Greyhound With Separation Anxiety?

I love my grey, and have had her for a year now, and was hoping that over time this problem would have improved. It has not. Even though she is house and crate trained, if you leave her alone for too long – even if you leave the ROOM for too long – she will get up and pee in the house. If you leave her in the crate for too long, she will also pee or poop in the crate, and then eat it, and puke, and eat the puke, and puke again…. tasty. She does cry sometimes too if you leave tied somewhere (when I go to the barn she gets tied up with her warm bed… but even if she can see me she still cries a bit). I just feel like I can’t trust her out alone for any period of time, even the time it takes me to go take a shower! I hate having to lock her up in her crate EVERY time I leave the house, even for short trips, but she has also done things like chew on everything she can find when left by herself, electical cords being her favorite chew of choice (note: she won’t play with toys or chew on real dog chewies, ever!). I’m not sure what I can do, because she only ever does it when I’m not around!

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Who Has Adopted A Greyhound?

I am doing some research on Greyhounds I am interested in adopting one but have to have some info to tell my mom and things.
1.After you got the dog home did it have behavior problems or separation anxiety?
2.Was it easy to train?
3.Did it develop health problems soon after?
4.Is it only possible to adopt retired racers?
I am not sure if these are the right questions to ask or not feel free to give me some more advice or some things your grey did.Oh yeah about question number four I want to adopt a retired racer I was just curios I have only seen retired racers on petfinder.That las one is pretty sh*tty.Sorry.

Thinking About Getting An Italian Greyhound?

I currently have a 5 month old male Chihuahua, he is fully vaccinated and set to be neutered within a month. He is great, 99.9% housebroken, knows some commands, is less bark-y than most chihuahuas and loves people and other animals. I have been thinking about getting a second dog. Another chihuahua is what I will most likely get, but I have also always loved Italian Greyhounds. My chihuahua will be about 5lb when he’s finished growing, so I know the Italian Greyhound would be bigger than him, but I don’t think that will be an issue.
My question is what are the main differences between the two? I don’t just want googled answers, I have done a lot of research, I want more first-hand experience if possible. I have read that IGs don’t like cold weather, rain, can be hyper and fragile, and are very hard to house train. However, I have heard most of that about chihuahuas, too, and have found that I haven’t had many problems. If I have been fine with a chihuahua, should I expect a tougher time with an IG still? Or should I be fine?

My Italian Greyhound Will Not Stop Peeing In My Boyfriends Bed! Help Me?

Hi,
I have a three year old italian greyhound. He has always been notoriously resistant to house training despite the efforts of absolutely everyone I know pitching in to help.
Recently I moved into a house with my boyfriend. He has his own room (for sanity’s sake), and we spend almost equal amount of time sleeping in his room and my room. The dog sleeps with us in the room in a doggie bed.
Now, NORMALLY, he’s ok as far as accidents in the house go as long as we keep an eye on him. At night, we make sure he’s peed and bundle him up in his bed and he wont get up until morning when we let him out. When we sleep in my room, he crawls up into the bed in the morning when we wake up and snuggles.
When we sleep in HIS room, however, he crawls up in the bed in the morning and pees all over us. Today he peed while I was holding him and after we punished him he peed again on his futon.
This is, understandably, very stressful. Any insight here? Advice?
Thanks in advance!

My Italian Greyhound Will Not Stop Peeing On My Boyfriends Bed! Help Me?

Hi,
I have a three year old italian greyhound. He has always been notoriously resistant to house training despite the efforts of absolutely everyone I know pitching in to help.
Recently I moved into a house with my boyfriend. He has his own room (for sanity’s sake), and we spend almost equal amount of time sleeping in his room and my room. The dog sleeps with us in the room in a doggie bed.
Now, NORMALLY, he’s ok as far as accidents in the house go as long as we keep an eye on him. At night, we make sure he’s peed and bundle him up in his bed and he wont get up until morning when we let him out. When we sleep in my room, he crawls up into the bed in the morning when we wake up and snuggles.
When we sleep in HIS room, however, he crawls up in the bed in the morning and pees all over us. Today he peed while I was holding him and after we punished him he peed again on his futon.
This is, understandably, very stressful. Any insight here? Advice?
Thanks in advance!

Miniature Italian Greyhound?

I have one of the above dogs and i am trying to train it to ‘poop’ outside rather then inside and also i would like to have him urinate outside but the main problem is he will not go poo outside and the only place he does it is on the floor. Is there any potty training tips i can have? he urinates on the pee pad but will not poo. Please help

Do You Think A Whippet And An Italian Greyhound Make A Good Pair?

I already have a 2 year old IG (italian greyhound), love her! She’s SUCH a sweetie, but she’s grown up around other dogs all her puppy years until I moved out of my parent’s house and now I can tell she’s lonely. I spend A LOT of time w/ her, but playing with other dogs is just something she LOVES to do!
My boy and I are living w/ my mom for about 2 months til we find our next apartment and my mom’s 6 month old lab puppy plays w/ her, but I have to watch them all the time, because my mom’s dog gets rough. However my IG DOES really enjoy chasing her around and playing!
I was wondering if a Whippet and an IG are good companions? Do they have similar personalities? My IG is VERY personable and in fact absolutely LOVES meeting new people! She is very willfull and I’m STILL working on training her. She’s a couch potato, but does love getting walks.
Whatever I choose, I’m DEFINATELY going to adopt one. I live in Colorado. I just want another good companion. Can’t get a Greyhound they are too large, but I was considering either another IG or a Whippet, but I don’t know too much about the breed, cept what I’ve read and they seem great!

Should I Get A Italian Greyhound And Will My Toy Poodle Be To Much For It ?

I have been wanting to get another dog for the longest time. And i have always loved the poodle and IG(italian greyhound) I reseached the poodle majorly before i got my dog. Since i want a IG i have been researching them and they sound like they are very fragile, is that true. And my toy poodle is a fiesty when he plays. Some dogs even bigger than him dont like him because he doesnt understand that he has to stop. But i was thinking my dog loves to be chased and italian greyhounds love to chase. So wouldnt that work out? Also the italian greyhound could run and escape from my dog and not get as tired as my dog would.
So is getting a IG when i already have a 11lb toy poodle smart?
Do IG make good hypoallergenic dogs? (my definition is they go well with people with allergies)
Are IG very fragile?
Do they like water?
Is it better to get one as a puppy or adult?
Shelter or breeder? (which one will the dog be better behavied and more importantly potty trained)
Anything these really important i should know?

Constant Barking By My Italian Greyhound

I need help. I have had my italian greyhound girl for about 3 years. She is almost 6 yrs old. Whenever she sees a dog she goes crazy i can calm her down. I don’t have a large backyard so I have to let her off the leash so she can run but if she sees a dog she will run after them and barking like crazy she won’t bite them she just goes crazy.
If she sees a dog she won’t respond to come until after she barks at it for a minute or two. You may tell me she just can’t go off the leash but she needs to run off her energy. I need training method please.

I’m Getting A Greyhound Next Week, And I Have A Few Questions…?

We are going to visit two different rescue groups next week, so I don’t have one picked out yet, but I would like to eventually register her with the CGC training. Does anyone know anything regarding GHs and this test? This will be our first GH, but I have been around several of them, and I know that they are very sweet and gentle dogs, and the ones I have spent time with seem like they would be very good material for therapy dogs. Does anyone have a greyhound that is registered with the CGC?
Also, because they are full bred, can I register her with the AKC. The websites of the places we are looking at don’t mention anything about the dogs being registered or coming with papers. They are retired racers, so it is rescue, but I would still like to register her if possible.
And lastly! I keep saying “her”, but we really don’t know yet. I am pretty sure that I want a female, but I am more concerned with a good dog. So, males v. females? Pros and cons… Any suggestions?
Thanks!

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