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About Niles
Sensitive, smoochy boy
Niles is the kind of dog who leaves a mark on everyone he meets. He’s had a tough adjustment to life after racing, but his determination to conquer his fears and live a happy life is truly inspirational. He’s a big sweetheart who proves that your past doesn’t have to define your future.
Niles is an open book. You can read every emotion on his face; happiness, fear, excitement, confusion, and joy. His expressions are almost cartoon-like and it makes him impossibly cute and very photogenic. He’s a sensitive, smoochy boy who loves affection. He likes to be as close to his humans as possible and will often bury his head into their chest for a cuddle. Niles adores his people, meeting new friends, and has managed to go on group walks with other greyhounds. He is still very fearful of other breeds and will often freeze, but his confidence is slowly growing with positive training methods. He will need a patient and confident owner to continue his training around other dogs.
Niles is the king of derps. He is very chilled out in the home, often just lying on his bed, waiting for his meals, or getting excited to go for a walk. You know he is happy when he roaches on his back, tongue lolling out the side of his mouth like the goofball he is. When he’s really excited he will treat you to a ‘zoomies’ show, running as fast as he can, legs flying at all angles. He likes to make sure he has an audience for this routine, so they can cheer him on.
He’s conquered many fears during his time in foster care, but he is a still work in progress. He is a fairly nervous boy, particularly around other dogs and little children. Niles’ new owners will need to continually work with him to help with this fear. Cheese is a great motivator.
Ideally, he would suit living as an only dog, in a quiet environment where he is away from the hustle and bustle of city/suburban life. He dreams of days spent lying in a big backyard, with nothing but a loving family and roof over his head to make him happy.
No cats, dogs, or children under 12, please.
2 walks a day.
Rural or a very quiet suburb.
No full time workers unless working from home much of the time post COVID 19.
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.
