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About Duncan
Duncan is like a gangly teenager who is still growing into his body. We think he missed the memo about greyhounds being graceful as he is awkward and clumsy as anything. You’ll laugh a lot when Duncan is around. He regularly bangs his head on things, prefers to lie down by dramatically collapsing in a great heap on the floor and shakes his body so hard that all four legs come off the floor!
Duncan’s sleek and handsome appearance contrasts his clumsy nature. With jet-black fur and a soft white chest, Duncan looks permanently dressed to the nines in a James Bond style tuxedo. His nowhere near as cool as 007 though. He’s smoochy, cuddly and has no issues embarrassing himself on a daily basis.
He’s also much lazier than the famous spy. Duncan’s perfect day involves a couple of small walks followed by sleep, sleep, sleep, food… and more sleep! He fits the brief of ‘lazy greyhound’ perfectly. He’s like a big cat, sometimes he can’t even be bothered to lift his head off the ground to see when someone’s arrived at the front door!
Not much bothers Duncan, but he is very wary around noisy children. They frighten him and he will often walk the other way when he sees a group of them together. He will likely grow out of this but he would be better living in an adult household. He also has a bit of bed guarding, so some ongoing training will be required to help him learn to share his bed space
No cat or small dog applications please.
No Children under 12
No full time workers unless working from home post COVID19
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.
