Linda Thompson remembers: “He was our sweetheart. But he had a congenital kidney ailment. About three o’clock one morning, Getlo was acting really strange, so we had a doctor come over. He said, ‘I don’t think the dog will make it through the night’.
So Elvis leased a Learjet and flew Getlow, my girlfriend, Jeannie LeMay and me, and the doctor up to Boston to a special clinic for kidney dialysis. We left him up there for about three months. But he didn’t live long after that. He was only about a year old. We were on tour when he died, and we were coming home on his plane when they told us. Elvis just cried”
