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It's good to hear Lola is doing well though, aside from the business indoors!
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Awwww. Your instincts are right about punishment, just clean up the mess and move on. Right now you're building the foundation for your future relationship so you want to be the source of nothing but good things. Maybe don't treat until she eliminates now that you've established walks are fun things. Do you have a yard or semi-secluded place you can get to easily? You might have to wait her out the first few times. Teedo we have to shove outside on occasion Right now Teedo is at the five year old child level of potty training - he holds it or doesn't go outside because he doesn't want to stop whatever he's doing, but when he does he needs to go NOW. Yesterday I was on the can and couldn't extricate myself before he unloaded on the landing and the hallway. If we know we're going somewhere we'll force the issue, and thankfully once he's in the yard he'll do his business before coming back.
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Negative reactions to the peeing aren't helpful, unless you can interrupt her WHILE she is in the act. If she's actively peeing do yell or clap or something to interrupt the behavior, take her outside, praise/treat profusely when she pees.
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Apartment unfortunately. When she's ready and we got the gear we'll take her to the family house out in the countryside. But good news! After a long as walk without her peeing I gave it another shot and she did a long rear end pee on the lawn outside the apartment. First she was distracted when I tried to praise her but she got it and ate a ton of treats. Also did a poo (and a large one, perfect on the Bristol scale, which I'm happy about!). Hopefully this is great progress.  Also I love how she just stops and decides to sit and watch people walking by. The Greyhound way of sitting is so elegant!Edit: VVV: Lol! That's hilarious! MrOnBicycle fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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MrOnBicycle posted:The Greyhound way of sitting is so elegant!  
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MrOnBicycle posted:Also I love how she just stops and decides to sit and watch people walking by. The Greyhound way of sitting is so elegant! Only some greyhounds will sit naturally so you’re lucky there 
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actionjackson posted:I added mine, I'm glad I don't need an account or anything. I started bawling after uploading the one of Abby. One week away from what would have been her 14th birthday  I went to look for a nice pic of Bonnie to put up and made the mistake of watching a video or two
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Much warmer today so I figured Katie might want to run after daycare. And she did! However, I did not take into account how much water was in the soil since it rained before it froze… She was slipping and sliding everywhere and turned the little dog park into a mess.  I had to pick globs of mud out of her paws 
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david_a posted:Much warmer today so I figured Katie might want to run after daycare. And she did! However, I did not take into account how much water was in the soil since it rained before it froze… She was slipping and sliding everywhere and turned the little dog park into a mess. Oh man, do I have a tool for you: https://www.themudbuster.com/ It will change your life. No more picking mud out of paws for you!  I have the blue one (the medium) and it works for me and my dog (who despite their size, have tiny, dainty paws).
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Some very good sitting hounds ITT!david_a posted:Only some greyhounds will sit naturally so you’re lucky there On the other hand though, I used to think Tazo was one of the ones who wouldn't/couldn't sit of his own volition, but once Opal came into our lives, she clearly showed him how it's done - so now they both sit quite often! (Opal does it far, far more often, though. It's possibly her favourite pastime haha) Proof:  
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I added our dogs to the padlet. Also I haven't posted pics in a while so here's a few: Tennyson:      Mac:     
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Tbf Teedo may not actually be a greyhound but a sack of elbows someone tossed off the highway (I love him so much, he is so amazingly cuddly)
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Wow Mac and Lola look very similar! I just want to say thanks for all the help this thread has provided. Certainly has made it much easier to handle her. My wife managed to take a quick photo of Lola sitting:  She does this either randomly when out for a walk where she decides to just sit or when other dogs pass close by. She just sits down and watches them. We also went to the dog field nearby and had her on one of those retractable leashes so she could run with us. Running next to a Greyhound is intimidating as hell as she barely breaks a sweat passing me while I'm sprinting at full speed.
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MrOnBicycle posted:My wife managed to take a quick photo of Lola sitting: Awwww That's so cute - I haven't known other greys to just do that, when dogs pass by! You're definitely right about greys running, too. You can really notice them "shift gears" too. Like, if I'm jogging, Taz is in his second gear trotting along, then if I start sprinting he takes it up a notch and just effortlessly pulls away
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MrOnBicycle posted:Wow Mac and Lola look very similar! My whippet does this too.
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Alamoduh posted:My whippet does this too.
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jesus WEP posted:the pictures of said whippet didn’t seem to load for me? Yeah its weird! Even if I quote Alamoduh's post to get URL, the link doesn't appear. Puzzling! 
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Major Isoor posted:Awwww I love that I have a sitting greyhound. Yeah I can't wait to see her running at full speed without us slowing her down and the "shift gears" thing is spot on. Can really see the different levels of running speed. It's really nice that we live right next to a big dog field at the beach that the city has earmarked for dogs (except for during the summer months) so they can run free (no fences though). I'm also super impressed with her eyesight, which shouldn't be surprising seeing as they are sighthounds, but she sees other dogs before they even have a clue... and rabbits...
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MrOnBicycle posted:I love that I have a sitting greyhound. They don’t actually have better vision than other dogs - a bit more peripheral vision due to their eye placement, but that’s it. My understanding is that they’re just highly tuned to react to motion which is why they can suddenly bolt when they see a plastic bag floating in the wind, a distant rabbit, etc. Is there a fenced in area you can let her run in? It doesn’t necessarily have to be that big. A lot of greyhound adoption organizations in the US make you sign a contract to never take them off leash unless fenced in and will take back the dog if they find out you violated that. They get so fixated on what they’re chasing after that they will not pay attention to things like traffic or how to get back to where they started from. Seeing a greyhound run full-out in person is pretty amazing and I’ve never seen Katie happier than when she gets to run. She has a blue rope toy I often bring out that she loves to throw around when running. She’ll lose it on the ground then try to pick it up during full speed passes.
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Sorry, I hate trying to upload photos on mobile, but if you like whippets, here’s bugsy: https://imgur.com/a/oF9OfQ0
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Alamoduh posted:Sorry, I hate trying to upload photos on mobile, but if you like whippets, here’s bugsy: 
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Alamoduh posted:Sorry, I hate trying to upload photos on mobile, but if you like whippets, here’s bugsy: that is the cutest little goober
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what height do you have your bowls at? My elevated one is at like 15" which works, but I have a galley kitchen the issue is I can't have the cupboards open all the way when it's there. I would really like a single bowl that is the same height as obviously you only need water most of the day, but otherwise I'll probably move it to the entry by her crate. no amazon links please
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Alamoduh posted:Sorry, I hate trying to upload photos on mobile, but if you like whippets, here’s bugsy: I love fawn longdogs, a couple of Tubbs' siblings were fawn and we really wanted one.
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david_a posted:They don’t actually have better vision than other dogs - a bit more peripheral vision due to their eye placement, but that’s it. My understanding is that they’re just highly tuned to react to motion which is why they can suddenly bolt when they see a plastic bag floating in the wind, a distant rabbit, etc. Ah. Either way I love her perception. Yeah there are fenced off dog areas as well. We have one nearby so we'll probably go there tomorrow or something. We went to the beach dog park and ran with her and let her run on the retractable. She seemed to love it and so did we. Time just flies on walks. Alamoduh posted:Sorry, I hate trying to upload photos on mobile, but if you like whippets, here’s bugsy: So cute actionjackson posted:what height do you have your bowls at? My elevated one is at like 15" which works, but I have a galley kitchen the issue is I can't have the cupboards open all the way when it's there. I would really like a single bowl that is the same height as obviously you only need water most of the day, but otherwise I'll probably move it to the entry by her crate. no amazon links please In the end I decided to have bowls on the floor since the only real study done on the subject reported an increase risk of bloat with raised bowls compared to floor level. I follow the other recommended rules from studies i.e. no exercise within an hour (at least) after eating, plenty of water since geryhound apparently are bad at drinking (I let the food soak in water and trick her into eating what is basically a soup). Keeping a close eye at her poop which so far is looking good. Pooped two times today.
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actionjackson posted:which study are you referring to? I'd be surprised if there was literally only one, seems strange Sorry I should have linked it: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3099198/ That’s the study. I did a search on pubmed as well but studies are generally either infection related or racing related. The study I linked is is one that mentions elevated bowls with regards to GDV in large breed dogs. There are other risk factors, but the odds ratio on the raised bowls was interesting. There might be other studies, but non that I can find right now. There are several pages and other research that mentions avoiding elevated bowls, but they might be citing the above article. Problem is that many of them only leaves me access to the abstract, so can’t read the whole article and citations. Anyway, as long as the defecation is good and regular with a good consistency, it should be fine but I’m not a vet. But yeah, keeping a super close eye on her poop as I’m pretty anxious about her developing GDV.
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I worry about bloat a lot too, but for what it’s worth somebody who was a vet tech posted in this thread and said bloat isn’t actually that common in greyhounds. My understanding is that the major risk factor with raised bowls is that it lets them eat faster so they’ll gulp down more air. Katie uses a slow feeder bowl anyway so I’m not super worried about it. The bowl edge is about 15 inches off the ground. MrOnBicycle, you know you have to brush her teeth right? Sighthounds in general have bad teeth for some reason and greyhounds are the worst.
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MrOnBicycle posted:Sorry I should have linked it: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3099198/ What breeds did they use in the study?
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actionjackson posted:i thought they ate out of a raised trough? In the US they just put bowls in their crates. I found this somewhat incoherent video tour of a kennel (by a MAGA clown unfortunately) where you can see a dog being fed around 4:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8nqETq3eg
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david_a posted:I worry about bloat a lot too, but for what it’s worth somebody who was a vet tech posted in this thread and said bloat isn’t actually that common in greyhounds. I’m also paranoid about bloat! Yeah you should not let the teeth brushing lapse. It’s super $$$ to get their teeth done as they need to go under anaesthesia. That shocked us into brushing Hazel’s teeth every night.
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actionjackson posted:What breeds did they use in the study? Having a hard time finding the original link where I could read the full article unfortunately. I never saved it.  Many of the pet advice pages I come across echo the same thing about avoiding raised bowls though, but they never write sources for the information.Either way the other risk factors are important as well and I will relax more as time goes by because right now it’s mainly the transition from shelter food to our food that’s might upset her stomach, but it’s been fine and yesterday she even pooped 2 times with good consistency. david_a posted:MrOnBicycle, you know you have to brush her teeth right? Sighthounds in general have bad teeth for some reason and greyhounds are the worst. Yup. We are getting her used to it and taking it slowly because either no ones ever done it, or it hasn’t been done in a while so both she and her gums are sensitive. Bought some of those dental treats as well to help while she and her gums are getting used to the brushing. Yesterday she sat down for a crow that was coming closer an closer lmao. MrOnBicycle fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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NomNomNom posted:
Aww, Watson! That photo should be on the cover of a Greyhound Home Living magazine, hahaEDIT: Oh by the way, could this be added to the top of the OP, maybe? Just so it's easier to find. No stress either way though! Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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Happy 14th Birthday Abby!!! I miss you!!!!!
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Major Isoor posted:Oh by the way, could this be added to the top of the OP, maybe? Just so it's easier to find. No stress either way though! I did the thing Abby! 
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