We Thought This Shut Down Dog was Impossible to Save.. Until Now

Name: We Thought This Shut Down Dog was Impossible to Save.. Until Now
Uploaded: 2026-06-19T12:16:17+00:00
Duration: 49 min 33 s
Channel: The Golden Kobe Family

00:00terrified jumpy and completely shut down this is cindy she's around five years old

00:05and seeing a dog in this state is honestly heartbreaking we're going to show you her

00:10entire journey with us the small wins the setbacks and the progress she's made and maybe

00:17even the chance of a forever home but with a dog this scared that felt impossible and we

00:23couldn't afford to get this wrong this is cindy being prepared to be fostered by us

00:36it's the first time we've ever met her but straight away you can see she's different to most dogs

00:42i feel so sorry for him when they're like that we're getting her from fetch a dog rescue in the

00:46uk but before she leaves they always take a paw print to remember all their dogs she has got

00:52the sweetest little face poor print done jordan and stephanie are going to carry her out to our car

01:00and we'll begin our rescue journey with cindy do you want to say your goodbyes before we close it

01:09you'll be fine i promise undo it what do you mean i meant her little thing oh she's gone and

01:15laid

01:16straight down still looks super scared bless her to our trip home also we thought because

01:22everything went wrong straight away so we're in standstill traffic on the motorway it says we're

01:28going to get back at quarter past three we ended up being stuck in the car for four hours it

01:33was a

01:33complete nightmare poor cindy in the back was sick from the stress and we saw on the news this is

01:38why

01:38we got stuck we hope everyone involved is okay but we did finally make it home but right now we

01:45need to

01:46get cindy out of the boot of the car obviously the problem is is we haven't even pet her or

01:52anything

01:52yet hang on hang on good god it's okay it's okay okay okay you can see her drooling she's incredibly

02:03stressed okay oh we're just going to give her a moment to take everything in so you can see the

02:09drool from her mouth that's just from stress she looks like she wants to jump out which is good

02:14oh my god this is making me so sad she's so unsure you can't see it but she has been

02:19well sick around

02:21there probably best you can't see it that well come on then oh mine's a little oh good girl okay

02:27okay

02:31maybe try and lead her into the house then yeah can do you're all her legs back yeah her back

02:36leg's

02:37stuck and obviously because i've never be slow take your back leg i'm just gonna take this up

02:44good girl oh you've done it the wrong way sorry hang on okay got her no i'm just gonna take

02:52that

02:53good girl lift that there you go good girl we're really surprised she's walking around like this

02:59so let's see if we can walk her to the house we're very gentle tuggingly the last thing we want

03:04to do

03:04is get stuck in the middle of the road amazingly she walked to the front of the house but getting

03:08her in is another story i'm gonna go in i'm gonna let's see if she wants to go in instead

03:13of me going

03:14in first because she might be more scared she's terrified it's okay you can have a sniff so kobe and

03:20mochi are still on the dog walk our dogs are currently being walked so they're not too energetic

03:24for when they meet cindy but they're coming back in like five or ten minutes so hopefully we're able

03:31to get her in before then and this became a problem we're on a time frame before our dogs get

03:36back and

03:36cindy is terrified really skittish as you can see super super scared don't want to pick her up yet

03:44because obviously she's just been in the back of that car for like four hours do you want to have

03:49a

03:49go with her because she might be better with women that's what she's used to yeah me okay we've given

03:53her to ella because cindy is used to woman good so we're just wondering whether she'll be a bit

04:01more brave with ella than me we had an idea of me walking behind her it may give her a

04:05bit of

04:05encouragement to go forward there we go wow right and we can shut the door she's in there we go

04:15nice

04:15absolutely terrified the poor thing let's use soft soft voice good girl come on oh she's so scared

04:23good girl come on then oh can you smell the food come on then should i go behind her again

04:29see if

04:29she'll get scared it's better take it in she's a bit scared i know i'm just conscious acobia mochi

04:33coming back in five minutes little shake so when she shakes off like that it's her kind of like

04:40relieving stress it's like the version of us going ah she's having a little sniff of everything which

04:47is yeah she is which is really good really really good she's curious we honestly thought after seeing

04:52her effect oh i spoke too soon i was about to say we honestly thought after seeing her effect sure

04:58she'd

04:58do this sadly she shut down again we're so conscious of kobe and mochi being at that front

05:04door any minute now we somehow had to move her okay do you want to go this way come on

05:09come on

05:11good girl come on it's okay come on i don't know what to do help you i think you need

05:21to pick her

05:21up because we don't have time and that front door is going to be open any minute that traffic really

05:25messed us up didn't it yeah she's clearly really stressed and although she has zero bite history she

05:32doesn't know us and we don't know her but instead of picking her up i thought of an idea thing

05:36is

05:36there is a handle here so i'm thinking i kind of half-hearted pick her up go on half-hearted

05:41pick

05:41her up and see what she does but mind your fingers okay come on darling good girl and then just

05:47guide

05:48her there you go yeah this is good she's not freaking out as much now good girl good girl oh

05:56this is

05:57good idea by me wasn't it yeah well done come on we're gonna go in the garden good girl there

06:03you

06:03go oh my god we made it and do you know what she's still moving yeah oh sorry sorry right

06:11so

06:12oh my god my heart's going oh that was stressful we have managed to finally get her into the garden

06:19but will she shut down again or be brave enough to explore we're gonna keep a lead on her for

06:25now

06:25because she's so incredibly skittish and scared she's obviously a massive flight risk and do not

06:31underestimate a dog that wants to escape oh good girl yes brilliant good toilet so the reason we're

06:39so happy that she's gone to the toilet there is we've been told from the rescue she does still have

06:44the occasional accident in her crate because she's quite scared to go outside and so you know we fully

06:49expect her to have accidents in the crate but we weren't sure how she was going to react to the

06:53garden

06:53we thought she'd be scared we've got a fence set up so cindy can meet our dogs between it before

06:58they

06:58meet face to face what do you reckon how do you reckon she'll oh my god oh wow that's great

07:03wow we

07:04were going to keep her on this side of the fence because we never thought she'd be brave enough to

07:07go through it but look at her no she's doing well she's really surprising us being super brave and

07:13exploring the garden this is great news but then our dogs came back from their walk kobe and mokey are

07:19back

07:20from the walk they are soaked and jj is still outside with cindy we're not going to get them

07:24to meet yet because obviously cindy is very scared and shy and we want to give her some more time

07:29but

07:29obviously these two can smell a dog and they're excited to meet her we gave cindy more time to

07:34explore but she did kind of shut down in the corner of the garden so in an effort of not

07:39being in the

07:39garden the whole night let's go and get our super friendly boy kobe all right kobe's still got his

07:47jacket one let's just bring him out oh there he goes he knows there's a dog okay we've swapped

07:56over so ella's got the dog do you want to see if you can like gently no i think leave

08:02her see if

08:03she wants to i don't think we should force her okay she can see him now she's looking over what's

08:10good is she's seen that there's a dog here and the initial reaction obviously she hasn't really done

08:15anything i'm so sorry about the light by the way like i said we were going to lose light and

08:19the

08:20rain is insane is she trying to like sniff the air or anything no her ears are going up i'm

08:25trying

08:25to shine a light to show you but i am soaked by the way i know we've got this strong

08:31light so that

08:32we can see the dogs and so that you can see the dogs but where we are we're kind of

08:35like pointing

08:36it down so it's not directly in their face kobe's probably just having a sniff of everything she's

08:42just sniffed right ella bring her bring her over just grab her do what i did yeah because

08:47else we'll be here all day good girl and not only given the circumstance because it is absolutely

08:53soaking and cold and wet we're gonna have to force the meat a little bit we did eventually get her

08:59over but how will she react she's very much like not trying to show any eye contact

09:07oh she is so cute she's having a sniff now that's good

09:14so what we do plan to do is when we do get them to meet sort of face to face

09:19we are going to put

09:20a lead on kobe because the one bit we were right about is we thought she wouldn't like give a

09:26whole

09:26lot oh wow that's really good so before the comments come for us you can see i'm pointing the

09:32light like towards the ground so we do know that she lived with a bunch of dogs in bosnia so

09:38she

09:38should be good with dogs but the thing is is a lot has happened since then she's just come from

09:43a

09:43really stressful journey it's a completely new environment so rather be super cautious instead

09:48of just assuming she's going to be fine she seems pretty calm and so does kobe so let's put a

09:53lead on

09:53him and get them to meet face to face okay we've got a lead on kobe right bring her further

09:58back

09:59what i want to do is have a bit of distance between them why don't you go over there okay

10:04come on so

10:05i'm just going to kind of walk around a bit with kobe camera before they properly meet he doesn't seem

10:10too interested which is good because it means she can have a little sniff good boy okay let's try and

10:15bring him a little bit closer after taking the meeting really slowly walking kobe up and down both dogs

10:21seem fine so we let them really meet for the first time let's see what happens here

10:28kobe was looking at her and stopped

10:33she's having a sniff wow kobe's wagging his tail

10:42okay yes she looks more scared of us yeah i think she's like well i want to have a go

10:46i want to go off

10:47and you're following me we let kobe off the lead and not surprisingly both dogs did great together

10:53we're not so sure how the meeting with mokey will go as she's a bit more crazy but let's see

10:57what happens we have our hello

11:01we've got a crazy dog with mokey and she knows there's a dog out there so we're going to get

11:05them

11:06to meet by the gate again and then we've got the lead further on lead walk oh there she goes

11:11she came over wow that's good good girl mokes mokey by the way absolutely hates this weather so i

11:23don't think she's going to want to be out here for very long she's showing a bit you can see

11:26she's not

11:27showing as much interest i think because mokey's obviously more unpredictable than kobe she's kind

11:32of ignoring mokey to be honest yeah my hands are frozen yeah right i'm going to put a lead on

11:37mokey

11:38yeah please do okay in an effort of trying to get the dogs inside i have got mokey on the

11:44lead

11:44mokey come on don't be scared go on and let's see how this goes so i did the same thing

11:51walked mokey

11:51up and down a bit and then let them meet the dog please okay nice good shake off

12:01okay that was really good mokey not surprisingly isn't that interested because the weather's just

12:06horrible and she just wants to get inside she's obviously scared she hasn't snapped at the dogs

12:11or anything good girl mokey's also been a bit cautious she moved away there i don't know if

12:19that's because of me though i think we should probably start trying to make a move and get

12:23them inside we can separate them and yeah she's scared of mokey yeah i think because mokey moves a

12:28bit more sudden and is a bit more unpredictable she looks a bit unsure which is okay yeah understandable

12:33she's a scared dog i'm gonna give you the good job and do you want to go inside get the

12:37dogs ready

12:38get all the crates set up and i'll stand out here with cindy yeah thank you good husband okay so

12:44the

12:45dogs have been dried off kobe's bed is out of the way mokey's bed has been closed up cindy's bed

12:51is

12:51open and ready and we've got a nice makeshift fence so that cindy can come inside and wander the kitchen

12:59i'm waiting outside with cindy and she like hid behind me just absolutely adorable rescuing dogs

13:05like cindy is why we do this and somehow it's led us to being nominated for pet creator of the

13:11year if

13:12you could vote for the golden kobe family it would mean the world to us link to vote is in

13:16the

13:16description or you can scan the qr code on screen let's win this for all the dogs we've helped rescue

13:22together okay come on in let's move the boots because you never know what she's gonna be scared

13:26of yeah i found that holdy hand was really good let's get her inside it's cold and wet just use

13:31the holy handle if you need to come on good girl oh the little squelchy little paws because they're

13:38all muddy maybe we take her lead off yeah we can yeah so now she's inside the plan is to

13:43keep the

13:44dog separate right now and feed them dinner separately too we are going to get them to properly meet

13:49but not till later we really want to take this as slowly as possible okay so she's just like sat

13:56down

13:57for a corner my guess is that she probably wants somewhere to decompress because she's gonna be

14:02super tired after that stressful drive i got kobe and mochi's food ready raw meat with bone broth

14:08and salmon oil i know they're so spoiled yes for cindy she has found her little decompression spot so

14:18we're gonna make her some chicken and rice because her stomach is probably gonna be doing back flips

14:23after the stressful day she's had and we're literally just gonna go about do everything as normal with a

14:29dog this scared the best thing to do is give them space and let them move at their own pace

14:33so we made

14:34her dinner and completely ignored her she's already so overwhelmed from the move meeting us and meeting

14:39the dogs so the last thing she needs is any more pressure so ella's given her a water bowl but

14:45what we

14:46have here is dog pate we're gonna try and give her a bit of dog pate because it's always a

14:51good test of

14:52how scared the dog is because if they're absolutely terrified they just won't eat she looks pretty frightened

15:07that's really good the fact that she ate that is really really good she's hungry i know we said we're

15:12gonna ignore her but we just have to do the little test that we are gonna do one more and

15:17then that's

15:17it because i don't want to upset yeah just one more oh my god let me try just one more

15:23but let me try now

15:27did you take it she's so gentle you can't even no no more jj jj no more thank you

15:34right that's it it's a wrap i look like a tram rat the fact that she's taken that not only

15:40is really good

15:41because it shows she's not super stressed but it also means that she's clearly quite treat motivated

15:46which is really good because when we do some confidence building with her it means that it

15:52will just make this whole thing a little bit easier so her chicken and rice is ready we're

15:56not giving her too much because we don't want to upset her stomach it is literally steaming hot right

16:01now but this is where the uk weather actually comes in handy because what we need to do is leave

16:07it

16:07outside for five minutes and it's gonna get nice and cool she's got her paws crossed and she looks

16:12absolutely adorable can we just appreciate how good kobe aboki are bearing in mind this is their

16:17house we've cornered them off so that cindy can have time away and like they're just like chilling

16:21out with a random dog that's just entered the house they don't get enough credit for how good they

16:26are for sharing their house the food has finally cooled down we put the bowl down for cindy and left

16:31the

16:32room so she could eat without being worried about us she absolutely housed her food down which made

16:37us really happy she even plucked up the courage to stand up and have a little wonder well done cindy

16:43we're now gonna put the double lead back on her and bring her outside to try and go to the

16:49toilet

16:49and then we'll try and put her like in her decompression area to show her her crate so we do

16:54know from

16:55fetch a dog she is crate trained so i'm sure that when we show her what we set up for

16:59her she'll recognize

17:00that as a safe space and my guess is probably spend the rest of the night there sorry oh she's

17:05so

17:06scared we're gonna clip the lead onto her oh you can see how that's shaking really slowly what's sad

17:14is that when you do that she like freezes in fear you can see in her face how uncomfortable she

17:19is

17:19good girl all right then come on darling come on come on come on come on i'm sure you need

17:25the toilet

17:25again come on right handle nice and warmly we feel so bad moving her around but this is the last

17:31time

17:32she'll go into the garden to try and get her to go to the toilet and then she can decompress

17:36for the

17:37rest of the night but remember she is still going to be meeting kobe and mochi properly later on we're

17:42back outside again and we have one goal and that goal is for her to go to the toilet and

17:48we failed with

17:49that one goal she didn't go but let's bring her back inside and see what she thinks of her little

17:54decompression area oh this bit's new yeah take it in then okay all right nearly there come on

18:05good girl if i walk it oh she's going behind me good girl all right look over see what she

18:12does

18:13let her go in if she wants to

18:22that's adorable the way she just slowly went in there so we've made it a nice little den for her

18:27so it's nice and cozy ella's done amazing by putting a puppy pad there and a blanket at the

18:33back and so this is going to be her spot so what we have done look at what i did

18:39to go

18:40we just had like a half he's in prison yeah we just had like a half prison now she's in

18:46her safe

18:47space we let our dogs free roam we've got the side but open a bit so she can actually see

18:51what's going

18:52on we're just again just going to completely ignore her do what we usually do the dogs have got free

18:56roam they're really good and they're not going to try and like go into her crate and invade her personal

19:01space are your dogs because you're so good so we repeated what we did in the kitchen just going

19:09about our day and letting her take everything in but then we thought of a great idea it comes the

19:15evening time now and although it looks like we're about to watch some netflix which we are what's

19:21actually really important here is the fact that cindy just gets some time to be able to be in her

19:27crate in her safe space and basically just watch us chill out because we're not paying her any

19:31attention she's got time to just sort of like take everything in and so me and ella are gonna do

19:37the

19:37really hard task of watching netflix here every single night and basically have cindy in the corner

19:45there are you ready to do the incredibly hard task of watching netflix i am and i'm dedicated to this

19:51same here so is this one so you can already see even us just laying down and not moving

20:00she's fully asleep we're about to get everything ready for her first night with us me and ella got

20:06a takeaway because we felt like we deserved it after today we're gonna let cindy rest tonight and she'll

20:11properly meet kobe and mochi tomorrow morning after a good night's rest we're almost certainly gonna wake up

20:17to some toilet around here so ella has put down some puppy pads we've also covered sort of like

20:24the back end here so she doesn't jump onto the sofa and not be able to get into her bed

20:29and get scared

20:29and we've set the camera here it does look like she's in prison but she is not in prison and

20:34then we

20:35will see you miss cindy tomorrow morning me and ella were getting ready for bed ella managed to

20:42well smell this but she's done a very good job in making sure it all went on the puppy pad

20:49good girl

20:49cindy well done okay so she did have one little accident but at least we managed to catch it before

20:55we went to sleep so let's clean this up so we're gonna open a window we're gonna air the lounge

20:59out

21:00obviously change the puppy pads and hope that she doesn't have another accident she's looking a bit

21:06unsure about us being all in her safe space we're gonna make it all nice for you again cindy did

21:12a

21:12little accident it's okay so we changed out the puppy pads sprayed disinfectant and citronella spray

21:18okay her crate area is clean water bowl is back down camera set up windows are open and we'll try

21:25this again good night cindy girl good girl also just a quick one we are closing the windows the windows

21:30are just open to air it out everything shut and this is how things went the next morning we're not

21:36gonna make a big deal of the fact that it's the morning now the plan is to try and get

21:41her outside

21:42this morning so we want to get her outside and this is much easier said than done first gonna do

21:47a test

21:47to see how stressed she is by just offering her a treat see if she eats it that's really good

21:52she does

21:53we ended up using a mixture of some light pulls on her handle and some treats to get her out

21:57her

21:58crate and now she's finally gonna go outside and be with kobe and mokey to properly socialize

22:04kobe she's scaring her let's put the lead on her because she's quite scared come on there that's

22:11good go on no out you're cornering her out squad all right you come out she's coming yeah well kobe

22:17mokey come on stop cornering her kobe come come on cindy come on come on mokey good girl no kobe

22:24no

22:24no no not the growling she's gonna get scared all right that's really good so i guess this is the

22:29first time they're properly meeting she seems pretty she seemed to be doing really well when

22:34we rescued her yesterday we kept her on lead the entire time because she's a big flight risk in a

22:40new environment but today we're going to let her free roam for the first time so we've still got the

22:45lead on her in case she shuts down and goes into a corner so what we want to do is

22:50kind of just give her

22:51a bit of distance because apparently she's not that confident even being in a garden we want her

22:56to understand like this is her safe space like it's okay oh my god she's following us oh my god

23:01she's following us wow we honestly thought she'd take herself off and shut down but the fact she

23:09followed us shows there's a chance we can save her this is the most interaction she had with our

23:14dogs yesterday and now look how much more comfortable she looks now oh look at her even

23:20going near mokey she's like yeah i'm fine she then followed us to come back inside but did shut down

23:26again and spent the entire day in her crate so in day three we had a plan to try and

23:30help build her

23:31confidence so the reason we have put a bunch of random items there is to try and help build her

23:36confidence now luckily for us she is treat motivated so the goal here is simply to get her exploring

23:42around new things this builds confidence and the fact she's already doing it is a great sign you can

23:47see we've like closed off her crate because we really want her to engage with everything

23:53she's just taking a spoon oh she's eating the spoon okay she stopped she's being really brave engaging

24:01with all this stuff which is just exactly what we want she's a bit unsure what to do there is

24:05still

24:05some treats like around there so we'll just wait and see if she engages again so she looks a bit

24:10unsure at the moment so we'll keep an eye on her and if she doesn't want to engage anymore then

24:14we'll

24:15simply take some stuff away at this point cindy had stopped showing interest so we took out some items

24:20and let's see if she goes back to it she looks like she's gone back to everything which is really

24:24good she's really engaging which is great we continued building her confidence by swapping

24:29different items and she did so well but it took a lot of courage for her to do that she

24:34did eventually

24:34go off into her crate so we thought of an idea to try and help her unwind we have got

24:40a lick mat for

24:41her lick mats are incredible for helping to relieve stress and anxiety you can see she isn't going to

24:48go near the lick mat whilst we're here but the plan is to kind of section her off so that

24:53she's got her

24:53own space we set up a tripod and left her to it you can see she goes over to the

24:58lick mat has a sniff

24:59but left it alone she clearly still needs a lot more confidence building later that day she follows

25:05mochi and comes out her crate but just isn't brave enough yet to wander around we've still got a lot

25:10of work to do so it's the next morning let's see if cindy is feeling braver today after a good

25:16night's

25:16sleep she's had a little drink we're thinking she may need the toilet so we're gonna put these dogs out

25:21and then see how we get on good dogs and should we step out yeah we're gonna step out and

25:26we'll see

25:27if she follows come on cindy i wouldn't even say her name there's no chance she's gonna follow but

25:31let's give it a go we're trying to get cindy used to a routine of going outside in the morning

25:35there's

25:36no doubt she needs the toilet but will she come out her crate without our help okay we are outside

25:42she's looking she didn't come out we ended up having to help her out her crate again but we think

25:47if we

25:48keep doing this eventually she will come out her crate by herself the good news is that once she's in

25:53the garden she's brave enough to explore good girl cindy all right so we're just gonna act like this

25:58is completely normal we've just taken her out for a wee again there she goes it's funny because when

26:02she comes out the crate she's good okay so what we're looking for is a wee looks like she's having

26:09a sniff to go we're so obsessed with getting her outside and going toilet because she still had

26:13accidents in her crate at the rescue we got her from so we're really trying to hone in on her

26:18toilet

26:18training kobe's with her to give her a bit of emotional support and there it is a wee a wild

26:25wee

26:25yes good girl cindy our plan today is to try and get her to feel more comfortable around us

26:31what better way to do this than treats and after we bribed her she actually started to show a bit

26:37of

26:41progress we hoped that her being with our calm confident dogs would help give her some confidence

26:46and it seems like it's working she's coming over she really likes kobe oh she really likes kobe i

26:53think she's following him it may not seem like much but taking cues from kobe could really help her

26:58come out of her shell over time she's even starting to show a bit of interest in ella too she

27:03follows me

27:04she's following me quite a lot actually i've just done a walk up the garden and she's she's following

27:09me oh she wants to be right by me wow look how close we are good girl darling trying a

27:19good old sniff

27:19how great is she being we had a great morning but this is how quickly things can change with a

27:25scared dog

27:27oh sorry darling sorry when she came back inside this is the position she took for most of the day

27:33but

27:33after lots of rest she ate dinner and then she did this she's exploring more isn't she and is eating

27:39salmon listen what works works if she wants to come out because she can smell salmon that's fine

27:47she's gonna go back into her crate now it's all right she did good that was literally the first

27:51time she explored the house it was only for about 10 seconds but hey we take it but then that

27:57night

27:57she showed a completely different side to her

28:03i checked all the cameras honestly no idea what she's barking at but glad to see she's found it

28:09so a few days had passed and then cindy shows the huge progress she's made so we have now gotten

28:14to

28:15a stage where if we want to put cindy outside we don't need to grab our handle anymore watch this

28:20what

28:20we do come on make it out come on so i just open this door i come outside i bet

28:26you now we've turned

28:26the camera on she's not going to do it and then usually she now comes out of her crate and

28:34there

28:34she goes

28:37and now she's outside so she does kind of like leg it when she comes out of the crate and

28:42she's a bit

28:42scared but the fact that she's coming out by herself and will explore by herself with all of our dogs

28:47as

28:47well is great you can see her shaking off some stress there and she's free to go to the toilet

28:53there you go sniff the air so she's learning she's getting there she's getting into a bit of a routine

28:58which is great so you can see cindy waiting there with kobe to come back in and then i open

29:04the door

29:06she comes running in like a torpedo and goes into her crate she also hasn't had a single accident

29:13since her first night so we can now safely say she's toilet trained we then had an idea what if

29:19we both go upstairs and leave all the cameras running will she be brave enough to explore if

29:24no one's there she's sniffing the air maybe to try and see if she can get our scent very cautiously

29:31steps out her crate has a sniff around and then settles but she didn't stop there she then leaves her

29:38little area goes onto the fluffy rug watch this little tail wag she must have thought oh this is

29:44quite comfy because she wags her tail again and rolls onto her side we've got such a soft spot for

29:50her she's so stinking cute she looked so comfy we didn't come down for hours just so she could have

29:56a good rest but then it got us thinking we're getting kobe and mokey ready to take them out on

30:02a walk

30:02she's never been fully left alone before with no dogs in the house either so how will she react then

30:08oh she's there she's well curious she's really curious she's looking at everything we're doing

30:13so it'll be interesting how much she explores when we're gone but she looks like she wants to come with

30:17us i know she won't but this curiosity is really good because hopefully it means that there's a chance

30:23we may actually eventually be able to walk her and she can come with these two so whilst we are

30:27walking

30:27the dogs let's see what cindy gets up to when she's by herself she hasn't gone back to her crate

30:34which

30:34is good she's stress panting a bit and just looking a bit confused until she finally decided to move

30:40and made this noise yes that was a little cry i think she may have a bit of separation anxiety

30:48she was looking out the window and you can see did go off to explore a bit watching this back

30:55i don't

30:55think she's actually exploring i think she's stressed and she's unsure what to do but how

31:00would she act when we came back okay we've just come back so she's still looking scared doesn't look

31:06all that happy that we're back let's see if she wants to go out here she is go on there

31:10cindy

31:11is she gonna come past me or she's too scared i did think she'd be a bit braver and happy

31:15to see us

31:16i think she wants to be confident she just needs help getting there got an idea if i go out

31:20i think

31:21she'll come out come on cindy okay let's see if she'll come out now yes there she goes good girl

31:28hello oh so she does still need a lot of work but she is starting to look more and more

31:34comfortable

31:34with our dogs which is great oh she's having a sniff of kobe she's like where have you been

31:39we're trying to rescue so many more dogs just like cindy this year and if you hit that subscribe

31:44button you guys will be massively helping out if we could get to 1 million subscribers by the end of

31:50the year that would be insane i also got this heartwarming clip of cindy just absolutely legging

31:56it in the garden it's so nice to see glimpses of her personality so i'm just currently making some food

32:03and this one has decided to lay in the lounge usually she sees me and runs off but even just

32:08doing this

32:09is some really really good progress mokey looks a bit unsure i was about to say good girl cindy but

32:15i

32:15don't want to pay her any attention but that's really really good and her little brave spell

32:20didn't stop there so i'm eating some chicken and look who's decided she's brave enough to just come

32:25out her crate have a quick look and then go back in she's exploring a lot more

32:33no i think her paws are making too loud of a noise i shouldn't have spoken because i think i've

32:37scared her back off into the crate small baby steps but we're getting there it then came to the evening

32:42time we are making a point of watching netflix every single night because we just want her to

32:49get used to some kind of routine scared dogs like her love routine and even that seems so simple of

32:55literally just watching netflix it means that she gets to spend some quality time in her safe space

33:00whilst we get to just chill out on the sofa so she can feel safe to wander around whilst we

33:05just chill

33:06she had a great night's sleep and the next morning we had an idea to help her de-stress even

33:11more

33:12so we have got another lick mat here for her yesterday the other lick mat that we gave her

33:18was frozen she kind of went up to it had a little sniff and then left it and so we're

33:22thinking she

33:22probably hasn't had anything frozen before so she was a little bit confused by the texture so this time

33:27we have got a lick mat that isn't frozen and it's got her food on her that we know she

33:32eats and that she

33:33likes is i'm gonna put this in here for her and then we're gonna close this off so she feels

33:37safe

33:38so we have stepped out from the lounge we just set a camera up on a tripod you can see

33:42here we're kind

33:43of like in the kitchen so she's just got some space to be able to hopefully go for the lick

33:47mat and i

33:48can happily report she did end up absolutely housing down the lick mat we're really happy about this

33:53because it's such a good way to calm a dog but we weren't going to stop there we decided to

33:58see if she

33:59would progress again on the confidence game so we are going to put down the same things that we

34:06did i set everything up again exactly the same as before but this time nothing she completely shut

34:13down and hid in the corner and that's when it really hit us we can't do this alone so we

34:18realized

34:18we needed help and brought in a professional trainer named Dilnaz to see if she could help

34:23cindy build the confidence she needs for her forever home who's that so we're starting off

34:30with our professional dog trainer Dilnaz think it's safe to say kobe and mokey recognize her

34:35mokey no no no she's getting a run up good girl cindy and then guess who even came up to

34:42see Dilnaz

34:44oh yeah look wow how good is that mokey mokey sorry Dilnaz is going to work with cindy today and

34:51then

34:51give us some confidence building games we can use with her throughout the week all i'm going to do

34:56and i'm going to because of how she is with kobe i'm just going to introduce one at a time

35:01so i'm

35:02going to introduce it to both of them so that she sees it's not something to be scared of Dilnaz

35:06is

35:06going to be doing the cone game it's quite simple with how it works and then treat inside each one

35:12and see if she can work out how to get it so this is a bit of problem solving so

35:16we've officially put

35:17cindy up for adoption but before we feel comfortable sending her to her forever home

35:21there's still some confidence building left to do she was getting a little bit confused but

35:26Dilnaz knows exactly how to deal with this so i'll open it and i'll let her have it because i

35:31don't

35:31want it to be too hard at the moment and then you just repeat it after watching kobe problem solve

35:36she did start to understand what to do i've let her have one and i've let her sniff that there's

35:41two

35:41in there now oh good girl so she's starting to put her tongue in there oh yeah let's let's not

35:49destroy it oh you're cheeky man yes that's good brilliant excellent it doesn't matter how they

35:58solve the problem the importance is that they solve the problem cindy really started to engage

36:03with the cone and once Dilnaz left we could already start to see her confidence building look at this one

36:09all brave upstairs with the pack look at her exploring the house it's pretty insane to see

36:16her doing this three weeks ago she'd be frozen in one spot she wouldn't even leave her crate but now

36:21look at her good girl cindy girl she's so cute she even took her newfound bravery to another level

36:29she's just jumped onto the bed cindy come on off no come on cindy it's okay please don't pee on

36:36it

36:37this is my bed come on cindy girl come on off cindy she won't come off ella then came home

36:44and bearing

36:44in mind she used to run past her this is what she's like now ella's just come back cindy's finally

36:50come

36:50off the bed thank god look at her loving the pets with the whole pack look at her oh she's

36:56so cute

36:57so the training continues with cindy we're determined to keep this momentum going and help

37:03her come out her shell even more so she can be ready for her forever home we have got post

37:08-it

37:08notes here and we're gonna be putting treats inside them the idea here is that cindy will need to figure

37:17out how to get the treat she's over there at the moment so the first thing we need to do

37:21is hopefully

37:22get her to engage let's see if she doesn't come over i have got an idea okay she's not coming

37:28over

37:28and that's fine so i'm gonna start feeding kobe and usually that gets her to come over

37:36and look at that and she's gone straight to the post-it notes which is great cindy is doing amazing

37:43as much as we'd love to keep her unfortunately we can't there's so many other dogs like her that

37:49need help and if we kept cindy we couldn't help the others so whilst we're working hard on making

37:54cindy more confident and trusting we got our first inquiry for adoption but there was one issue

38:00the people who inquired about cindy have cats so we needed to figure out whether she'd be

38:04suitable in a home with them luckily our neighbor has two lovely cats and even a big friendly german

38:09shepherd so we had the perfect opportunity to safely test how cindy would react

38:14good girl cindy not produce the whole letter's very timid there's the cat

38:18oh yeah cindy come on cindy come on cindy come on cindy come on cindy come on good girl

38:35these cats are obviously used to living with dogs so this is perfect for her she looks a little unsure

38:40but isn't reacting to the cats at all which is great she doesn't care does she okay

38:52there you go so we can now say cindy is cat tested let's carry on with her training now to

38:58help her

38:58build as much confidence as possible so the work that we're going to be doing with cindy today is

39:03called noise box right now it's literally just an empty box and we're simply going to play some treats

39:09in it and the idea is she's gonna submerse her whole head into it to try and get the treat

39:15now

39:15this is quite scary for her you can see she's hesitant because she's got to place her whole head

39:20inside it's quite a big ask we tried to get cindy to put her head into the box but with

39:25no luck

39:25so we had a plan we're gonna bring our whole kobe in he's just waiting for the call up because

39:32he's

39:33really good at showing her what to do so let's show kobe doing it go on then oh

39:40real elegant kobe so we'll do this a few times with kobe and you can already see she's looking

39:45more interested she got up we took kobe away and thought this has to be it okay so now he's

39:54shown

39:54her let's see if she'll go for it nope sat back down that's all right all right kobe gone kobe

40:02you

40:02stay here and then we're just going to try and get her up because she really needs to stand up

40:06to

40:06be able to get her head into it so first thing i'm going to try and do is try and

40:08get her up

40:09come on and so now she's up i'm going to very slowly introduce the box alongside a tree

40:19just trying to associate the box with something positive she's really hesitant which is fine

40:24we want to set her up for success not failure so she doesn't put her head into the box yet

40:28that's okay

40:29we tried doing this very slowly for about 20 minutes with her we even got ella to have a go

40:34but we failed it's okay though because later on we're going to be bringing dillnaz back to help show

40:40us exactly how to do it we didn't want to end the day on a bad note so we decided

40:44to push the

40:45boundaries and take cindy on her first ever off lead walk we are going to put the harness on cindy

40:53so we're actually going to take cindy for a short car ride before we take her on the off lead

40:57walk

40:58the last time she was in the car she hated it and was really scared so we want to help

41:02build her

41:02confidence in it first this is actually the first time i've ever even tried to lift cindy up so let's

41:08see how this goes can i get cindy good girl okay it's okay good girl there you go i can

41:16see her in

41:17the back she looks adorable we're literally just gonna go on the shortest drive for just something

41:21nice and easy i think having kobe there is gonna be a massive help for her because it just shows

41:26another dog being nice and calm ella just showed me that actually when i went to pick her up she

41:31air

41:31bit me i had no idea when i picked her up that she did that so next time i do

41:35it i'm gonna do it a

41:36lot slower i think i wasn't gentle enough we literally drove around the block for a couple

41:40minutes cindy seemed to be doing really well with kobe we then got home let's see how she is okay

41:45she did really well hang on good girl last time she jumped out the car so i'm not going to

41:49bother

41:50trying to pick her up again come on kobe there we go good well done dogs i think she's ready

41:56for her

41:57big walking journey so it's the next day and time for cindy's first off lead walk i picked her up

42:02very gently and slowly this time you can do it very slowly cindy

42:11nice and easy picked her up like a package and no air bite we're off to a good start we

42:17have only got

42:18a 15 minute journey to get there we have arrived at the place we have got horrible horrible horrible

42:25uk weather come on then if you're wondering how we're going to do this safely we've rented an entire

42:31enclosed field for the dogs so there's nowhere for her to escape the gate is open now come on then

42:38cindy

42:41good shake off from stress so we're just gonna let her get her bearings a little bit first

42:46before we actually go ahead and let her off it's pretty incredible to see how much more confident

42:51cindy is after three weeks of being with us she's come a long way since we first got her we're

42:56rescuing dogs just like cindy this year and you can support us by simply clicking that subscribe button

43:02not surprisingly i think she's just gonna follow kobe do you know what

43:09she's off let's see how she does oh she's already going it's pretty insane to think from the first time

43:19that we rescued her like we've even gotten to this point we weren't even sure if we could walk her

43:26now look so let's test something let's go for a little walk down here and let's see if she follows

43:30us i think if anything she'll be following kobe but let's see because i'm curious come on cindy

43:35come on good girl good girl look at her oh my god look at her oh that is so cute

43:48oh that is so

43:50cute to see so you can see here as well there's like a jungle gym apparatus type thing so i

43:56am going

43:56to try and go on there later with cindy let's see if she'll go on it oh look at kobe

44:01oh cindy did not

44:03like that oh look at him oh she's getting scared kobe's got the zoomies nice oh my god look at

44:11her

44:11look at her go cindy is absolutely loving all this freedom let's go to the play area and see if

44:17she'll

44:17even be brave enough to go on to it come on cindy come on kobe come i wonder if cindy

44:23wants to come in

44:24no all right you're gonna come out come on there whoa good boy to the jungle gym thing very slowly

44:31not loudly i'm gonna do it with kobe just ready coming over to have a sniff which is good kobe

44:36loves it kobe knows what to do oh oh my god come on kobe up come up oh good boy

44:46do you know what i love

44:47about kobe genuinely he'll do anything that i'll tell him to do blessing he's got so much trust in me

44:51oh is she gonna come up she's having a sniff i think she's more curious as to what it is

44:58she's

44:59obviously never seen anything like this before in her life ella's having a fun time following

45:03around the whole thing it makes us so happy to see her so happy but now let's go back home

45:11we have

45:11one final session with dilnaz to give her that little last confidence booster before we find her

45:17forever home we're starting off with noise box again since we failed to do it with her last time

45:22the first thing dilnaz got us to do is cut down the sides of the box you can see how

45:26much smaller it is

45:27compared to last time so hopefully it's not as scary for her straight in there

45:34and now i'm just gonna do three so we start with one at a time and then i'm just gonna

45:40sprinkle some

45:43beautiful beautiful that's what i was hoping for so you start with one and then add more

45:51okay baby so because she was scared of the box at full height we have to work with where she's

45:59at

45:59we don't want to keep forcing her to do something she's gone so much braver we don't want to keep

46:06forcing her to do something she's really really not happy with dilnaz continued working with cindy and

46:13she did amazing it's not a full noise box yet her head isn't fully submerged but it's a huge step

46:19forward and everything is always at cindy's pace but while she's building confidence what's happening

46:25with her adoption applications is cindy actually going to find her forever home so we have had cindy

46:31for a few weeks now and we've had quite a few applications for her look how cute she is she's

46:36actually letting me pet her now and we're working with fetch a dog which is the rescue that she came

46:41from and we may have found the star of cindy's forever home we actually took her to their house

46:46for a meet and greet this is us walking her around the block beforehand we didn't film inside for

46:51privacy but cindy did amazing and the family absolutely loved her we're still waiting to hear

46:56if they want to adopt her but for now we decided to take cindy on a brand new walk for

47:01the first time

47:03okay we have arrived i've got my boots on let's get the dogs out wait wait wait wait wait wait

47:08wait

47:08oh cindy all right come on cindy girl we and so this is come on a brand new walk for

47:14cindy and let's

47:15see how she does mokey this way already she looks really really comfortable really really confident

47:20good girl oh jeez i think having oh my god oh good shake off from stress good girl having kobe

47:26and mokey

47:27here is going to be a massive help especially mokey good girl mokey especially mokey

47:31because it just shows cindy that you know there's nothing to be scared of she can be nice and

47:35confident cindy absolutely loved her new walk i honestly can't believe the transformation from a

47:41completely shut down dog when we rescued her to this in just four weeks but then we got some news

47:48cindy is going to be going to her forever home tomorrow morning and although like we're so excited

47:54about it obviously we're super sad because she's been one of the craziest transformations we've

47:58probably ever had and so yeah this is gonna be the last walk you sad very oh we're gonna miss

48:05you

48:05cindy i'm happy for i'm happy for cindy yeah same she's going to an amazing home somebody who honestly

48:11was probably better with her than we are tomorrow morning we're gonna be taking her to her forever

48:17home right so this is cindy's last chew before she goes to her new home here you go darling joy

48:27it is

48:28cindy's day we have got her bed that she's been laying on in the crate her passport a towel that

48:34smells like kobe a day's worth of food and then we are actually going to give her new home her

48:42crate just because she knows it it's going to smell of her it's going to be something familiar for her

48:46so we don't usually do it but cindy for you we are going to you're gonna say one last goodbye

48:51to the

48:51dogs oh we're all gonna miss you cindy lou good girl we put cindy in the car and i can't

48:59believe it

48:59we're saying our final goodbyes to her oh cindy is cindy gonna close it we arrived at her new home

49:08we

49:09took her out the car for one last final time and she's been at her forever home for about a

49:14week now

49:14she's getting on amazing being so much braver than when we first got her we could honestly cry

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