Yes, not knocking it, apologies if it came across as such.
My BIL was a landscape gardener and took his Springer Spaniel to work, while he was elsewhere in the garden it pulled a rabbit out of its pen in the garden and deaded it.
He had no choice but to front up, but the clients said it was their child’s who had long since lost interest and they were fed up with caring for it themselves, so didn’t really mind.
They just told the kid it had died of natural causes.