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One of the rescues we talked to wouldn't adopt to anyone with a fence that was less than five feet tall. And one wouldn't adopt to us because the person who would be taking the dog out in the middle of the afternoon was our teenage son - they wanted an adult to come home mid-day and walk the dog. A third just wanted to basically give us a dog sight unseen with no temperament testing or anything, just "Here's a random greyhound, hope it doesn't eat your cat!" So yeah, rescues have a wide variety of ideas and requirements.
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All this is making me worry about why I haven't heard back from REGAP since mailing my application ~10 days ago 
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If you're really worried, try sending an email. These are mostly volunteer organizations and can get a little disorganized, so a reminder can be a big help. I waited a whole month before I sent an email asking about my application and within two days we were doing a house check.
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RazorBunny posted:One of the rescues we talked to wouldn't adopt to anyone with a fence that was less than five feet tall. And one wouldn't adopt to us because the person who would be taking the dog out in the middle of the afternoon was our teenage son - they wanted an adult to come home mid-day and walk the dog. A third just wanted to basically give us a dog sight unseen with no temperament testing or anything, just "Here's a random greyhound, hope it doesn't eat your cat!" Yeah, I'm starting to notice this while looking around on the net for a decent place to check out. This is the one I was referring to earlier: http://www.greyhoundpetsinc.org/ They seem to regularly have dogs, and are more active than the other groups I've seen online. Looking at their site again it looks like any dog under 3 years of age they will not adopt out to an apartment. I can probably circumvent that by telling them I will be living at my parents house (which I will be for awhile).
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HappyHelmet posted:Looking at their site again it looks like any dog under 3 years of age they will not adopt out to an apartment. I can probably circumvent that by telling them I will be living at my parents house (which I will be for awhile). There's a good reason for this, though, so don't try to circumvent it. Most of the younger greyhounds are fresh off track. They have NO inside manners, no understanding of things like stairs and televisions and windows, and may not even be particularly well housebroken except for in regards to their own crate. Just ask for an older dog. Especially one who has already been adopted once and trained by the former owners. My 8 and 11 year olds would be perfect apartment dogs. There is no way in hell I will ever adopt a fresh-off-the-track dog, even in a house, much less into an apartment.
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I think a 3-year-old dog fresh off the track would be a fine apartment dog if you had a nearby fenced park or something where it could run around every day, but otherwise I agree that an older dog is better suited to apartment living. Greyhounds live a long time for large dogs, you're not going to miss out on much by adopting, say, a 5-year-old dog instead of a 2- or 3-year-old. I got mine at 3.5 and he still had tons of energy. He slept all day, but when he went out in the yard he ran laps for ten or fifteen minutes. I don't think he would have been happy just getting his exercise from walks - he never much cared for walks unless we were going someplace new and interesting, so he was mostly getting mental stimulation rather than physical. It's not really that difficult to adjust a dog to living in a household from the track, but they definitely don't adjust right away regardless of their age. It takes a lot of patience and effort, especially to anticipate what the dog will find confusing/scary in the new environment. If your rescue fosters first, though, you won't have to worry about that aspect. You definitely don't want a young dog with a lot of energy if you can't give it an outlet. And don't lie to your rescue organization. RazorBunny fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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My fresh off the track 3 year old was perfectly mannered.  sure she had to figure a couple things out, but she wasn't a hell beast. Talking to the rescue volunteers they will probably have a good idea of the temperament of the dogs in their kennels. Unless by fresh off the tracks you mean no time in kennels, fosters, or social time with volunteers or other rescue dogs at all.
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alucinor posted:There's a good reason for this, though, so don't try to circumvent it. Most of the younger greyhounds are fresh off track. They have NO inside manners, no understanding of things like stairs and televisions and windows, and may not even be particularly well housebroken except for in regards to their own crate. Isn't this the same regardless of whether they are in a house or an apartment? I would have thought younger greys would be easier to adjust to a home or apartment, since they weren't at the track that long, so they would be less accustomed to that routine.
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Well, if they've not been at the track that long, that'd mean they're losers, right? Who wants a loser greyhound?
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skoolmunkee posted:Unless by fresh off the tracks you mean no time in kennels, fosters, or social time with volunteers or other rescue dogs at all. That's how my rescue does it. Some dogs go directly from the track to their first home with no additional socialization. If you can get one that's been pre-socialized or in foster at all, that's way different. gninjagnome posted:Isn't this the same regardless of whether they are in a house or an apartment? I would have thought younger greys would be easier to adjust to a home or apartment, since they weren't at the track that long, so they would be less accustomed to that routine. Again, just speaking in relation to the rescue I adopted from - the dogs up here are born to the track, raised in kennels; they never live in a home situation prior to fostering/adoption after they retire from racing.
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a life less posted:Who wants a loser greyhound? Bart Simpson for one.
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While I don't own a dog myself, this is my friend's Greyhound rescue Bebe, seen here in a 08-09 picture feeling smug as he managed to swipe a piece of pizza off the table during a party like a boss:  I don't go over my friend's house too much but last year he was getting grey hair and looking very distinguished, a doggie Morgan Freeman if you will. (I so need to get a picture of him these days. He is getting up there in years.) He is the sweetest and politely friendly dog ever. He will come up to you and maybe nuzzle a bit but he won't jump all over you or bark or growl. He just wants to be friends. Pet him a little or give him some scritchens behind the ears and he will just crook his neck so he can rest his head on your arm. It seems like Greyhounds are generally a lot like Bebe here is which really does make them one of the raddest dog breeds. (Though the D&D Encounters couple that runs the local events once in a while bring their Yorkie along and he is a sweet and rad little guy too. Like a miniature Ewok version of Bebe.) I live alone and have very variable hours so owning a dog is probably a bad idea for me, especially given how even a betta fish sorority only made it a bit over a year and I didn't get the ladies from a big pet chain but a small local specialist. I am afraid I would fail the dog and I really couldn't afford two so he or she wouldn't be lonely. But this thread does speak true. Greyhounds are really great dogs.
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gninjagnome posted:Isn't this the same regardless of whether they are in a house or an apartment? I would have thought younger greys would be easier to adjust to a home or apartment, since they weren't at the track that long, so they would be less accustomed to that routine. Bear in mind that the track would be almost literally all they've known. Any greyhound fresh from retirement is going to have an adjustment period, how long and troublesome that is depends on the dog.
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Yeah, it's two months on and Adam has changed a hell of a lot from the first week or so, even though he's still skittish with things like smooth tile floors. At first he was real mopey and just stood around; now he's running all over the place at the park and enjoys sleeping the afternoon through in my bed when I'm not at home.
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Nice Davis posted:All this is making me worry about why I haven't heard back from REGAP since mailing my application ~10 days ago Try greyhoundsonly.com not only do they foster dogs but they provided me with my boy Science! when I was in an apartment but also my friends' greys. I volunteered for a bit, great rescue org. This is Science! Also known as weenerpants, dog, brain, grumbledog, and Science!dog. Going on 7 years of awesomeness now. I got him at 18 mos after he flunked out of racing in WI. Road trips, horse ranches, city apartments, cross country travel, farting, sleeping and generally being a steady friend.  edit. phone posting blows. Sorry. Jilloff fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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If you people with longleg skinnydogs aren't doing this for halloween you're doing the world a disservice
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SachielDVangel posted:They're pretty cool dogs. Kinda like afghans but with a little less sense of humor, a little more spooky/prissy. Salukis were bred to only ever take hare or gazelle, but afghans took poo poo that would fight back which makes them a bit more robust/confident in the temperament department. We homed one of our afghan puppies to a lady in NYC in an apt. She skates/scooters with Arya daily for miles around the city, takes her to dog parks and has taught her to respect an e-collar so she can be in off-lead areas of the public park. If you want to contact her about living in NYC with a large sighthound, here's her FB: https://www.facebook.com/diana.kassir?fref=ts Great thanks so much
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 Is sleeping face down normal? I don't think it's normal. I don't think this dog is normal.
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rhoga posted:
Dog!!!  Sometimes Union would rest with her nose smushed into the bed so she could barely breathe. Heaving, labored snorfs would get worse and worse until eventually she'd wrench her nose free and look disgruntled at her inability to sleep nose-first.
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rhoga posted:
My dog does this sometimes. I think he gets stuck in the middle of sleeping on his front and sleeping on his side, so he just ends up with his face mashed into the bed.
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Goddamn I just love how fuckin chill my whippet Willow is. Tonight's bonfire night in the UK and there's lots of fireworks, but Willow doesn't give a poo poo about them at all. I walked her through a neighbourhood where people were setting off fireworks in their front gardens and she didn't care in the least. (I knew before walking her tonight that she doesn't care about fireworks, so I wasn't risking freaking her out by doing it.. I just wasn't quite aware of how little she's affected by them) I dunno if it's a whippet thing or just Willow not having a concept of being afraid because she's the most coddled, babied thing around.
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Finally going up to REGAP on Saturday morning to check out some doges! 
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dog days are over posted:Goddamn I just love how fuckin chill my whippet Willow is. Tonight's bonfire night in the UK and there's lots of fireworks, but Willow doesn't give a poo poo about them at all. I walked her through a neighbourhood where people were setting off fireworks in their front gardens and she didn't care in the least. The whippets I've seen were all spooked by anything that moved. Not a greyhound but my family had a hound/mutt named Polly that seemed almost like she had narcolepsy. We'd find her passed out in the most peculiar places. Halfway up the stairs, sprawled out on the couch with the head hanging off like she'd been shot, sleeping against the front door so you couldn't open it without waking her up. She just always seemed to work her into the strangest, contorted positions. Nose buried in a cushion was one of her favorites.
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Woo, apparently a change in legislation in my state (Western Australia) allows greyhounds as pets to be assessed for a 'green collar', aka, a muzzle exemption! Only took 86 years for the change. That's fast by WA reckoning.
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crowtribe posted:Woo, apparently a change in legislation in my state (Western Australia) allows greyhounds as pets to be assessed for a 'green collar', aka, a muzzle exemption! Those laws haven't passed yet. They're still being read in Parliament I think. Sadly they're full of other changes which are much worse, such as requiring restricted breed dogs to be neutered by 3 months of age and not allowing them to go to rescue if they get impounded and the owner doesn't want them back. It's pretty lovely that good changes get lumped in with horrible ones.
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I find the "green collar" thing and the Australian attitude in general perplexing. Like, on this site goes on about certified retraining programs and so on, and what on earth would a retraining program be like for a greyhound? For Adam, his retraining consisted of being shown where the dog bed was and then he slept on it and then he was a Retrained Pet.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for greyhound rescues in the greater Washington DC area, specifically northern Virginia? We are currently looking at Blue Ridge Greyhound Adoption and Greyt Expectations Greyhound Rescue but if anyone has personal experience I'd love to hear it. We recently lost our golden retriever and aren't quite ready yet but I like to do the research and get a feel for things, so maybe after the holidays or in the spring. My husband's family had a greyhound growing up and they adored her. I was turned on to the idea by this thread, so keep those stories and pictures coming!
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We got our dog from GPA-NOVA, and had a pretty good experience with them. We'll go through them for our next grey too. I don't know much about either of the two you mentioned, so I can't speak to them one way or another. There are a lot of greyhound groups around here
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^^^It's not about DC, but a good rescue can make a huge difference. Over the summer, a monsoon knocked a tree on my apartment, putting a huge hole in the roof and flooding it. We didn't have any friends that could take our dogs and we couldn't take proper care of them while we were dealing with the roof. I called the adoption coordinator, who would have taken them if not for a difficult foster. She got me in contact with a pet sitter who does fostering for the group. The sitter said she would look after them for half-rate, despite going past her normal limit of dogs, and even offered my fiancee and me a bed for the night. When we went to pick them up, she declined any payment. I don't know what we would have done without our rescue. So uh, if you were in Tucson this would matter. crowtribe posted:Woo, apparently a change in legislation in my state (Western Australia) allows greyhounds as pets to be assessed for a 'green collar', aka, a muzzle exemption! I couldn't find out much about this, so I'd like a little clarification. In Australia, greyhounds are dangerous and need muzzles in public? Is it so they can't lick?
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Well, I can't speak for all greyhounds, but when I look at Mona, I can tell she is plotting to murder me once she finishes her naps.
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 This is Skeeter trying to be a lap dog with my close friend's husband. He is such a good boy. They rescued him back in the springtime after going thru more screening than when adopting a human person. He still prefers sleeping/hanging out in his (albeit) giant crate but for some reason I feel bad for him and the fact that he's in his crate a lot, even whey they're home. Wonder if that's a habit that will go away. They do have to crate him when they're not home because they have cats who still aren't particularly fond of him yet. Just thought I'd share him with this thread because I enjoy it so much.
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Oh goodness Trying to share the sofa! All the greyhounds are such pretty boys and girls, I'm nowhere near ready for another one but I think when I am I might have to get two or three.
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Pig Head posted:Wonder if that's a habit that will go away. Mona would hang out in hers most of the day anyway if she wasn't being crated. Then we decided to let her onto the love seat. Now, she spends it there if she has a choice. So really, I think it's just a matter of them finding somewhere more comfortable than the crate.
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Husker eventually transferred from hanging out in the crate to hanging out in a specific corner of the living room, where one of his beds was. That was where he retreated if something was intimidating (vacuum cleaner, etc.) or if I wouldn't let him follow me into another room. They've been crate trained their whole lives, it's comforting and familiar. Skeeter might find another place to "den" or he might always prefer the crate.
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Phew, OK thanks for the replies! Skeeter raced for 4 years so I'd imagine he'd need more than 6ish months to break certain habits. Heck, that pic was taken 2 weeks ago and that was the first time he realized he could chill on the couch! And because you guys were so nice in easing my worry about the dude, here are 2 more pictures of Skeeter:   With is first toy ever. He is literally almost as long as their office.
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he's a happy little (big) dude.
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Pig Head posted:Phew, OK thanks for the replies! Skeeter raced for 4 years so I'd imagine he'd need more than 6ish months to break certain habits. Heck, that pic was taken 2 weeks ago and that was the first time he realized he could chill on the couch! Dogs can take up to a year for their personality to really unfold. It wasn't until 7 months after we got her that Tess started to be Very Talkative. When we got her, she was quiet, now she has Opinions on just about everything that happens.
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rhoga posted:Dogs can take up to a year for their personality to really unfold. It wasn't until 7 months after we got her that Tess started to be Very Talkative. When we got her, she was quiet, now she has Opinions on just about everything that happens. I want a video
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skoolmunkee posted:I want a video Skeeter doesn't really even bark yet but you can tell he's trying. When he gets excited, he whines and makes guttural noises that make my heart hurt. My friends are starting to shop for a bigger house specifically for him. It's hilarious. He's a Very Lucky doggy.
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Definitely post a video. Hell, post anything. With my house closing at the end of the month plus an entire week off work in December, I plan on bringing a greyhound home on said week. Quickly approaching maximum hype here.
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