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Sex: Female Weight: 51-100 lbs
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Leave a bone for Kody - Always in my heart.
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Nicknames:
Kodester, Kody Pody, Baby Boo.
Doggie Dynamics:
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Quick Bio:
Likes:
Me, the kids and fetching tennis balls.
Pet-Peeves:
Being alone, she hated to be separated from her pack.
Favorite Toy:
Tennis balls, tennis balls, tennis balls.
Favorite Food:
Whatever she was given or could scrounge or could beg :)
Favorite Walk:
The Waimakariri River, she loved to swim.
Best Tricks:
She could say "I love you", loved to High 5 and best of all, she always knew when you were sad and would sit with you quietly until you were better.
Arrival Story:
Kody was already almost 5 years old when she came to us and I knew very little about her. I'm pretty sure she was a pure bred Shepherd but I suspect one of her parents was a white shepherd because her colour was so light.
Her name had been Dakota when we got her but I just couldn't get my tongue around that and so I called her Kody instead.
Bio:
She was such a smart dog, her previous owner had done a dog training course at the local polytechnic for a year and Kody had taken part in it. As a result she knew a whole lot more than I did about obedience. She was gentle with everyone and everything, the cats loved her, other dogs loved her, everyone loved her. Like most Shepherds she "talked" a lot and often tried to work out how to join in conversations. She could say, quite clearly "I love you" too :) It sounded like "waaa wuv oooo" but I knew what she meant hehe :)
She always knew when I was sad and just how to make me feel better. Love like hers could heal a lot of hurt. I always felt safe while Kody was around, even though she was probably the worst guard dog in the world. But I always always knew that if it came to it, she would protect me and my children with her life.
When she was about 7 years old, Kody contracted pneumonia and I had no idea she was even ill until she collapsed. I raced her to the vet and was told she probably wouldn't make it but that he'd try. It broke my heart leaving her there, but the next day she was so much better and so pleased to see me. The vet said "That's one dog that would never leave you voluntarily".
Most of all. I loved her. Kody is the one dog I know will never leave me and I still often sense her presence around. I hope that one day I'll be able to say that again with another dog but with Kody I know in my heart that when I reach the Rainbow Bridge, she will be there waiting and will be my Angel there just like she was here. She would never leave my side, missed me horribly when I was away and forgave anything, I hope that she understood why I had to make the decision to let her go.
To be honest, I still can't talk about her passing fully so I'm sorry, I can't share that part of the story. But it wasn't her fault, she did nothing wrong, enough to say that she was euthanized after an accident. It was the saddest decision I ever had to make in my life and I still think about it most days. I do still feel her around and it's one of the reasons it's taken so long to replace her, I've only this year started to feel like I could open my heart to another dog and that's when Misty entered our family. She's a darling, a lot like Kody in fact but she is my daughters girl. So I'm giving it a go with little Ryder. Maybe Kody's been waiting around until I had another like her to be my friend, perhaps now she can move on too. He's so different to Kody but like her, he's definitely my boy and so I'm hoping we'll have many happy years together. I don't expect him to be Kody, to replace her, I just want to love him and I do :)
But Kody, I will always miss you and always feel you are still here in my heart.
Forums Motto:
I'm all about the love.
The Groups I'm In:
***KIWI KIDS***, Deutsche Hunde Living Room, Rainbow Bridge Angel Babies
I've Been On Dogster Since:
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More than 1 year! |
Dogster Id:
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