Let me know how its going with your new boy – I wonder if he knows what a lovely life he has to look forward to? ……

Geri – The trouble is she follows us everywhere – with her eyes if not her body – and – she is very clever, she knows when I am nearly ready to leave for work and gets into her kennel ready for lock-down – she is quite happy… its only me that wants her to have a better time.

I do put the radio on but I think a recording would only have her destroying more things in an attempt to find us!

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I think you should go to http://www.greytalk.com and do a search on ‘separation anxiety’ and ‘alone training’ and you’ll get a lot of extremely useful results, aimed specifically at greyhounds and with the ex-racer’s problems in mind.

Another link which is useful to read (though it’s long) is this one -

http://www.geocities.com/katnexta/nofeartraining.html

Good luck! No doubt I’ll have my hands full this coming week with a new ex-racer to train!

Daddy P – don’t they say that dogs are like their owners? In which case i agree…no contest…. barking mad here!!!!

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The problem with these dogs is that they are rescued from the tracks – ex racing greyhounds – and it is nigh on impossible to get a pup as they are all bred for training to race. We were lucky to get Hippie so young although she had been brought to the age of 18 months with the owners intention to race her and win a great deal of money.

She had not lived in a house before and she had a lot to learn – the early days at http://www.mygreyhound.me.uk were full of problems – most of which I dealt with using a water spray.

Now Hippie rarely barks and is very well behaved when we are around – she just cannot be left, the anxiety of wondering where we are is too great – it is very hard to deal with and is the last hurdle.

I hope, one day to have it sorted although from some of the comments here – I don’t feel very confident at the moment – so I think the cage will be staying – at least Hippie likes it!

Try vinegar in a spray bottle and spray it at the dog each time it barks. The vinegar stings the dog for a second but does no lasting harm. If you also spray it on cushions, seats etc the dog will stay away from them. It may be necessary to repeat this each day for a week but IT DOES work.

The other alternative is to buy a bark alarm that is tied on like a collar and gives a mild shock each time the dog barks. That works too.

People complain about the sound of Fire crackers or Fireworks playing hell with a dogs ears and how uncaring it is to use them, well the sound of dogs barking has the same effect on some humans and I am one of them.

How do I know that these methods work? My sister has to of the most Yappie dogs you ever came across and I tried both methods with them… problem solved.

Once and only once have I had a dog stay in my house. It was the best guest I ever had. There was not a peep out of her and she was told once that she was not allowed on the furniture by her owner and she never tried. Also she was never given tit-bits from the table EVER and so did not associate human food with her food.

It works if you want it to! Good Luck.

Sorry, bad mannered animals are my pet hate! (pun intended)

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I thought leaving him at home and having him looked after would be a good idea. Obviously not )

I think you’re right – it seems to be a greyhoundy trait – they get terrible attached. Let me know if you come across any brilliant solutions x

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