Bella, the unofficial mascot at the Cape Breton branch of the Nova Scotia SPCA, has been given only weeks to live as she battles an aggressive form of cancer.

Her loveable face has become synonymous with the Cape Breton SPCA over the past year and a half, and now her caregivers are asking her friends to drop by and spoil her one last time.

“We could give her chemo, it would mean amputation, and that would still only give her four to six months, and we aren’t doing that to our Bella,” says Renee Sampson, an animal care worker at the shelter.

Bella arrived at the SPCA with inoperable cancer that has now become more aggressive. She couldn’t be adopted out because of the disease, so the personable pooch has been living at the SPCA in her own special room.

The Rottweiler has been treated like a queen by her caregivers and has won countless friends at the SPCA.

“We’re asking people to come down for one last hug. She had been on a special diet, trying to maintain her weight. That’s out the window now,” says Sampson. “Chicken nuggets are welcome! We’re going to spoil our girl, right to the last minute we have with her.”

Many of Bella’s friends and fans have stopped in at the shelter to do just that.

“She deserves it and she loves the love, right? She loves the love and she gives it back,” says Bella’s friend, Laura Boone. “So I definitely would encourage anybody to come in and see her for however long she has left.”

Shelter volunteer Margie MacDonald says visitors have come to count on Bella’s trademark enthusiastic greeting as they walk through the front door of the SPCA.

“She loves people, loves greeting people as they come in, and she’s changed some people’s opinions on bigger dogs,” says MacDonald.

Bella’s energy is fading these days, and she now spends most of her time taking it easy, but her caregivers say she is still eating well, and is getting all the medication she needs to live comfortably.

“We wouldn’t let her suffer,” says Sampson. “We’re going to give her the best, and going to let her go out in style.”

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ryan MacDonald