Terrified Shutdown Rescue Didn't Trust Anyone... Our Doberman Stepped Up

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Terrified Shutdown Rescue Didn&#039;t Trust Anyone... Our Doberman Stepped Up  We rescued this completely shut down and terrified rescue, we&#039;ve spent the last 4 weeks trying to help him gain some confidence and help him come out of his shell... We weren&#039;t sure if this is even possible  If you would like to support us on our mission: » https://www.gofundme.com/f/thegoldenkobefamily  Check out our 2nd channel:  » https://www.youtube.com/@moregoldenkobefamily  Follow us on IG: » https://www.instagram.com/thegoldenkobefamily  Follow us on TikTok: » https://www.tiktok.com/@goldenkobefamily  Follow us on Snapchat: » https://snapchat.com/t/ICl4UPHt  📧 GET IN TOUCH 📧 goldenkobefamily@apollomgmt.co  #goldenretriever #rescue #goldenkobefamily

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00:00This is the most terrified dog we've ever rescued. This is Scout. We brought him home three weeks ago

00:06and honestly we still don't know if it's even possible to help a dog this shut down.

00:12Oh no, Scout's wearing himself. But we refused to give up on him.

00:19So this is the first time we brought Scout home. He'd shut down in the corner but we did manage

00:24to get him into his crate unfortunately in a way we didn't want to. He spent the first three days

00:33in his crate but when he did eventually come out we figured this is the best time for him to

00:37try and

00:38meet all our dogs. So we've come downstairs and just realized that this one has come out his crate. I

00:44think this is a good time to bring Kobe in and see what he's like. Okay so we're gonna let

00:51I'm gonna

00:51let Kobe in first. Come on Cindy Kobe come. Come here Kobe. Good boy. Good boy yes he's very scared.

01:01So we're really hoping that our dogs are gonna teach him how to dog because he's obviously

01:05gonna be super scared of us right now. So he's obviously really scared of us so hopefully over

01:13today him just seeing these dogs moving around. He'll be okay. We're gonna let Cindy in.

01:18Cindy is our other rescue. We're hoping she'll understand what Scout is going through.

01:23Cindy's just having a sniff of everything. So I'm gonna back away a bit and see if that gives

01:28Scout any more confidence. Good boy. This is good. You can't really see Scout because he's proper

01:35tucked himself under. There he is. I honestly don't think Cindy has even realized that he's there. Oh there you

01:41go.

01:43Oh that's not the dog to meet Cindy that's Kobe. Okay well last dog we're gonna get is Moki. Moki

01:50is our

01:50crazy resident Doberman and you'll see later on in the video how much Scout ends up loving this dog.

01:58Good girl. Moki's like is there any food or anything? She's having a good sniff of everything.

02:05They're being really good. It's like they know that he's just super scared. They're like okay.

02:10There you go Moki's properly just realized. Little tail wag. So hopefully him now even seeing like

02:19the fact that we're an entire pack here. So Scout has slightly moved position. To be honest this is the

02:24first time I feel like we've properly seen him since the first day we had him and he's so cute.

02:29But that actually makes it a little bit easier now because now we can do what we usually do.

02:34Just walk around the house completely ignoring him and hopefully hopefully he's gonna eventually

02:39get the confidence to leave that area. Scout stayed in that area for hours. We put a little

02:44blanket down for him and figured this is the perfect time to try and put a collar on him. Ella

02:49is gonna

02:50try and put a collar on him. She's been doing the best with him in terms of him being comfortable

02:55with her. He looks more scared to me than you. Let him sniff it. Because of how unsure Scout still

03:00is,

03:00Ella's gonna move really slowly so that he doesn't get spooked and try to bite. He was looking pretty

03:07scared but she did manage to get the collar somewhat on him. So now he's out his crate and has

03:26a collar on,

03:27we came up with an idea to let him explore and hopefully decompress. So we are going to be taking

03:33all of our dogs out and then he is gonna have free roam of downstairs for the first time. We're

03:39picking everything up because we found that he is chewing on stuff. I mean he is just a puppy.

03:44We've got cameras here and here to keep an eye on him and we're also going to section this off

03:50so

03:50that he can't go into the kitchen and you can see we're like hiding stuff in the kitchen that we

03:54think

03:55he may poo and wee on. We've got puppy pads down and we're gonna leave him a lick mat and

03:59a toy.

04:00We're really hoping that he goes for that lick mat because it's really gonna help him

04:04de-stress from everything. So whilst we walk our dogs, is our plan gonna work with Scout?

04:09The first thing he did is start sniffing the lick mat. I'm hoping he's brave enough to go for it.

04:15He creeps forward, creeps forward again and actually goes for it. Look at him leaning, bless him. This

04:24is perfect because it's really gonna help him decompress. He actually ends up getting up and starts

04:29housing the food down. Our dogs are having the time of their life on the walk but Scout wasn't

04:38done there. What he did next really surprised us. He starts having a chew on his toy.

04:48He gets up to have a little explore and then starts testing our gate.

05:01He was so brave. We're finishing the walk with our dogs now so let's go home and see how Scout

05:07is.

05:08Okay, so he did manage to get into the kitchen. This door was closed. I've just opened it now.

05:15Nothing is destroyed. I think he had a bit of a party whilst we were gone. Good boy Scout. Well

05:20done.

05:21Oh, that's really good. He had a good go at his lick, man. That's really, really good.

05:25Later that day, we actually managed to capture this. It's the first time Scout properly met one of the dogs.

05:44Scout has had a busy day but the next day didn't go so well.

05:49So unfortunately, Scout has regressed today, has literally been in his crate the entire day,

05:55which is a problem because he hasn't gone to the toilet. So what we probably need to do is sort

06:00of

06:00like section off a little area for him again tonight so that he's actually brave enough to go to the

06:04toilet when nobody's here. He looks terrified, the poor thing. I feel so sorry for him to be stuck here.

06:11Well, he's not stuck here but to stay in here the entire day. I have done something that may be

06:15incredibly stupid. He doesn't like going to the toilet in that little area there. So I have tried

06:21to set up a little like area for him. Now, I know he likes to escape and so I've set

06:27this up.

06:28I've got a chair against like the barrier bit that he can open here. I'm so sorry, Cindy.

06:35I've got this against this here. I've put this massive footstool thing there and I've tried to

06:41block off the sofa. Ella's currently upstairs chilling out and if she came downstairs, I think

06:46she'd have a go at me. I've given Scout some toys. I don't know if you can see him in

06:50there.

06:51He's got toys. He's got water. We've got a camera set up there, a camera set up there,

06:57a camera set up there and let's see what he does tonight. Hopefully, he just goes into this crazy

07:03little space that I built, goes to the toilet and that's that. Something tells me he's not going to do

07:07that. The thing is with these rescue dogs that were former street dogs, if they want to get into

07:12somewhere or out of somewhere, they will. Let's see how this goes. I think I've lost my mind.

07:21It had literally been 45 minutes and Scout already starts testing the barriers I built.

07:27He's jumping on things, prodding things, pushing things until eventually he figures out how to get

07:33out. This isn't going to work. Okay, so unlucky for Scout. I heard him moving everything about.

07:42So unfortunately, he cannot be trusted. He has got a puppy pad here. I'm going to leave his toys.

07:48So he's just got one. And I'm sorry, Scout, but you're going to have to go into your crate

07:54because I can see what you're trying to do. And he's still got somewhere to go to the toilet if

07:58he needs it.

07:59Sorry, mate. You're right under there, Scout. The next day, you can see we swapped out our

08:05dining table for something a bit smaller so that Scout can see and take everything in. Ella also

08:10started doing some treat work with him to try and help him come out of his shell. I'm going to

08:14sit

08:14opposite Ella. I'm going to go to treat you now. Do you want to sniff? Good boy. Well done. Oh.

08:27Oh, yeah. Get that off the floor. Good boy. It's taken us two weeks to even get to this point.

08:35He will

08:35actually take a treat out of Ella's hand now, which is great. Although two weeks is not a long time,

08:40Scout is clearly still really skittish and anxious. It must be really hard constantly dealing with these

08:46big emotions. So we realized we need some help. So we called our vets to see what we can do.

08:51Hello. I'm calling about one of our rescue dogs. His name is Scout. He's quite like scared and

08:58anxious sort of like of everything, like to a point where he's really struggling to settle.

09:03We've had him for a few weeks now and we're sort of like working slowly and at his pace. But

09:08we're

09:09concerned that because he's struggling to settle, we're wondering if you were able to prescribe

09:12anything to help reduce his anxiety. This is where it became a real problem. We can't even get near him.

09:26So taking him to the vets just isn't possible. We wanted to see a vet registered behaviorist

09:32to explore where the medication could help take the edge off. But before that can happen,

09:36he needs a full veterinary assessment, which meant one thing. We had to try and find a vet

09:42willing to do a home visit. So we are going to call the mobile vets because quite clearly every

09:49single dog behaviorist that we try and get in touch with needs to have like a vet assessment for our

09:54scout. So let's give them a call and see if we can get them to come around as soon as

09:58possible.

09:58Thank you for calling. If you're an existing client, please leave a message and we'll get

10:03back to you as soon as possible. Please note, we're not currently taking on new patients.

10:11Oh my god. Okay, so not a great start. They said they're not taking on new patients,

10:16but I sent them a message anyway. So I've just typed in mobile vets name me onto Google and let's

10:23try to call another one. Yeah, I'm afraid you're too far from us. So we are like a little small

10:28So we kept on hitting dead ends. We actually ended up calling back our vets to explain the situation.

10:33They gave us a contact they had and we finally managed to book a vet in for an assessment.

10:38We'll show you later how that went.

10:42But what a day. I think Scout's even having nightmares on how hard this is.

10:50A few days had passed and Scout actually started to become braver.

11:02What's wrong? He's going to explore. Good boy.

11:13This is amazing.

11:17Leave the webcam alone.

11:22He's wagging his tail. Good boy.

11:35I could honestly cry watching this. It's literally the first time we've seen him be a puppy.

11:41He is only one years old after all. We weren't sure if he was too far gone,

11:46but this has given us hope. If that's not worth hitting that subscribe button, then I don't know what is.

11:53His progress didn't stop there either because the next morning he suddenly realized he loves our

11:58Doberman Moki.

12:25I think he just decided Moki is his safe space and he wouldn't leave her.

12:29I think he just decided Moki's his safe space and he wouldn't leave her.

12:29I think that's right.

12:35The dogs breakfast is all ready,

12:37so I'm going to show you how I feed them.

12:39One baby, one baby, one baby, one baby, two scouts, come on, one, two, one scout, good boy, good girl,

12:56what's up, good boy, good boy, good girl, yes, yes, and now this is my opportunity to clean the house,

13:06whoa.

13:07Ella then spends the next 45 minutes cleaning the house, just for Scout to leave her a little present.

13:13Well, I guess this is my fault because I didn't put any puppy pads down, so present for me, woo.

13:19Scout then starts to smother Mokey a little bit, it looks like she's going to have to teach him some

13:24dog ladders.

13:31He then tries to pull her, Mokey's got so much patience because he then starts biting at her ankles.

13:49Scout's got a lot to learn, but that's okay.

13:52To continue helping him, we actually got on the phone to a trainer we know who suggested we do this.

13:57We'd have to do this really, really carefully, but he seemed so interested in Cindy doing the noise box when

14:04it was, you know, the really shallow box.

14:06So it might be worth, put it, don't let it scrape on the floor and then put treats in there

14:13and see if he'll do a narrow noise box.

14:15Yeah.

14:15So keep the other dogs away from him because you don't want conflict over food and then give him something

14:21really nice to chew on just to carry on decompressing him because I really do think he needs more decompression

14:27time.

14:28Okay.

14:29So we got the low noise box, we put a bunch of treats in it.

14:32Alright, that's enough.

14:34Okay.

14:34Maybe one too many and then left Scout alone with it.

14:38All the other dogs as well are put away so that Scout has got his own time and his own

14:44space to be able to just engage whilst we are gone.

14:48So we are going to set you guys up on this tripod and hopefully capture Scout going for the treats.

14:55Scout was watching, waiting for us to leave, but it didn't take him long to start housing the food down.

15:04So I've just come back and I can see that Scout has finished everything, which is really good.

15:08We've literally left him for about five minutes.

15:11So now we're going to give him like a really long lasting chew and hopefully he's going to chew on

15:16that again just to help him decompress because he's still really on edge and all of these things will help

15:21him to calm down.

15:22So let's go and get a chew for him and hopefully he engages with that too.

15:25I've got a cod bar for him.

15:28It's quite hard because ideally he's going to be chewing on it for like 20 minutes, half an hour.

15:33Hopefully he doesn't finish it in five minutes, but I'm going to give this to him and let's see how

15:37he gets on with it.

15:38Good boy, mate.

15:39It's okay.

15:41Here you go.

15:43Good boy.

15:44Oh, he's already having a sniff of it.

15:46So again, I'm going to set you guys up on the tripod and let's see if he goes for it.

15:51So I'm literally behind the camera right now setting it up and he's already gone for it, which is really

15:57good.

15:57I think because I'm speaking, he's not too keen.

15:59I left Scout alone.

16:00It made me so happy to see him going for his chew.

16:03The decompressing seemed to really help because the next morning he was happy as anything and Ella is starting to

16:09get into a routine with him.

16:11I'm going to let Scoutie out.

16:13Good morning.

16:15All right.

16:15We're going to let Scoutie out.

16:16So I think you need the toilet.

16:19Hang on.

16:21Hang on.

16:22Hang on.

16:23Hang on.

16:24Hang on.

16:29Hello, darling.

16:31Right.

16:33I'm going to give him a minute because he always goes to the toilet in the morning.

16:38Yeah.

16:38Hello, go back.

16:40See, here he goes.

16:42Straight away.

16:43Good boy.

16:44Hello, Scoutie.

16:47There's a low.

16:48Come on then.

16:49Hello.

16:50Hello.

16:51Come on then.

16:53Hello, Papa.

16:54He's going to do his number two now.

16:56He's going to completely miss it.

16:59He's scattered them everywhere.

17:00Okay.

17:01He's completely missed that.

17:02That's fine.

17:03Right.

17:03I need to clean that up.

17:05Yeah.

17:06What are you two doing?

17:08Are you excited?

17:10Scoutie, are you excited?

17:12Hiya.

17:13I know we need a rug so Scout doesn't slip, but the problem is he pees and poos on it

17:18all

17:18the time.

17:19Ella cleaned up the poo, and when she let the other dogs out, Scout, of course, went absolutely

17:23nuts when he saw Mokey.

17:25Cindy, you look so cute.

17:27You're waiting patiently.

17:29Here you go, darling.

17:30Come on then.

17:31Right, you come.

17:32You're not going to go say hello?

17:35No?

17:36You waiting?

17:37Oh, good stretch, Cindy, girl.

17:40All right then.

17:41That's up there, yeah?

17:43Yes.

17:44Good girl, good morning.

17:47She doesn't like this.

17:57You can't blame Mokey for telling him off.

17:59She's just gotten out of bed, and Scout is all up in her face going nuts.

18:04Ella then lets all the dogs out.

18:05We're still yet to get Scout outside.

18:07You can see he doesn't really want to yet, and we're also worried about how we would even

18:11get him back in.

18:12And then Scout just waits for him to come back.

18:14Right, Mokey is waiting to come in.

18:16I've just put this here because he usually goes a bit manic and jumps all over us, so

18:20I've just given them something so they don't slip on.

18:22Here we go.

18:33Hello, darling.

18:35Oh, she wants to play.

18:40These two are teaching him a lot of dog manners.

18:43Cindy!

18:44Come on there, Cindy.

18:46Good girl.

18:49So that is Scout's new morning routine.

18:52Ella does it because he's still quite scared of me.

18:55Rescues do tend to prefer a woman.

18:57It secretly makes me really upset, but it's what it is.

19:00We then thought of an idea to try and get Scout to come out of his shell even more.

19:05Hello, Peggy girl.

19:08This is Peggy.

19:09We rescued her seven months ago, and Ella's parents ended up adopting her.

19:13She's a super playful one-year-old puppy.

19:16So we thought, why not bring Peggy back for a couple of days and see if Scout will want

19:20to play with her?

19:22Ella's going to let Scout out.

19:23Not me, because he prefers Ella.

19:25Oh, look at Peggy.

19:26Peggy rude.

19:26She's like...

19:27Scouty out.

19:28Go on, out.

19:29Mind your pawsies.

19:30Go on, Scout.

19:30Peggy's in the way.

19:31It's alright.

19:32Go on, Scout.

19:33Out.

19:35Aww.

19:36Good boy.

19:37Go on, out.

19:37Good boy.

19:38Go on.

19:39Move back a bit, JJ.

19:42Good boy.

19:43It's alright.

19:47So Scout's going to go into his little bit, but hopefully Peggy's going to go up to him

19:51and he's going to be like, oh, hello.

19:54There she goes.

19:58She's going up to every dog.

19:59Here we go.

20:00I don't think she's realised Scout's hiding under there.

20:02There he is.

20:03She's like, oh, hello.

20:09That is adorable.

20:10So, Will, a confident puppy, being around, helps Scout.

20:14For that to maybe happen, I think we all know what I need to do.

20:18I am going to be stepping out because Scout is so much more active when I'm out the room,

20:22which makes me really sad.

20:24So, it's down to the wife.

20:25I'm going to put this mic back on her.

20:28We also think Scout needs a poo.

20:29I don't know if you can hear this because I took my mic off.

20:31So, I'm going to leave the room.

20:33Just down to the wife.

20:35Good luck.

20:36How long are you going to be gone for?

20:37I'm hungry.

20:40So, Scout came out from under the table when I left.

20:43He went for his wee, not a poo.

20:45Peggy's chilling in the bed, but did go over to have a proper sniff of Scout.

20:58To be honest, not a lot really ended up happening.

21:01Seeing as we only had Peggy for a couple days, it didn't really give Scout much of a chance to

21:05get comfortable with her.

21:06But hey, it was worth a try.

21:08We ended up taking Peggy back home after a couple days.

21:11So, now it's finally time for Scout to have his vet visit and oh boy did he surprise us at

21:17the beginning.

21:19Yes, that is Scout with all the dogs and the vet at the front door.

21:23I think he got FOMO and came over, but I couldn't believe it.

21:26Maybe it's just me he doesn't like.

21:28He was going to parts of the house I'd literally never seen him in.

21:32He was being so brave, but how was the vet actually going to be able to get close enough to

21:36him to examine him?

21:37Well, it started off with Ella putting a muzzle on him.

21:39The last thing we want is to give him a bite history and endanger himself or anyone else.

21:44Ella managed to get it on.

21:45He looks absolutely adorable.

21:47But now the hard bit actually getting him out from under the table to examine him.

21:53A bit of context here.

21:55The vet had been in the house for about 30 minutes already.

21:57He was super patient and understanding, but obviously he couldn't be at hours all day.

22:02So Ella tries to get him out from under the table and that didn't go so well.

22:15I then tried to move the table so he couldn't hide under it and it completely freaked him out.

22:27I'm not doing much right to get him to like me here.

22:30I felt so bad.

22:32He did end up finding a corner in the kitchen and the vet was able to get close enough to

22:36examine him.

22:37To be honest, I'm a bit annoyed about this situation.

22:39We were forced to do it because we had to get a vet referral to get a behaviorist in.

22:43It's just a standard box to tick and for 99% of dogs, that's completely fine.

22:48But we tend to rescue the 1% where even something routine becomes a huge challenge.

22:53Okay, vet is gone.

22:55Scout is in his little decompression area.

22:58I guess this is where he's finding it to be safe.

23:00All of the dogs are also giving him emotional support.

23:04Once he goes back into his crate, we're going to give him like a chew and probably a lick mat

23:09as well to help him decompress.

23:11Luckily, he actually seemed to bounce back quite well after that.

23:14He did manage to make it back into his crate and we had a treat for him.

23:17We've got a pigs here for Scout to decompress after what was probably really scary for him.

23:23I guess this is going to take him a while to eat, but at least he's got something.

23:28Good boy.

23:29I'm happy to report I was wrong because it took him about two minutes to start devouring his pigs here,

23:35bless him.

23:35And that leads us to where we're at with him today.

23:39Although Scout has shown amazing progress, you've got to remember that these are like snippets of the day.

23:45It's sometimes only like 10 minutes where, you know, he plays with Moki, for example.

23:50Unfortunately, 95% of the day, he's still like this and super, super scared.

23:55The progress is obviously amazing.

23:57And we're really, really happy to see like even just little snippets of his personality.

24:01But obviously he's still like really, really scared.

24:05The plan now is to get the vet behaviorist in, who's hopefully going to really give us information on how

24:12to help him come out of his shell more.

24:14And then we will see where we're at.

24:16So we may not have an update for a few months, however long it takes to really start working on

24:21bringing Scout out of his shell.

24:22But we're not going to give up on him.

24:24We're going to get even more help in and make sure we help this dog as much as we can.

24:28Thank you so much for watching.

24:30Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss Scout's next video.

24:33If you haven't seen the moment we first rescued him, that video is on screen now.

24:37So give it a tap or a click and I'll see you there.

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