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Koda Update — She’s At Her New Home!

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From commentor geg6:

I have attached the first picture of Koda and the first of Koda and Otis meeting each other.

Well, Koda’s flight finally came in about midnight (it was supposed to land at 9:30pm). She weathered the flight, long as it was, well and was very happy to see us when they wheeled her kennel over to us. We took her outside to the pet area to let her run some energy off and then she jumped right into the car and we headed home.

We took about an hour, letting Koda smell Otis’ stuff while we had Otis outside and then switched and let Otis sniff Koda’s kennel. We put up the baby gate and brought them both in and let them sniff each other through the baby gate. Otis was a bit put out, but took the whole thing quite well considering his anxious nature. Koda is adorable, very well behaved, and full of energy. She ran all over the house, checking out the new digs, and then we put her in her kennel so we could get to bed as it was after 1am and I had to go to work this morning. The morning went even better and John expects to spend a lot of time with both of them. The second picture shows their first real contact. So far, only a little bit of growling on Otis’ part and it is probably more due to the fact that Koda is a ball of energy and Otis is, at 8 years old, slowing down and quite the chilled doggie.

They were running around too much to get any other pics, but I’ll update as things calm down.

For now, I can’t thank BJ enough. I love this pup already and I know she’s going to be happy and wonderful addition to our home.

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74Comments

  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This makes me so happy! Looking forward to lots more pictures and stories as she settles in. What a great happy ending story, and how incredibly emblematic it is of this great Balloon Juice community.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    YAY KODAPUPPEH!!

    The growls will continue until they decide who the top dog is. Then they’ll both settle down and all will be well. :)

  10. 10.

    Maude

    @Baud:
    Hey, that just might be the case. I’ll take a peek.
    Nope, I iz a people.
    I had the trouble with the last computer and this one. Don’t know way.
    We are all going to be in cardboard boxes tonight.
    I have dibs on the Night Train.

  11. 11.

    MattR

    Congrats again geg6. I bet you will find that Otis’s energy level picks up now that he has a new friend. And Koda will obviously be thrilled in her forever home.

    Reminds me of perhaps my favorite dog story not involving Ellie. I went to visit a friend with a lab puppy who was also dogsitting another friend’s adult boxer. The puppy was all over the boxer and when they finally took a break we noticed the boxer’s jowels and neck area had all these red marks from where the puppy scratched her. We felt bad and were trying to figure out how to keep them separated to give the boxer some peace when she got up from her resting place, grabbed a squeaky toy, walked over to the puppy and started squeaking it in her face until the puppy got back up to play.

    EDIT: When I got Ellie at 7 months her brother was also up for adoption. I sometimes wonder if they ran into each other on the street would they recognize one another.

  12. 12.

    dance around in your bones

    @Maude: I hate that captcha crap.

    Half the time it’s in Hebrew or something, so what am I supposed to do with that? I remember when Steve Benen was at Washington Monthly, and it was just such a hassle trying to navigate the damn captcha crap that it wasn’t worth commenting.

    eta: Oh, and felicitaciones on your new perrito, geg6!

  13. 13.

    Violet

    Oh, she’s so cute! Congrats to you and John and Otis for the new family member! So adorable. Happy, happy, happy!

  16. 16.

    dance around in your bones

    @Maude:

    Supposedly you can click to get a new captcha if you can’t figure out the original one, or even get an audio one?

    But hell, I’m not gonna jump through all those hoops just to leave a stupid comment. That’s one thing I love about this place, is that it’s easy to comment. Well, plus the commentariat makes me laugh a lot.

    Oh what am I going to DO tonight???? Movies, books….

  18. 18.

    the Conster

    Congrats geg6 and Koda for making the world a little better place. This is even good news for John McCain!

  21. 21.

    Calming Influence

    Yay Koda! Yay geg6! Yay Otis! Balloon Juice: where awesome critters come to find their forever homes.

    O/T, but I’m just getting around to trying TaMara’s pressure cooker corned beef recipe for supper tonight. Has anyone else tried it, and if so do you have any hints/tips? I’m planning on using pickle juice, but am a little worried that it might give it a somewhat non-traditional flavor. (Ms. Influence is not a lover of corned beef, so a non-traditional flavor could be a good thing…) Ideas?

    Edit: link to recipe: https://balloon-juice.com/2013/03/15/friday-recipe-exchange-corned-beef-dinner/

  22. 22.

    dance around in your bones

    Ok, I have pathetically loaded up a bunch of BJ threads that I hadn’t read yet, so at least I will have something to read tonight before we :::OMG!go DARK!:::

    Tabs open, Captain! Waiting for the dilithium crystals to power the ship again!

  24. 24.

    dance around in your bones

    @Baud:

    Ok, I triggered moderation by linking to the Waitresses Pus.sy Strut.

    So, what words do you suggest? fuckstain? dickwad? skinflute? shitstain?

    Let’s get creative.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    My Les Misérables addiction has led me to start listening to it in German on YouTube (actually, because I find it’s good listening comprehension practice). Ich hab geträumt vor langer Zeit is always good for priming the old waterworks.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    Thanks so much for the pictures and the info for Koda.

    Anne, If the site does not disappear forever, you should consider updating us on all the adoptions you arranged. Good Job!

  29. 29.

    dance around in your bones

    @Violet: Thanks – I just saw it and replied.

    I’m frantically trying to comment as much as I can before the lights go out.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    @Baud:
    I don’t know about that one: it involves a particularly disgusting person’s name, and might be just a little too gross to be taught to children.

  31. 31.

    Freemark

    Congrats geg6. BJers helped me give Natasha her forever home and I sm very grateful they did. It is obvious Koda found a great home. Thanks BJers for all the pets and homes you have helped put together.

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    Congratulations to geg, John, Koda and Otis. Lovely family just got lovelier.

    Thanks for the pictures, too.

  34. 34.

    dance around in your bones

    @Amir Khalid: Amir, we are joking :)

    I have enough trouble moderating the kids f-words to teach them new cuss words, gawd forbid.

    The closest I have gotten is to introduce them to the Diarrhea Song which they sing to their great delight and their parent’s despair.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    This has just been a great story from beginning to end. Hats off to everyone involved, and thanks to geg6 for the pictures and updates.

    @dance around in your bones: If you’re downloading BJ threads to read tonight, look for one from a couple of years ago about a big fiberglass statue of Jesus that got hit by lightning and burned. I sprained several ribs laughing at that one.

  40. 40.

    debit

    Awesome news! That dog melted my heart the first time I saw her and I’m so happy she’s in such a loving home.

  44. 44.

    Dee Loralei

    YAY! Happy Koda in her forever home. I love Otis too, Golden’s are the best. Congrats to all 4 of you.

  46. 46.

    dance around in your bones

    @Amir Khalid: I often deliver cusswords in Spanish so they don’t understand.

    One day my daughter said “You know, the oldest knows what chingadera means”. My oops!

    (I must say that I find that definition to be a bit lacking – chingar means to fuck or to fuck with, as I learned in Mexico (practically my first new word in Spanish).

  49. 49.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Calming Influence: I do! I do! I have hints! Most of the traditional spices used for corned beef are dill seed and peppercorns (you know, that packet of spices that usually come with the beef), so it’s pretty close the original flavor.

    My only real issue when I made it was I should have trimmed the fat a bit more.

  54. 54.

    dance around in your bones

    @Baud:

    Maybe there is a Syphilis Song dance can teach the kids.

    ♪Don’t ignore that big ol’ sore, on your pen.is, on your pen.is♫

  55. 55.

    Amir Khalid

    @dance around in your bones:
    A long time ago, the Fox network announced an episode of The X-Files, by special guest scriptwriter Stephen King, with the title “Chinga”. The title had to be changed in a hurry, to “Bunghoney” — which doesn’t really sound that much better.

  57. 57.

    dance around in your bones

    @Amir Khalid:

    Jeez, I wonder if Stephen King did that on purpose? Knowing that most people wouldn’t get it?

    Bunghoney is definitely not much better.

    Basically, as I first learned the term chingadera it meant “that fucking thing”.

    I remember, because when we first moved to Baja we asked our landlord’s son where we could buy vacuum cleaner bags, and he said “I don’t know, we don’t use those chingaderas much here”.

    Explanations followed.

  59. 59.

    dance around in your bones

    @Baud: OMG, It’s coming, isn’t it?!

    (oops, double entendre there) I meant the shutdown. I have one nervous eye on the clock.

  62. 62.

    Baud

    Has anyone noticed that WordPress has been working perfectly today? It’s like it knows.

  64. 64.

    dance around in your bones

    @Baud:

    I have these Apocalyptic notions that they may just break the site forever. Then we could only listen to Jesus Christ, or something.

    I’d rather listen to the most current version of JC and his crew.

  68. 68.

    dance around in your bones

    Well, FYWP just erased an incredibly pithy comment of mine, and when I tried to submit it again it : Oops! Looks like you’ve already submitted this comment.

    The Apocalypse, it has begun. Or maybe it’s just FYWP as usual.

  70. 70.

    Ben

    Bandit update: He’s settling in well. Apparently he was a stray before and is very cautious around men but he likes the male members of the house just fine. He definitely has severe anxiety issues–he had to be sedated for a vet appointment–but right now we’re focusing on giving him lots of love and getting him fully adjusted to our home. He also has pink eye, but is recovering nicely. I’m so glad to have him around!

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