A Massachusetts man who was diagnosed with cancer some months ago is currently searching for a new residence for his best friend.

David Fine of Plainville, Massachusetts, told WJAR, a local NBC affiliate station, that he had owned his dog Babs for over a decade.

Fine adopted her as a puppy after she had been placed twice, and he has been her “dad” ever since.

As his own, he reared her. I made a promise to myself when I was younger that I would never get another pet since I can’t bear to be separated from them.

Fine told the publication that, ‘fortunately, she is going to outlive me this time.’ Having worked as a carpenter for the most of his life,

Fine planned to fulfill a ‘lifelong dream’ of his and tour the nation to visit national parks when he reached retirement age in 2020.

‘I planned for thirty years or more,’ was said by Fine. I was going to buy a car and a camper, and I was going to visit all the national parks.

2020 is the year I pull the trigger. I went to the event with Babs in tow, and I couldn’t help but smile slyly the entire week.

Fine started his trek in South Dakota and stopped at the Mount Rushmore Monument before landing in Wyoming.

He told the publication that he became sick when he was about a hundred miles from Yellowstone. ‘I started to feel awful, and my illness made it impossible for me to drive.

‘I was not comfortable behind the wheel,” as Fine stated. WBDJ claims that after receiving treatment for leukemia many years prior, he was given a vascular disease diagnosis a year later.

Fine was given a six-month prognosis in August after receiving a diagnosis of stage four lung cancer.

Fine claims that he decided against receiving the ‘brutal’ treatment for the illness. They ‘wouldn’t give me much time,

and I’d be sick all the time,’ he told the source. ‘I place greater value on quality than quantity,’ he declared.

I don’t mind the circumstance at all. I chose to acknowledge it as true. You have to accept things as they are.

It is possible for me to attempt to prolong things, but the chemotherapy would make me so ill that by the time I got well from one treatment, it would be time for the next one, and that is not a way to live.

Fine claims that he is currently searching for a new home for Babs prior to his being placed in hospice care.

Fine revealed to WJAR that he is childless and has never been married. Babs’s extended family cannot accommodate her since she insists on living in a pet-free home.

In an attempt to locate a new home for his dog, he has so far put an ad in a local newspaper and asked for help from members of the public.

Babs wants a home free of little children and other pets because that is something Fine will need in the future.

Babs is a model citizen; she is well-mannered and housebroken. Fine is not giving up on finding a new home for Babs before he dies,

even if he doesn’t think he will be able to visit Yellowstone until later in life. Everyone dies, and there were some things I had wanted to accomplish.

I would still like to go to Yellowstone. “I don’t think I’ll be able to make it there at this point; financially,

it would be difficult, other than the fact that I need to do this for her,’ he reportedly stated in an interview with WJAR. ‘I’m not ready to go yet, but when the time comes, I can rest in peace.’

She is the most important thing that has ever happened at this moment. Her destiny is not predetermined, but mine is.

‘I have an obligation to make sure she has as many happy years as possible for the remainder of her life,’ he said.