The official retired or rescue greyhound thread

[gog440]

I have posted these pictures on the photo thread but thought I would put them on here to show he is 100% better from the worming tabs




ps He isnt the big furry killing machine he might look like from the first picture lol

Edited by gog440 on Sunday 5th December 18:41

[bexVN]

[Jasandjules]

I may need to get an asbestos suit here BUT

I truly believe that if someone races a greyhound they should be required to look after them for life.

However, they are lovely dogs and a friend has one (a rescue) and he is a funny lad, loves to play chase with our dogs.

[rscott]

In an ideal world, they would.. At least our local trainer also hosts the rehoming kennels for our local RGT branch. They're also very active and generous in fundraising.

These are our two beasts. The smaller one is a mad cow - likes nothing better than running round the garden flat out, then through the lounge and back out again. The other, the lad, has decided to take retirement very, very seriously - can't be bothered to run any more.

Edited by rscott on Friday 10th December 12:17

[gog440]

rscott said:

In an ideal world, they would.. At least our local trainer also hosts the rehoming kennels for our local RGT branch. They're also very active and generous in fundraising.

These are our two beasts. The smaller one is a mad cow - likes nothing better than running round the garden flat out, then through the lounge and back out again. The other, the lad, has decided to take retirement very, very seriously - can't be bothered to run any more.

Edited by rscott on Friday 10th December 12:17

We were quite lucky really, we met our dogs old trainer at the rgt kennel(when we considering getting a greyhound) as she had gone to judge at their annual show/openday, she was delighted that we were thinking about taking Eddie on, she told us that all the girls at the kennels cried when he went and that she would have liked to keep him if she could.

He is pretty typical male greyhound, spends most of his life sleeping, is a bit of an attention we and will butt in between us if he is feeling left out. When he does get to go for a run he runs flat out for about a minute and thats him done!

[shoebag]

Dave in his new jumper this morning. Thank you N GTS for his present.

[Piersman2]

^^^^^^^
That dog is so not sure about that coat

[Trophybloo]

Goodwood Motorsport and Greyhounds on one forum - what's not to like.
Max here (racing name Maxies Boots) won 6 races and if he'd had an ounce of agression in him would have had quite a few more firsts. I've seen the videos of him 'at work' and a more 'no after you, I insist' dog I've never seen



We got him 2 years ago in January and he's now six and a half, absolutely adores a belt round the golf course or across Camber Sands. This is him in the snow this time last year.



We adopted another Grey in September (as my birthday present)- officially known as 'Phil's bh' though her pedigree name is Ashcarne Robin, Ash to us. More about her in a few days time

PS EDIT - How can you censor B-I-T-C-H when dealing with a canine thread?

Edited by Trophybloo on Tuesday 21st December 09:59

[Munter]

Trophybloo said:

PS EDIT - How can you censor B-I-T-C-H when dealing with a canine thread?

Quote me: bitch

I wouldn't do it as an insult though. Upsets the mods.

[Tacagni]

Hi all, a picture of our two rescue lurchers. we have just rescued another called Boris struggling with a photo at the moment



Thats it got it now. this is our new boy Boris

[Mrs Grumpy]

Is Boris a Saluki lurcher? Have always loved the looks of a Saluki but never been brave enough

[Tacagni]

Yes Boris is a Saluki Lurcher (and j the brindle) he's had a bad start to life and is terrifed of everything at the moment, we have managed to get him to eat but not to get him to come back to us yet! i hope he will follow the other two eventually.

[bananaman1]

bexVN said:

Chilli said:

OP, a beautiful dog...really lovely, and well done for rescuing a 5 or 6 year old dog.







ps - Not sure about the sofa, but hey we're all different!

Get a greyhound and you will lose your sofa, there is no choice . Same goes for whippets (though ours knows he can only go on the sette if his blanket is on it)

Yep can confirm the sofa issues

[gog440]

bananaman1 said:

bexVN said:

Chilli said:

OP, a beautiful dog...really lovely, and well done for rescuing a 5 or 6 year old dog.







ps - Not sure about the sofa, but hey we're all different!

Get a greyhound and you will lose your sofa, there is no choice . Same goes for whippets (though ours knows he can only go on the sette if his blanket is on it)

Yep can confirm the sofa issues

We must have the only greyhound in the world that has never even tried to sit on a sofa, Eddie is just happy to sleep in his bed and has never attempted to steal the sofa

[gog440]

A quick question for you other greyhound owners, are all your dogs as bad at thieving as our Eddie? in the last few weeks he has had a loaf of bread, 6 hotdog rolls and 3 chicken breasts,as he is so tall he can reach right to the back of the worktops in the kitchen so it isnt safe to let food defrost anywhere apart from on the microwave as he hasnt worked out how to open that yet.
He has also had everything out of the bin and licked clean everytime we leave the bin where he can reach it and tonight he tried to steal a loaf of bread out of my wifes hand!
The stupid thing is he is getting plenty to eat (I have weighed him and I measure his food out according to the directions) he hasnt lost any weight (or gained any) he is at his perfect fighting weight.
He gets his food in 2 meals, a large one in the morning and a smaller one in the evening (it helped with his house training to do his meals this way round)

[bexVN]

I have a whippet and his only real fault is that he is a food thief! Anything and everything remotely edible is fair game (inc tablets )

[bexVN]

bexVN said:

I have a whippet and his only real fault is that he is a food thief! Anything and everything remotely edible is fair game (inc tablets )

He is 7yrs old and yet he still hasn't learned that he can't stare at us eating, every evening he has to be told to go to his bed when we eat.

He is not aggressive with food but given a chance he'd help himself, even from your hand if you weren't careful I'm sure. He has helped himself to a biscuit from a toddlers hand before now, we didn't spot the kid quickly enough! He was very gentle and the child didn't even realise straight away, as I said no aggression, if the kid had stopped him Jimmy would not have done anything, which is very important.

[Kiltie]

gog440 said:

... are all your dogs as bad at thieving as our Eddie?

Our one isn’t too bad compared with those of other owners I speak to whose hounds are apparently habitual thieves.

Saying that, she does believe that anything within reach is hers if she wants it.

The coffee table is probably one of her happiest hunting grounds. On occasion, when we’ve had people in, I’ve seen her casually walk past, take a few slurps from the milk jug and then help herself from the plate of biscuits before anyone could do anything.

Coming back from shopping also requires a bit of care. If the bags are put on the floor, the head will be inside each one in turn until she finds something worth running upstairs with (a loaf of bread is the current favourite).

I’ve always reckoned that it stems from being in kennels where they get to know that when a food opportunity comes up; if they don’t take it immediately, someone else will.

I take the view that it’s not a priority behaviour for “training out”. It’s just something that has to be managed.

Cheers,

Eric

[softtop]

bexVN said:

He has helped himself to a biscuit from a toddlers hand before now, we didn't spot the kid quickly enough! He was very gentle and the child didn't even realise straight away, as I said no aggression, if the kid had stopped him Jimmy would not have done anything, which is very important.

We had that, buggies and food in their hand is at head height. The woman on being told what happened checked the child over like it had just lost a finger in a mincing machine... With that amount of over acting I presume she is a full time actress.

[bexVN]

softtop said:

bexVN said:

He has helped himself to a biscuit from a toddlers hand before now, we didn't spot the kid quickly enough! He was very gentle and the child didn't even realise straight away, as I said no aggression, if the kid had stopped him Jimmy would not have done anything, which is very important.

We had that, buggies and food in their hand is at head height. The woman on being told what happened checked the child over like it had just lost a finger in a mincing machine... With that amount of over acting I presume she is a full time actress.

Luckily for us the parents were absolutely fine about it (obviously we were very apologetic). I think they saw that he'd not done anything to traumatise their boy.