‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Fans Have Overwhelming Response to Dog Chapman’s Mother’s Day Post to Late Wife Beth

Duane “Dog” Chapman had a difficult Mother’s Day as he celebrated the holiday Sunday for the first time since wife Beth Chapman died in June 2019 due to cancer. The Dog the Bounty Hunter star shared a touching tribute to his late sweetie on social media on the difficult milestone, admitting, “I miss her so much.”

Dog has made it clear he still has unending love for Beth even as he moves on with fiancée Francie Frane, but the Mother’s Day message drew out a wide range of responses from his fans. Keep scrolling to read their messages to Dog during this bittersweet time.

Happy Mother’s Day

Sharing a photo of Beth with Jamie Pilar Chapman, the wife of his son, Leland Chapman, Dog commemorated Mother’s Day on Instagram. “I am DOG Chapman chiracahua Apache The best Bounty Hunter in the world,” he wrote in the caption. “I am the husband of Beth Chapman And I miss her so much.”

Missing Beth

Dog’s message to his late wife sparked many heartfelt tributes from people who also miss Beth.

‘Stay Strong’

Others encouraged Dog to stay strong as he continues to mourn the death of his partner of more than two decades.

Concerned Fans

Still others questioned his engagement to Frane just 10 months after Beth’s passing.

Engagement News

Dog and Frane announced their intentions to marry just months after coming forward with their relationship. Frane said in an interview with The Sun on May 4, “I wasn’t expecting it at all. I think I had gone to pick up some food and then when I came back he had all the lights turned down with just a few lights on and a bunch of candles lit. So when I came in I was like, ‘Wow, this is awesome’. Then he said, ‘Come in, sit down because I need to talk to you.’”

“So I put all the food in the kitchen and I came in and he said, ‘I know that God brought you into my life and I don’t want to spend one moment of it without you,’” she continued, tearing up. “And he got down on one knee and he opened the ring box and he said, ‘Will you marry me and spend the rest of our lives together?’ Who can say no to that? It was wonderful.”

Telling the ‘Haters’

The couple was also sure to address the people who would think Dog had moved on too quickly, with the reality personality saying, “You know there’s always going to be haters, and I probably arrested half of them.”

Frane added, “I think too that there’s always going to be people who say we did this wrong or we did that wrong or we’ve moved on too quickly or too fast. But the truth is that both of us have spent three years walking alongside our spouses sick and we know that God brought us together and that’s why we don’t believe that it’s too soon, and because we both have done our share of screaming and crying and asking why. Then for us to come together the way that we did and build this friendship because of what we’ve been through, that turned into a love story. We don’t believe that it’s too soon.”

Family Support

The couple has the full support of Dog’s daughters, however. Lyssa Chapman told The Sun ahead of the proposal news, “I think that it’s really hard for people to see dad move on. It’s hard for us, it’s hard for the world. Beth and Dog were always together for everything, so it’s been an adjustment period. And I think it’s kind of selfish for people to kind of on-look and say things – even myself.”

“I am not him. I don’t know what he’s personally going through or experiencing. So it’s hard. It’s selfish to put your judgment on someone and say, ‘You didn’t wait long enough, or you should have waited more time or that it’s disrespectful,’” she continued. “I think that’s selfish… you don’t know what someone’s going through.”