Lucas

With immense sadness, we’re sharing that our 2019 alumnus Lucas (formerly Lucious, aka Spinner) has passed away. He was blessed to be adopted by the infamous Parson family (aka Parson Posse) and we share their Jan. 24th tribute to Lucas…
“I shared last week that Lucas’s mast cell cancer had come back with a vengeance. At that time, we thought he might have a month but unfortunately this was the most aggressive tumor I’ve ever seen. By last evening the largest tumor had grown to the size of a small melon in the span of 10 days. The wonderful photographer Bill Reaves had reached out to me about doing a photo shoot with my dogs and we scheduled it for yesterday before we knew it would be Lucas’s last day. Ever since the recurrence of his MCT on Jan 13 we had been taking Lucas on daily walkies that he loved, went for pup cups, cheeseburgers, and chicken tenders and on his last day he had a professional photo shoot. 
Lucas was his usual energetic self yesterday spinning and eating like a champ. Matt and I left at 5:30 to grab a quick dinner and when we got back we knew something was really wrong. Lucas couldn’t sit or lay down, he was shaking, breathing hard, the tumor had grown even more and his gums were white and cold. I was texting with our amazing vet Dr Jackie Price Carter and we wanted to wait til this morning but Jackie said don’t let him struggle. Matt and I sat with Lucas and talked it over and knew it was cruel to let him suffer overnight so we loaded him up and headed to VEG. As usual we were welcomed by the incredible team at VEG who showed us and Lucas such kindness and compassion. They even fixed Lucas a forbidden foods charcuterie board complete with two chocolate chip cookies. Lucas passed so quickly and so peacefully with us talking to him and loving on him the whole time. 
As always, thank you to Southeast GSP Rescue for entrusting me with such special babies. Lukey joined the family in Aug, 2020 at age 10 and had a lot of anxiety issues as his prior life had been terribly unkind but we found what worked for Bukey and did everything we could to give him golden years that were safe and loved and happy. Thank you also to his foster mom, Debbie. You will be missed terribly Lukey Bukey! ”