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Kelsea Ballerini<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has a sad update about her favorite pup.\u00a0<\/p>\n The “Cowboys Cry Too” singer shared that her beloved dog Dibs\u2014whom she named after her 2014 song\u2014was diagnosed with cancer, which has made focusing on her upcoming album\u00a0Patterns<\/em>\u00a0difficult.<\/p>\n “i feel pretty disingenuous promoting this album and tracklist reveal (which i am so, so proud of),” Kelsea wrote on\u00a0Instagram Stories<\/a>\u00a0Aug. 28, “without updating you on my sweet dibs health.”<\/p>\n 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\u00a0not in pain and she added that it hasn’t spread further, so now she and Dibs’ doctors are planning their next steps.<\/p>\n “We’re\u00a0going 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.”<\/p>\n And Kelsea is incredibly thankful to her mom\u00a0Carla<\/strong>\u2014joking that Dibs “stans grandma”\u2014as well as her boyfriend\u00a0Chase Stokes<\/strong><\/a>, whom she calls “the greatest dog dad in the world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n