(charming music)
- I feel like when I got them their heads were a lot more
fluffy.
Hey, I'm Rocky Kanaka,
and if you've been following my channel and Dog's Day Out
then you know what these big teddy bears are for,
and if you're not, I'm gonna fill you in.
I'm also gonna share the DNA test results
of this amazing dog that will hopefully be adopted soon
and I'll give you a bunch of updates.
Without further ado, let's get to these pupdates.
(chuckles) Pupdates.
Did you get it, did you get that?
Did you get that?
(upbeat music)
Alright, if you haven't seen teddy bear Herschel's story,
you've gotta check it out.
I'll put the link down below.
Stop whatever you're doing, go watch that video,
and then come back to this.
But if you have seen it, thank you for being apart of that.
I mean, the thing at this point right now,
has more than a million views combined
between YouTube and Facebook,
and I think will only continue to grow
as Herschel's story spreads.
But just to kind of recap.
This big dog has been chained up
his whole life in a backyard,
and it's really worn on the dude.
I mean, his teeth are whittled down in the front,
most likely from chewing on that chain.
He's been returned to the shelter
quite a few times.
The last time, I think someone just dumped him
in the backyard with, they just dumped a bag of food
back there so then he gained a bunch of weight.
Since then, Adopt & Shop, where he's staying,
he's been working on bringing his weight down
so that he's ready for adoption
but he's still gonna need some weight management,
so it's a pretty rough situation.
Here's a dog that is just now about five years old,
he's just starting his life now.
The reason Herschel is so important to me,
is on my new show Dog's Day Out,
I take a dog that's struggling to get adopted,
or just really needs some extra help,
we take them out on the best day ever
to help raise awareness.
But what's cool is you guys are apart of that, right?
I couldn't do that without you.
Without you guys sharing and giving me ideas
and being apart of that,
none of this would be possible so thank you,
and I wanted to do an update video
and give you an update on this guy,
and also, one of main comments I got was what is he?
I think he's 100% german shepherd.
Because of all those comments,
my friends at Wisdom Panel reached out
and said, hey, we'd like to send you free kit
so that you can know exactly what Herschel is.
I was really excited about that.
Right away, did the test, sent it in,
got the results back.
I want you to take a look at these pictures
and just think, just guess, is he 100% german shepherd?
Is he mixed with something?
If so, what is that percentage?
Keep that in your mind
and I'm gonna reveal the answer here in just a second,
but first, I wanna give you an update on Herschel
and kind of, where we're at.
I want Lindsey, the manager over at Adopt & Shop,
to do that.
Earlier I was over there and here's what Lindsey had to say.
Alright, here you closer, I'll look like a giant.
- Oh good, so I can look.
- Do we have any applications?
- We have tons of applications,
you guys have been awesome,
and I know everybody really wants some more information
about Herschel and how he's gonna be a great fit.
We are excited to say that we're narrowing it down.
We have a few awesome candidates
that Herschel will be a great fit for in their home,
and we're just kinda weaning it out
and see who Herschel wants to make his forever home.
- Herschel! (clapping)
- Come on buddy!
Look to your friend, go get him!
- Come over here!
Good boy.
Seriously, thank you guys.
You are a hero if you put in an application.
The fact that you stepped up and said,
I'll do whatever it takes to help Herschel out,
you are my kind of people.
Let's talk about what Herschel is.
I've had a lot of people guessing.
Check out some of these guesses.
- I think he's german shepherd, brown bear.
(laughter)
- I think Herschel is a doll.
I would say he's part Akita.
- [Rocky] Okay, that's not a bad guess.
- Part german shepherd.
- [Rocky] Okay.
- Part Sasquatch.
- I think he's probably 80% german shepherd.
- [Rocky] What's the other 20%?
- Pekinese.
- Okay, here's what he is, no joke,
I'm reading it right from the DNA test.
He is (drum roll) 75% german shepherd.
So right away, I'm wrong 'cause I thought he was 100.
I was like, I'm an expert here
and I believe he's 100% german shepherd, wrong.
The other 25% Siberian Husky.
(drum roll)
That's cool!
I would not have guessed that.
I thought, if anything, I would've that it was chow maybe.
That's what's so cool about these DNA tests,
so Wisdom Panel, thanks for sending that to me,
I really appreciate it.
And speaking of, I put my post office box address
down in the comments below
so if you want to send anything.
Let's see, we have...
To Rocky and Herschel Bear.
A note in here from Karen, Karen thanks!
What is this?
Ah, he will like that, he loves,
Herschel loves plush toys.
All kinds of collars in there.
Here's one that I think will be perfect for him.
I love german shepherds.
I'm gonna keep the updates going,
so again, make sure you subscribe
and you turn on that notification button,
and also go over to Instagram and do the same thing
because that's where I usually post stuff first,
so you'll be the first to know.
Expect more updates, coming soon.
And I'll see you guys soon.