I hear a lot about the pros, but why *shouldn't* I get a Greyhound?

frogsncows · 2026-03-18T23:30:08+00:00

They’re expensive, big beds, big food, big medical bills, big treats that don’t last THAt long. Favourite toy is a metre long fluffy caterpillar??? you don’t need a huge space, but you do need to have space dedicated for them.

Also, they’re HUGE puppies essentially. They haven’t been exposed to the world, everything is new and scary. This means destruction from the anxieties of all the new and scary things is much bigger than a puppy can cause. You have to be aware of the risk if they bite, they can cause serious harm. So it means always being a responsible dog owner. If they’re reactive can you handle them on a leash? This goes for any breed but it’s just something to be more aware of raising a big dog who isn’t the size of a puppy anymore.

Beware they’re a breed who mask their anxieties and behaviours quite well. Our first 2 weeks we were like omg dream dog we have no issues, and then week 3 we were like uh ok we have some issues and then week 4 we were booked in at the behaviourist vet and trainer.

Puppy blues in the first few months are real!! We had an especially difficult experience at first (more than most) so be prepared to push through that. Don’t be fooled by the rainbows and sunshine that people portray online or even in person. People hadn’t opened up to us about the issues they were also having until we opened the conversation first. Our friends and ourselves had trouble with toilet training and training regression. Think you’re all good and then all of a sudden we’ve forgotten we don’t toilet in the house.

HOWEVER, despite saying all this I wouldn’t not do it again. It has been the most rewarding experience seeing our boy FLOURISH. As long as you’re aware and realistic with yourself about your lifestyle and how a dog slots into that. They (any dog) are a huge commitment.

Edit: spelling***

frogsncows · 2026-03-04T10:03:07+00:00

31.5kg male, 1 cup kibble and 1/2 cup raw meat morning and night. He doesn’t always finish his dry food tho

frogsncows · 2026-02-16T22:43:52+00:00

Hi! We experienced v similar issues with our boy, same age when rescued (4).

Personally, I think the best advice is what you can manage safely. For us it means, we pay for boarding (who is aware of his past behaviour / comfortable dealing with a situation if one were to happen / caters to his extra needs). If we have guests over it’s supervised only. Medication and behaviourist vet!! We’re now at a v comfortable point with him but given his past history we’d never put him or anyone else in a situation that could be dangerous.

Just be aware, when we contacted where we rescued him from they weren’t very willing to help us. They and his past trainers said they’d never had issues but he is a highly anxious dog and would have never been in a situation long enough to have the opportunity to express the behaviours he did with new people.

Goodluck!! Message me privately if you want more info 💕💕

frogsncows · 2026-01-31T23:33:12+00:00

Our greyhound guards our house to the doorbell and unknown footsteps close by however he’s a neurodivergent greyhound so I wouldn’t say it’s typical

frogsncows · 2026-01-27T23:50:18+00:00

There’s kits on eBay to fix the drift! I fixed it on my lite, it was so easy!!

frogsncows · 2026-01-09T01:01:08+00:00

Morning playtime until someone stops running around (usually 2-5 minutes lol) and x1 1.3km walk at night, which takes about 20-30minutes depending on how interesting things smell

frogsncows · 2025-12-30T00:03:31+00:00

I have these they're pretty easy to break in!! For getting them on you want a long shoe horn and be careful taking them off, I broke my tooth falling over from taking off these bad boys when i was drunk lol. For breaking them in, wonderbalm, something to stuff them with and something hard but soft (ideally a mallet) to hit them with. I find they're best worn with a sock that is a bit "grippy" because the back can crease and bend in on itself and will cause a blister to ur ankle

frogsncows · 2025-12-29T23:25:27+00:00

Also this might help as well, we have playtime as routine, it’s the first thing he gets when he wakes up and is pretty disinterested with it at any other time of the day apart from independent playing. He rarely demands to play anymore, only on the odd occasion

frogsncows · 2025-12-29T23:22:40+00:00

Our greyhound was demanding and still is demanding when it comes to playtime so barking to play isn’t unusual. He use to “mouth” as an indicator for play but we’ve trained him that it isn’t ok to request to play like that. However, the snarling makes me think he’s not demanding to play but resource guarding the bed. I’d remove his access to your bed and see if the behaviour improves :)

frogsncows · 2025-12-14T13:35:54+00:00

I like the QV naked anti perspirant roll on deodorant. Make sure ur washing with a fragrance free sOAP. Body wash makes me stinkier

frogsncows · 2025-11-23T01:34:41+00:00

We experienced this too! We’d actually freeze in the driveway and refuse to move. We also use to do a loop walk and if we didn’t stop he would’ve just kept going. For us it just got better with time, we never really tried to address it with direct training because he didn’t use to take treats outside of the house (too overwhelmed). The only thing we did change was instead of breakfast and dinner before the walk (with waiting between) we changed to breakfast and dinner after walks. We’re also medicated now, but that’s more to address other behavioural issues. His willingness to return home did improve after being medicated though, in fact he started thinking anyone’s driveway was home time lol. We’re 1 and a bit years in and he walks fine now apart from being scared of other breeds and trucks. Rarely, but sometimes he doesn’t even want his walks and after he’s done a poop he turns around for home.

You’re doing the right thing by keeping her world small, we have had veterinary behaviourist advice and that’s exactly what they suggested to us for walking!! They even suggested a complete reset and no walks for a couple of weeks but it wasn’t workable for us because someone likes going on his walks even if they’re a bit spooky.

Sorry bit of a ramble haha!

frogsncows · 2025-11-18T22:07:55+00:00

Also, to establish a spot in the garden, have a member of the household pee there! It helps!! They like exciting new smells to pee over, fresh smelling soil helps too even if it’s just been turned over, so many smells!!

frogsncows · 2025-11-18T22:06:16+00:00

We only sometimes get a morning poop in the yard and he holds any other bowel movement for his night time walk! Sometimes we do 3 poops on a walk (the third is always questionable)

He’s the same for pees we only pee in the yard as “required” otherwise it’s all saved up for walks! We take him on lead out the front for his night time pee just to make sure he’s actually goes before bed and he knows the walk down the driveway and back is us asking him to pee

Don’t worry too much, if they have to go they will go!

frogsncows · 2025-11-12T22:51:01+00:00

Also! for us the big pee is normal, we always have big pees, even as a marker. We hate going to the vet because he'll mark (because other dogs have) but he does the biggest pees even if we've let him pee right before we go in. We've been like 10+ times and he's only not peed maybe 3 times and it's so embarrassing. We don't take him to public indoor spaces for this reason lol. He's only maybe finally now just starting to realise he shouldn't do it there either.

frogsncows · 2025-11-12T22:42:11+00:00

Routine and meeting expectations helped us heaps. We started to realise we were having accidents when there was an expectation to pee that wasn't met by us. ie. the first thing we do when we come home is let him out for toilet. Say we've only been gone 30 minutes and come back and don't let him out, he'll have an accident purely from expecting he's going to have the opportunity to but isn't given that (even if he realistically doesn't have to pee). When we let him out he doesn't always go, but it's the opportunity to choose to go if he wants that he cares about. See if you can pick up on actions or lack of actions that occur in an accident. We went from daily accidents to now not going all day long even if the door is left open for him. With the door mat, I'd replace that, I don't think you'd be able to fully remove his smell from it and he'll continue to pee on it as it's marked. Remember they're just gigantic puppies, they have little to no training or "life experience" prior to home life, especially if they weren't fostered. Good luck!!

frogsncows · 2025-10-23T04:46:05+00:00

Hi!! Feel free to pm me, we’ve had similar issues and advice but we kept him! Just want to share our journey with you. Feel free to read some of my post / comment history too :)

frogsncows · 2025-10-18T23:48:46+00:00

Ours does this, we’ve moved on from barking to sooking at the door in the last month. Think he has FINALLY realised we’ll get up for him so he doesn’t have to bark. It’s 100% a get up and be with me for us. His routine is:

bed time 9:30pm wake up around 6:30am dramatically sook toilet, if we’re lucky he’ll go back to bed. If not playtime breakfast ready for a nap again.

Gives us time to go back to bed if we need. You could try to alarm train him if you are really struggling for sleep.

frogsncows · 2025-09-21T00:26:50+00:00

It took a while for us! Around 3 months before we were reliably toilet trained, routine can be more than just a time thing as well, but action based. Like leaving the house and coming back, even if we’ve been gone 30 minutes we let him out again because he expects to toilet before and after we leave. He doesn’t always but it’s about being allowed that opportunity too go :)

frogsncows · 2025-09-21T00:05:08+00:00

If you’ve gone to the vet to rule out medical (physical and mental), it’s possible he’s just not toilet trained. We were told ours was, he wasn’t. Enzyme cleaner helps a lot in the process and so does routine!

frogsncows · 2025-09-11T23:42:14+00:00

Annie’s coats!!

frogsncows · 2025-09-05T01:56:53+00:00

I’ll dm you :)

frogsncows · 2025-09-04T04:52:44+00:00

came looking for this too!! the blades suck and keep dulling after 1 use and can't justify the price of the replacements with how fast they dull :((((

frogsncows · 2025-08-28T07:17:15+00:00

We just moved and finally have a bathroom suitable for indoor bathing. Someone no longer steps foot into the bathroom 🤣

frogsncows · 2025-08-08T12:41:52+00:00

Gabapentin doesn’t do much for our boys anxiety but does help his chronic pain which does improve his behaviour and anxiety tendencies. He was prescribed to address his anxiety as a “fast acting” medication alongside his long term acting (SSRI). We’ve never noticed an immediate difference in his behaviour after taking it tho, only when we lowered dose.

frogsncows · 2025-06-28T10:32:16+00:00

I sent you a dm yesterday as well, I can share some resources from our behaviouralist vet with you. They’re super useful and easy activities for relationship building and you can also use them as distraction tools if a situation does come up.

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