One of my favorite movie scenes is from Poltergeist where the mother finds the little girl's dead parakeet, and is all bugged out because she thinks it will traumatize the girl, so she tries to get rid of it and buy a new one before the girl gets home from school, only to have her come home early and they shoot this angle:
Then immediately switches to this canary funeral(canary in cigar box coffin) out in in the garden:
After the prayers they get up and walk away, and the little girl with a big smile says "Can we get a goldfish?" while the dog begins digging up the grave in the background...:)
Son’s cat died; buried in back yard. Was out with son in the yard and the dog dug up the carcass and was flipping it around, while I was trying to *save* son from the sight.
That didn’t work, son saw me looking over his shoulder, aghast.
We sat on the step and laughed while we cried.