My dog Kody

By kendrick / February, 1, 2007 / 6 comments

One year for christmas all I wanted was a dog. I begged for it. Finally my parents said ok and I searched through the newspaper ads for free puppies and found a few I wanted to check out. So I made appointments to visit each litter but I only made it to the first house. I immediately fell in love with my new puppy I named Kody.

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Kody was a Boxer and some type of Terrier mix. He was a bit of a troublesome dog. He tore up anything and everything within reach and was not very well behaved even after dog obedience classes. He grew up to be medium sized but was extremely energetic. We didn’t have a fenced in yard so I kept him on a chain in the backyard with a doghouse. I would take him over to the park for walks all the time and I used to hook his leash to my bicycle and ride around at the local park with him and he never got tired of running.

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One day he got a little excited and pulled the bike too hard for me to control and I crashed into a big rock and the leash came off. He started chasing some people at the park. One of the people was on crutches and he fended him off by hitting him with the crutch. I defended my dog, but honestly, I think he just wanted to bite some people.

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I was more careful after that, but he still had a few incidents with people. He bit my mom once or twice. One day a random person came by to pick up a refridgerator that my dad was selling. It was in the backyard so I moved Kody around to the front yard and chained him to a tree. The stranger came back around and Kody lunged at him and the chain broke. He was in attack mode for some reason and really took a good bite of the guy’s hand. I got him settled down and put back in the backyard, but the cops got involved and animal control got involved and he got taken away for testing for rabies.

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My parents decided it was probably best for him to be put to sleep because we were not able to keep him under control. He was more dog than I was able to handle. They talked to me about it and I was pretty upset but I saw the logic and went to the animal control facility for one last goodbye. I gave him his tennis ball and I cried.

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6 Responses to My dog Kody

  • Marie A

    Keeping a dog chained will produce a frustrated and angry dog, this dogs misfortune was the result of your lack of understanding, perhaps in the future you will exercise better judgement based on this heartwrenching experience.

  • maryam

    He started out so cute…..

  • Rainer

    That’s funny Maryam…He did seem to have a lot going for him until he got too big…started doing drugs with the other dogs, beating his wife and becoming a sociopath. This would make a good “E !True Hollywood Story.”
    “Kody: The puppy who lost his way.”

  • djd

    I’m glad you have pitures of him and you together. He was quite a dog!!

  • Randall

    Do you remember when you and Angie fed him the lasagna with tabasco sauce?

  • leianne

    AWWWWW! This story made me sad. Your dog was so cute. I love those pictures. I wish I had taken more pictures of my favorite dog. BTW, you look EXACTLY like you did back then. Baby face. :O

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