What do/did you do when your first pet passed away?

[Mao]

I had a turtle for 4 years when I was a kid. I got him when he was just about a size of a coin, he grew up to be as big as my hand. I spent time with him everyday after school, so you can say that I was pretty much attached to him. His name was squirt, by the way.

I had a bad stiff neck one week, I couldn't really get out of the house without hurting myself, so I didn't see squirt during that time. My dad said the pain would be over after a week, so I was really looking forward to playing with him. The tragedy was he died the morning my stiff neck ended. I cried the entire day, I remember my grandmother crying along with me. But then my grandfather had a little talk with me, then all the crying stopped. We decided to paint a shoe box to serve as squirt's coffin, and we buried him in our front yard.