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  1. 2 hours ago, Time4ANap said:

    No littermates here but I just have to say what a handsome dude he is. Congratulations! 

     

    2 hours ago, MerseyGrey said:

    Also no littermates but he is gorgeous. That face would get lots of kisses in my house :wub:

    Thank you! He was one of two who caught my eye the first time I went to their site. I'm hoping he's a good fit. We have a sometimes-reactive Dobie (when she feels another dog is going to hurt her), kids ages 3 and 6, two senior (9yo) cats, and chickens (securely fenced). So our house is asking a lot in a pup. But, yeah, I think he's stunning. He even has a white chest, white tail tip (looks bigger than some of the "few white" hairs a lot of greys have) and WHITE TOES (OMG, yay for being able to see quicks better!) Here's another photo of him:

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  2. 1 hour ago, 2greys said:

    Thanks, that's what I thought, just thought I'd ask just in case :D

    Muzzles in the garden it is then - just wish the neighbourhood cats would learn not to come into the garden...

    I used to take an air horn and beep a few times to warn animals in the yard before letting my greys out. It seemed to help. Otherwise, it was survival of the fittest. 

  3. Prey drive can't really be trained out. You aren't going to train out thousands of years of breeding. My Lulu (who was rescued from a coyote hunter when she was only a few months old and therefore never raced so never cultivated prey drive) caught and killed a rabbit with a muzzle with a stool guard--she literally caught it with her paws and beat it to death with her muzzle. She was fine with cats in the house (and even shared her bed with them) and actually loved them. Chase, my amazing Grade AA racer who was also great with cats in the house, caught a bird mid-air in the backyard and killed it. 

    Bottom line: even small-animal safe greyhounds in the house are not to be trusted outside of the house. It's a different environment. So if you have non-small animals safe, it's even more of a prey drive outside. 

  4. I've raised many puppies over my lifetime and I'll say this: a Greyhound puppy was the HARDEST (and shouting never helps anything). Sounds like your puppy may be trying to exert dominance. I use short sounds like "eh!" to get a dog to break focus of the negative things they are doing. Once they look at me (since it's an abrupt sound, it usually works), I praise them for focusing. All dogs and puppies in my house must sit (or at least back off and stay, in the case of Greys who can't sit) as I sit food dishes down. I use the "eh!" sound to stop them if they try to move before I give them the "okay" release sign. Because "dominant" beings allow "subordinates" to eat (in the wild, the leader of the pack says when others can and can't eat), this helps establish me as a pack leader. Lots of praise and treats when the pup does something right. Even only for a moment. Like a kid, you want about 5x the amount of praise as negative feedback. You have to work to find those things.

    If a dog tries to jump on me when I go to pet it, I'll say "eh!" and turn away from it then try again once it has all four paws on the ground. They quickly learn that paws on the ground = getting attention. 

    For clarification, you said you got him when he was half a month old. Did you really get him at 2 weeks old? Was he bottle fed, then? 

    Have you ever raised a puppy before? 

    Finally, do you have a place where you can take puppy classes nearby? Those classes teach not only the puppy, but the owner how to behave and work together. 

  5. Mine is included in our Paw Plan. It's not insurance, but it covers all shots, one dental per year, wellness checks, CBC, spay/neuter, and at least a 20% discount on any other services. It's $65 a month, which is less than what one dental costs. 

     

    ETA: I paid $1300 for Chase 10 years ago... he ended up needing seven extractions. 

  6. I'm just itching to find out who our next pupper will be. It's looking like it'll be a brindle boy as the group mostly has them with one black boy. Since everything looks good on a black houndie, I'd love to see your BRINDLE photos with collars to see what I might like. My red fawn, Chase, was perfect in royal blue and my blue fawn, Lulu, was amazing in lilac. Red is currently what my Dobie girl wears. 

  7. 6 minutes ago, RaineysMom said:

    I was always so happy that someone on GT adopted one of the pups :D  she was just beautiful.  I'm so glad you were her mom! :kiss2

    This is Lulu loving on my oldest just before she went to the Rainbow Bridge. She LOVED the tiny furless puppy. LOVED. And my oldest would stop crying if put next to her. I really wish Lulu had been able to be around her longer.

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    My oldest as a newborn (she was bawling until I put her next to Lulu):

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    And our pregnancy announcement:

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  8. 45 minutes ago, RaineysMom said:

    hey!  That's ME in the middle there! :) yeah, I remember Ms. Jones :) (your Lulu) :kiss2  Bruce made me drive because he knew how dangerous me in the back with those puppies would be (I wouldn't want to let one go :lol )  Good to see you back! :)  congrats on the soon-to-be fostering/adopting :yay

    I  was wondering if you were still on here... it's why I added the photo! They were such cute, crazy puppies! LOL

  9. 11 hours ago, Greyhoundcastle said:

    Welcome back!  I've been around since 2001 or so, and although I don't specifically recall the story about the coyote dog pups, I do remember that photo of Lulu with the peanut butter jar.  She was a gorgeous girl.

    Hope your foster-adopting experience comes to be and goes well!

    Thanks. She is missed horribly. She was a demon puppy on speed but she was the most wonderful adult. 

  10. I've been gone so long that my profile didn't exist anymore :lol:

    I'm Jen and back in 2005, I started fostering Greys. I foster- failed my first... Chase (J's Fear Not) and it took awhile to fail another. That fail was after a then-epic (who knows if anyone remembers it now) GUR that took two large litters of coyote hunter's puppies from Kansas and beyond in virtuallya spiderweb... our leg came to Michigan. I foster-failed a beautiful blue fawn named Lulu (came to me as Baloo).

    Fast forward several years and my then-boyfriend became my husband and the Navy sent us to Washington state with two Greys and a deaf Great Pyrenees. About a year later... in 2011, Chase crossed the rainbow bridge after a bout of thyroid cancer. Lulu crossed in late 2015 after having unrelenting back issues. 

    Since then, we welcomed Dobie Kota to the house and two fur-less kids and then lost Skah (the Pyr). I've never forgotten Greyhounds and always said "one day" I'd have another. 

    Well, after returning from a miserably long deployment with the Navy (thanks for making it longer, COVID!), I find out things have changed and if I don't get a retired racer now... it may never happen. 

    So, I put in an application with our local adoption group and had our virtual home visit tonight. It looks like we will be foster-adopting in the near future. 

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