We Rescued this Dog and it Became our Biggest Nightmare…

The Golden Kobe Family

We Rescued this Dog and it Became our Biggest Nightmare…  We rescued this adorable little boy, and everything went wrong. We made so many mistakes, and i feel we are to blame for a lot of it, but we promise to continue learning  If you would like to support us on our mission: » https://www.gofundme.com/f/thegoldenkobefamily  Follow us on IG: » https://www.instagram.com/thegoldenkobefamily  Check out our 2nd channel:  » https://www.youtube.com/@moregoldenkobefamily  📧 GET IN TOUCH 📧 goldenkobefamily@apollomgmt.co  #goldenretriever #rescue #goldenkobefamily

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00:00Hey, hey, he is

00:05We've never had a rescue go so wrong and honestly we handled it terribly

00:11Everything that could have gone wrong did to explain the absolute chaos

00:15Let's take you back to the very beginning when Ella first arrived home with Rollo

00:24Wow his markings are amazing

00:30So this is Rollo an 11-month-old French bulldog we just rescued so we are gonna bring him round

00:36the side

00:36Because the dogs are in here. We want to put him straight into the garden

00:40I just need you to go back there

00:42His face. Oh, he's so cute. He is so cute. Come on mate. Apparently he's amazing on the lead

00:48Yeah, he is. He's really good. Oh look his his markings are amazing

00:53We're first going to bring him into the garden with no dogs. All right, we're going to let him go

01:00Let him explore let him get all of the smells. Oh Rollo. Come on out of there. There's dog poop

01:06Good boy. You can see he's not nervous, which is good. It's looking nice and brave

01:11We've got tarp down because underneath here the dogs have absolutely destroyed the gardens

01:16We are going to let him explore the garden first and then we have a gate set up here

01:22Just so that he can meet the dogs between the gates first before actually in person because we're unsure of

01:28what is like with other dogs

01:29Hello, mate

01:31Oh, good boy

01:33Honestly, I cannot explain to you how soft he is

01:36He's literally like a teddy. Is it he?

01:39He's good. He looks nice and brave. I'm guessing you can pick him up and everything. Yeah. Yeah, good

01:43He's a walker as he does it and let me give you some privacy

01:46Oh, he's having a good sniff of everything. Good boy

01:49It'll be interesting to see what he's like when he meets the dogs

01:51Rollo is going to be meeting our rescue puppy king our shy rescue jockey our larger-than-life doberman mokey

01:59And our silly golden retriever kobe and we instantly noticed him marking his territory on everything and you'll see later

02:06on

02:07It only gets worse

02:08So you can see all of the dogs here trying to get a sneak peek

02:13At rollo there's a puppy in there probably destroying something rollo looks pretty chilled out

02:18So we're gonna go and place him behind the gate rollo is behind the gate

02:22Oh, he doesn't look very happy about that and we're gonna get our first dog

02:26I think start with king the puppy. Yeah. Yeah, nice and easy. Let me go get king right ready

02:33You instantly see the first of many mistakes straight away the gate isn't stable and rollo knocks it over instantly

02:40Well, then

02:42Now what do you put it back up before I put him down?

02:45Well, we've managed to get the gate back up. Let's see what he's gonna be like

02:53Oh, he's got his legs stuck

02:59What do you reckon that is? I don't know

03:04Rolo just did not stop barking

03:06Oh

03:09King's ignoring him though. Yeah. King's being really good

03:13King is only 12 weeks old. So this is a lot for him to take in

03:17Good boy

03:19Go on

03:20Good boy

03:21Rolo

03:22Rolo

03:24But he was still going over which is a good sign

03:29I think he's getting too excited

03:30And we completely messed up here. The unstable gate led to a situation we really weren't prepared

03:38We stopped filming to get control of the situation and this is what happened when we turned the camera back

03:44on

03:44Yeah, but obviously we want to make sure rollo doesn't actually go for it. Of course

03:47But he's this is good. Yeah. King's being very good. Good boy king

03:52He's got better manners. He has but they've got good temperament. Look at him

03:58I'm safe here. They started circling each other and for a moment we weren't sure if rollo was going to

04:04snap

04:04Good boy rollo. That's better. Good boy. He didn't thankfully, but this showed us

04:09We've still got a lot of work to do with rollo

04:11We need him to feel fully settled with king first before we even consider him meeting the rest of the

04:17pack

04:17Right. Well, that was not the best. Not the best not the worst

04:21It's gonna be interesting when he meets a bigger dog

04:23Because obviously I think there it looked like he knew king was younger and smaller

04:27So it looked like he just wanted to let him know his boss

04:29Maybe but this one's so unbothered

04:31I know because rollo's only 11 months

04:33He's probably trying to establish that he's the boss, but obviously he's only got bigger dogs to meet

04:38Yeah, and you're a brave boy

04:41We're just gonna let them be together for a little bit

04:44Let rollo calm down as well because he's probably got a bit of adrenaline

04:48So obviously we don't want him meeting the other dogs whilst he's a bit on high alert

04:54Oh, well done king king did so good

04:56He wants to go over there. Oh, he's cold

04:59They did begin sniffing each other both trying to work out what the other was about good boy rollo

05:05Good boy rollo. That's good. Well done. Yeah, that's better. Good boy. Rollo looks more relaxed as well. He does

05:13Kings having a good sniff. It looked like they were starting to figure things out

05:16But then rollo marks his territory again and king tries to size himself up against him. What?

05:27He's kind of you got to remember he's probably like um, he's probably scared. Yeah, he probably is. Yeah

05:34He's paying on everything. He's trying to mark his territory. King just wants to be friends with him

05:39King then tries to initiate play and rollo's reaction really surprised us good boy

05:49King you can't jump out

05:52We're gonna give him some time to decompress because there's still another three dogs to meet after king tested rollo

05:57one more time

05:58It actually looked like they were starting to figure things out

06:04Good boys well done. That was good

06:09Be interesting to see how the dynamic changes when the big dogs come out

06:13Yeah, rollo and king are chilling out a bit now. They're just kind of putting up with each other, which

06:17is good

06:18We are going to get rollo on the other side of the gate and we're going to bring out jockey

06:22next because she's super chilled out

06:24We figured that's probably a good dog for him to meet next. This is our other rescue jockey

06:28She's amazing with the other dogs and super timid maybe a bit too timid. So rollo can't go for her,

06:35right, right?

06:37Okay, we have got jockey good girl ella is holding the gate for rollo

06:43Hello darling

06:45Oh same thing again

06:48Good girl jockey. You instantly see jockey back away. Good girl well done

06:55My hackles are up

06:57I'm staying around jockey at the moment for a bit of support

07:01Good girl

07:02Good girl

07:03So we think he's probably a bit reactive behind the gate

07:06Some dogs get reactive on a leash or behind the gate because they feel trapped

07:10So at first we thought that might be the issue here, but as you'll see later, we're wrong again

07:16We've got ella at the gate this time to make sure it's secure

07:19We didn't want to make the same mistake again

07:21We plan on waiting for him to stop barking before we're thinking about letting them meet

07:25So I also think it is I think because of his age because he's at that teenager age

07:29He's just trying to be a bit of a bully

07:34He's trying to find weak spots

07:38So why did rollo need rescuing in the first place his story is actually really sad

07:43His owners sadly passed away and a family member took him in but the landlord wouldn't allow dogs

07:49So he had nowhere to go

07:50That's when we stepped in to help

07:52Rolo clearly isn't a dog's dog

07:55But we don't want to paint him in a bad light at all

07:57He's not a bad dog far from it actually

08:00And we're going to show you later just how sweet this boy really is

08:05Jockey's having a good sniff of everything because he's peed on everything

08:08He's stopped barking what should we do?

08:12I think wait for her to come out that corner

08:14Okay

08:15So the last thing we want to do is trap jockey into a corner in case rollo goes for her

08:20But to try and control the situation a bit better we thought of a plan

08:23So we have put a lead on him

08:25We're not going to hold the lead when he meets because that can a lot of the times go worse

08:29Because he could be reactive on the leads and you know lunging for her

08:32But if he does go for her at least we've got something to grab

08:35Jockey's out the corner what should we do?

08:36I'm going to let her open now

08:37Okay, we're going to let him in

08:48Go closer please to his lead

08:49I can step on it

08:59Rolo went for jockey and we have to take the blame here

09:02We were too focused on him being reactive on the lead when really we should have had full control

09:07We've never had a dog lunging before and it really showed that we're still learning

09:14We have decided we are going to keep on a lead because he keeps lunging for the dogs and that

09:19is not okay

09:20Jockey's being good good girl well done

09:22We're so sorry for her

09:24He's drooling so he's stressed

09:25Yeah

09:26But yeah

09:28We're going to keep him on lead to meet the other dogs

09:31We weren't going to make the same mistake again so this time we had rollo on a lead for his

09:36meeting with Moki

09:37I'll let her go because I think she'll be more standoffish now

09:42Ideally after a dog reacts like rollo did you give them a few days to decompress

09:47Adrenaline can stay in their system for a long time and forcing more introductions too soon can make things worse

09:53But with a house full of dogs, we didn't have that option

09:56We had to keep introducing him even though we knew this wasn't the ideal setup for him

10:03He's trying to get her isn't he?

10:05He's trying to lunge at her yeah

10:06We noticed rollo backing up and figured he might just be scared

10:10Reacting first because he thinks they'll go for him

10:13Because he's backing up

10:14And he's

10:16Yeah, he's

10:17He's scared

10:18Do you know what?

10:19I've got an idea

10:20So we came up with a plan take him and Moki on a walk together somewhere neutral

10:25And honestly, we should have done that from the start

10:28We're so used to rescuing dogs from abroad where you can't walk them for the first few days

10:32That we slipped into old habits and didn't think

10:36So now he's on neutral ground and has other distractions

10:39Will he still go for Moki?

10:41Yeah

10:41Alright, let it go

10:42Looking back, we should have kept Moki on the lead and walked them together first

10:46Letting her off wasn't the right move, especially if rollo already felt threatened

10:51Still lunge in front

10:51Yeah, he is

10:53Our heads were scrambled at this point

10:55We're only human and we got a lot wrong

11:00So we brought him into the house

11:01Separated the lounge and kept our golden retriever Kobe away too

11:06We already knew that meeting wouldn't end well

11:08Kobe out, go on

11:11We don't really, we're gonna put a blanket here so that he's got his own space

11:14Yeah, obviously we've got to keep him separate

11:17Oh, and he's peeing on the freshly washed beds

11:21Nice

11:21Thank you very much, rollo

11:23When we separated them, it seemed to help and we could finally sit down and figure out what to do

11:29But then he did this

11:30And this is why we're gonna put a blanket up

11:36We have been given a bunch of blankets and stuff from his previous owners

11:40We have separated him from the other dogs, good boy Kobe

11:45We're basically just not going to introduce him to the other dogs

11:48And just let him desensitize over the next few days

11:51He's obviously gonna be quite stressed after his move

11:53And so, yeah, this is not good, not great

11:59Off camera, he actually tried to jump the gate to get to the other dogs

12:03So we decided the best thing was to put him in a covered crate and let him decompress

12:08So he is in there, I know you can't see him, but he's in there to try and help him

12:12decompress

12:13Annoyingly, we can't give him like treats and stuff to help him decompress

12:16Because he's a french and he's got a sensitive stomach

12:19Again, off camera, he was crying and was not enjoying his time in the crate

12:23So we took him out and to be honest, just wanted to comfort him

12:28What's a shame with him is he is the sweetest boy with humans

12:33Hello boy

12:34He's the sweetest dog with people, obviously he just doesn't like dogs

12:38Why don't you like dogs? He's so affectionate

12:41But unfortunately he just doesn't get on with other dogs

12:44And obviously living with them is definitely not an option for him

12:47So we've put him here now in the hallway because he was jumping over that makeshift fence that we made

12:54So this is kind of like the only thing that can fully separate him

12:57He's so sweet

13:02He's so ugly

13:03He's ugly cute

13:05Aren't you?

13:06Are you a kitty?

13:07Yes

13:08Look at him

13:09He's the sweetest boy

13:10He's just not a dog's dog

13:12For us that's very hard because we have got four other dogs here

13:15And that's when it really hit us

13:17He's not a dog's dog

13:18And with a house full of them

13:20Plus a tiny puppy relying on us

13:22This environment wasn't right for him

13:25We told his owners what happened

13:26And thankfully they agreed to take him back

13:29But it doesn't change the fact that this was the first time we truly felt like we failed a dog

13:35I'm sorry

13:37We kind of failed you

13:39I'm sorry

13:51We made a lot of mistakes in this video

13:55And honestly I wasn't sure whether to post it

13:57But this is the reality of rescuing

14:00Sometimes things go wrong and you find yourself completely out of your depth

14:04We messed up and it hurt

14:06A lot

14:07But we're taking this lesson with us

14:09The only thing that made it easier was knowing Rolo didn't know this was his new home yet

14:13To him it was probably just the worst doggy daycare ever

14:17We've offered to help his owners find him a home where he can be the only dog

14:21Which is exactly what he deserves

14:23I'm sorry we let you down Rolo

14:24And I'm sorry if we let you guys down too

14:27We're learning

14:28And we promise to keep getting better for these dogs

14:32He's ugly cute

14:33Aren't you?

14:34Are you cutie?

14:35Yes

14:37Look at him

14:37He's the sweetest boy

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