Legendaryfrank

im not an expert at greyhound care or dog care for that matter, but it might help to keep trying to desensitize him perhaps? I would maybe get a flashlight to mimic car lights.. and find a video that plays random noises and see if that will set him off (assuming of course it's not causing him a huge amount of distress). I would keep high value treats on hand. Anytime you can flash a light like a car, or play a loud noise and your hound is quiet, treat him right away and praise. That what I would do at least. Anyone feel free to correct me on correct training methods!

When I got Starry 2 years ago, my 10 year old cat who is completely docile and sweet to humans gave him a good slap to the face on their first meeting. Since then, Starrys been scared of her ever since. Only after about a year did Starry start figuring out that if he ignores her, she won't swat him for no reason. They have come as close to sniffing each other and tolerate each other when they are close by or in close quarters. If Starry is sniffy at all towards her or curious she give him a nasty sounding meow or hisses at him and he will either go in another room or just look away and pretend she isn't there. I've done a lot of research and it's usually the dog going after the cat, but not the other way around. I had them separated via baby gate for that first initial year between upstairs and downstairs (the dog had upstairs) and then when I was confident enough that they won't eat each other, I let the gate open giving the cat a way to escape just in case, but usually it's the dog that needs an escape route, LOL. As for outside, he gets alerted by bunnies and squirrels, but he's never lunged at them. Usually he just ignores them or does some light pulling at the most. He's scared and timid around cats he sees outside. He's never really pulled at me to get to a critter. Although when I let him off leash in our backyard, he has been known to chase a squirrel up a tree or fence. As for his racing career, he's only done less than 15 races and never won one, I've talked to one of his handlers before and they have confirmed he was not interested in chasing a lure haha

I think your dog is incredibly lucky to have caring and thoughtful caregivers like you. I hope you make some progress and live in harmony!

Starry doesn't have this problem, but I've read that keeping super high-value treats with you on walks, and redirecting your dog immediately by calling for their attention and giving them a treat right when they see a little critter might work Again I have no experience in this, this is only what I've read!

at least I think it means they like you

...we've given up. he has so much fun digging, our yard is just like a crater now. he hasn't tripped over the little holes hes made or the one large main one he digs. As long as hes happy haha

Keep us posted!

Each little jump if I recall correctly maybe took anywhere from 2-4 weeks. You can also exercise your dog before you start this practice so that they are really tired and don't even the energy to keep getting up to whine after settling down, if you haven't been doing that already. Best of luck!! Also I froze peanut butter and cottage cheese stuffed kongs and gave those to him when I knew I had to be gone for a bit longer, that usually kept him busy for a good 30 minutes but he's considered quick, I've read that this can keep them busy for over an hour

FWIW, I would annoy the crap out of Starry when he did this the first month of coming home by repeatedly getting up and out of the room as much as I can throughout the day and come back before he started to whine. The whole time I would completely ignore him, and eventually he either got the message I'd be coming back, or was tired of being interrupted. Even if he did whine, I would let him go until he was quiet for a minute, and once he quiet I would immediately come back. It started out as like 30 seconds, then a minute, then slowly progressed over 3-4 months to the point where he couldnt care less about what I do around the house really besides when leaving for work and coming home. As others said, it's still been only 2 weeks so your hound is still settling in, I can't speak about leaving the dog outside though since I have no clue whether or not that would be beneficial. Good luck!

When I was doing this with Starry, I'd bring a treat with me in my pocket (high value) and I would keep him on leash and walk to the place where I'd want him to poo, and then just stand there and be really boring. if he tries to walk, I usually just twirl around in a 360 until he finds a good enough spot. Once he does his business, I act really happy, tell him good poo and give him a treat immediately. Sometimes it took 5-10 minutes and if he doesn't go by then I usually tried again another day. It took a month or two before he realized thats the place I want him to poo for the most part, now I don't even have to do the whole routine, usually he gets the picture that it's turnout time.

Congratulations! I can give you a little advice at least what works with my hound Teeth I won't lie, I probably get around to brushing my boys teeth once a month. Otherwise I give him Greenies/Some equivalent dental chew once a day after dinner everyday to help keeps things clean. He usually only has a little plaque buildup but nothing too crazy or nothing that looks like it has to be scaled. Admittedly I need to start bushing at least once a week! Toys My hound goes quite nuts over plushies with squeakies in them, he does well with these heavier duty ones I get from petco: https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/leaps-and-bounds-ruffest-and-tuffest-raptor-tough-plush-dog-toy They are his absolute favorite, it took him a good couple of months before he was even able to make a small tear on one of the plushes. Otherwise they have lasted for over 6 months of daily playing. A close second is chasing a rubber kong ball you can stuff treats inside of. You may just have to get heavier duty plushes for your dog to enjoy, or ones without any stuffing Farts Yeah not much you can do about this

To add to greysmom's points, Starry will bark at me when he's "talking" with me sometimes. Starry has never been a quiet grey, he definitelyhappy to bark to talk back to you or to give you a heads up. Sometimes if the day has been dragging, when I ask him if he's HUNGRY or ready for DINNER (capitalized the words that make him go off), Starry will bark back at me, almost as if he's saying YES! YES! It's quite a scary sounding deep bark as well but I've gotten used to it. By no means is it an aggressive bark, like I mentioned more so as a response to me asking him a question. Perhaps your neighbors grey is just sad they're being but back in the crate and letting you know? Also like what racindog said, if there isn't any problem otherwise, this could just be a quirky thing that dog does in particular.

Thanks for the input! It takes a lot of close monitoring and it's a pain to keep an eye on them at all times and be afraid to even run to the bathroom without them in sight of each other, but I think you're right, it's going to keep taking small baby steps and a small leap of faith per day.

Thank you so much for the long and thoughtful reply and sharing your story! I've been exchanging bedding and items the whole year so I'm sure they both get the idea that they are not going to be going anywhere I have had them swap crates in the first couple of months as well to get them used to each others scent. They will actually coexist with each other as long as one of them is lying down and not active/playful. If they are lowkey and chilling then they will keep an eye on each other but won't bother getting up to do anything, and the cat hasn't tried giving him a swipe yet if he's been calmly laying down/sleeping and I'm around. The story you shared with Piper and Yoda is hilarious; it's exactly what my Luna did with Starry. I was sitting with him and petting him in one corner of the house, when my slightly overweight unathletic 10 year old rescue cat decided it'd be fun to run up and give him a good claw, then run away. She seemed like such a jerk! Since then I haven't tried the same scenario since but maybe it's worth another try seeing as it looked like Yoda only did it once to show PIper whos boss. Starry doesn't even try to fight or bark back he will just shirk into the corner and start yelping or howling because he's so scared. I feel so bad for him but it's almost comical to see such a big dog intimidated by my otherwise sweet cat. My biggest fear is if he decides enough is enough and just goes at her. The winner of that fight would be pretty clear, unfortunately and I'm not trying to find out!

Oh thats so sad for your girl haha. Good to know most people receive the sniff attack well, as I've seen too when I'm out and about although I don't try to let him do it all the time I tried standing off to the side in the grass and letting another dog and owner by on my way back to my house, what happened was the other dog started to statue and freeze at the sight of Starry in the middle of the street while the owner tried to pull them away haha. Now I know to just start moving again in case that happens because I was standing there for about 15 seconds while she kept trying to tell him to come and cross the street to no avail until she pulled a treat out LOL