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How does he react when he meets people on your walks and you stop and talk to them? And what do you do at home to show him that you are not pleased with his behaviour towards your guests? When one of my dogs does something that I will not tolerate, I look him straight in the eyes, show my teeth and growl at him. Then I walk in a straight line towards him and he has to move back. I do this until he shows calming signals. No, I am not a Cesar Millan fan. I worked with resocializing livestock guard hounds before I had my first grey. I learned to use body language to communicate. Ask your renter to help you. Keep your dog muzzled and when he approaches the renter, move between them. Do not look at Raylan. Just block him. He has to learn that it is your decision who enters your house. When he tries to snap at your helper, force him to move backwards (Raylan, not the renter) by blocking him with your body and moving directly towards him in a fast pace. Do not look at him, look over him. This way he has to focus his attention to you. This may not sound nice, but you show him that you are in charge to deal with the situation. In fact you show that you take the responsibility away from him. While doing that you allow Raylan to relax, because you show him tbat you are perfectly capable of keeping him safe.

In the southern parts of Europe the people use wet quilts to cover the windows. The water cools the air down while evaporating. As soon as it gets cooler, open the windows and doors if possible, so the wind can cool the house down. And when it gets really hot, I use the garden hose to wet the house from the outside in the evening. The water cools the stone and when the sun rises the water evaporates and cools the house down. In Germany it is not a common thing to have air conditioning in private homes. I have very thick quilts for my dogs to sleep on in the winter. When it very hot, I soak them in water and lay them on the floor for my greys to sleep on.

I have very good experiences with a soft laser therapy when my dogs have open wounds. It stimulates the skin and flesh to heal faster. When Andy had his last accident with a hole as big as the inside of my hand (a kind of triangle - caused by some piece of wood while running in the yard), we went to laser therapy three days a week. He healed a lot faster and his vet became a lot less scarier because he got half of their treaties every time we went. The laser looked like a showerhead, only with light instead of water.

When it is very warm outside we have our activities indoors. I take little treats, put them in small balls of newspaper paper and make other balls without treats. I put them all over the living-room and let my dogs search and unpack them. After that I have tired dogs and a living-room that looks like a hurricane went through it. Or you can hide treaties in your house and let your dog search them. He will be tired because thinking is very stressy.

What a sweet boy. He is dangerous, though. A smile like that could wrap me around his paws. I can't resisit their charm when they get older and wiser. My old boy Colin (11) is the master manipulator.

I feed raw meat plus cooked veggies and pasta, rice, potatoes. My dogs get 2,5% of their own weight as meal per day. 70% are meat and 30% are veggies, pasta... I used this at a starting point. In time You get a feeling how much your dog needs.

I feed kibble and raw food. Kibble in the morning and raw in the evening. I use the kibble to compensate eventuel lack of nutrients in the raw feeding. And it works for me and them. As for salmonella. Dogs don't usually get them because the acid in their stomachs is different to ours and able to deal with the salmonella.

Do you have someone with a grey in your area? Perhaps you can meet with another grey and go on walks together or go together in the garden. Sometimes seeing another dog doing those things helps to show that these things are not that scary. When possible let the other grey visit you, roam free around your house, go into the garden, a nice female could do the trick.

Greyt news. You did the right thing. Just wait, your ppor husband will fall comp, etely under the greyhound spell.

I hope the both of you get well soon. Best wishes for Bernie and you. It can be that Bernie will become wary of unknown dogs on his walks. In this case it is important that you learn to deal with your nervousness. The time will tell. My Andy was bitten in his head by an unknown dog (before he was with me) and his former family did not work with him on his fright. He learned that attacking is better than defending. He gets aggressive when some dog approaches us, growling, barking. We are working on it, but I doubt that he will ever be relaxed when we see an unknown dog.

I am so very sorry for your loss.

I forgot to mention that bonding coexists with experiences. The more you experience together, the more your hound will bond with you. It just needs time and patience.

I always tell "my" adoptants to imagine what it would like to be if I grabbed them, put them on a spaceplane and left them on mars. So, this is your new home. Have fun. Your grey may be living with you but his personality needs a little more time to arrive. One of my boys needed almost two years and all of us moving to a new home to learn to trust me or even come to me on his own. Don't get me wrong, I love all of them like crazy, but when Andy climbs the couch for a cuddle - that are the most special moments for me.

Did he recognize you, when your husband switched the lights on? Perhaps he has problems with his eyesight in the dark. You wrote that he is not used to you wandering the house at night. Can it be that he was irritated with your "strange" behaviour. I would get up and move in the dark more often. So he can learn that it is quite normal for you to do that. And when your mum comes to visit you, tell her to always turn the lights on, when she moves through the house in the dark. I started to switch the lights on after tripping over Col at night. He had left his doggie bed and slept in the middle of the hallway. Black dog + dark carpet = happy accident.

What a beautiful hound. Welcome from Germany.

You won't believe it, but I did the same thing. When Colin came to live with me, my boyfriend did not like him and wanted nothing to do with him. I kicked him out and when I met my husband to be, I made sure he liked him. He did not like hime, he adored him, spoiled him, always brought things for him... and still does. I swear, I can count the times I got a bunch of flowers on one hand, but everytime he goes shopping, he finds something for the greys... treats, stuffies, even a matress for the living-room, if someone does not want to sleep on the sofa.

For gaining weight I give linseed over the meals, one teaspoon each meal. Since I feed raw meat, vegetables, fruits, potatoes, noodles and rice (I don't now the english word for it), My greys stopped having problems with weight or with their fur.

We are sending good thoughts, too. Do you take him to physiotherapy? My boys go there precautionary every 3 months. It helps very much with the muscles and their spine. And we do not see our vet as often as before.

The solution is a very easy one. Kick your husband out and get a new one, a greyhound-person would be best. That's a joke, of course. Men are easy creatures. They just have to think that the solution for a problem was their idea. Then we look up to them and pretend never to have been able to find this wonderful solution. I wish you luck. Our dogs are permitted to every room in the house, but they normally choose to stay in the living-room during the day (or the kitchen when someone is there) and in our bedroom or the spare bedroom during the night, sleeping on their dogbeds.

Congratulations. This little girl is a real sweetie. ❤ But be careful - a friend of mine adopted a real sweet tiny girl, which transformed into a little she-devil , keeping everyone on their toes. They love her incredibly but she knows exactly how to wrap everyone around her little paws.

Standing nose to nose and "staring" at each other is in our dogs' opinion very impolite. Your grey told the other one "Stop staring at me". You can bypass these situations by turning your hound around, so he does not look directly at the other dog. While walking you can keep yourself between your dog and the others. My greys know the word "Schau" (Look) and look up to me for a treat, when we encounter an unfamiliar dog on our walks.

Congratulations, she is a real sweetie. You are one lucky greyhound-mom.

I have two greys (Colin and Paddy) who growl ar each other when running in the yard. It's a "Come on, hurry up" kind of thing. When they do that Andy just looks at them and goes back inside, like they were just crazy kids. Col has next to no prey drive, but Paddy is a dedicated hunter. You need time to get to know your dog. His behaviour will eventually change in time, when he starts to feel more at home with you.

I only use a collar in the house, when a new grey or a visiting dog comes to our home, for safety reasons. Every other day they go "naked". Our yard is completely fenced, therefor there is no danger of anyone leaving without me knowing. In the house my boys have access to every room, except the bathrooms, but only because they do not want to get trapped in there, eek water. I recognized that rooms which they can roam freely but have no places to roach, are not interesting after a first inspection. Paddy, the blue one, was the only grey who followed me from room to room, even to the cellar and the attic. It is interesting how different the handling in relation to our greys is in different countries. Here it is pretty normal to only wear collars when walking and many greys even can enjoy their walks off leash, but only when there is no game.

I put black seed oil and brewer's yeast into their meals for 4 weeks, every day 1 teaspoon in the morning and in the evening, when they have a dull coat. 9 And after that I reduce to give it once a week. The result is a glossy and velvety coat. And they get grated coconut for dinner every day, again 1 teaspoon. I discovered that rubbing coconut oil in the fur makes them tasty to each other. I was always running around and talking.... "No, Col don't lick Andy. Paddy stop licking at Col." and so on...