I love my guy but whoever created the universe gave him more heart than brains.

Who else has a beautiful soul but no brains?

Hi, new to sighthounds. Adopting a short haired small lurcher. I am worried she will get cold in the winter. It gets to about 5C where we live. What coats are suitable to keep her warm enough, that she can also wear her harness with? My budget is around €60. I don’t want to rely on just the collar as she is quite nervous and could escape from it. I presume it’s better to go with one that covers the legs too? Should she wear the harness under or over the coat?

They like to sleep under my desk when I’m working.

How to stop whippet pawing

We have an almost one year old female whippet. We've mastered her not jumping up, as I'm pregnant and she used to bounce off us and it hurt. That took a while, but she doesn't do it anymore. What she still does do what we are having a hard time with training is the constant pawing. She paws at everyone's legs, leaving scratches (her claws aren't too long), and she also pawing her crate door on a night. She sleeps right through the night in her crate, but when I get up to pee (a few times because I'm pregnant), she wakes everyone up pawing her crate door. The issue with the pawing is I'm pregnant and we also have our nephews over (4 and 3 years old) and we cannot have her near them because her pawing is excessive and she will hurt them. My other dogs are around the children as they don't do this. If our whippet is introduced to anyone, we literally have to hold her legs so she doesn't paw. She gets really excited and the pawing is intense, like she's scratching a door in a panic, not just a couple of gentle pawings.

We've tried ignoring her until she stops, turning our backs, saying No and Ah-Ah (which worked with her jumping). We also don't open the crate door and ignore her until she stops. She's never got out of her crate or opened doors with her paws. We've been trying to train this for months now with zero improvement, and it's that bad that guests ask if we put her in a different room because the pawing does not stop and they get scratched to bits.

We haven't taught her the paw trick either, as I was told by a friend of a trainer that that encourages pawing as they think they're getting a treat from doing it. Also, please don't tell me it's just what whippets do (as I was told in another group), it needs to stop before baby is here as I want her to eventually be trusted around him as he grows up, but right now no, as she paws at kids faces with them being short. I've trained a lot of typical whippet behaviors out of her, such as chasing wildlife, so anything's possible. Also, our last whippet never pawed. Any tips would be appreciated, thank you.

Our 8yo Podenca, trying hard to ignore little visitor.

Hi everybody! I have two borzois and at present I do not wish to add another dog into the mix, though I am smitten with pharoah hounds at the moment and considering one in the future.

I understand they are more energetic than borzoi are, but how highly strung is my question? I've been warned away from Ibizan Hounds for their energy levels and intensity.

I am fairly active with my borzois in terms of walking and running but also go through bouts of burn out and days where I struggle to exist beyond having a pulse and doing the necessary requirements to keep myself and the dogs alive for the day.

I understand sighthounds from more temperate climates tend to be a lot more keen to go than colder environment sighthounds such as borzoi, greyhounds, deerhounds and wolfhounds are.

How are they with their temperaments? Are they prone to being nervous, reactive, and fidgety or are they quite settled, level minded and easy to turn off? Are they fusspots or are they more prone to raiding cupboards? Velcro dogs or comfortable with their own company?

What are their typical, daily energy needs in terms of walking times, enrichment and whatever else? How adaptable are they from going out on a 13 mile hike to calmly spending a few days off?

Girls versus boys? I've always had boys and I love their sillyness and general lack of brain cells, but I really would like to have a girl next I think, I have a lot of pretty collars eyed up already.

Breeders, what do I ask a breeder? What do I look out for in terms of red flags and green flags for this specific breed?

Lastly, anything else I'm missing to be aware of?

Thank you!

Spent so long on this that they all feel like my best friends. I’m a slow illustrator. The only breed I left out, I think, was the Afghan Hound? I did actually draw them too but some how they didn’t fit with the theme, not sure why. Sorry lovely Afghan Hounds.

I welcomed a new baby 2 weeks ago and its going great!!! He is in his piranha era right now but other then that the little one fits right in.

Hello, does anyone has some photos of an adult lurcher, Spanish galgo (mum) x border collie (father)?

I found young ones really cute but I can't figure out what they would look like once adults, more collie or more galgo.

If you have it, how's the behavior too ?

...currently trying to make sure we're not owned!

Recently (~3 weeks ago) rescued a 2-ish year old Saluki who had been seized from coursers.

Next to no crate/toilet training, and we're having some success, but any anecdotes of things to watch out for, or to do more of are appreciated - our current concern is she's really smart and figured out pacing gets her out for walks, but then we end up with accidents indoors!

She is just missing some staff fanning her and feeding her.

Reposting this for anyone who has ever played with their sighthound with an American football!

Can a greyhound (or similarly sized sighthound) fit a fully-inflated American football in their mouth???

Need to know for football romance fact-checking! Thank youuuu!💖

I have an 8 month old silken who I love so much. He’s been a hellion since we got him. Everyone who I’ve met with a sighthound is surprised by how “feral” mine is. We put in so much time and effort to train him (I wasn’t working for the first 5 months of having him) and he learned so quickly! We were like “omg wow! So now he’s finally calm and sweet like every other silken!” He was SO mouthy, but he settled very well around us and his mouthy-ness died off once he lost his teeth.
7 months came around and hit us like a train. He WILL NOT SETTLE around specifically me (he doesn’t seek out my husband like he does me). He is so antagonistic if I’m trying to sit/lay on my couch. If I have a blanket on, he will incessantly dig until he gets my skin exposed and just bite (not hard, aggressive bites). He never chewed up furniture, shoes, nothing except for his toys. He has torn the couch covers, chewed up the legs of my chairs, dug a massive hole in the carpet, destroyed hats and shoes. I just feel like I don’t know him anymore! I also feel extremely alone because no one has anything, but good experiences with silkens. I do timeouts, reverse timeouts, no engagement, rewards when calm, he gets walked 2-3 times everyday and we give him daily enrichment.

Can anyone tell me that it’s going to be okay and I’ll get my sweet boy back that used to cuddle and sleep with me? I miss it so much. I started a new job and my life feels so stressful and adding the emotional toll of having my dog be crazy is very hard on me.

Hello :)
Would anyone have any information on breeders within Ontario? I’ve tried a few on Google and it seems their pages are not up to date. I do not have Facebook so I can’t search there. Any leads would be helpful :)
Thank you

We are about to adopt a Podenco puppy. We need all the general advice we can get. We have a 3y old Galgo who is in desperate need of a friend.

I know that, like people, dogs have their own personalities, but what are your podencos like? Traits/quirks, things for extra attention...

Thanks in advance

Sorry in advance for the long post but we’re at a loss.

For context, my partner works full time Monday to Friday, and I only work weekends. We work around each other because of the issues we’ve been having (our pup not being able to be left alone).

I have a 13 week old Whippet, we had him at 10 weeks old. He’s overall a good puppy, he’s been very easy to train, however he is a proper Velcro dog.

Straight away we noticed he couldn’t be alone for any length of time. He’d follow us room to room, and if we put up barriers like a baby gate, he’d immediately cry and scream until we got back. This was the same for the crate, he’d cry, scream, bite at the bars etc constantly and he wouldn’t stop. He just has to be touching us in order to settle.

With previous dogs, we always allowed them to sleep where they wanted, which usually was our bed. So we allowed the puppy to share our bed with us because he slept really well that way and we’ve never had an issue with dogs in bed. I know this likely hasn’t helped, but we needed sleep and are conscious to not annoy neighbours with the endless crying.

However, now he is starting to be destructive at night time while we sleep and during the day. I don’t care so much about the damage to my house as it’s all replaceable, but what I do care about is his safety, so we are now looking at crate training - I have never had to crate dogs before.

Things we’ve tried, but haven’t worked:
\- Kong/licky mat with peanut butter - unfortunately he seems to have an intolerance to peanut butter as his bowel movements went very runny so we had to stop that.
\- Tried covering the crate both partially and completely.
\- Tried playing the radio etc.
\- Tried making the crate cozy with beds, blankets etc.
\- Praising him for going into the crate.
\- Putting a worn item of clothing in the crate.
\- We’ve tried both a smaller crate, and a larger one.
\- We’ve tried feeding his meals in the crate.
\- He has teething/chewable toys in the crate, including Bamboodles.
\- Tried making sure he’s physically/mentally tired, and all his needs are met.

We’ve tried leaving him in a puppy proofed room with the same things as above, still the screaming persists.

This isn’t a fear of the crate or a fear of confined spaces, this is a fear of being alone or not being able to get to us. He will go into the crate willingly to play and he will sleep in there if he’s really tired and I leave the door open. But freaks out the moment I close the door or leave the room.

Our hope is to crate him at night, and to hopefully be able to crate him during the day if we need to go out. At least until the destructive phase passes.

Any advice will be appreciated…TIA 🖤