{"id":243922,"date":"2026-03-30T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:16:09","slug":"beloved-surfing-dog-champion-dies-after-battle-with-cancer-in-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243922\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Surfing Dog Champion Dies After Battle With Cancer In OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA \u2014 A four-legged member of the SoCal surfing community has died following a battle with cancer. <\/p>\n<p>Five-time World Dog Surfing champion Sugar the Surfing Dog passed away in her owner, Ryan Rustan&#8217;s, arms at 3:20 a.m. Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She absolutely loved you guys!! She lived to put smiles on faces, volunteer, to send it!! To change dog surfing forever!!!&#8221; Rustan wrote on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Sugar became the first animal to ever be inducted into the Surfers&#8217; Hall of Fame at 16-years-old. <\/p>\n<p>She also served as a therapy dog and worked with surf therapy foundations and veterans at the VA Hospital in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar underwent surgery to remove her tumor earlier this year, and Rustan said at the time she was recovering and had even gained weight since her surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA \u2014 A four-legged member of the SoCal surfing community has died following a battle with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-243922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}