Golden Retriever Meets Completely Shut Down Rescue for the First Time

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1. Hey everyone, thanks so much for all the positive comments, but we’ve seen a few comments from people who were worried about how we handled certain moments with Amara, and we completely get it. When you care about animals, it’s natural to feel protective, especially when you’re watching a dog as scared as she is.

   We just wanted to share a bit more context…

   Every rescue is different, and honestly, there’s no one “correct” way to help a dog through fear. Some might’ve left her in the bush to decompress, and if we’d done that, I’m sure others would’ve said we were cruel for leaving her out there for hours in 30°C heat. It’s never black and white, and you really can’t please everyone.

   We also reached out to the shelter team she came from multiple times for guidance (and still do). They actually told us to get her out of the bush, because it was 30°C and she had been in there for a while. That wasn’t us acting on instinct, it was advice from professionals who knew her history better than anyone.

   What we can do is stay open, keep learning, and put the dog’s wellbeing first. We’ve never had a rescue as shut down as Amara, and we don’t pretend to be professionals, but we do reach out to professionals, especially when we feel out of our depth. And if their advice makes sense to us, we follow it.

   Our setup is also different from something like Rocky Kanaka’s (we love you Rocky btw) you’re seeing a home with space, dogs, and lots of moving pieces. We included a lot of moments where we gave her space, avoided eye contact and sat low, but we also can’t share every silent hour of decompressing in real time.

   We appreciate every person who cares enough to watch, even if we don’t always get it perfect. We’re doing our best, and more than anything, we just want to help dogs feel safe again.

   And a special thank you to the many of you who do get it, who understand that not everything can be shown in a single video, and that rescue work isn’t always straightforward.
   If you’ve ever fostered or rescued before, you know just how tough, and unpredictable it can be 😅
   We appreciate you more than you know.

   Much love
   – Golden Kobe Family 💙

2. You have to be patient and give her the ch a nice to trust.

3. Although I'm sure your content is very edifying, I can't subscribe as the quick, jerky movements of the camera overstimulates my eyes, making it difficult for me to watch as I would end up having a migraine. Best wishes with the dogs..

4. Why are u bringing in dogs from North Macedonia who have serious behaviour issues? What qualifications, if any at all do you even have?

5. Thank you for rescuing this poor doggie, and all the others you rescue constantly. Dogs deserve LOVE and a WARM HOME. Please use harnesses when posible ❤️🙏❤️

6. There is no one rule to train all dogs. After 3 days in the van she needed many hours to de-compress. Don't look directly at her. Provide her a corner, a crate open door, or just a screen for her to stay out of sight but be able to watch you. When she has watched everything for a few days she will relax. Leave some water. Small biscuits on the ground (not thrown) as a bowl will cause too much focus, she wont eat while nervous. She was happy in the bush, than on the hot concrete, you created a Bad First Experience. Improvement will take longer by this set back. You would do better to sing or hum and classical music rather than your up and down voices. After three days in a crate in a van, the last thing she wants is confinement in the house……with no corner to hide.

7. J’aime la combinaison du goût et du son 🍫

8. Worst thing you can do is drag a traumatized dog by the lead! Ignore, avoid eye contact , carry on as normal but completely ignore . These traumatized dogs need other dogs around they do not need humans. It takes weeks, it takes months and they will always have issues!! Do not drag by the lead , it is a threat to them that once again they will be hurt.

9. How

10. Poor girl fart and burger and burger and cheese 🧀 😢 😭 😕 😞 😋 🧀 😢 😭 😕 😞 😋 🧀 😢 😭 😕 😞

11. That poor baby, how can people be so cruel to something so gentle? Its great that you're doing this kind of thing to help her.

12. nice!💫💰

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17. Just be confident and gentle when you speak to her…don’t change your tone to sound so pleading and pitchy. They know what normal speaking sound is and feel comfortable if you sound comfortable.
    Speak like you do to your dogs! Happy and confident! She’ll follow that emotion more quickly. Thanks for loving these sweet pups!❤

18. What a fascinating video. Great story telling and filming. Also, your expertise and heartfelt care are evident.

19. I know nothing about dog rehabilitation or training. This is a genuine question. What would be wrong if they just left her alone for a little bit and let her come to them I think I’m a little confused.

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23. I love this so much✨

24. cool!

25. Good God what has happened to this poor thing😢 people can be amazingly cruel to animals.

26. 😢

27. Thank you so much for your work. It means more to the dogs than you know❤🥹

28. What lovely people you are.❤❤❤

29. Rescuing animals is great. But when we humans finaly learn not to force us up to those animals?

30. You people are reckless! What the heck is this! Get food! You should have welcomed her with a steak not your haphazard intro to a cold sterile environment . My gosh you are awful!

31. Very glad to see these people knew to not place anything against the walls of their yard, like a barrel, that would help her escape.

32. Love these people for taking Amara in, but the best thing they could have done is have a big glop of cooked ground beef in their hands to welcome her with. Ask me how I know.

33. All dogs deserve love, but I cannot agree with importing dogs when unwanted dogs are being destroyed in dogs homes up and down the UK.

34. there's a special place in Heaven for this young couple. They're wonderful and this world needs more like them!

36. "I'll give her some space"
    Standing right facing her, fixing her, holding a strange object directed to her too… I call that the camer syndrome : "hey I'm just an eye, I doesn't exist" (I see the same for dashcamers, and it's close to the bystander effect).
    Fortunately you quickly gone inside and gave her the time to calm down a bit, she was justt arrived terrorized… Don't jump at her so fast.
    Same for Kobe after that, you know he knows she is around, he can smell, but you feel the need to "urge" to find amara quicker than that… for the sake of the video ?
    Let them do, Kobe can find Amara alone, what dogs are best known to do.
    When she is dragger to the shade, and she instant hide behind the man, that's because she is scared of the woman standing right to her fixing her, holding that hecking camera. And you don't see it…

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