{"id":24641,"date":"2020-05-21T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=314710"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:47","slug":"veteran-and-his-loyal-dog-pass-away-within-hours-of-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/veteran-and-his-loyal-dog-pass-away-within-hours-of-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran and His Loyal Dog Pass Away Within Hours Of Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Hove was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, family and friends rallied to help the Air Force veteran-turned-assistant fire chief navigate this difficult time. But nobody was more supportive than Daniel\u2019s loyal dog, Gunner, an 11-year-old lab who rarely left<\/a> his owner\u2019s side.<\/span>Photos of Daniel\u2019s final years show the loyal pooch snuggling beside his human bed in bed and curling up on his lap, despite being a 90-pound dog. No matter what happened, Gunner made sure he was never more than a few inches away.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Heather Nicoletti<\/a><\/span>\u201cThey were best buddies till the end,\u201d Daniel\u2019s daughter, Heather Nicoletti, told Kare 11<\/a>. \u201cThey were hunting buddies, they went everywhere together.\u201d<\/span>So nobody was surprised, really, that when Daniel lay lying, his loyal dog suddenly fell ill, too.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cWhen my dad would get agitated, the dog would be agitated, my dad was restless, the dog was restless,\u201d his daughter said, remembering how her father and Gunner had always been in sync. \u201cMy dad was unresponsive, the dog was unresponsive. So once we saw how the dog was doing\u2013he wasn\u2019t moving much anymore, not doing well\u2013 we knew, it was coming.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Heather Nicoletti<\/a><\/span>One day, as the old dog grew increasingly listless and his arms started swelling, Heather knew it was time, sadly, to put Gunner down. \u201cI called the vet clinic I used to work at,\u201d she said<\/a>, \u201cthey got me in right away and I rushed him up there, put him to sleep. And about an hour and a half later, my dad was gone too.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>But as distraught as she was about losing her father \u2014 a loving parent, loyal veteran, beloved community member, and a faithful mentor and friend to everyone he met \u2014 Heather took comfort in the fact that that her dad, at least, never had to say goodbye to his beloved dog. Such a separation would have been equally harrowing for Gunner, who could never bear to be far away from his best human friend.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Heather Nicoletti<\/a><\/span>\u201cI had said I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to be more traumatic for him,\u201d Heather said<\/a>. \u201cTo try to take him away to end\u2013to put him to sleep\u2013 to end his suffering, or if you let him live through dad dying. I think either way it\u2019s going to kill him. We knew they were going to go together. We just didn\u2019t know it was going to be hours apart.\u201d<\/span>\u201cGunner could not be without my dad,\u201d Heather said<\/a>. \u201cI think he chose to go with him.\u201d<\/span>
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When Daniel Hove was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, family and friends rallied to help the Air Force veteran-turned-assistant fire chief navigate this difficult time. But nobody was more supportive than Daniel\u2019s loyal dog, Gunner, an 11-year-old lab who rarely left his owner\u2019s side.Photos of Daniel\u2019s final years show the loyal pooch snuggling beside his human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45653,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions\/45653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}