Piper began his duties in late 2014 as the sidekick to his owner, airport operations manager Brian Edwards. The cancer was diagnosed in January 2016, but Edwards said Piper didn’t show symptoms until December. Article Continued Below“We literally did spend almost every second together” once Piper began the job, said Edwards, who’d adopted the dog when he was 2. “I said, ‘Well, what can the dog do for us?’ ” airport manager Kevin Klein told the Traverse City Record-Eagle in 2016. Eventually, Piper felt right at home on the runway, as the GIF that made him an online sensation made clear.

Source: thestar January 05, 2018 21:45 UTC