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lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

What do people do when their pet dies? Tell their school? Bury it?

BigBuds · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Location: Changwon

Hey, this is Korea!

Cook it up and eat it, ummmmmmmm.

The Grumpy Senator · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Location: Up and down the 6 line

Would you ask your boss back home what to do with a dead pet?

samcheokguy · Joined: 02 Nov 2008 Location: Samcheok G-do

Back home, he'd have his vet handle it. Most do. Ask you vet. If you don't have vet, we know why it died. Unless the pet was fish. Flush the little buggers.

Fish Death
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/faustus/nicoldaquaria/euthanasia.htm

tefain · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Location: Not too far out there

teachergirltoo · Joined: 28 Oct 2006

I saw an older Korean couple bury their little dog in our local park under a tree and put a little cement headstone on the site. I think I may have seen some other options listed on animalrescuekorea.org.

Daegudavid · Joined: 08 Jun 2009

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Get it stuffed?

blurgalurgalurga · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

Ever see that weird Howard Hesseman/ Christian Glover movie, Rubin and Ed? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102817/ says, "Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ex-wife Rula and an elusive Andy Warhol critic."

You'll need a cooler, some ice, a shovel, and a nice spot. Find a forest somewhere maybe? Or perhaps a burial at sea? Maybe a viking burial on the Hangang...you'd have to be stealthy but it'd be a good way to send your furry pal on to Pet Valhalla.

Though Korea's very urban, nobody is ever more than an hour or so away from a wooded area, even if it's a small one. Hell, bury him under a tree on Nam-san.

Dazed and Confused · Joined: 10 Jan 2003

I had to euthanize a very sick kitty and the vet provided cremation service for a reasonable fee. I could have kept the ashes for an additional fee if I wanted.

FixedGearJerk · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Whatever you do, do it soon or your apartment might start smelling like my alley.

PigeonFart · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

To prevent your apartment smelling like the previous posters alley......put the pet in the freezer while you make your decision.

(I put my banana skins in the freezer and leave them there for weeks until there's enough to fill one trash bag.)

But take the pet out if you have guests over in the next few days, they'd get an awful shock if they saw open the fridge door.

Only joking. I don't know what you'd do in a situation like that. Leave it outside your noisy neighbors door, or stuff it in their letter box? I don't know.

Tell us what you decide to do. Smile