“I kept saying, ‘You made it buddy,'” she said, “You made it.” O’Connell says she’ll never forget the smile on Charlie’s face. “It’s hard to look at them without crying every time,” she said. And pictures O’Connell says are “priceless.” “It was a beautiful moment,” O’Connell said.īut Charlie didn’t leave without giving them the one last gift of his presence on a really special day. “James and I dropped to our knees and started crying,” she said.Ĭharlie died eight days after their wedding, surrounded by his loving family in front of a fireplace. Lloyd, 38, carried the 80-pound labrador mix down the aisle. “The amazing human that she is, scooped him up and carried him” Dziuvenis said. So when it came time for Charlie to walk down the aisle, Katie Lloyd, the bride’s sister and maid of honor, stepped in. The wedding took place at 9,000 feet near Buena Vista, and Charlie became tired. “But the excitement and elevation was too much for him.” “He was playing with kids before,” photographer Jen Dziuvenis said. “(Gavin) grew to love him just as much as I did,” she said, “(Charlie) was a symbol of the coming together of the family,” she said.Ĭharlie was active and playful during the hours before the wedding. In the five years since she had met Garvin, Charlie had fit right in with Garvin and his sons. To have Charlie at her wedding to now-husband James Garvin was important to her.
“It had been four months of watching him deteriorate,” she said. “I adopted him as a puppy,” she said, “I was 19 years old.”Īs much as she wanted him to be with her forever, she didn’t want to extend his life in suffering. So when she learned her canine companion of 15 years was dying of a brain tumor, she was devastated. was held entitled to Court of Appeal laid down that a cominission will not the. “We had tons of adventures together,” she said. Parliament, with power to carry on business anywhere may prove against a.
Charlie was Kelly O’Connell’s “best fur friend.” Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.īUENA VISTA, Colo. Visit JenDz Photography at her website here.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Licking him and licking him and licking him."įollow JenDz Photography on Facebook here. He just kept licking Charlie after we put him down. "He's been lying around, kind of depressed," she said. Pan, her husband's dog, seems to be grieving as well, O'Connell says. "Obviously being a vet, I've let many dogs go." But when it came to Charlie, "it was just way too hard.
Though O'Connell and her husband are both vets, they had someone come to their house and put him down. "She was not going to let anyone get him." she just scooped him up," O'Connell said. "I don't know if it was an adrenaline rush. That's when the maid of honor lifted him in her arms. Garvin's dog, Pan, a golden retriever, was also a part of the procession.Īfterward, as the bridal party began to file out, Charlie was unable to stand up. His seizures had been coming fast and furious, and she didn't want him to suffer.īut he perked up, and his seizures abated and O'Connell and Garvin, her soon-to-be husband, happily walked down the aisle with Charlie. There was nothing to be done, O'Connell said, except to make him comfortable and give him medication for the seizures.Ī week before her September wedding, O'Connell despaired she would have to put Charlie down. It was on a run, in April, when Charlie had a seizure and a subsequent trip to the vet showed he had a brain tumor, O'Connell said. He loved running with his owner, and could do 20 miles in his prime. "There was just some reason that he was mine," she said, trying to explain how she knew at once that she just had to have Charlie. But then she set eyes on Charlie and said to herself, "that's my dog." Kelly was 19 and living with her parents while studying to become a veterinarian. She was working in an animal shelter in Buffalo, N.Y., when someone brought in a chocolate-colored Lab that had been abandoned in a shopping cart amid freezing temperatures in a parking lot.
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