India, Sept. 5 -- Tucker Budzyn, internet's beloved golden retriever, has died at the age of 8. The heartbreaking news was shared by his mom, Courtney Budzyn, who revealed in a social media post Saturday that Tucker died unexpectedly Wednesday, just two weeks after being diagnosed with lymphoma.

"Tucker's gone. Tucker passed away on Wednesday unexpectedly. He was doing really well with treatment, but we didn't know that he had lymphoma in his intestines," Courtney said.

"And since the chemo was working so good and he was going into remission, it left a hole in his intestine where the cancer was, and he got an infection that seemed to hit him overnight. And we woke up and we rushed him in and we thought. we thought we were going to beat ...