Remembering Jett

Jett Carlin aka Jetty Jett

June 16, 2010 - July 10, 2025

We will never forget you and everything you taught and gave to us over the years we spent together. All the laughter, all the joy, all the calm moments spent just enjoying each others company, our walks, car rides, and all the tears shed together since you left.

We will never forget the way you immediately won your big sister, Julie Bean, over by incessantly cleaning her face until she chased you out of sheer desperation and how you always slowed down so she could catch up with you. We will never forget the way you would use mommy's stomach as a rebounding board when you got the zoomies and made us all belly roll by not slowing down or missing a step. We will never forget how excited you would get to go in the car and how you would walk behind mommy and jump up and push my butt with your paws to hurry me on. We will never forget your favorite word from us was “cookie” and all the excitement that always ensued. We will never forget how you knew us so well that you were always ready for what was next even if we never said a word…your observations were enough and said volumes about how well you studied us. We will never forget how you always appeared by our side when one of us was feeling down or depressed and would stretch your tiny little paw out to touch us as we cuddled, pet, and loved on you. We will never forget your ever so light, satisfied sighs that told us how content and happy you were as we stretched out together, cuddling, while we stroked your head and body and told you what a good boy you were. We will never forget your soft, loving, gentle eyes that always told us you saw us for who we are and loved us beyond our flaws, unconditionally. We will never forget how in our last moments together you looked straight into our eyes communicating your love and trust and nuzzled your snout into our outstretched hand, one last time, as if to say everything was okay, even in our goodbye.

Nothing is the same since you left and we know God put you in our life to remind us of truths that are beyond this world. In a world that often can be harsh and crippling you gave us a soft place to land. You reminded us that we are loved even when we feel unlovable. That we are seen and important when we feel invisible. That we are needed when we feel useless or without purpose. You reminded us of so many beautiful truths in a world that can often be full of heartbreak and despair. But you, you reminded us daily of the beauty that can often go unseen if we let the hardships distort our view. You reminded us of all the beauty we are surrounded with if we can only remember to see it. We will never forget your sweet presence, the lessons we learned with you, or how you communicated them with love and acceptance of where we were at in every moment and every situation. Because of you we, and the course of our lives, are forever altered.

Your life intermingling with ours has been such a precious gift and we know you are made perfect again - free from disease, pain, and suffering. I don’t know that we will ever stop mourning your loss but what I do know is that our love for you has continued to flourish even though you aren’t physically with us anymore because love, love is enduring, and yours was made perfect. So even in our sadness and pain, hope is alive and well. Rest easy Baby Dog, and have fun keeping Julie Bean occupied in the great expanse above until we meet again.

All our love forever,

Mom & Dad