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Given up twice, shelter dog with cancer completes his bucket list

Posted at 11:36 AM, Jan 16, 2017
and last updated 2017-01-16 12:48:37-05
(KPNX/NBC News) If your best friend had cancer you'd help him complete his bucket list. Now imagine your best friend is a dog.
 
Rocko is a shelter dog in Mesa, Arizona. He's been surrendered twice and now has terminal cancer, so some staff and volunteers at the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control are working on his bucket list.
 
With Rocko's health in decline they just wanted to make his end of life a little more exciting.
 
"We don't know how much longer he has. So we're trying to move as quickly as possible," says Melissa Gable.
 
On Friday he got to ride in a fire truck, courtesy of Mesa Fire Station 218.
 
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