Kelsea Ballerini has a sad update about her favorite pup.
The “Cowboys Cry Too” singer shared that her beloved dog Dibs—whom she named after her 2014 song—was diagnosed with cancer, which has made focusing on her upcoming album Patterns difficult.
“i feel pretty disingenuous promoting this album and tracklist reveal (which i am so, so proud of),” Kelsea wrote on Instagram Stories Aug. 28, “without updating you on my sweet dibs health.”
The 30-year-old explained that in “the last few days we have discovered that dibby has inoperable cancer in his heart.” Luckily, he’s not in pain and she added that it hasn’t spread further, so now she and Dibs’ doctors are planning their next steps.
“We’re going to start him on the ‘big’ meds,” she wrote, “to try to make sure he can have as many comfortable and happy days (weeks, months) left as possible.”
And Kelsea is incredibly thankful to her mom Carla—joking that Dibs “stans grandma”—as well as her boyfriend Chase Stokes, whom she calls “the greatest dog dad in the world.”