Despite the fact that this homeless dog was too ill to rescue, Sophiane Nacer wanted to offer him the greatest ‘end of days' possible. She promised that Hippo, an elderly stray with tumors, would only know love after he died.

"Even if just for a day," Sophiane, the 19-year-old founder of Cayleb's Kindred Senior Dog Rescue, told TODAY, Hippo would have the happiest final day ever.