PHILADELPHIA (KYW) – A Philadelphia woman is looking for a photographer who captured her beloved dog’s last walk.

Kristina Cusenza said she was walking her dog Weston when a man asked to take their photo.

It turns out that photo is the last one she and the 13-year-old dog mix took together.

Weston died just hours later.

Now she hopes to find the photographer who preserves one of their last memories.

“He’s been my best friend for 13 years,” Cusenza said.

Cusenza has spent a lot of time reflecting these days. That’s what happens when you lose a pet that, like Weston, is related to Cusenza.

“He just became this, this light in my life,” she said.

On September 12, the couple made one of their last memories together, walking through Fairmount and stopping at the corner of 26 and Brown Street.

Weston had been sick and needed a break.

“And someone asked if they could take my photo. So I looked up and said, ‘Sure,'” Cusenza said.

Cusenza said a few hours later she took Weston to the vet and had the hard conversation that it was “probably time to say goodbye.”

“Because he was clearly having a hard time,” she said. “And I didn’t want him to suffer anymore.”

Now Cusenza thinks about how unaware she was of the meaning the photo of her and Weston would have during their walk.

“What I didn’t know at the time was that this would be the last photo of my dog,” she said. “And that would be our last walk together.”

But Cusenza had not been given the photographer’s name. She couldn’t even look at him properly.

So she turned to social media, hoping a Facebook post might help if people knew what Weston meant to her.

Weston was a rescue that Cusenza fostered, fell in love with, and eventually ended up adopting, as so many foster homes fail.

And he came into her life at just the right time.

“He was born the day after my mother died. And so I felt like it was a gift from the universe, a gift from my mom, like, ‘Hey, you could really use a buddy right now,'” Cusenza said.

Now that Weston is gone, Cusenza can use all the memories of her buddy, even a blurry photo.

“If you’re there, Mr. Photographer. Please contact me even if the photo is bad and you are not happy with it,” she said. “It doesn’t even matter to me. I would like to see it.”

Cusenza said the photo of Weston’s last walk is especially meaningful because it was their walks together that helped her get moving again after her mother’s death.

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