Last evening in Oklahoma City, Hercules @AKCHercules and I drove to say goodbye and farewell for now to Daisy Lu and witness her leaving here to eternal paradise in Heaven awaiting us one day. #PrayforDaisy #PrayforHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX 🖕#FuckCancer #RIPDaisy🌈

Animal cruelty isn't a footnote—it’s a crime linked to domestic violence, drug trafficking, and gun violence. Honored to join @SecRollins and @SecKennedy for today’s Animal Welfare Strike Force roundtable, bringing together the DOJ and USDA to identify, refer, and prosecute these cases at the federal level. Special thanks to @LaraLeaTrump and Lauree Simmons of @BDRRescue for their steadfast advocacy. Animals cannot speak for themselves. We will speak for them. 🐾🇺🇸

Good morning everyone! Have a great weekend. ♥️🐶🐾🙏 #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #SaveHercules #saturdayvibes #PrayforHercules #doglovers

To all Americans who have voiced concerns about protections for our dogs: we have heard you loud and clear. 🐾🇺🇸 Today, I am proud to announce that, in response to more than 7,500 public comments, USDA is taking additional steps to strengthen animal welfare protections. 🚨 Deploying the USDA Animal Protection Bureau to target bad actors and illegal activity 👮‍♂️Increasing Inspector General staffing by 20% 📬 Delivering 2,000 notices reminding regulated breeders of their responsibility to provide humane care ⚖️ Tightening oversight, raising standards, and strengthening accountability across the system Great discussion with @LaraLeaTrump , @SecKennedy, and @JudgeJeanine about the work ahead. Animal welfare is not up for negotiation. Americans should know that at USDA, we will always stand up for man’s best friend. 🐶🇺🇸

Nervous. First appointment at new oncologist @PetCureOnc in Mansfield. Hercules is ready. #dogs #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dog #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #Cancersucks 🖕##FuckCancer 🐶🐾♥️🙏👊

Lola is on a mission to evict a rude bone can-sir from her shoulder, and she’s almost at her goal! This sweet senior pittie still loves demanding breakfast, supervising snacks, and soaking up the sun — but her next vet appointment is costly. If you’ve followed her adventures, you know she’s got a lot of opinions and a big personality. Please consider sharing or donating to help cover her treatment costs so she can keep doing her favorite things. Even a quick share can make a difference in helping Lola get the care she needs! gofund.me/b5035053a

Attention friends! @TheHerdHouse has a friend that needs help. Especially, if you helped us and have the ability to help another friend of Tine and The Herd please donate and or share. Thank you. ❤️ 🙏 🐶🐾 #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dogrescues #dog #doglovers Happy, a joyful 5-year-old cocker spaniel, is fighting to stay healthy after cancer treatment. His vet bills have reached over $6,100, and I’m sharing to help cover these costs so he can continue his follow-up care. This fundraiser has just passed the 50% mark, and every bit of support makes a difference. Please consider donating or sharing to help Happy get the care he needs to stay strong. gofund.me/6c2cfc9ac

Anticipatory grief. Never heard that term until recently. I didn't realize I had it once when my mother had ovarian cancer. Now cancer has come back in my life and I am walking around trying photograph and video tape as much as I can wondering is this going to be his last. I was there for my mother and now I am for my boy. I have mostly blocked out the last year with my mother when she had stage 4 cancer after her second relapse and was told there was nothing else they could do. I had anticipatory grief. Like I said, back then I didn't realize what that meant or heard of it. Finally, in the hospice, after almost a month in hospice which is a long time, I didn't cry or was even sad when she passed. I admit it was almost like a relief because she wasn't in great pain anymore. At least with her I could tell how much pain she was in. Her last few days when she was doped up so much with morphine, I was told she can still hear me and to talk to her. Sometimes she would squeeze my hand to respond but not much the last night. I told my mom, it's okay, don't feel obligated to stay for us, it's time for her not us. It was okay to let go and be with God. Early the next morning, my father and I were with her and I woke up and it was quiet I held my mother's hand it was cold but I felt her arms and it was still warm slightly still. I knew she had just passed. With Hercules, it's very hard to tell. I don't know how much pain he is in. I can tell when he is nauseous, anxiety or lethargic. But not his pain. I know dogs can hide a lot of it. I wish he could tell me so I know when it's okay to tell him it's okay to leave us like my mother. He is not there yet, but I know the last ultrasound the cancer shrank some. But I also know eventually cancer will outsmart chemo. Then he will be like my mother in her last few weeks. But there's a wild card. My first oncologist said he could die suddenly. He could literally drop dead. There's two cancer tumors. One is seen and known what type of cancer. The other is blocking the adrenal gland and that's about all they know. Since it's near or possibly consuming the adrenal glands he can die suddenly I was told. Last night, after several months since Hercules has been sick and now I finally went out to go see the move The Odyssey. It's 3 hours long. I made myself go out, and left Hercules, Bijou and Milo at home. If you read the book The Odyssey you know Odysseus had a loyal dog. And there are other scenes with other dogs, of course I got distracted and thought about Hercules. I felt bad I wasn't with him or wondering if he was okay. Despite the movie being a very good movie I didn't really enjoy it because I had my mind on him. On the ride home I started to think whenever I see it again it will be a reminder of Hercules last part of his life. Anticipatory grief is real. And I know Hercules is going to leave us soon. There are good days and there are bad days. I am supposed to use a formula of how many bad days vs good days to determine when it's time to let him go. To be honest I am not sure anymore. I ask God to let me know since Hercules won't be able to possibly. People say I will know. Well, I don't. Does that make me a bad dad? Or am I making too much of It? I know I am putting myself out there. I am vulnerable. But, I am willing to do that for him because I want to be a better father for him. Thank you for reading. And thank you for being for Hercules in so many ways. God bless. 🙏 ❤️ 🐶. #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #Cancersucks 🖕 #FuckCancer

Succession. My baby brother Milo. Let me formerly introduce him. He is a very good boy. He has had a terrible past that he has escaped with us to join our Pack. He is in every way a part of our family now. He was discovered on social media on a fall Saturday evening in East San Antonio. In a park where a visiting couple from St. Louis, Missouri. They were visiting San Antonio for the weekend for a friend's wedding. The reception was in a public park and Milo was there begging for food. The couple noticed him and obliged. They pet him and he was enthralled they noticed him and stayed with them. Then after spending some time with him they realized he was a living on the streets. They did what most sensible people do they removed him the streets but instead of taking him to the shelter and surrendering him. A friend that was at the reception told them the San Antonio shelters are high kill shelters. Especially, surrendered ones. So they had their friend create a post on the app Nextdoor @Nextdoor. Daddy was scrolling while watching University of Texas playing and it peaked his interest. Daddy responded and agreed to take over fostering because the couple had to fly back on Monday back home. Daddy went to meet them and picked Milo up. The couple named him Churrito. When Daddy was on the way he already decided on Chooch. Chooch is legend on Instagram. They don't have an account here. But look up Eddie and Chooch and you will find him and his story, sad in the end. He had cancer too in the abdomen like me but go look up his great story. It was funny how he was both Churrito and Chooch at first. Daddy plan was just to foster not keep long term. Previously we helped another street dog in San Antonio named Blu. He had blue eyes. He is a good boy too. He hit the lottery with a rich family. Daddy was able to have someone adopt him in a few days. Daddy and Blu's daddy are still friendly and share stories about us. Well, Daddy and us would discover that Milo was destined to b with us even though he did get him intaked at San Antonio Humane Society @sahumane within a few weeks. Milo was named Romeo with the Humane Society. The Humane Society were able to get Milo adopted within a few days. Look at him, he's very soft on the eyes. But, the family never changed the microchip daddy had placed on him when Daddy took him to get neutered, vaccinated, tested and chipped. Milo was dumped again but in a nice neighborhood. One of the neighbors saw him and took him in and got him scanned and Daddy's info came up. The neighbor called Daddy and Daddy was shocked but immediately told her he would come get him. Long story short we were about to move to #FortWorth and didn't want a second or third time Milo was dumped and neglected. We took him! Milo was then set to be with us. God brought him back where he belonged and Daddy accepted it happily. Milo would be renamed from Chooch or Romeo. He was part of our Pack. We love him. And when I go to the rainbow 🌈 bridge, Milo will take my place. I asked him to take over my page. I ask you love him too like you loved me. He is my successor. Prince Milo. 👑 Below 👇 first two pictures is Milo when he was discovered with his red partially torn collar. Then the next is when daddy got him all cleaned up with his first new harness. Which Milo chewed up later 😩🤣🙄. Then the last is our video we made this morning. ❤‍🔥🐶🐾🙏…. #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #Succession #dog #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dogs #doglovers #FuckCancer 🖕#Cancersucks

More pictures of Milo when he was rescued off the streets. #SanAntonio

Happy #NationalDogDay 🐶🐾🐕🐩🐕‍🦺! #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #doglovers #rescuedogs #shelterdogs 🐶🐾♥️

Dat my brudder! ....Morning walk and swim with Milo. Now I have two swimmers in the family. Next time I will need to bring a towel! 💦🌊 #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #saturdayvibes #shelterdogs #rescuedogs 🐶🐾❤‍🔥🙏

I have been very busy with helping my nephew get the help we need. When he called me and he didn't speak and I can hear him crying I knew immediately what was wrong. I felt that back in June. And I am just trying to do the same steps we did last time with Hercules. We have been blessed to get a next day appointment in OKC that was referred from his vet and my oncologist here in Fort Worth just to get the needed tests and imaging completed for a consult and same day examination next Thursday here in Fort Worth. I was on the phone pretty much all morning until after lunch. I even called my nephew's ASPCA insurance Daisy has to make sure to know what his current deductible, total amount she is covered and to make sure they will cover an oncologist in another city and state. I know he isn't in the state of mind and wherewithal to do this on his own. He's 22 and still figuring life out let alone having a dog with terminal cancer now. This time next week they may tell us to let her go, or they can let us know what kind of hospice care we can give her. ❤️ 🙏 🐶 🐾

Hercules is doing better. His diarrhea is gone. He is off a bland diet, and his oncologist suggested to not worry about feeding the cancer so to speak. She said the cancer will find out what to eat on its own. That I should focus on Hercules' quality of life and let him go back to his regular diet. I agreed. Hercules quality of life is very important and as soon as his bout of diarrhea ended he was happy to eat his normal diet and treats. twitter.com/intent/tweet?lan… #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofx #dog ###doglovers

I miss you Mia aka Snow Cat my sweet girl. I only had you for 5 weeks as a foster hospice fail daddy. I know your father passed away with you and your siblings loyally being by his side. Then Austin Bulldog Rescue called me to see if I could pick you up at New Braunfels Humane Society. I wished I could have helped your siblings but I could only take you since I had Bijou and Hercules. First night you came to our room and came up our ramp to our bed and wanted to sleep with us instead of the bedroom I set up for you to decompress. I almost took you back to your room but you let me know you didn't want to be alone. That night you became part of our Pack. I was honored to be your daddy too. I wanted you just to get well and get nourished not knowing you already had a intestinal blockage that was going to take your life soon. The vet made the wrong diagnosis and by the time we got a second opinion with exploratory surgery it was more Humane to let you go since the blockage was not able to be fixed. I seriously thought when I left you early in the morning I would see you later that afternoon. It wasn't to be. I cried my eyes out and thank God Hercules and Bijou helped me that evening and to this day. Soon your brother Hercules will join you and please know one day Bijou and I will too. I love you my Snowy. Daddy will always love you. ❤️ 🙏 🐶 🌈 🐾 🕊️ #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dogrescues #dog #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #FuckCancer 🖕#FuckIntestinalBlockage #RainbowBridgeRemembranceDay

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Very proud to be an American, especially today, living with my babies and being free living in the best country that honors those that were killed on 9/11. 🇺🇸🙏🕊️ #911Remembrance #USA

Just now. Sleep well son. He had to take a break or pause from chemo since Wednesday. He has diarrhea and needs to reset his gut. Praying it works again. Chemo didn't seem to have much affect on him in June/early July but in late July we did our first reset. This is his second one. We will see how it goes. His new insurance term begins on the 1st of September. New premium and deductible so a lot out of pocket in August and beginning of September. So far we are good but looking down the road for October and November is unknown in many ways. We will let you know how it goes and if we need a new fundraising effort for Hercules by the end of September. I am concerned if he is up for another month of chemo and other meds. The Texas heat 🔥🥵 has been tough to deal with. We have had to take walks late at night and early in the morning before sunrise. It has taken a toll on our rest and sleep. We are hoping we can get rejuvenated with the cooler temps and get out of the house. We are so jealous of our Northern friends in very nice weather. As you know Bulldogs have a tough time in the heat to let alone a Bulldog with cancer taking chemo and pain meds and now having GI issues. I am not trying to be gloom and doom, but it has been a real challenge during one of the hottest summers in Texas in years. Just being realistic but still optimistic for Hercules and the rest of his family. Including our X and Instagram family. We love you and thank everyone who has donated to Hercules Gofundme and directly. It has helped us so much. I am praying for more time but importantly I have to balance his quality of life and remembering his two cancer tumors have a say too. Thank you and God bless. 🙏 ❤️ 🐶 🐾 #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #FuckCancer 🖕#Cancersucks

Night night! We take one last patio time before bed. 😴💤🛏️ #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #doglovers #Cancersucks 🖕#FuckCancer

I have some devastating and heartbreaking news to share. Hercules big sister and my first Bulldog Daisy @BrindleDaisy, was supposed to arrive a few weeks ago from Oklahoma where she is living with my nephew Alex. She has had an UTI infection for about 3 weeks that has prevented her from coming down. Then last week Daisy was to visit her little brother to support him and be here for his last few months. We were looking forward to seeing her. My nephew went to see the vet again and they took X-rays and they discovered cancer in her abdominal area and it has metastasized into her lungs. We have a ultrasound and FNA scheduled tomorrow to know more or less if she can do any palliative care and or get a soft exit too. The only good news is that she doesn't seem to be in pain right now. This has been a miserable Summer, first Hercules and now Daisy. God bless them both. Not sure if we will do another fundraiser for either yet. Should know by the end of next week. We have an appointment for Hercules' oncologist here in Fort Worth TX. Pray for us please. #PrayforDaisy #PrayforHercules #SaveHercules #dogs #dogsoftwitter #dogsofX #dog #Cancersucks 🖕#FuckCancer