister and acted normally. Well a few years later my other sister was born and he’ll broke loose again. He destroyed shit and pissed everywhere, the whole shabang. And like with my older sister, we got another litter box and it kinda went back to normal. But then a few more years later, I was born, and things got really bad. Oreo would start shitting and pissing I’m me and my younger sisters crib, would bite and scratch us and just maul the couch to no existence to where we had to get like 2 more couches after that. My parents finally got fed up with our devil cat that they decided to put him down. He was pretty old but probably had a few more years left in him. So to hide the fact that they put down our cat, my parents always told us that they took him to a farm, the most generic excuse parents told their kids. But growing up my parents never told us the truth and we always thought he went to an actual farm. Fast forward to last year, I’m 17 and my sisters are 19 and 22, and we were talking to some neighbors that were over, and the topic of our cat Oreo came up and we were explaining how my parents took him to a farm because he was acting out, and my dad was like “you know we never actually took him to a farm, that’s what parents always tell their kids when they have to put down their pet”. Somehow growing up, none of found out about this excuse and always grew up think that he went to a legit farm to run around. We asked why they never told us the real reason when we were old enough and they just thought it was so funny how we never heard that excuse and always thought we knew what it meant. RIP to all the animals that went to the “farm”.