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Touch Him and He Growls — Greyhound Guarding His Personal Space
If he’s lying down, Greyhound Chester may growl when they touch him. He attacked their other Greyhound when he suddenly disturbed him. This makes their owners very worried and unhappy.
Yesterday they arrived home from work to find three open wounds on Conor’s neck and back. (more…)
Why would a newly adopted greyhound panic the moment he is left alone?
It’s not really surprising that newly adopted young greyhound Max panics when left alone.
It seems he was a useless racer – good for him because it’s given him such a great reprieve!
The two-year-old has spent all his life in kennels with other greyhounds. Now he lives in a house with a young couple. It’s quite amazing how well they have done in just six weeks, integrating him into life living with people in a home.
For the first weeks he paced and panted, showing anxiety in general as he became acclimatised. Now he has settled down beautifully….
…apart from one thing. (more…)
The two sighthounds barely lifted their heads from the sofa when I entered the room. I could hardly believe it when I rang the doorbell and from a house with three dogs there was no barking at all – not even from their elderly Springer but she may be a bit deaf. When Read more
Whether marking or anxiety through being left, the root cause will be Herbie’s feeling of insecurity. Greyhounds have hidden depth. It’s easy to assume that because five-year old Herbie lies around quite a lot and appears peaceful and a bit lazy, that he’s calm inside. I noticed a lot of Read more
It’s not only people coming into their house which can cause Alfie to bark ferociously. He also barks at the young son who is unable to go up and down stairs freely without someone first grabbing Alfie and putting him into the kitchen. The couple themselves are unable to go upstairs together without Alfie creating – unless the man goes first and the lady follows a bit later.
Six weeks ago Greyhound Jo was a happy dog, if somewhat quiet and sensitive. She is a six-year-old ex-racer who has lived with the elderly lady for over a year now. Then, one day, she and her elderly lady owner came back from their usual morning walk and Jo stood Read more
The most shocking thing is that the lady, in her very best efforts to give her Battersea dog a good life, has had three people in to help her with her lovely dog. One gave her a prong collar and the other an electric collar. I’m relieved that she never used the e-collar, but just imagine the prongs of the other collar on a skinny Greyhound neck.
The way to reverse a particular behaviour is to get to the cause of it and deal with that, not to inflict pain or fear.
This evening I have been to see two beautiful dogs – a lurcher and an ex-racing greyhound who came from Ireland three years ago. And a red hen! The hen lives in the house with the dogs. She roosts on the arm of the lady’s chair. They are all treated Read more