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About Lyla. Melbourne
Lyla is a stunning black beauty, with a glossy coat and a pretty pointy little face, accentuated by her cute little teefy overbite. She has the most divine personality, is very cuddly and loves being near her human.
Initially, Lyla can be very shy when she first meets someone, but it didn’t take her long to settle into her foster home. She spends most of the day lazing around until its walk time and is quite happy to be left alone for a few hours. If her humans are around, Lyla is likely to come and rest her head on their lap and request a chin scratch whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Lyla broke her hock racing and, whilst this was operated on, it did not heal correctly. It doesn’t bother her too much, but it does mean she will skip a bit when out on a walk. Her future humans may need to be aware of potential arthritis later in life.
Lyla is calm and gentle with older children. She is calm with other greyhounds, but is not suited to a home with small dog/s.
Lyla is not cat friendly.
To find out more, please complete our online adoption enquiry form:
http://gumtreegreys.com.au/adoption_enquiry/
Medical notes
Lyla had a broken hock from racing that has not heeled as well as hoped. There is potential for arthritis later in life.
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.