Dogs I have known - rescues - new homes and friends

[BFH44]

I love watching Whippets on the "coursing" "corseing" ? spelling wrong -- races

it is amazing to watch how graceful they are when they film them in slow motion

 

[WFD]

These were about the size of the middle ones in the picture, closer to the color of the little one.

I to this day have no idea what their boggle was. I used to put up chain link fences for about 10 years, my first real job. Fenced a lot of dogs in and a lot more dogs out.

I recall we did one for a lady that raised grey hounds, usually she'd be out running them when we arrived in the morning. She'd take 2 or 3 with long leashes out the window of her car and just drive around. I thought it was rather risky myself.

I do love dogs and I played with a few everyday. One day I tried to kiss one right on the smackers and she said that was risky, dog might bite my face off, says the lady that drives her car to run her dogs.

Might want to think on the grey hound plan gehazi, I think they did to be exercised right regulary, everyone I've seen was walked nearly constantly. Maybe something they need. I don't know much about them.

I used to take care of some retired greyhounds for a friend quite a few years ago and those dogs did not want to run at all. It was as if they were done with running - all they wanted to do was lay on the couch. Literally.

- Bill D.

 

[kronckew]

I used to take care of some retired greyhounds for a friend quite a few years ago and those dogs did not want to run at all. It was as if they were done with running - all they wanted to do was lay on the couch. Literally.

- Bill D.

some do, some take their retired status seriously mine were quite happy for a short 20-30 minute walk 3x a day, with occasional zoomies around a fenced in 40 acre pasture together they basicly slept most of the rest of the day, except for meals of course. all bets were off if there was something to chase. which could be another doggy friend or prey. there was a large oak in the centre of the pasture field. most mornings we'd go thru it there would be a squirrel leaving the tree for the next door woods. my greys ould run as fast as possible to get it, but never did. one day we were accompanied by our neighbours lurcher, sam, and another neighbor's german shepherd. my male loved chasing & being chased by sam, my female had a thing for bob, the german shepherd, who preferred his flying ring. anyway after wearing everyone out we headed home. i looked behind us to see a male fox trotting casually across the field about 50 yds. away. as i turned the dogs saw the fox. the chase was on. ducking and diving, bobbing and weaving and mostly getting in each other's way, the dogs got close, but no cigar. the fox headed for the fence and freedom, just ahead of three dogs. bob (the GS) had given up and went home with his flying ring. millie stopped at the fence, a three strand barbed wire one they normally respected. blue went thru the barbed wire fence like it wasn't there, sam ran down to a style he could get under. i and sam's mom leashed millie and went thru the horse gate in the fence. by that time sam had returned, blue had jumped a six foot deep drainage ditch about 12 ft across & was on the other side. the fox had escaped of course. we walked down to a point where blue could get across the ditch on a plank & he came back. we saw the fox a few more times, but they never caught it.

blue once chased a hare for about two miles, i reckon, along the edge of an abandoned air field, they get to the ends & turn back the other way. did that a few times till they tired & the hare did a 90 into a pea field. blue managed to get tangled in the beans & i had to cut my way to him & back. he wasn't particularly interested in catching it, he just wanted to run.he also once saw a herd of white tails near a fence and ran after them. being skinny & sort of deer shaped and coloured (if you ignore the blue stripes) they ignored him till he was about 50 ft. away, when they finally realised he was not a small deer & jumped the fence to get away. i think the last deer over lost a few tail hairs.

neither of mine every actually caught any prey mammals*. blue managed three partridges one day, as did millie, 6 total. they were fledgelings tho. mom & dad got away. the kids din't. by the time i cought up they'ed chewed them all & tried to pull out the feathers. got them to leave them for the fox. millie once flushed a pidgeon in the rough around the edge odf the field, and caught it by the wing when it was at least over my head high. i had her drop it & let it loose. she was very proud of herself.

*- millie, a day or so after she adopted me, was returning from our walk & i'd just removed her leash, blue had gone in first & retired to the couch, when the brainless cat next door jumped into my front garden. he was about 5 yds. away. millie turned and grabbed the cat. greyhound accelerate even faster than cheetahs and can reach full 45mph speed intwo strides. anyway she pinned the cat, and rubbed it's face in the grass. she dropped it on command tho & it got away unscathed. except it wore a green grass stain on it's face for a few days.

it was a suicidal cat. neighbour had another slightly less suicidal one too. it, the suicidal one, climbed in my open upstairs bathroom window one day and calmly walked down my hallway to where i could see it from my computer desk. took a few seconds for me to realize it was there, i jumped up closing the door behind me, blue and millie both on the spare bed now behind the door. chased cat down stairs, opened the front door & chased it out. dogs wondered what happened but were still on the bed when i got back upstairs. the cats loved tormenting the dogs. it's walk past my front garden fence just out of range. the dogs desperately barking at it. the fence was only a metre high, but they never jumped it. it was also just three 4" horizontal planks top, center and bottom that they could have stepped over easily. they never did. six foot breeze block wall between us and the cat's house. they were used to laying along the top eyeballing blue, who generally ignore them as long as they stayed out of the garden. they stopped lying on the wall after millie did a standing high jum and got a mouth full of cat tail.

however, mostly they slept.



the field


blue running