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About Billy. Melbourne
Billy is a beautiful boy and once he is bonded with you, his love is unconditional and knows no bounds! He is a big boy, black with a white chest, white feet and a paintbrush tail. Billy loves sticking his head in the fridge to check out what’s on offer and gets particularly excited when his human gets home. He has perfected the art of simply resting his head on the bed and using his eyes to get what he wants.
Billy is the ultimate morning person, despite his restless sleep. He wakes up ready to go and just loves to go for walks. But what he loves most is his human. Since meeting his primary carer, he pines when she leaves and will hang around in her room until she comes home. Billy’s ideal home is one where he will not be left alone for long periods of time, or where he has a greyhound pal.
BIlly is still learning that other dogs are okay and may be standoffish with other breeds and can get quite alarmed when dogs are excited, jumpy or loud.
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.