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About Salty
Salty is an affectionate and playful boy. He has an off and on switch. One minute full of energy and then moments later snoozing contently. He does have a lot of energy for play, often amusing himself in the yard with his toys and entertaining you with spinning and zoomies. He loves shredding paper and thinks the best thing about Uber Eats is destroying the bag it comes in.
Salty loves his walks and is very good on lead. His two walks help expend some of that energy but he doesn’t enjoy lots or traffic or loud noises. On his walks he loves meeting people and will try to get pats from everyone. He is happy to meet polite dogs of all shapes and sizes. He has a fabulous time in cafes, on greyhound group walks and visiting the Gumtree Greys markets stalls.
At home Salty learnt all the rules pretty quickly. He knows the couch and human bed are out of bounds. He sleeps happily through the night on his own bed in the living room. He will wait patiently for you to get up in the morning but may need to let you know if he needs to go out for a pee.
Salty has been happy home alone for up to 4 hours and has been well behaved and relaxed, snoozing until you come back.
Salty is a handsome boy with his black coat and white chest. He is always bright eyed and curiously has black whiskers on one side of his snoot and white on the other. Salt and pepper maybe.
Salty will need a home with a yard for his zoomies. He would happily be an only dog or have a suitable canine companion. He is a bit boisterous in play so may not suit all dogs.
Salty loves getting neck or belly rubs and will lean in for cuddles. You won’t find a more affectionate boy.
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 Gumtree Greys online application.
When this is done we can make contact to discuss adopting a greyhound and potential suitable greys currently in foster care.
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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.