An excellent thing to do! Greyhounds are abandoned almost as much as staffies are. There's a lady that lives near me who rescues greyhounds, I always see her with at least 3. I've found them to be the most timid dogs I've ever met. You can tell they need a lot of love, I guess being bred for sport they don't always get the attention they need.
Good luck with him!
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It's funny you say hers are timid; there's only one out of about 30 dogs at this place who is timid; they're generally very used to people and being handled but can get spooked easily by new things as all they know is racing and kenels.
I guess that's the unknown thing getting them from an RGT centre - you never really know their background
This one's coming from a lady who breeds them for racing but is now concentrating on rehoming her own hounds and others as she is puling out from the racing scene. she very obviously loves the dogs and they're so well looked after. she has been super helpful and very accomodating too letting us pick a dog and she will keep him until we're ready.
There's loads of retired greyhound charities out there though but honestly - the ones I've contacted have not been helpful at all, some havent even replied. (North West)
The most helpful was Greyhound Gap but their dogs need a lot more time than we can offer as they're all quite serious cases; more suited for retired people or people who will be around 24/7.
They're an ideal breed for us though; they need hardly any excersise; they're knackered after a 20 minute walk and they're the most loving, gentle and freindly dogs we've met. The downside is that they're very big (although curl up into tiny spaces) and can't really be let off the lead until you truly know them well and it's in an enclosed area.
The one we're getting is fine around other dogs though; we had them all out on Sunday and there was a lass from the kennels who was walking a dog who was still racing and she had him on too long of a leash, the dog stopped, she walked on and the dog saw a little yorkie who came running up to a gate barking and the greyhound went for it - it had 2 leash lengths advantage and pulled the poor lass with it. Greyhounds can get to top speed in only a few strides so she had no chance!
I had Sam (our future dog) and he wasn't fussed about the yorkie at all! he was interested like most dogs would be but wasn't going after it.
There's a big difference between how 'keen' the active racing dogs are and the retired dogs are though; they're very competitive when out and set eachother off. The few retired dogs we had were not fussed and remained calm!
). We foster - as well as having 3 adopted Huskies
