Haha, I know what you mean. When my youngest was 6 or so, he had a pet hermit crab. Well damn, the thing died so we got another at the shop and left the empty shell from the old crab. We passed it off as Hermie, the crab's name, for while. Then he found it wasn't really Hermie and that he died, we were crying, my son and I. Nothing worse than seeing your kids cry for something like that.