Last photo of Clancy
We delighted in sharing our home with Clamcy for 2.5 years. He developed congestive heart failure at age 12, but was doing fine with medications. Then December 26, 2002 we discovered a large tumor on his gum. The tumor was removed and biopsied right away, but it was malignant melanoma, a fast growing cancer, and there were cells at the edge of the tumor, meaning it had not all been removed. The tumor grew back even larger within two weeks. We made Clancy as comfortable as possible for his last weeks with us and let him go in February 2003. For all that he was with us such a short time, he had taken his place in our hearts and we mourned him as though we'd loved him from infancy.