First pet

"Describe the first pet you remember having."

My first pet was a little beta fish named "Blueboy" (he was blue). My grandma and I went to the pet store for my birthday and she bought him for me; I was like, Won't mom be mad? will she care? Grandma just said "No she won't mind." I kept him in a glass vase with a plant in the top and rocks in the bottom. I kept it on the kitchen windowsill and green algae started to grow inside the vase; Blueboy's health gradually declined and he perished after a few months or so. Once when I was cleaning out his cage and transferring him from the vase to a cup, he flopped out onto the counter. I scrambled to scoop him back up screaming No no no!! I finally got him back into the cup where he shakily swam around with a torn tail. He seemed to recover just fine.