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About Buoy
Our darling long Buoy is casting his net out to look for a forever home! Buoy is a gorgeous, goofy brindle beauty with a black snoot and an overbite. Our gentle giant is playful, loveable and a bit of a smooch too.
Buoy is a shadow-snoot and you’ll often find him right under your feet, especially if you’re doing something that he’s decided he must be involved in. Like most greyhounds, Buoy thrives on a water-tight routine – he enjoys a solid schedule of sleep, walkies, meals and snacks.
When people visit, Buoy is certain that they’ve come to visit him and he’s sure to lap up any love and a scritch or two. Buoy is a social butterfly when it comes to humans, so much so that when he’s out on his walk, he’ll often get excited when he spots a human who most definitely needs to pat him.
Walks are the bee’s knees for Buoy, who will do happy hops and sometimes a cheeky jump when the lead comes out. He enjoys a twice daily stretch of the legs for 30-45 minutes. He’s still working on his confidence with loud street noises and other animals, but his greyhound foster sister has helped enormously to provide a wellbeing buffer for their daily sniffari’s.
During his time as a Gumtree Greys foster, his confidence has doubled, but he’ll still require an owner who can be his cheerleader and guide him through gentle, calm, and positive introductions with other animals and busy environments.
Buoy enjoys short burst zoomies, so a yard would be ideal. When he’s not zooming, he’ll happily flop down for a long nap. He enjoys napping wherever you are! Buoy’s dream home looks like this: humans who are home more often than not and a resident large dog companion to show him the ropes.
Our good Buoy is a real catch and he can’t wait to meet you!
No cat or small dog applications please.
No children under six.
No full time workers unless working from home post COVID19 unless there is another dog
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.