Kōhaku

I say attacked,

but I think the bear on this particular instance, it was a, there's a Koi pond, you know, very, very steep sides built for Koi liner pond and big, beautiful fish in there and not an easy way for the animal to get out.

In fact, you could tell that the way that the liner was slashed is because the bear was just having trouble getting out because of the way that the excavation was built and there's no stone on

there.

story and bringing it all together and show you how things can develop um you know i wasn't thinking about staircases for a barricade ahead of a pond 30 years ago when i started i can assure you that but today i am and you know that's one of the things i just love about this this this industry what we're in and the wildlife restoration and um the rehabilitation that we do is like mother nature keeps teaching us new things, you know, as we go down the line.

So, I mean, we can build something beautiful for humans.

We can build it perfectly for Koi and we can engineer the filtration, the circulation, but, When you're building in the mountains, you're also building inside of someone else's habitat.

So you have to consider a 400-pound animal with three, four-inch claws that doesn't give a shit about your lion warranty.

Welcome to Koi Keepers Anonymous, the show for koi addicts, pond nerds, and anyone who said they'd stop buying fish, but didn't.

I'm Ty.

I'm Mickey.

Katie, thank you so much for joining us today.

My pleasure.

So I met Katie, well, in person for the first time at the Boise Koi show.

But you came on to a different show that I was doing at the time called Hold My Net.

that I was doing with Aaron at Humber Koi.