Andy Cohen Reunites with Dog Wacha Six Years After Finding a New Home
Andy Cohen beams as he reunites with his dog Wacha six years after rehoming him.
“I’m thrilled to be with an old, old friend,” Cohen, 58, mentioned in his Instagram video on Wednesday, July 22. He bent down to plant a kiss on the pup. “Say hi buddy. Say hi. You transformed my life, my sweet Wacha. You opened my eyes to so much, and I feel so grateful and improved for it. This is a lovely visit we’re having.”
In the caption, he shared, “Visiting my old buddy 🐶. Wacha is doing GREAT! He lives happily with his longtime caretaker, and I’m fortunate to get to see him! He changed my life.”
The host of Watch What Happens Live adopted Wacha from a kill shelter in 2013. Seven years later, Cohen announced that he would be finding a new home for his dog.
“When he entered my life, everything changed,” Cohen captioned a video of him playing with Wacha. “Over the nearly seven years I’ve had the joy of having Wacha, we worked on some random signs of aggression.”
Cohen noted that he attempted various methods to manage his four-legged friend’s behavioral issues to keep him at home, but ultimately those efforts didn’t succeed, leading him to the tough decision to rehome Wacha after an “incident.”
“Keeping him here could have catastrophic consequences for Ben and, worse, for Wacha,” he explained, referring to his son. (Cohen welcomed his son, Ben, through surrogacy in 2019 and has a daughter, Lucy, also via surrogate, born in 2022.)
Cohen mentioned that he placed Wacha in a home where he “stayed every single time I traveled.” He added that Wacha was thriving in his new yet familiar surroundings and that he visits often.
“When I think of him — let’s be real, when don’t I think of him — it’s with the understanding that we were meant to cross paths when we did and that he’s happy, which gives me peace of mind. We really rescued each other,” he concluded the post.
Prior to rehoming Wacha, Cohen openly discussed his son’s relationship with the dog.
“[He and my son] are kind of coexisting, but every now and then Wacha gets a little lick from him,” he told Us in July 2019. “I’ve noticed in recent days, [Benjamin has] been really observing him, like, ‘What is he doing?’ He’s been paying attention to him, so I believe he’s starting to realize, ‘Oh, there’s a doggie in my house. What’s that? What does it do?’”
