‘Our hearts are shattered’: Fashion dog Tika the Iggy dies
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Tika the Iggy, an Italian Greyhound who has become popular on social media for her fashionable style, died earlier this month a few days after tumours were removed from her liver.
Tika the Iggy, a beloved Italian Greyhound from Montreal, known for her fashionable style has died.
Her owners, Thomas Shapiro and his husband Louis, posted about her passing on Instagram and TikTok on Tuesday.
“I really thought you were going to live forever,”the post said. “I thought we had more time, but there are things we cannot control. Our hearts are shattered.”
According to the post, Tika had been diagnosed with two tumours in her liver recently, but following surgery they were successfully removed and she was discharged without complications.
But while she appeaered to be recovering, the couple said something changed.
“After your second day at home, something had changed. You looked so tired, not quite yourself, yet peaceful,” he said.
Shapiro went on to say that while veterinarians first thought it was the effect of the painkillers, they soon found out it was Tika’s body “slowly giving up,” and there wasn’t anything to do to prevent it.
In the post, the couple said Tika spent her last moments at home held by her “favourite dads.”
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