{"id":291051,"date":"2020-04-16T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1141814"},"modified":"2020-04-16T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T02:16:00","slug":"the-bachelorette-star-shawn-booth-mourns-the-death-of-his-beloved-dog-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-bachelorette-star-shawn-booth-mourns-the-death-of-his-beloved-dog-tucker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelorette Star Shawn Booth Mourns the Death of His Beloved Dog Tucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020316\/rs_1024x759-200416191351-1024_Shawn_Booth_and_Kaitlyn_Bristowe_MP_4.16.20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Shawn Booth, Kaitlyn Bristowe\" alt=\"Shawn Booth, Kaitlyn Bristowe\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Nicholas Hunt\/Getty Images for JEEP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.750275633958\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.558985667034\">\n<p><strong>Shawn Booth<\/strong> is mourning the loss of his pet and &#8220;best friend,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Tucker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 11-years, the golden retriever stood by the former&nbsp;<em>Bachelorette<\/em> contestant&#8217;s side as he went through many stages in life, including his rise to stardom, an engagement to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kaitlyn_bristowe\">Kaitlyn Bristowe<\/a><\/strong> and their eventual split.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But now, Shawn is continuing life without his &#8220;best friend,&#8221; as Tucker unfortunately passed away this week. On Instagram, the 32-year-old shared, &#8220;With the heaviest heart I&#8217;ve ever had, I wanted to let you guys know that I lost my best friend today. Tucker passed peacefully in my arms and in the comfort of our backyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I poured every ounce of my heart into him and he gave me his entire heart right back. I&#8217;ve never loved anything more and he was the best boy I could ever ask for. I was the luckiest person in the world to have him by my side for 11+ years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I already miss him so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t heartbreaking enough, he shared this quote as a reminder of how much he adored the pup: &#8220;If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever ..&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.756564551422\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.386214442013\">\n<p>His ex, Kaitlyn, commented, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry. This one hurts. You gave him a great life.&#8221; She and Shawn were&nbsp;engaged for over three years and lived together for a majority of the time, giving her the opportunity to know and love the sweetheart that Tucker was.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/982935\/the-bachelorette-s-kaitlyn-bristowe-and-shawn-booth-break-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal trainer and influencer broke up<\/a>, she continued to post tributes to Tucker on her Instagram, including one on his 11th birthday. And&nbsp;the podcast host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/989113\/kaitlyn-bristowe-breaks-her-silence-on-her-split-from-shawn-booth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously revealed<\/a> that she used to think &#8220;he was almost the glue to our relationship,&#8221; and&nbsp;was one thing that made it so hard to end her engagement to Shawn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn wasn&#8217;t the only one to have an attachment to Tucker, or as many affectionately called him, Doodle.&nbsp;<strong>Jared Haibon<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Becca Tilley<\/strong>&nbsp; and other Bachelor Nation fans expressed their condolences on Instagram. Tilley wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry\u2014my heart is broken for you! We all fell in love with Tucker from your posts!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1141814\/the-bachelorette-star-shawn-booth-mourns-the-death-of-his-beloved-dog-tucker?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Hunt\/Getty Images for JEEP Shawn Booth is mourning the loss of his pet and &#8220;best friend,&#8221;&nbsp;Tucker. For the past 11-years, the golden retriever stood by the former&nbsp;Bachelorette contestant&#8217;s side as he went through many stages in life, including his rise to stardom, an engagement to&nbsp;Kaitlyn Bristowe and their eventual split.&nbsp; But now, Shawn is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-22 21:39:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}