RalphyGrey

Hi, We have had our greyhound 4 months now and it has been a bit touch and go but has seemed to be improving until this week. He has suddenly started snarling at my 18 year old son for no reason. Earlier this week our grey was cuddled up to my son abs asking for tummy rubs and overnight he is now snarling at him. While I was writing this post he just snarled and snapped at me. This has never happened before. The family are now quite scared of him, If he continues to act like this we will not be able to keep him. This is the last thing we want but it’s cause us so many problems. We have no adoption group so this is something we can’t get help with. Advice would be greatly appreciated.

We have been taking him to some quiet spaces but now when we get there he refuses to walk. This is the only place we have left where we would walk before. He cannot stand parks and becomes very distressed we take him to any park. At the moment it seems as though we will never get him out of this phase which is concerning us.

Thanks Time4ANap. He has just been the vets and they said that there isn’t anything physically wrong with him.

Hi Everyone, I am looking for some advice. We have had our greyhound 2 months now and he seems to be getting progressively worse with walking and anxiety. When we take him round the block he often freezes and will refuse to walk in either direction and it is so hard to get him to walk again to get home. Seems like people, dogs, the sound of talking, cars, cats, you name it and he is scared of it. He is getting worse by the day. We use lots of treats and encouragement but nothing seems to work. Places where he use to enjoy and walk fine he now doesn’t like. He has not had any bad experiences as far as we are aware. We have had an animal behaviourist in and nothing has worked. Our whole family is really stressed with this as we have to walk him in order to get him to go to the toilet. Any advise would be warmly welcomed!

Thanks so much to both of you for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it. We have moved his sleep spot to the upstairs hallway between the bedrooms. He is happy to sleep there and can find us easily if he wants to. This has made people feel a little better. There was another incident in which my adult son got up in the night to get a glass of water and had to walk past him and he became aggressive towards him. I think therefore that it must be his sleep space that he is guarding. He has no issue with people going up to him in the day on his bed and sometimes will tap you when going past to rub his tummy but at night he seems like a completely different dog. Do you have any advice on how we can make him more comfortable with people walking past him at night should the need arise (it won’t be often but sometimes it might be necessary). We have a behaviourist coming next week so I am hoping that this will help. As of yet, he has never tried to get on the furniture and we are planning to keep it this way. Thanks again for advice.

Hi, Sorry, this may seem a bit of a ramble! We adopted a greyhound around 2 weeks ago. He has been a bit of a challenge due to being so nervous but we seem to be bonding and building trust with him well. The thing is, he is now showing aggression to my husband! He often has restless nights and so we were advised to allow him to roam the house and pick a spot to sleep. He chose to sleep next to me on the floor which was fine. The second night he started staring and growling at my husband while he was in bed next to me. It was really scary and I had to put him downstairs and shut him in the room that he was originally sleeping in. Is he being possessive over me and if so, what should I do about this? My husband now doesn’t not feel safe in his own home and it has put the whole family on edge. Please help!