- Hey Bud, you little scared, this is Kobe.
If you're new to our channel
we've been fostering this guy for a little while,
we got no tail wag,
some scared puppy eyes and shaking.
It'll be okay, right?
You wanna tell them what we're doing today?
- Kobe is seeing eye doctor.
- Yeah, which is important because
- He's blind
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i don't know.
- I put you on the spot.
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But no, we are at an animal eyes specialist.
I mean specifically, that's their job.
They're one of the best around
and if anyone can give us a diagnosis on this boy
and whether he'll actually ever be able to see
it will be the animal eyes specialist.
- [ Jessica ] Good morning, eye care for animals
at Pasadena, this is Jessica speaking.
- Good morning Jessica, this is Rocky
and I am here for Kobe's appointment.
Just for the record, it doesn't matter if Kobe can see
or not, we still love him just as much
he is just as important, right?
- [ Kelly ] Yeah.
- Pretty obvious, but I think important to say
doesn't change the outcome of the love that he will receive
we're fostering him, we're gonna work on his eyes
and he's gonna have a heart surgery,
then he'll be available for adoption.
But if, we can help him get his eyesight back,
- Even just a little bit.
- Even just a little bit or understand a little bit more
of what is going on, it will just empower us empower him,
and I think we owe it to this guy at least.
♪ Oh my child I know ♪
♪ You heard and can't let go ♪
♪ It's not your fault ♪
♪ Then you don't deserve ♪
♪ All the bad and the hurt ♪
- Ooh breaks my heart,
I can't be in there with him right now,
because everything going on and he can't smell me
because the latex glove.
I was trying to let him smell my arm just to let him know,
It's okay, his little heart's beating so fast.
- [Dr. Hoffman ] Hi there, Dr. Hoffman, how's it going?
- Hi, Dr. Hoffman, how are you?
- [ Dr. Hoffman ] Super thank you,
just took a look at little Kobe,
so the front of the eye is normal,
the back of the eye is not,
and in the back of the eye,
you have the retina and the optic nerve.
- Okay.
- [Dr. Hoffman ] The optic nerve is the cable for vision.
So the optic nerve connects the eyeballs to the brain.
- Ah
- [Dr. Hoffman ] And the optic nerves in both eyes
are almost non existent,
that's called optic nerve hypoplasia.
So the optic nerve didn't develop
and so whatever signals are going to the eye
it's not getting to the brain,
the brain can't process vision.
- okay,
- [Dr. Hoffman ] That's not something that I can fix,
and so you know, unfortunately the blindness is permanent.
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♪ Oh my child I know ♪
♪ You heard and can't let go ♪
♪ It's not your fault ♪
♪ Then you don't deserve ♪
♪ All the bad and the hurt ♪
- Based off your assessment, can he see anything
or pretty much he's 100% blind?
- [Dr. Hoffman ] yeah, he can't
I used a very bright light and he's not responding to that.
- Okay.
♪ Oooohhhh ♪
♪ I know you've done your part ♪
♪ It's not fair ♪
♪ You did your time ♪
- What do you think
- Well, he's not any worse off than before he went in.
- Yeah.
- So that's okay, he can't see.
- Yeah, it doesn't
- Doesn't change anything.
- Like I said before this it doesn't
it doesn't change how much we love him.
- Yeah.
- Doesn't change how much you love him.
I don't know my opinion,
I think blind dogs should get more treats.
Kobe, there you go bud.
You did good, you're good boy, you did so good.
Oh,
- He's too nervous.
- Doesn't want a treat.
it's a lot man, it's a lot on a pup that can't see.
It's a lot on it any dog doing in today.
- Kobe, want a treat?
- Oh what's that, what's that.
this might be the first time he's not taking the treat.
You think he's sad because he heard vet talking?
- Maybe, I'll cheer him up.
- We're gonna do something really special.
- Yeah.
- Tye, we have the diagnosis.
- [ Tye ] Oh boy, what is that?
- So he's 100% blind, can't see light and dark or anything.
- [ Tye ] Wow, so he has no view
just a really good sniffer.
- Yeah, and big whiskers.
- [ Tye ] Oh boy, well that sucks.
- It does kind of stink because it's like,
you know, it's a breeder problem so
the vet was alluding definitely neurological
and typically with this sort of syndrome,
they said they have heart issues and tremors,
which is all the signs of what Kobe has.
- [ Tye ] A little work needs to be put in on
the breeder being investigated too.
- Yeah.
- [ Tye ] You know, You can't keep breeding dogs
and putting stuff out here like Kobe
- Yeah
- [ Tye ] You know, thank you man.
- Okay, bye.
Okay, I'll be back in just a second.
- Why were you at Target?
- I am,
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I hurt my thumb, it's a long story.
I just happened at the ranch.
Just we'll cut there right now.
Oohh
It smashed my thumb.
Look at this, can you see that?
Oh Man
- [ Tye ] Mumbling
- Tye ran over my thumb with the tractor.
Just kidding.
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I slammed it in a car door.
What am I thinking?
And I don't even have a good story.
- shake it off, back to work
- I'm pretty excited because right now we're out
at reverse rescue, and we are starting a new project today.
Something big, in fact the biggest project I've ever done,
because we're building an entire neighborhood,
entire neighborhood of tiny home.
This is where the new neighborhood
is going in right up there.
So it's up on the hill, the main Ranch is just right here.
The goal of it will be that
there'll be dogs that can't necessarily be adopted.
They're kinda here long term,
and so what will happen is,
they'll be able to live their life here,
and people will be able to stay with them
in that tiny home so that the dogs have a family.
Hopefully, one day, even people watching this,
like you, You can apply to come and be a part
of reverse rescue and stay in one of the tiny homes
with one of the senior dogs.
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All right, you wanna walk us through what we're doing today?
- Yes, so we're going to take all these posts,
Four by four by eights.
and then do two by fours
that are gonna be behind the fencing.
Pretty much we're just gonna implement where each different
posts Gonna be for each part of the fencing.
So we're gonna do perimeter fencing.
- [ Rocky ] Why is that important?
- Keep all the stuff you don't want out,
Keep all the stuff you do want in.
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- There are two dogs over there we're gonna check out
I wanna get the story.
They just came in late last night at like 2am.
Okay, who are these pups?
- These are Hoagie and Jelly beans.
They were dropped off in a neighborhood together.
The security have them pushed out of a car.
- [ Rocky ] Yeah.
- And so one of my really good friends Pamela,
had actually brought them over to us at 2am.
- [ Rocky ] Okay,
- They're in bad shape,
she's still got her wound on her side, So
- [ Rocky ] He's free now.
- He is like a hoagie roll, so we named him Hoagie.
- [ Rocky ] And jelly bean
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- She is a little jelly.
- If you ended up two dogs at the same time,
they're bonded, right?
They love each other, so it just helps as you can see
he wants to get to her right away.
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- [ Rocky ] what, What happened here?
- So, even though we have dug holes there, there,
there everywhere, we have hit a line somewhere.
Yeah I feel it.
So it is definitely, and there's the electrical line
right next to it.
- [ Rocky ] It's our last post,
We did all of these
and then our last post.
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- [ Rocky ] You have two phones?
- Business and personal
- [Rocky ] Girlfriends and work.
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Okay, so we're starting a new channel,
where we just kind of lay it all out there,
- What's the content gonna be?
- [ Rocky ] Well, you're looking at it.
( laughter )
When we put up the big video of the tiny home
for homeless dogs, it'll be an awesome video.
Yeah, but you won't see everything
how it all comes together and everything that happens.
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- There's so many rocks and gravel
and it's really dry tough dirt.
You know a lot of places like the Midwest
I would just Peel back but not here.
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I don't know it sunny been for a while .
How is it?
- Ooh it's disgusting.
And actually January first of this year,
we had lost our our blind Maltese.
We had him for a while we got him at a healthy weight
and he did very well for a while
and then his kidneys started failing and giving out
so repair Jackson right here, and then just recently,
we lost one of our seniors Freddie.
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Pretty much the whole premise of this area up here
is going to be a gazebo that looks over the ranch.
Mainly I decided this because Jackson was blind
so it's like he can see up here and watch over everybody.
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- Because that's like 500 bucks--
- Well see even foundation, as long as we just cut
it's just simple cuts and then screwing it together.
- Yeah.
- So all the gravel couple drops on there.
- Yeah.
- And we're good on that.
- Yeah.
- Because then by the time the material gets here
for Thursday, then we can actually build the walls
because we'll have the material for it.
- Let's start ordering stuff.
- Cool.
- What are you standing around for?
- Let's do it.
- Let's get to work.
Okay I get off the tractor now before I break something.
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- [ Woman ] You know about that same day, I didn't have to
about giving them, any fresh water or food or anything.
- How long have you been giving them food
and water for not the owner.
- [ Woman ] I've been doing it for
probably about four months.
- Four months, if there's not food,
if there's not water there,
then we can come document it
and then we can go from there and actually take care of it
and say, Listen, if you want to keep your dogs,
we are gonna come back from mandatory checkups.
You have to take care of them
and show that you're doing substantial stuff
for shelter, food, water,
and then if it's not, then it can be turned into saying,
you know, this is animal neglect,
this is animal cruelty,
this isn't how, you know animals are to be treated
and hat's a felony.
Well, yeah, we're gonna be up here doing
tractor work all day,
so just let me know as the day progresses.
- [ Woman ] Bye bye.
- Bye bye.
Oh, that's gonna be a drawn out situation.
Thing is this the three wellness things
for even animal control, they're pleased to get involved
is shelter, food and water.
- Right.
- Every dog has to have that.
- Quick update about Jelly Bean and hoagie.
Tye you gotta tell them the good news.
- Well, here's the thing,
It happens in rescue a lot is the owners came forward,
they actually hit up their HOA.
They followed traffic cameras throughout
three different neighborhoods.
So they contacted us, they showed us all the documentation.
They are actually UK see dogs.
They had them since little tiny puppies,
- [ Rocky ] Thank goodness
- So when they contacted us,
It's always good because rescue is not only about
just rescue of animals,
it's about advocacy for families
and keeping animals with their families.
- [ Rocky ] That's awesome.
- So we got them back to them.
I went met the family, went through the house.
They actually are a very good family.
- [ Rocky ] Yes, yes.
- T hey live very very good.
The dogs live better than most us humans do.
- [ Rocky ] Nice.
- [Tye ] How do you think things are going so far?
- So I think it's good because
we're getting to build going--
- [ Man ] Snakes in the dog's kennels
- What?
- [ Man ] Snakes in the dog's kennels.
- There's a snake in the dog kennels.
Alright, if you want to see what happens with the snake,
you got to go subscribe to my new channel Kanaka Life.
Hey, I'd love to have you there from the very beginning,
So go now subscribe, go check out this video.
Go watch it.
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