She would Shut Down from Fear... Until Our Golden Retriever Stepped In

The Golden Kobe Family

She would Shut Down from Fear... Until Our Golden Retriever Stepped In  We noticed our terrified rescue dog start to find comfort in our golden retriever, so with the help from him and others, we&#039;re going to attempt to get Cindy ready for her forever home...  If you live in the UK, enquire about adopting Cindy here: » https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/classifieds/cwv2tx6ht-sweet-cindy-shy-clever-learning-to-trust-st-albans/?pmg_source=share  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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00:00Today everything changes for this terrified rescue. This is Cindy. We rescued her three

00:05weeks ago and it hasn't been easy. She's still scared, still unsure and she's nowhere near ready

00:13for a forever home. But we've noticed something. She gets confidence from our golden retriever

00:18Kobe. So with the help of Kobe and a professional trainer, we're hoping to build Cindy's confidence

00:24enough for her to be ready for her forever home by the end of this video.

00:30So, we're starting off with our professional dog trainer Dilnaz. I think it's safe to say

00:34Kobe and Moki recognise her. And then guess who even came up to see Dilnaz?

00:49Dilnaz is going to work with Cindy today and then give us some confidence building games

00:53we can use with her throughout the week.

00:56All I'm going to do and I'm going to, because of how she is with Kobe, I'm just going to

01:01introduce one at a time. So I'm going to introduce it to both of them so that she sees it's

01:05not

01:05something to be scared of.

01:07Dilnaz is going to be doing the cone game. It's quite simple with how it works.

01:10And then treat inside each one and see if she can work out how to get it. So this is

01:15a bit

01:15of problem solving.

01:16So we've officially put Cindy up for adoption, but before we feel comfortable sending her

01:21to her forever home, there's still some confidence building left to do. She was getting a little

01:26bit confused, but Dilnaz knows exactly how to deal with this.

01:29So I'll open it and I'll let her have it, because I don't want it to be too hard at

01:33the

01:33moment. And then you just repeat it.

01:35After watching Kobe problem solve, she did start to understand what to do.

02:02Cindy really started to engage with the cone. And once Dilnaz left, we could already start

02:07to see her confidence building. Look at this one, all brave, upstairs with the pack.

02:13Look at her exploring the house. It's pretty insane to see her doing this. Three weeks ago,

02:18she'd be frozen in one spot. She wouldn't even leave her crate. But now, look at her. Good girl,

02:24Cindy, girl. She's so cute. She even took her newfound bravery to another level. She's just jumped

02:31onto the bed. Cindy, come on off. No, come on. Cindy, it's okay. Please don't pee on it. This is

02:38my bed.

02:38Come on, Cindy, girl. Come on off. Cindy, come on. She won't come off.

02:43Ella then came home, and bearing in mind she used to run past her, this is what she's like now.

02:49Ella's just come back. Cindy's finally come off the bed, thank God. Look at her loving the pets

02:54with the whole pack. Look at her. Oh, she's so cute. So, the training continues with Cindy. We're

03:01determined to keep this momentum going and help her come out her shell even more so she can be

03:06ready for her forever home. We have got post-it notes here, and we're going to be putting treats

03:12inside them. The idea here is that Cindy will need to figure out how to get the treat. She's over

03:20there

03:20at the moment, so the first thing we need to do is hopefully get her to engage. Let's see. If

03:25she

03:25doesn't come over, I have got an idea. Okay, she's not coming over, and that's fine, so I'm going to

03:32start feeding Kobe, and usually that gets her to come over. And look at that. And she's gone straight

03:40to the post-it notes, which is great. Cindy is doing amazing. As much as we'd love to keep her,

03:46unfortunately, we can't. There's so many other dogs like her that need help, and if we kept Cindy,

03:51we couldn't help the others. So, whilst we're working hard on making Cindy more confident and

03:56trusting, we got our first inquiry for adoption, but there was one issue. The people who inquired

04:02about Cindy have cats, so we needed to figure out whether she'd be suitable in a home with them.

04:06Luckily, our neighbor has two lovely cats and even a big friendly German Shepherd, so we had the

04:12perfect opportunity to safely test how Cindy would react.

04:15Good girl, Cindy. I broke it.

04:17The whole letter's broken. There's the cat.

04:20Oh, yeah. Cindy, come on.

04:22I don't think she's going to react.

04:23Come on. Let's see. Come on, Cindy.

04:26Thank you so much for this.

04:30Good girl. Come on.

04:32Come on, Cindy. Good girl.

04:36These cats are obviously used to living with dogs, so this is perfect for her. She looks a little unsure,

04:41but isn't reacting to the cats at all, which is great.

04:46She doesn't care, does she?

04:49Okay.

04:53There you go.

04:54So, we can now say Cindy is cat tested. Let's carry on with her training now to help her build

04:59as much

04:59confidence as possible. So, the work that we're going to be doing with Cindy today is called noise box.

05:05Right now, it's literally just an empty box and we're simply going to place some treats in it.

05:10And the idea is she's going to submerse her whole head into it to try and get the treat. Now,

05:16this is quite scary for her. You can see she's hesitant because she's got to place

05:20her whole head inside. It's quite a big ask.

05:23We tried to get Cindy to put her head into the box, but with no luck. So, we had a

05:27plan.

05:28We're going to bring our helper Coby in. He's just waiting for the call up because he's really

05:34good at showing her what to do. So, let's show Coby doing it. Come on then.

05:41Real elegant, Coby. So, we'll do this a few times with Coby and you can already see she's looking

05:46more interested. Come on, man. She got up. We took Coby away and thought this has to be it.

05:52Okay, so now he's shown her. Let's see if she'll go for it.

05:59No, sat back down. That's all right. Coby gone. Coby, you stay here. And then we're just going to try

06:05and get her up because she really needs to stand up to be able to get her head into it.

06:08So,

06:08first thing I'm going to try and do is try and get her up. And so now she's up. I'm

06:14going to very

06:15slowly introduce the box alongside a tree. Just trying to associate the box with something positive.

06:22She's really hesitant, which is fine. We want to set her up for success, not failure. So,

06:28she doesn't put her head into the box yet. That's okay. We tried doing this very slowly for about 20

06:33minutes with her. We even got Ella to have a go, but we failed. It's okay though, because later on,

06:38we're going to be bringing Dilnaz back to help show us exactly how to do it. We didn't want to

06:43end the day on a bad note. So, we decided to push the boundaries and take Cindy on her first

06:48ever

06:48off lead walk. We are going to put the harness on Cindy. So, we're actually going to take Cindy

06:55for a short car ride before we take her on the off lead walk. The last time she was in

07:00the car,

07:00she hated it and was really scared. So, we want to help build her confidence in it first.

07:05This is actually the first time I've ever even tried to lift Cindy up. So, let's see how this goes.

07:11Can I get Cindy? Good girl. Okay, that's okay. Good girl. There you go.

07:17I can see her in the back. She looks adorable. We're literally just going to go on the shortest drive

07:21for just something nice and easy. I think having Kobe there is going to be a massive help for her,

07:26because it just shows another dog being nice and calm. Ella just showed me that actually when I went to

07:31pick her up, she air bit me. I had no idea when I picked her up that she did that.

07:35So, next time I do

07:35it, I'm going to do it a lot slower. I think I wasn't gentle enough. We literally drove around the

07:40block for a couple minutes. Cindy seemed to be doing really well with Kobe. We then got home.

07:44Let's see how she is. Okay, she did really well. Hang on. Good girl. Last time she jumped out the

07:50car,

07:50so I'm not going to bother trying to pick her up again. Come on, Kobe. There we go. Good. Well

07:55done,

07:55dogs. I think she's ready for her big walking journey. So, it's the next day and time for Cindy's

08:01first off-lead walk. I picked her up very gently and slowly this time. You can do it very slowly,

08:06Cindy.

08:12Nice and easy. Picked her up like a package. And no air bite. We're off to a good start. We

08:18have

08:18only got a 15 minute journey to get there. We have arrived at the place. We have got horrible,

08:25horrible, horrible UK weather. Come on then. If you're wondering how we're going to do this safely,

08:31we've rented an entire enclosed field for the dogs so there's nowhere for her to escape. The gate is

08:38open. Come on then, Cindy. Good shake off from stress. So, we're just going to let her get her

08:45bearings a little bit first before we actually go ahead and let her off. It's pretty incredible to

08:50see how much more confident Cindy is after three weeks of being with us. She's come a long way since

08:56we first got her. We're rescuing dogs just like Cindy this year and you can support us by

09:01simply clicking that subscribe button. We're trying to reach 1 million subscribers by the end of the

09:06year. Thank you. Not surprisingly, I think she's just going to follow Kobe. Do you know what?

09:14She's off. Let's see how she does. Oh, she's already going. It's pretty insane to think

09:22from the first time that we rescued her, like we've even gotten to this point.

09:29We weren't even sure if we could walk her. Now look. So, let's test something. Let's go for a

09:33little walk down here and let's see if she follows us. I think if anything, she'll be following Kobe.

09:38But let's see because I'm curious. Come on, Cindy. Come on. Good girl. Good girl. Look at her.

09:48Oh my God. Look at her. Oh, that is so cute. Oh, that is so cute to see. So, you

09:56can see here as well.

09:57There's like a jungle gym apparatus type thing. So, I am going to try and go on there later with

10:02Cindy.

10:03Let's see if she'll go on it. Oh, look at Kobe. Oh, Cindy did not like that. Oh, look at

10:10him. Oh, she's getting scared.

10:12Kobe's got the zoomies. Oh my God. Look at her. Look at her go. Cindy is absolutely loving all this

10:20freedom. Let's go to the play area and see if she'll even be brave enough to go on to it.

10:24Come on,

10:24Cindy. Come on, Kobe. Come. I wonder if Cindy wants to come in. No? All right. You're going to come

10:30out?

10:30Come on there. Whoa. Good boy. So, the jungle gym thing very slowly, not loudly. I'm going to do it

10:37with

10:37Kobe. She's already coming over to have a sniff, which is good. Kobe loves it. Kobe knows what to do.

10:43Oh. Oh my God. Come on, Kobe, up. Come on, Kobe, up. Oh, cute boy. Do you know what I

10:51love about

10:52Kobe? Genuinely, he'll do anything that I'll tell him to do, bless you. He's got so much trust in me.

10:56Oh, is she going to come up? She's having a sniff. I think she's more curious as to what it

11:03is.

11:03She's obviously never seen anything like this before in her life. Ella's having a fun time

11:07following around the whole thing. It makes us so happy to see her so happy. But now let's go back

11:15home. We have one final session with Dilnaz to give her that little last confidence booster

11:20before we find her forever home. We're starting off with Noise Box again since we failed to do it

11:26with her last time. The first thing Dilnaz got us to do is cut down the sides of the box.

11:30You can see

11:31how much smaller it is compared to last time. So hopefully it's not as scary for her.

11:36Straight in there.

11:39And now I'm just going to do three. So we start with one at a time and then I'm just

11:45going to sprinkle

11:45some. Beautiful, beautiful. That's what I was hoping for. So you start with one and then add more.

11:55Okay baby. So because she was scared of the box at full height, we have to work with where she's

12:03at.

12:04We don't want to keep forcing her to do something. She's gone so much braver. We don't want to keep

12:10forcing her to do something she's really, really not happy with. Dilnaz continued working with Cindy

12:17Cindy and she did amazing. It's not a full noise box yet. Her head isn't fully submerged,

12:23but it's a huge step forward and everything is always at Cindy's pace. But while she's building

12:28confidence, what's happening with her adoption applications? Is Cindy actually going to find

12:33her forever home? So we have had Cindy for a few weeks now and we've had quite a few applications

12:39for

12:40her. Look how cute she is. She's actually letting me pet her now. And we're working with Fetch A Dog,

12:44which is the rescue that she came from. The way that it works is they get in person home checks.

12:49So me and Ella and other people at the rescue as well are basically going to these homes and,

12:55you know, just making sure that they're suitable for her. We're still trying to find her perfect

12:59home. And if you think that is you, then Cindy's adoption link is going to be down below in the

13:05description because she's still waiting for her forever home. But of course she'll be staying with

13:09us and we're going to continue working with her until she does go.

13:12Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, why not watch another? This video

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