125-Pound Golden Retriever Couldn't Even Stand Up On Her Own

The Dodo

125-pound golden retriever couldn't even stand up on her own — until she got motivated by tennis balls. So we sent her a box of tons of them to keep her on her weight loss journey!

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00:00Oh, my God.

00:03It's an owl?

00:05She could not stand up at all.

00:07She had no light in her eyes.

00:09She just looked at us like, I'm at the end of my rope, guys.

00:12It was hard to see her that miserable and that defeated.

00:17She was very sick in the hospital.

00:19Rover's Retreat, they were looking for a foster

00:21at that time.

00:22I was like, I have to have this dog, no matter what it takes.

00:26Sweetie bubs.

00:28That's OK.

00:29I know it takes all this pain.

00:31The overarching problems with her were her mobility.

00:35She needed to lose about half of her weight.

00:39Frannie, come here.

00:41She had no interest in anything.

00:45Sweet.

00:47Good girl, Frannie.

00:49But as soon as we found that she likes tennis balls,

00:53her little mentality changed quite a lot.

00:55Here she goes.

00:57That was the moment where I was like, OK,

00:58she wants to fight for this, and I'm

01:00going to back her all the way.

01:02Are you so happy?

01:07Good girl, Frannie.

01:10She started taking steps on her own.

01:12Frannie slowly started making progress

01:14and slowly started losing weight.

01:17We figured out that she really loves being pet.

01:21She wants to be pet all the time.

01:26No, Frannie, no.

01:27The tennis balls really just helped us continue her progress

01:30with chasing it, and we use it to help on walks.

01:33Go, Frannie, go.

01:34Go, Frannie.

01:35Good girl.

01:37The Dodo saw how motivated Frannie was to get

01:40moving with her tennis balls, so they sent us a surprise.

01:43We opened a box of about a million tennis balls.

01:46What do you think?

01:47There's a lot of balls there.

01:50And Frannie had the time of her life.

01:52It was probably her favorite day ever.

01:55Go.

01:56We would play with her, and she would be wagging her tail.

02:00Good job.

02:01Love helped her so much throughout this journey.

02:04Her personality was really starting to shine.

02:08Frannie.

02:09She started kind of rooting around in our toy bin.

02:13Wants to look for all the treats and all the balls.

02:15Somebody was bad girl.

02:21Being able to go on a walk without help was just huge.

02:26She's counting it now.

02:27Hitting the 0.1 mile and then hitting the 0.25.

02:31The mile is the longest she's ever gone.

02:34I still can't believe it.

02:35I was so proud of her.

02:37You got it, girl.

02:39Yay!

02:41She's the prettiest girl in the world.

02:45We've become so close throughout this journey.

02:47I wasn't going to be able to give her back.

02:50Or have someone else take her.

02:51I decided that I was going to officially adopt her.

02:58Look at those steps.

02:59Yeah, I feel like she's so much more confident.

03:01Every milestone that she gets through is a reward to me.

03:06I'm just so happy to continue her journey with her.

03:09And it just makes me so happy to see how happy she is.

03:13Good girl.

03:17Good girl.

03:19Get it.

03:21It's so fun.

03:23Get it, Mimi.

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