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Piper gets about 1.25-1.5 cups of food twice a day, with a tablespoon of yogurt in each meal and a tablespoon of pumpkin once a day. Does anyone have any other suggestions as far as add ons instead of pumpkin? She eats purina one sensitive systems and her foster gave her pumpkin to firm up the poop. I don't want to change her food as she isn't having any issues with it. I'm not really sure if she needs the pumpkin or not but our grocer just doesn't keep much of it so I was wondering if there is anything else we can give her to firm it up in a pinch?

Thanks again everyone. We can already tell she is starting to buddy up to us a little more. She spent a small amount of time out of her crate with us last night and is coming for more pets here and there. Small signs but encouraging. Thanks again.

Thanks again Ramonaghan. I figured all of this will just take time. Unfortunately, with a 1 year old, we have a ton of baby gates up. So the family room is always closed off when we are in there. We always let her out when she is down there and is standing by the gate and if we hear her come down the stairs we always let her in. But right now her preference is the crate. She seems to be a very low energy dog so she spends a lot of her down time in the crate in the front room. But with a 1 and 7 year old in the house, I don't exactly blame her. I wish I had a crate sometimes that I could escape to. Hopefully though she will start to like us a bit more and feel safe and want to spend time with us. Her foster didn't use crates so she may just be excited to have one back after so long. We took your advice and we have made our first appointment for monday with Dr. Macherey (probably butchered that) at grassmere. We just wanted to go ahead and start that and get her first visit in. Oh and by the way...I gave her her first moo tube a couple of days ago....she went NUTS. loved it. I don't think she had ever had one or had ever been given much of those sorts of things. Last question...how in the world do I put an image in my signature? I tried to edit my signature in my profile settings but I don't see an option to attach an image unless it's already on the web (which it isn't) or uploading it to the gallery (which apparently this technology is beyond me because I can't figure out how). Thanks

Thanks. We watched her last night and while she panted it wasn't anywhere near as severe as the previous night. So I think it may just have been a one night thing. I do have a few questions if you guys could humor me. I kind of already know the answers but just want to make sure. As far as the squeeky toys, she played with one for a few seconds yesterday then just carried to her crate. Made us laugh because for the past 5 days she has just looked at them like she had absolutely no interest in them. So it's coming along She spends about 85% of her time in her crate away from the family. Now I know it's really early and it usually can take up to a month or two for her to warm up to her family. (plus she has bounced around and been in 3 different homes not including ours in the past 3 months or so) So I know her spending a lot of time in her crate is normal at this juncture. But will she always stay in her crate the majority of the time or will she want to spend more time with us once she gets used to us? Unfortunately, where her crate is now is the only place in the house it can be. It's simply too large for the family room. If several months have passed and she continues to stay in her crate the majority of the time, should we consider storing the crate or is that a No-No. As far as playfulness goes, I assume that will come with time as well. She has played with me a couple of times (well..by played i mean taken a few playful hops in my direction but that usually lasts about 1 minute before she wants to go lay down). We can tell right now she is a very low-key girl which we like. We have been encouraging her to sleep upstairs with us in our room and not in her crate at night. Now once we get her up there she is absolutely fine and doesn't whine or anything. But getting her up there is another matter. We have been bribing her with treats to get her up the stairs and in our room. Is this ok or should we be using another tactic? She comes up the stairs on her own from time to time during the day so I don't think it's a fear of the stairs but I just wanted to make sure we are doing it the right way with bribes Thanks again guys

Hi there everyone. I've been lurking in these threads for the past few months now as we have been considering adopting a greyhound. Well we officially took possession of our first greyhound this past Friday. Her name is Piper and she just turned 5. You can see her info here. http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=Once+and+Always She's been great so far. My wife and I have decked her out with a ton of stuff (unfortunately she seems to care less about squeakies so that may have been wasted). Our 7 year old son is already calling her his big sister (yeah don't understand it either) and I don't think our 1 year old daughter knows what to make of it but when Piper's tail wags and it hits her in the face, she thinks it is the funniest thing in the world. She loves her crate but doesn't stay in it too long if we are in the house. She needs to make sure we are still around and where we are supposed to be. We have been bribing her every night to come up stairs and sleep in our room which has been pretty successful. I tested her with her squawker last night for the first time and rewarded her with a moo tube. Those and dentastix seem to be her favorites right now. Just wanted to thank everyone as I have gotten a lot of good information off of this forum in preparation for Piper's arrival. Our family loves her and she is such a sweet girl. Quick question though. We are probably being overprotective parents but last night for the first time, when she came up to our room and laid on her blanket, she was panting like she had just run a marathon. So loud that it kept my wife and I up and we almost texted her foster to see if it was normal. We had never heard her do that previously. She did it for a good 10 minutes or so but then eventually calmed down. Is this normal or is it something we should keep an eye on? We keep the bedroom kind of cool so I don't think she was hot and she hadn't been running around at all. She seemed fine this morning when i let her out and fed her. Any ideas? Thanks

Indeed. Thanks for the help. I'm trying to convince my wife on the new orleans saints collar...not being too successful at this stage

Yep. That be me. I'll have to check on NPP. Sounds like something worth checking into. We don't have a vet yet. The group uses southern vet but I had also discovered grassmere. The dog we will probably end up with (Piper) just had a dental and had to have some teeth removed but one suggested checking on grassmere for future vet needs as they are a bit cheaper than southern. Good to know someone else uses them as well. We do have a fenced in yard. Just got done doing some minor fence fixing and stump removal for the future addition to the family. I am still doing crate research but I have found several really good priced crates on Ebay as well. And my wife has already been looking like crazy on etsy for the cutest collar.

Ramonaghan, I also live in Nashville and our family is in the process of adopting our first greyhound. What local store do you get these at? Also, if you could share any other Nashville advice or tips for greys that would be great