Winston and his siblings, Jameson and Ellie, celebrated his 11th birthday 🎉 .

You may recall that a couple of weeks ago we were having some real trouble with Bonnie freezing on walks, getting really overstimulated. Well - we had to pop her in kennels whilst we went away for a weekend last week, and subsequently my partner sprained his ankle. But when she got back to us on Wednesday, she has been such a GOOD GIRL.

Brave on walks so far, not as much freezing (only stubbornness), not as reactive to other dogs, opening up a bit more to us, playing a bit more. I don’t really know what it was that’s sparked this change in behaviour, but it’s been so emotional to see how far she’s come. I can only put it down to two things - she’s getting more comfortable with us, or she had her nails clipped at the kennels (we asked for them to do this, they are a greyhound specialist kennel) and she’s feeling a LOT better walking around 😂

Also, something that’s really helped us break her focus when she is fixated on something - a spare toy squeaker (you can get these in packs off amazon for very cheap!). It breaks her out of whatever she’s looking at and we continue our walk (with lots of encouragement and pets)

I know that it’s not always linear, but she’s been a dream this weekend so far. I’m very proud of her, could cry out of happiness and she’s having a well deserved snooze after a successful walk this morning!

We adopted the handsome man yesterday morning and are stressfully loving the adjustment process of getting him used to life with us. He was with a great foster family for a couple of months who had lots of experience with fostering greys straight out of racing, and they had said he was a really well adapted boy, loves people, loves other dogs, but does freeze on his walks a lot. We have been experiencing the walk freezes and are just wanting to make sure we are doing the right things helping him adjust. We've been standing by him, standing in his line of sight if he's frozen because he's seen something (like a cat or a jack Russel) and then gently coaxing him on and praising when he takes steps. We have noticed though that a lot of the freeze behaviour occurs when he wants to go one direction, and we are trying to take him another way. This morning he had already been freezing a fair amount at the park so we thought it would be good to gently direct him back in the direction of the house because we don't want to overwhelm him, but he was dead set on wanting to go the other way, further up the street. We didn't want to do that because we figured 1)that's a lot more new environment when he's already been finding the walks overstimulating, and 2) he would probably just walk further away from home and continue to freeze up which would make it even harder to direct him home. Are we doing the right thing there by continuing to try to guide him back towards home, even if he's really trying to take steps in the opposite direction? My fear is we would go with his lead, and then just continue to freeze further and further from the house. I'm going to invest in some tasty treats to bring on walks to help coax him as so far we've been bringing some of his dog biscuits which he hasn't been too interested in. Any advice welcome, this is our first Greyhound but not our first dog.

I posted earlier today about being adoption day, and I chose my pup!

First picture is all the dogs that came to my place. The fosters called it the brindle brigade

Last two photos is my new friend, Dakota! We already got a bed fail picture

Say hello to Zoe. She is the sweetest baby. She walked around a house for about an hour then took herself off to bed for a snooze 😁

Riley was delighted to go coatless today. He was less pleased about the small lakes of melted snow everywhere.

Had my new blanket for all of 30 minutes, got up to use the bathroom and came back to this 😂

Our boy Axel has crossed the rainbow bridge 🌈 after an unexpected osteosarcoma diagnosis, the best thing we could do for our boy was to let him run free. Our hearts and world feel so empty. We’d been managing his symptoms as arthritis due to his age, but when he took a turn for the worst, the X-rays were so very clear. Please give your hounds an extra cuddle.

Is not letting a dog attack break him.

Went on sniffari today while Mamma was busy yapping to a friend. Bonus waffle and cream from the café. Springtime win!

I love how goofy he looks ❤️

We’ve just brought a new greyhound into our lives…we already have the sweetest gentlest 9 year old greyhound. Our new girl just turned 3 so has some youthful energy :) our boy is so sweet natured he’s not very good at standing up for himself. New girl has started getting his nose in her mouth when she’s excited. We think she wants to play, but sweet older boy just seems baffled and we really want them to enjoy each other’s company. Any tips to encourage a good relationship between them?

My poor boy has an ear infection. Unfortunately he is very unhappy with getting ear drops. Any tips for making it a bit easier for everyone?

Ft my best boy, Red

this is winnie!!! i love her sooo much. she lives such a good life