A month later, he finally let her give him a bath — wait to see his adorable mohawk. We talked to Whitney about how he slowly warmed up to her, and where he is now!
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00:00He had never seen a human outside of that trailer.
00:08There was over 30 dogs found in a single trailer.
00:14Raul specifically was one that was called out to be a behavior risk.
00:19He didn't want to be handled.
00:20He wouldn't look at you at all.
00:22I said, all right, I'm just going to take you home and I'm going to hope for the best.
00:29Raul?
00:31For the first week and a half, I couldn't touch him.
00:34Do you want to treat those?
00:35Come here.
00:38Raul?
00:42I just hoped that he would come around and I wanted to give him as much time as he needed.
00:47Where are you going?
00:51He would be more comfortable if there was two giant dogs standing in front of him acting as a barrier.
00:56But that's okay.
01:00About 10 days in, it changed suddenly.
01:07He decided that day that he was going to take a single step towards me.
01:13Num-nums. Is it num-nums?
01:15Day 11, it was two to three steps.
01:19Slowly, over time, we gave him more and more freedom.
01:23It took us almost a month to be able to even give him a bath.
01:26Show them your mohawk.
01:28Show them your mohawk.
01:34Every day was a baby step.
01:36He stopped shaking when I held him.
01:41We got him to finally go outside to go to the bathroom.
01:45He just needed to learn that humans weren't so scary.
01:48And after he understood that, he was good.
01:53Raul just shows how resilient dogs are.
01:58Just a couple of weeks of patience and love was enough for him to come around.
02:07Raul, show them.
02:09Show them your mohawk.
02:11Show them your mohawk.