Tucker Budzyn, viral Golden Retriever sensation, dies at 8 after cancer diagnosis

Tucker Budzyn, the Michigan-based golden retriever who became one of the internet’s biggest canine stars, has died after a short battle with cancer.He was 8.Tucker’s owner, Courtney Budzyn, revealed that her beloved pooch died on Wednesday — less than a week after she shared he had been diagnosed with lymphoma.“I thought that was the last sad video I was gonna make, but it’s not … Tucker’s gone,” Budzyn said Saturday in a tearful Instagram video as she held a box that appeared to contain his ashes.“Tucker passed away Wednesday, unexpectedly.

He was doing really with treatment, but we didn’t know he had lymphoma in his intestines.Since the chemo was working so good and he was going into remission, it left a hole in his intestine where the cancer was, and he got an infection that seemed to hit him overnight.”Budzyn publicly announced Tucker’s cancer diagnosis on Aug.

30, two weeks after she learned of the news from veterinarians.Tucker was said to be in “partial remission” after one week of treatment and could have had another one to three years based on his treatment plan.However, Tucker’s condition suddenly worsened Wednesday morning, prompting Budzyn to take him to the vet, where he was given antibiotics and fluids, but complications from the cancer became too much.

“His temperature kept rising, and there was nothing — nothing was changing it.We had to let him go.

Tucker, I love you so much,” Budzyn said.“There’s nothing in this world that I wouldn’t have done for him … It feels like I lost a body part.”Budzyn, who adopted Tucker in 2018, initially considered simply posting a photo of Tucker to announce his death but decided to explain what had happened to the millions of people who had followed him for years.“I’m so sorry, guys.

I know he was yours, too,” she said.“The past three weeks have been the time of his life.

We went to the park several times and he peed on every single tree he could.He went swim...