Replace: 8/28/24, 12:23 p.m. ET —After asking followers to ship prayers for her canine, Dibs, Kelsea Ballerini revealed that her pooch was recognized with most cancers.
“The previous few days we have now found that dibby has inoperable most cancers in his coronary heart,” she wrote through her Instagram Story on Wednesday, August 28. “He’s not in ache, and fortunately it hasn’t unfold additional.”
Ballerini mentioned that Dibs will start to take “‘massive’ meds to verify he can have as many comfy and glad days (weeks, months 🙏) left as doable,” and praised her veterinarians for being “superb.”
She continued: “My mother is right here (he stans grandma), and chase is the best canine dad on this planet. He’s getting further cuddles and kibbles from his little household.”
Ballerini famous that coping with Dibs’ well being has been a “complicated and emotional time,” including, “He’s been my child and my regular for the final 9 years and really a lot alongside this entire journey with us all.”
Ballerini concluded her replace by thanking her followers for his or her well-wishes. “He’s wagging his tail proper now little doubt saying thanks too,” she mentioned.
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Kelsea Ballerini is leaning on followers for assist amid a troublesome time for her canine, Dibs.
“My candy dibs wants massive prayers and therapeutic power despatched his means,” the nation star, 30, wrote through her Instagram Story on Sunday, August 25, alongside a photograph of her pet. “Ship our boy some love.”
Ballerini didn’t share specifics of Dibs’ situation together with her request for well-wishes.
Dibs, whom Ballerini adopted in 2015, has steadily appeared on her Instagram over time. The singer included snaps of herself and her canine on a stroll and Dibs taking part in within the pool in a Tuesday, August 20, Instagram slideshow, which she captioned, “Some 🐂 in your Tuesday.”
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Dibs and Chase Stokes’ canine, Milo, appeared alongside Ballerini in a celebratory Instagram submit final month. “Comfortable 4th of july!!!! makes me wanna sizzling canine reallll badddd,” Ballerini, who has been courting Stokes, 31, since 2023, captioned a pic of herself posing in a purple bikini, cowboy hat and cowboy boots in entrance of a pool.
Ballerini additionally runs Dibs’ personal Instagram account. “Reality: just one out of each 2 snow bunnies has hops. additionally reality: i’m a mannequin,” she captioned pics of herself and Dibs taking part in within the snow on January 15, the final submit shared on the account.
The Grammy winner adopted Dibs — who is called after her 2015 music of the identical identify — through the early days of her profession. “I’ve grown up with canine my entire life. Once I began touring, it was my first time actually being by myself. I used to be homesick typically, and I used to be like, ‘I actually need a canine,’” she defined in a 2020 Pedigree business.
She continued: “Dibs got here into my life after I obtained my first tour bus. I believe canine sort of make house wherever you’re, and so, for me, he’s all the time made it really feel like house. … The magic of a canine is simply the truth that they’re by your aspect it doesn’t matter what.”
One 12 months prior, Ballerini revealed that it took some time for Dibs to heat as much as her then-husband, Morgan Evans. “It took, like, two years for Dibs to be like, ‘Properly, guess you’re sticking round.’ However now, they’re the very best of mates,” she shared in a 2019 interview with the radio station Nation 97/1 HANK FM. “If Morgan’s on the bottom, Dibs will, like, sit on his lap. Like, he claims Morgan greater than he claims me now, which I’m sort of upset about, to be trustworthy. I needed them to get alongside, however I nonetheless needed to be his favourite. However I’m not anymore.”
The exes have been married from 2017 to 2022. Ballerini included her canine’s identify within the lyrics of her music “Penthouse,” which was featured on her post-divorce EP, Rolling Up the Welcome Mat.
“I purchased the home with a fence/ Sufficient room for some youngsters, a yard for Dibs,” she sings. “And I believed that may make all of it higher / And perhaps eternally wouldn’t really feel just like the partitions closing in / ‘Trigger how does that even make sense? / Now that I give it some thought, it by no means did.”
