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Most of them do have terrific personalities - Idol, who you see in the pic, while loaded with personality for sure, is also a complete spaz though. One nice thing about getting a greyhound through one of the ex-racer adoption groups is that they can usually match you up with a dog that will suit you. |
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04-18-2006, 01:54 PM | #63 |
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Do they require a fenced yard? I have not needed one with the Boston Terriers... they don't move very fast and after obedience are pretty good on recall. Not perfect, but good enough so 10 seconds out of sight is not dangerous.
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04-18-2006, 02:16 PM | #64 |
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WE have an invisible fence system - I bought mine from Canada from this guy as it worked out best value for money.
Essentially you trace a wire around the area you want to restrict the dog to - can be any length - mine runs to around 800 ft. The ends of the wire connect to a low voltage transmitter, and then the dog wears a collar with a receiver. If he gets near to the fence he gets an audible bleep. If he starts getting closer still the beep gets faster and if he gets too close he gets a static shock. Training was straightforward - one shock was enough to deter him and now he knows the area without even waiting for the bleeps! It's a good system because it means we can leave our dog out without fear of him straying or causing a nuisance.
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04-18-2006, 02:21 PM | #65 |
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As far as photos go, maybe I should have waited for this one taken by cycling pal Paul at his recent Murder Mystery Dinner Party. Of course I played the sweet innocent gestapo officer while Mrs CF played the maniacal French mayor's daughter (...I think I got that right...):
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Invisible fences are also a no-no with greyhounds. If they see something they want to chase badly enough, the shock won't matter. It will matter later on, though, if they decide to come home afterwards - the shock will deter them from coming back into the yard. Invisible fences also don't keep other animals out of your yard, which can also be dangerous. Personally, while I do know a few people who have used invisible fences successfully (all lab owners, BTW), I wouldn't have one myself for any breed of dog. Besides the issue of not keeping other animals out, I was a pet sitter for 5 years and experienced too many problems with them - power outages, batteries running down or malfunctioning, dogs who could get the collars off, etc. Just a few months ago we were charged by a neighbor's dog who came at us teeth first - the battery in her collar had run down and she was out running amok. While a determined dog could certainly circumvent a regular fence by digging or jumping, I have never experienced that issue with any of my clients or my own dogs. |
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04-18-2006, 03:48 PM | #67 |
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How do you adequately exercise a greyhound?
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04-18-2006, 03:53 PM | #68 |
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That's the problem with reading the Cellar using the "New posts" feature. I read that question too, and though for a second that this was the joke thread. Then I remembered.
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04-18-2006, 04:14 PM | #69 |
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Horses for courses I suppose - or perhaps that should be hounds for pounds, or something simliar. We cannot fence off our land - it is open green belt parkland - so we tried the invisible method and, probably by luck as much as anything, it has worked well with the two dogs we have had since living here.
I take your points though and it is down as much to the area where we live and the types of dog we keep that it works for us. We have had a couple of outages through broken fence wire (can be a temporary pain to locate!) and once when the batteries went (we should have changed them earlier). We now have a ritual of checking the signal once a week (our dog is aware of the presence of the fence and won't test it that often) plus change the batteries religiously at teh beginning of each year. I'm not up on greyhounds but can imagine the difficulties they would create being determined hunters as a breed.
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My friend had a rescue greyhound. She would run the perimeter of their fenced in yard. She wore a trail into the grass, which caused some problems with her traction in the corners on rainy days.
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We have a large fenced yard for ours to zorch about in if they wish, and they get a mile-long walk once a day. They sleep like babies afterwards. If you don't have a fenced yard and you can take them to a fenced-in area once a week (like a ball field or something) so they can run around a bit, that's great, but not expressly necessary. |
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Not too long ago, bout' a year or so.
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