Kate Gosselin Breaks Down in Tears Over Koda Adoption Strain
Kate Gosselin broke down in tears in a May 26 TikTok update while describing how hard it has been to bring her rescue dog Koda into the home she shares with another dog, Meika. kate gosselin said the process had reached day 12 and that the pressure was weighing on both her and Steve Neild.
Day 12 for Koda
“I was just crying this morning,” she said, adding, “I'm tired. It's getting to be a lot, which makes me sound like a baby, but the truth is, I've just been on watch constantly hoping nothing, you know, happens and watching them all the time.” Gosselin also said, “I am 51 now. I'm not 29, 30. So it's just gotten to be a lot.”
She described Koda as a Malinois mix puppy and said, “Koda is a humongous personality,” before adding, “She is now very obsessed with her ball, equally as Meika, and she could run forever.” That is the part of the story that matters most for anyone watching the adoption process from the outside: this is not a tidy rescue-post update, but a live adjustment inside a household already managing another dog.
Meika, Koda, and Nanuq
Gosselin said Koda destroyed a rug and Nanuq's bed, the latter of which she called “very special.” She said, “It's our favorite bed. I've had it for, gosh, 15 plus years or more,” a detail that makes the damage more than just a mess to clean up. Nanuq, her German shepherd, died in December, so the bed carries years of household history.
In April, Gosselin said she had secured adoption papers for Koda, who was then named Chiqis, and said she and Neild would bring the dog home in mid-May. She said training would start soon, and she also said that probably no one else would have saved Koda. “But at the end of the day, probably no one else would have saved her,” she said. “So I know that we're doing a good thing. We just have to hang in.”
The update lands as a practical caution against romanticizing rescue work. Gosselin is still in the middle of the adjustment, not past it, and her description of constant supervision, damaged belongings, and a dog with endless energy is the real story: adoption is already the easy part. Training is next.
