Our “Meet the Pack” series was such a hit that we thought you’d also enjoy meeting the dogs behind the pattern names. They’re the ones who started it all and while they’re sadly long gone they’re certainly in no single way forgotten. Looking back, naming our patterns after our dogs might not have been our smartest business decision. After all, who wants to discontinue a pattern named after one of their dogs? In an interesting twist, over the years it's become something we treasure. We still get to say their names every day and they continue to be part of earthdog and part of our lives. So, with that said let's:
meet the dog behind the pattern: kody
Kody is both the reason for earthdog and the face of our forever best selling pattern (of course) and much of the reason I am who I am.
Factually Kody was picked up off the streets of Newark, NJ with a mangled front leg hanging on with tape and cardboard. The humane society didn’t think he would survive amputation surgery but he proved them wrong and lived a long, beautiful life. I was 19 years old (and he was about 4 months old) when I saw his pic in a newsletter and I began a hard campaign to adopt him…something in me had to have him in my life and boy howdy I was not wrong. I adopted him in the summer and we went off to college and life together. He was my safety and stability in a transitional time. He taught me resilience, responsibility and unconditional love and he changed me and made me a better person - his mark will be on me for my lifetime.
Kody was a force of nature who was loving, strong and goofy but did not suffer fools…like at all. He was a fierce protector and chased away the wrong people and fortunately was accepting of Dave from minute one…he knew he was a good egg immediately and they went on to have a beautiful relationship. Most importantly he was a confident leader for our burgeoning pack. None of us knew what our life would become once we moved to Nashville and I credit Kody with a lot of where we are now.?
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to publicly revisit these remarkable beings we are so fortunate to share our lives with, even if it’s always way too short.
