FosterGreyScots

Hello all, We adopted our 4th foster grey a week after we took her in. Its been three weeks now and she is 99% perfect! Very loving, wants her head on our lap all the time, goes to her crate while we have dinner no problem, sleeps through the night and wakes us up at 6am to pee, goes back to bed til we feed her at 7am, then sleeps again til I walk her at 9am... maybe. This is the problem. She is statueing as soon as she is outside the door. Her bathroom is the back or front garden, and this is mostly successful. Walking in the morning and evening though have become battlegrounds! She will pee no problem but no.2s require her to move a bit and I have just given up on the walk now as she would not move beyond the street outside the house. For context we are in a cul de sac housing estate, in a quiet part of Scotland. I am very aware we are at early days. I don't want to continue bribing her or having to walk her in circles to get her moving. Just some words of encouragement would be great thanks! My boyfriend and I adore her and after being bitten 3 times by our last foster, she has been a dream!! How do I get the little madam moving both her feet and her bowels?!?

Well we re-jigged things a bit - baby gate across our bedroom door, and doggo can now sleep wherever he likes, which last night was in the hallway for awhile, and then he sloped off to the back room, and then downstairs. Only one initial moan, and then this morning he mad a bit of noise at his normal 0530 time, but we shushed him and he went quiet again and SUCCESS!!! Thankfully he is not destructive so we can trust him not to wreck the place. He is one step closer to be being adopted to us now!

Thanks folks.. today has been better, I did pitch the idea of letting him sleep in the room in his crate (he has had a couple of zoomie episodes which were fun to see at first but he gets a bit overboard when he barks in our faces!) with us to my boyfriend, so we might try it if he continues, but obviously we also have the two steps forward-two steps back feeling.. we would like him to sleep downstairs eventually so what happens if he never leaves the bedroom?! Suffer now for a better outcome down the road perhaps but yes, if we get howled out of it again tonight, we might have to consider it. He is currently passed out on the day bed in my home office/spare room so maybe he could sleep here too.... its gonna be a work in progress for sure, and I think I know now how to avoid disagreements with him. I found him on the couch a couple of times today but I just got him off with distraction - all it takes is a rustle of a packet or tap of a dish and he comes running! Then kong in crate and away he goes! We really like him and think he could be great, just need the long term vision that he will come good eventually or at least, I won't make the mistake of causing bother with him!

Morning all. My partner and I are fostering our third greyhound and he is proving to be something of a handful and I am more looking for reassurance, but any advice is welcome. Heavily caveated with the 'its still early days' headline! The dog arrived last week from a charity after being surrendered by his last owner who was having issues controlling him and feeling safe with him. He was great for the first few days, but by day 4, he decided howling all night was the way to go. We took advice from the charity and as he had slept in a crate in his last home we collected one. We let him wander in and out, and we didn't lock him in on night one with the crate. Cue howling from 2am straight through until 6am when we got up. Night 2, I checked if he had slept in the crate with the door closed before and he had so we did that last night. Howling from 11pm until 1.30am - BREAK! - then back howling from 5am. He sleeps in the living room but has slept in beds in the past so I imagine this is why. We have been told to ignore him but as you can imagine... its tough and I am cringing for the neighbours! His routine is morning walk and breakfast, walk at lunchtime and another walk after tea in the evening. All told he is getting about 1.5 - 2hr walks a day in smaller portions. Kongs with food from his daily allowance and he has a bunch of toys. We are transitioning him from fully raw diet to half and half kibble. He has shown me aggression but that was my own fault for trying to get a stolen pair of trousers from him in exchange for one of his toys and he lunged and snapped. I can't say that didn't make me nervous but I know I just need to change how I interact with him and not show him fear or back down, in a positive encouraging way! So, I know we are very early in the process... we were in love with him the first few days and were giving serious thoughts to adopting as he is lovely with other people and dogs - our first two fosters were dog-reactive - but this dominance issue he is displaying is causing me concern as I am at home all day. He loves the my boyfriend, but me, the woman, he could take or leave. Seems to be a reoccurring theme! Anyway, thanks for the ramble opportunity. Will we sleep again or will it take months and months? Right now he is in his crate with his breakfast kong (we are using these to feed him his kibble to engage his brain!) passed out from his morning walks (one with me, one with the fella).