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He was by his side more often than not, whether it was at work, at home or on vacation. His four paws followed him for five years. Faroan, a Florence Police Department K9, died March 2. The Belgian Malinois had an allergic reaction to medication. “He wasn’t scared of anything,” his handler, Sgt. Sean Humphrey, said Friday. “That’s what I loved about him.” About a week before he died, Faroan was injured while jumping over a wooden fence at his home. A veterinarian prescribed pain medication after discovering he had a chipped bone in his leg. Humphrey said the medicine caused damage almost immediately. “It started eating his skin,” he said. “It just ate him up. It’s like a burn victim, but his skin was rotting off.” He transported the dog to a veterinary hospital in Colorado Springs, where he had hypobaric chamber treatments twice a day. “He started getting worse and worse and worse,” Humphrey said. “The last resort was doing a blood transfusion. Doing the blood transfusion still wasn’t going to help … so I just had to let him go. I didn’t want him to suffer anymore.”
