Adoption information
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About Billy
Billy just wants to please his people. He is a dapper looking boy with plush black coat and cute white feet. He is super affectionate and doesnt get personal space. You may find a snout nuzzling your crotch when he decides you need to concentrate on providing an ear tickle and some bum scritches.
Billy loves his walks and providing he gets a satifying morning walk will snooze the day away. He is perfectly toilet trained and will sleep through the night. Billy isnt too needy and happy to entertain himself. He is very respectful of his foster sister but not too needy of her company. He would be fine as an only dog or with a suitable medium or large dog companion.
Billy loves a zoomie in the yard but is quite clumsy so needs a safe environment to exercise. He is a massive sook so any knock or scratch will result in a dramatic scene only resolved with a cuddle of intensive care. All better now.
A very entertaining boy, Billy will sing to you if you start the chorus of rooing.
Perfect in the home, Billy will still need a confident owner who is happy and patient to work with him on his walks. He is not yet comfortable meeting strange dogs on his walks. Its all too scary so he will need continued training which Gumtree Greys can help maintain.
No cat or small dog applications please.
No children under ten.
No full time workers unless working from home or 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.
