What do you usually do when your pet dies?

Answer 1

Bury it or if it's a fish, flush it.

Answer 2

We built a circle garden around my dogwood tree in the front yard and bury all the small animals and fish that had died in there. All our large pets, the neighbors dog, the squirrel my son saw get hit are buried in my back yard on the hill. The first buried there, was my mother's dog she gave me (she moved and couldn't keep her) had a stone marker with her name hand carved in it by me. We know where each and every animal was buried. We have even buried our 4 goats we lost out there too. My family will talk about the pet with each other, remembering little things about him/her. I found this is the best way to get through things. My now 19 year old son lost his rabbit, white angora albino male, of over 7 years to cancer (we never he had it either) just before Thanksgiving '05, it upset him so bad that he snapped on someone at work that kept harassing him, but tried to apologize, got fired due to his actions. His bosses never asked him why, they just fired him. He still hasn't really gotten over losing the rabbit. We bought a new rabbit last early December, a female, black short hair and he won't even look at it or go in the room where it is. Someday I hope, he'll come around, she's a very sweet rabbit.

My user ID name I use, Wolfinator, is used in memory of a crippled female 11 month old kitten I had that passed suddenly (she suffered 2 strokes and was partly paralyzed on her left side since 2 days old. I hand raised her and gave her the breath in her body that saved her life when the first stroke stopped her heart. She never had cat instincts except for one, she hated canines and would claw my wolf hybrid every chance she had. She was dubbed the wolfinator and when she died I decided to honor her memory with her nickname as my user ID on everything. However there have been some people who have taken this name too, not kowing the meaning of the name and the way I feel about being able to borrow it from my kitten.

Answer 3

I have all of my pets that I have lost privately cremated. I found a large ceramic vase where I keep all the remains and it is on display in my living room. I also have a printed copy of the Rainbow Bridge poem framed and next to the vase.

I also made what I call a memory bowl. It's a glass bowl with black river rocks in it. In the center of the bowl is a tea candle. All of my pets that have passed on and have their names on the rocks and I light the candle as an additional way of remembering them

Answer 4

I never thought I would cry, but I did when I had a cat that got so crippled that she needed to be put to sleep. I let her go the way of the two before, the vet took care of them (cremation). When her sister died it was at home, and I took her to a hillside on my brother's property wrapped in a blanket, and buried her. He neither indulged me nor criticized me, he only made his land available and I was welcomed to it.

Answer 5

I cry for a while but try to do things to keep my mind off it, I try to remember all the good times, and try to imagen the pet in heaven learning to use it's new wings and wondering why it has a odd gold donut above it's head and if it would try to eat a donut then imagen it trying to figure out how to get the odd golde donut.

Answer 6

grieve, cry, be sad, remember all the good times i had with that pet and then go out and get a new one to love or take care of the ones i still have.

Answer 7

when we had our bonnie blue put down the vet buried her in his pet cemetary where he has buried other animals that were his patients I mourned her for a long time but that act of kindness was a comfort to me he even sent us a sympathy card when he put her down he was crying too telling us that she was a wonderful dog and there was nothing we could have done to prevent her demise

Answer 8

Besides mope around and cry cry cry, I have him or her individually cremated and keep their ashes with me, I prefer that over burial because if I move, I can take the ashes with me and they will never be left behind.

Answer 9

Our family dog just had to be put to sleep. We were with her until she took her last breath and then we buried her in the backyard so that she would be near us , even in death.

Answer 10

my cat flounder just recently died so we had a funeral at a local pet funeral. after the funeral we had her cremated and put her ashes in the Chesapeake bay

Answer 11

Cry! then i have to get another dog and start that process all over again.