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About Kiki
Kiki is a walking contradiction. Just when you think you’ve got her pinned down, she’ll do something to surprise you and make you question whether you truly know her!
She’s dainty as a fairy and incredibly agile. Her acute sense of spatial awareness puts a spring in her step and only adds to her gracefulness. However, when it’s food time, her delicate manner goes completely out the window. Kiki is an incredibly messy eater. She’s got a bizarre way of chewing her kibble, storing it the side of her cheeks while she goes in for another mouthful. This result in a kitchen floor that is nicely decorated with dog food. It makes her happy though and she’ll convince you it’s the new trend in interior design. She’s growing to really enjoy her food in foster care. In between meals she will bring her food bowl to her bed, just to ensure she never misses out on food time!
Kiki takes some convincing to go on walks, but around the house she’s got a load of energy. She particularly loves the stairs – which is unique for a greyhound. She’ll entertain herself running up and down them, doing zoomies down the bottom. Once she gets going Kiki does enjoy walking. She can be a bit stubborn on the lead and gets a bit anxious around trams and trucks though.
Kiki would be happy as an only dog and is quite comfortable being left on her own for short periods of time. She appears to get along well with most other dogs.
No cat or small dog applications please.
No full time workers unless working from home post COVID19
No children under six
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.