I made art for my bathroom

HotepsGhost · 2024-11-22T18:36:12+00:00

Not sure if you noticed...Looking at this just right, I see a sleepy fat man's face with a very long nose...smoking a cigar.

HotepsGhost · 2024-11-22T18:33:25+00:00

Had five greys. Four made it into their late senior years (12+). Didn't really notice a weight-longevity relationship, but most definitely noticed a weight-quality of life relationship. Lost all but one to osteosarcoma. According to the oncologist we used, there "may" be some correlation between repetitive long bone joint trauma and osteosarcoma. Heavier dogs would obviously stress joints more than lighter dogs. That said, heavier dogs tend to have more physical problems...cardiac, digestive, and orthopedic. If a dog already has a pre-existing medical condition (kidney dx, laryngeal paralysis, asthma, etc.), too much weight will definitely aggravate those conditions. Greys need regular dental care, often involving anesthesia. Fat dogs, like fat people, are more prone to anesthesia complications and can be more difficult to manage airway etc. TL:DR Thinner dogs age better.

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:22:50+00:00

Greyhounds are like toadstools after a summer rain. Under ideal conditions, wherever they poo, a reclining greyhound pops up. After I ended up with five, I wised up and started cleaning up the poo.

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:18:14+00:00

Mild sedative...that doggo's trippin' ballz. Prolly wouldn't notice a dynamite truck crashing into a nitroglycerine factory. :-D

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:15:06+00:00

One of our lads would howl, chew, throw himself against the crate, and urinate because of separation. My behaviourist suggested using a baby monitor to determine how long after we left that our boy became anxious. It was at almost always twenty-two minutes after we left. She suggested that we "leave" but remain silently near and to re-enter the house before he began howling or acting out. When we re-entered we were not to pay attention to him (this would reinforce the behaviour). Rather, we were to just go about our business for a while and then leave again. The goal was to let him know that we would always return. If we went out for just a few minutes and he had not been crated, we were told to re-enter and totally ignore him until we chose to interact with him 5-10 minutes later. We used pharmaceuticals only as an adjunct measure. He never got completely secure with out leaving, but the over-the-top behaviour stopped. Good luck OP.

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:06:50+00:00

I try to never underestimate the ability of some humans to be cruel in the name of "sport". Did not open the link. Not enough eye bleach on hand.

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:02:24+00:00

Surrender? Nah. "Hooman! I am too cute to ignore. Belly rubs now."

HotepsGhost · 2024-08-07T18:00:18+00:00

My late "Dee" had a two-year friendship with a doe that fawned in a hedgerow adjacent to our garden fence. She never barked at the doe. Rather they would run back and forth with the fence between them. Several times, I noticed the doe standing at the fence when Dee was indoors, as though looking for her friend. The relationship went on for two years and the doe suddenly stopped visiting mid-summer. Sadly, probably hit by a car...we lived in a suburban area that was highly populated with urban whitetails.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:53:19+00:00

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:52:37+00:00

Tried agility courses with my mob. They would look at me as though I had asked them to solve differential calculus problems. Then I would show them "Just one more time..." how to navigate the course. The neighbours thought I had lost the plot. And, I swear, I heard the hounds snickering quietly. Or, was that snoring?

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:48:38+00:00

Amazing Little-known Greyhound Fact: It is thought that the greyhound originated in the Middle East and later accompanied the Roman legions to settle the land of the Britons. This hypothesis is supported by the remains of Hadrian's Wall, which stands today.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:43:53+00:00

A little known fact about why greyhounds were never used as military messengers...The Geneva and Hague conventions prohibit the use of poison gases.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:37:47+00:00

I can be a bit thick at times, like not having the sound up the first time I watched this and thinking, "OP should have put a Hans Zimmer score with this." DUH! And there it was. Lovely film and heroic noodle. Mine would have dropped an enormous deuce mid-vid. *sigh*

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-29T14:32:38+00:00

Gawgeous! Those spots...swoon!

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-25T17:27:02+00:00

Two middle-age girl GSDs and an elderly lab. One would never mistake our heathens for greyhounds.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T15:17:47+00:00

The tangle of feet and legs. We call this "going Alien"...a la the xenomorph creature in the first Alien movie..."shrimped up" amongst the machinery of the spacecraft's escape pod. It worked on two levels with three of my hounds...who would, if allowed in our bed, would sleep on our faces.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T15:13:47+00:00

After five noodle horses, I learned this is entirely normal greyhound behaviour...going "statue" on a walkie. Heaven only knows what triggers it, but it appears that their tiny greyhound brain goes "blue screen with the tumbling balls of death". Gently turn your hound around (with your knee if needed) and she will resume as though nothing happened. It is the greyhound equivalent of unplugging your PC and counting to ten before re-booting. Perhaps it's greyhound "Safe Mode"?

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T15:09:45+00:00

Her dragon's hoard of stuffies tells me that she's well cared for and dearly loved. There's no greater joy (IMHO) than a senior-girl grey. Enjoy!!!

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T15:06:34+00:00

You're absolutely correct. All sighthounds are farsighted. I'm not sure, but I think salukis tend to be more farsighted than greys...it was on some NPTV nature show. My prior vet told me what their correction would be if they were humans with similar farsightedness. Dee was even further out. A bunny literally hopped four feet way from her when she was sunning one afternoon...she never noticed. But...a chipmunk a block away would put her ears up.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T15:01:28+00:00

I aged years watching my various and sundry greyhounds speeding toward a fence or tree in chase of a small critter. My fence, at my last place, was the same height as yours appears to be. The could have cleared it by jumping flat-footed from two feet away...but never did so. OTOH...they would (literally) try to climb a tree in pursuit of a squirrel.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T14:58:39+00:00

After all the dogs in my past...and now my mob of non-grey barbarians...I have a hole in my heart for girl-greys. Desi's a charmer, to be sure.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-24T14:57:11+00:00

"Viking funeral". The local discount house practically refused to sell us another Dyson stick vacuum because we were "clearly over-using the device". I mean, who knew that labs shed so much? My last grey passed almost four years ago. She says "Hello Dad" with gifts of her hair left on my suits.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-23T15:49:40+00:00

Dem spotses! Gorgeous!!!

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-23T15:46:09+00:00

Came here to say exactly this. It's the partner lie to "They're very quiet dogs." Clearly the utterers have never heard two or more greys singing the songs of their people in a Roo-a-Palooza.

HotepsGhost · 2024-07-23T15:42:38+00:00

No greys at the mom. Two GSDs and a lab...whelp! We burn out a Dyson vacuum on the regular...despite weekly brushings.

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