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bmcd921

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  • Birthday 09/21/1989

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  1. Hi all, My wife and I have had our greyhound, Minerva, for about 5 years now. She has always been very food driven, but generally well behaved except for some minor counter surfing the first week we brought her home. We worked hard to address this issue, mostly with a spray water bottle to deter her from jumping on the counter, which resolved the issue. Since adopting Minerva, we have welcomed a baby girl, who is now 18 months old. Minerva is generally not interested in the baby, except when the baby is eating. For example, our daughter likes to snack on goldfish. Minerva will take them right out of our daughter's hand whenever she has the chance. Minerva does this (or tries to do this) with nearly all our baby's food, and we're having a really hard time preventing or addressing her behavior. It's gotten so bad that she now believes all food is up for grabs - including ours, if we're not careful to make sure it's out of reach. This morning, my wife made herself lunch and put it in her work bag. She went to grab a cup of coffee, and in the 30 seconds it took for her to get her coffee, Minerva tore open the bag and ate my wife's sandwich. She has never done anything like this, and we're getting really frustrated (which is maybe feeding into the problem). She is not responding at all to stern talking, pointing, the water bottle - it's like she's in a complete trance when she's around human food now. Any advice would be very appreciated. Thanks!
  2. Thank you all for all your suggestions! We tried the old quilt on her bed, but the first thing she does is brush it off. It really seems like she just needs to get to the filling of the bed. We're going to try looking for a fitted, softer cover that is hopefully more quiet. We'll also take a look at the Kuranda beds. Thanks!
  3. Hi everyone, thanks for reading my post. My fiance and I have had our greyhound Minerva for about a year now, and we just moved into a new house. We were in an apartment before, and we couldn't fit her bed in our room, so she slept in the living room and had gotten used to it. We have room in the house, so we keep her bed in our room so she can stay with us. She definitely seems to prefer being in our room. However, she is a major digger/nester. She destroyed her old bed, so we got a new one that's made out of a more durable, canvas-like material. Every two hours, in the middle of the night, she'll dig vigorously for about 5 minutes. We feel a little bad telling her to stop and lay down since we know it's just an instinct she has, but it's getting pretty unbearable. Suggestions on either a bed or a training suggestion to get her to stop digging/nesting would be most helpful. Thanks so much!
  4. So we had some luck cutting off her water last night, but tonight we took her out at 9:30 p.m. and she urinated. At around 11, she got off the couch and urinated again. We’re feeling a little bit helpless here because this is such a sudden issue!
  5. Oh that's interesting! We live in the Philadelphia area and it's been cold at night lately. Thank you we'll definitely consider that!!
  6. Thanks for the advice. When we reprimanded her, we said "outside" a number of times. On her 10 p.m. walk, she always urinates at least once, sometimes twice. The other night, I walked her for a much longer time than we usually do at night. Typically, it's a quick walk but she always pees on that walk, no matter how short it is. The other night, she urinated twice, and pooped as well. She still urinated in the middle of the night. I should also mention that her second walk of the day is about 9-10 hours after her first walk, but she never (knock on wood) urinates during the day when we're at work. So we know she can hold it during the day for longer than she does overnight. Again, thanks so much for the advice! We're going to look into the incontinence issue and we're probably going to try cutting her water off even earlier.
  7. Hi everyone, Thanks for taking a look at this post and any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated! My girlfriend and I adopted a greyhound, Minerva, about 5 months ago. When we got her in June, she had one accident (pee) as soon as she walked in - totally expected. After that, no accidents and she was really good about adjusting to her new routine. About two weeks ago, while we were all on the couch watching TV, she got up off the couch and urinated right in front of us. We of course reprimanded her since we caught her in the act, and we could tell she knew it was wrong by her reaction. However, she has continued to urinate every night in the middle of the night. Since we can't catch her in the act, we don't feel like we can reprimand her. We wake up every morning to a puddle of pee on our rug, but nothing about our routine has changed. She gets her last walk around 10 p.m. and her first walk at 6 a.m., which we feel is reasonable and has never been an issue for her before. We think she is peeing closer to 6 a.m. because she has stopped peeing on her morning walk. We took her to the vet to get a urine test and everything came back normal, but they gave us an antibiotic in case there was a slight UTI. She has been on the antibiotic for about 4 days now and is continuing to urinate in the house. Last night, we cut her water off before bedtime because we noticed that she was drinking a lot of water right before bed. She still urinated in the middle of the night. Just wondering if any of you have any experience with this sort of thing and if you have any advice. Thanks again!
  8. Hi everyone! I'm in need of some advice. I just recently adopted a greyhound a few days ago, and I am a first time owner. I am working with a great agency, but the woman in charge of the agency warned me against adopting the particular greyhound that I chose. She was worried that he wouldn't do well as an only hound, but I felt that he matched the temperament I wanted perfectly. She said that it's definitely worth giving him a shot and that if it didn't work to let her know. Her concerns were that he's not a very confident dog, and that he would need some guidance from a more confident dog. He has trouble walking with me, but did really well in his foster home (he was with them for three weeks, and he was with an older greyhound). He stands still right outside the front door, tail between his legs, shaking. When we're not walking, he comes into my apartment, walks around for a few seconds, and then goes right into his crate. He gets a little excited when people come into my apartment. He greets them for a few seconds or so, and then goes back into his crate. It's very hard to get any sort of tail-wagging from him at all. I'm worried that I'm either with the wrong hound, or that I'm not ready for ownership. I have this intense pit in my stomach that the whole situation is totally wrong and that I should give him back to the agency so that he can be adopted by a family who already has a greyhound. I did lots and lots of research and thinking about the breed before I adopted, but all of a sudden I'm feeling extremely overwhelmed. I want to do what's best for the dog and for me. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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