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It's up to you whether or not your greyhound sleeps in your bedroom, downstairs or somewhere else. Grace happily sleeps downstairs and it took about a week of whining and crying (Grace, not me
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As others have said, give him time to get used to you and his surroundings. Talk to him while you are walking so he gets used to your voice and it will also reassure him.
Grace wouldn't take treats when I first got her unless I put them in them in the palm of my hand and held it out flat.
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Grace is insured with Bought By Many. They have always paid out quickly and with the minimum of fuss.
Grace recently had to have a tooth extracted after knocking it partially out chasing a squirrel. I put my claim in online that evening and they paid it into my bank account at 11:30 ish the following day.
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21 hours ago, duckduckgoose said:
There are so many of these designer floofs in our area, all quite young and with no recall and yet it's my on-lead, muzzled dog that gets the bad reputation. Just angry and upset now.
Being a greyhound owner is a bit like driving. You start off thinking you know how everyone behaves and quickly learn they haven't got a clue and you learn to second guess what might happen, and just like driving, it's the larger that will get blamed so it has to avoid the situation to start with. I know, I'm a retired bus driver.
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I don't think they do faded black polo shirts and jeans to fit greyhounds either.
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I've had a similar experience but the owner was in sight talking to her friend and taking no notice that her dog's enthusiasm was starting to upset Grace. In a very loud voice I asked "Would you control your dog". She didn't half give me a look but called her dog and put his lead on.
Usually I put myself between the "friendly" dog and Grace and make a fuss of it and grab it's collar. That makes the owner realise it's time to control their dog especially with the stories of dog nappers in the press. It also helps that I'm 6ft 2in and 18 stone.
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Update on Grace minus one tooth.
Grace thanks everyone for all the best wishes.
The power of a greyhound to recover still surprises me. A day later and she's eating her kibble with the same speed as ever and apart from an occasional extra bit of tongue action on that side of her mouth you wouldn't know anything had happened. Mind you the Loxicom (pain killer) might be helping
. She's got to visit the vet again next week just to check there is no infection.
I think the cats in the neighbourhood can breath easily again as it seems as if it was a grey tree rat (squirrel) that cause the problem as the little
appeared at the same time again this morning.
My wallet has also recovered. I submitted the claim online that evening and the following morning at 11:30 am it was paid into my bank account
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Grace has a low prey drive. She ignores cats on her walks and only looks with interest at squirrels in the park. She even wags her tail when she meets even small dogs ans spends most of the day laying on her bed under the front window watching the world go by.
Yesterday, as normal, she's "resting" on her bed when suddenly she gets up and despite her corns runs at speed through the open patio door down the garden chasing something. I chase after her in my socks shouting her name to no avail as she disappears behind the bushes at the end of the garden. She reappears looking sorry for herself with blood pouring from her mouth.
No she hadn't caught whatever she had been chasing but had knocked her top right canine tooth on the concrete marker post and it was hanging on by a thread. A wallet lightening £450 trip to the vets later and she's sleeping off the sedation. Mind you the vets did clean the rest of her teeth while she was under and clipped her nails.
It's a reminder that no matter how placid and how low a pry drive your greyhound has they are hunters and will chase with purpose anything that runs.
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I wonder if there's enough peanut butter in the world to reproduce "The Greywatch" by Rembrandt?
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Does the problem start as soon as he gets out of the van or when he hears something? Grace is happy with going on new walks etc until she hears noisy children, even in the distance, and if they are playing football, that's even worse. In which case she does the same as your greyhound, pulls to get away panting.
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You said he'd been running around with your friends lurcher. I just wonder if he's got a joint injury or a trapped nerve which manifested itself when he lay down on the pub floor. Run your hands gently all over him and make sure he can move all his joints fully, watch as he moves around and getting on and off his bed from a laying down position.
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That put a smile on my face to start the week off. Well done Wiki Pollock
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You need to let a vet have a look but the chances are that she is blind in her right eye. If this is the case be aware anything that comes from that side she won't be able to see it and that could make her nervous although at such a young age she will cope a lot better than an older dog who looses their sight later in life.
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It's today (19th September), The Great Global Greyhound Walk and Grace and I can't attend because my arthritic knee won't let me walk to far and Grace's corns are playing up
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We've been looking forward to it since the last one in 2019 (guess what happened last year?) when the walk we attended in Lichfield over 100 greyhounds and their owners who turned up to walk around the park and the cathedral's lake.
Ah well! fingers crossed for next year.
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13 hours ago, carrotcait said:
Update: We seem to have solved this problem for the time being! I wanted to share what seemed to work in case anyone else runs into this issue:
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This is an embarrassingly simple solution, but we found that if we hold him on a very short leash (basically right where it latches on the collar), he comes right with us without pulling. I can't believe we never tried it before (or that it makes such a huge difference).
- Earlier this week, I brought him to my parent's house. Unlike us, they have a fenced yard. When he was done outside and wanted to come back in, I'd open the door and give him a few seconds to come in. If he didn't, I closed the door and walk out of his line of sight. If he stayed at the door or whined, I opened it again, but just for a few seconds. I was mostly doing that to keep bugs from getting in, but I think he got the message pretty quick that he'd be 'abandoned' if he dawdled! I wouldn't have been able to do this without a fenced yard, of course, but I do think it helped.
I'm glad you found a solution that works.
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This is an embarrassingly simple solution, but we found that if we hold him on a very short leash (basically right where it latches on the collar), he comes right with us without pulling. I can't believe we never tried it before (or that it makes such a huge difference).
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It could work. Have a bed near to your desk and the dogs lead attached to it so it can't wander off out of the door without you. An older greyhound might be the sensible option as they are usually less active and be happier laying on their bed watching the office activity.
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Grace's nails are quite long and she has them clipped every three months by the vet at her quarterly check-up just so they clear the ground. It's a two person job because at some point before I adopted her she had had a bad experience around nail clipping. Luckily for her the vet used to work at the greyhound tracks so she's greyhound savvy and the nurse who helps has around nine sight-hounds she's adopted over the years. If you are a bit unsure about using clippers have a look at nail grinders.
The only time I wash Grace's feet are if the are muddy, a quick dry off with a towel should remove any grit and keep your floor clean.
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It could be anything that's causing the problem from the smell of the floor cleaner (the chemical not the person
)to the feel of the floor or has something frightened him on the way in at some point? It could be that you've timed giving the treats wrong and actually bribed him not to go in.
You could try the "Look at me" technique and enter the building while he's looking at you, or if that doesn't work, just before he stops and while he's still walking, put your fingers through his collar and giving the command "in we go" keep walking into the building taking him with you so removing the chance for him to stop.
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Try and relax and stay calm and enjoy his company. Dogs take their cues from you and your family. He has just landed in a totally alien world and will take time to adjust and get used to it and to you.
Meanwhile make it a rule never to touch him when he's laying down. When your children are playing, if Slick joins in make sure they bring the play down a couple of notches and don't wind him up.
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You don't say what bread of dog Beau is but 17 is a good age for any dog and he is obviously a great friend and companion. I don't want to sound harsh and uncaring but perhaps it's time to make him comfortable and say goodbye.
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12 hours ago, steerpike said:
One other point ~ disposing of bagged poo (UK). Am I required to use only the designated dog poo bins? Or can I dispose in any litter bin? Or does this differ based on the council in question?
In the UK you can dispose of dog waste in any bin including your own apart from the ones from recycling. The only other bins I have found that say you can't put it in are the ones in a designated children's play area.
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I must be lucky. Grace 99% of the time only poops on her early morning walk around the local park so I can use the bins provided and don't have to bring the deposits home. She usually does pee near the bottom of the garden but occasionally decides that the the lawn is a more choice place as the brown spots of dead grass testify
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First...Congratulations on adopting a greyhound. Second...don't panic and don't worry about breaking her. Relax and enjoy her developing into a wonderful companion, as long as she has food, water, a comfy bed or sofa and gets to pee and poop outside she will be happy. Everything else is a bonus
Freezing is what most greyhounds do during the first few months while they get used to their new world and build their trust in you. Grace is also frightened of noisy children, footballs being kicked or bounced but she is now OK with noisy traffic, although that took her sometime to get used to. We go for her main walk early in the morning before the noisy inhabitants of the world have woken up. During the day I will take her in the car if I'm nipping to the shops (but not if she'll get to hot waiting in the car) or going for a coffee at a friends house. Sometimes she'll go for a short walk but more often than not she refuses, although I do make sure she's had a pee before bed time.
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Try giving a quick tug on the lead to get their attention, not enough to hurt them but the equivalent of tapping someone on their shoulder, then immediately giving the command WAIT in a firm voice and standing still followed by praise or a treat. Or you could try the "look at me" technique when you are approaching another dog.
) before she got used to it. She goes for a last wee at 7pm now puts herself to bed around 10pm even if I still watching the TV and is happy to laze around until 7 ish when she tells me it's walkies time.
appeared at the same time again this morning.
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Separation Anxiety
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Unless you are using the crate for safety reasons don't get hung up on using it unless the dogs uses it voluntarily.
Be consistent with how you leave them. I put my shoes and coat on without interacting with Grace, grab my keys, put a prefilled Kong on her bed saying "Goodbye, be good" and leave.
Also get yourself a cheap baby/pet webcam monitor so you can observe what the dogs are doing when you are properly out of sight and sound. I think they can sense when you are still nearby.