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About Jacob
Jacob considers himself a bit of a beach babe. He loves nothing more than spending hours in the sun, lazing about working on his tan. He doesn’t even really need to be on a beach; grass, decking, even concrete, Jacob will stop at nothing to get his daily hit of vitamin D.
When he’s not sunbaking, Jacob is most likely often lying down indoors instead. Lying down is Jacob’s favourite position! In true greyhound fashion, he’s quite lazy. He loves to roach with his legs leaning up against the wall like a folded down trestle table.
His mellow nature means he is a very well-behaved boy. Apart from a few sneaky attempts to slyly knock food off the table, Jacob is a dream to live with. Jacob has a really sweet nature – towards people and other dogs alike. He’s pretty comfortable being by himself, but is happiest when others are around. He might like living with a canine companion.
He’s a big, strong boy with a silky, black coat and sweet, inquisitive eyes. His ears are often perky and alert, just in case he is missing out on something important – like dinner!!
No cat or small dog applications please.
No children under six.
No full time workers unless working from home post COVID19 unless there is another dog
We only consider applications who compete our online application.
When this is done we can make contact to discuss adopting a greyhound and potential suitable greys currently in foster care.
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.