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About Axel. Melbourne
Long limbed, silky Axel is a sweetheart who just wants to be loved. Axel’s foster carers describe him as a ‘loveable ball of chaos’ with a ‘complete lack of spatial awareness’. Now if that doesn’t sum up a greyhound, we don’t know what does!
He arrived in foster care an extremely timid boy who was scared of the world. With time and patience, he has slowly come out of his shell and is shining as a happy-go-lucky, affectionate boy who loves food… and loves to sleep even more. He’s still a bit nervous around men and can get anxious at times, but he has progressed wonderfully during his time in foster care. We have no doubt he will continue to make excellent strides with his new owners.
Axel is the perfect combination of energetic and playful. In typical greyhound style he will be zooming around the yard one minute and then will enter a four-hour snooze-a-thon the next. He’s known to sit as close as possible to humans and demand pats. If you stop, he will be sure to remind you of your job. A good belly rub never goes astray either as he is often found lying upside down on his mat, waiting patiently for someone to love him.
Axel might like to live with a dog brother/sister as he seems to be more confident around other dogs. That being said, if he finds the right owners who can help him continue to build his confidence, we suspect he will be fine as an only dog. Axel has loads of love to share and hopes he will meet his new family very soon!
No cat or small dog applications please.
To find out more, please complete our online adoption enquiry form:
http://gumtreegreys.com.au/adoption_enquiry/
Adoption details
Dogs are pack animals and Greyhounds, in particular, are very familiar with being surrounded by other dogs in their racing kennel environment. For this reason, when left alone without people or other dogs for company, they can be prone to separation anxiety which can manifest in destructive and/or noisy behaviour. Yes, they may "grow out" of it after a few weeks in their new home, but why put the dog through that stress to ultimately live all day alone, while everyone is at work? As a result we do not rehome dogs into households where they are left on their own for more than 4 hours per day, without either people or another dog for company.
During the COVID crisis, not all of our rescued Greyhounds will have the usual socialisation with other dogs so we may advise to use a muzzle in some situations until the dog is fully socialised.
Contact Gumtree Greys by email: gumtree.greys@gmail.com
Following your initial application, we conduct a home check. Our dogs are placed on a two week trial. The adoption fee is paid at time of placement and reimbursed if the trial is unsuccessful.
After the trial period is deemed successful, the adoption process is finalised.
This pet has been adopted and found love with its new family.
The rescue group has removed this pet and it is no longer available for adoption.
The rescue group is no longer taking adoption applications for this pet.