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About Red
Red, reddy, Redmond is a gorgeous looking man with the personality to boot. With his beautiful red fawn colour and faint brindle markings he is a remarkable looking fella. Not only is he irresistibly handsome he has a darling calm personality to boot. Don’t be fooled by this calmness as once he gets hold of a toy, it is full throttle time for about ten minutes. Toys are his favourite thing in the world and he will need a good rotating stash to keep him entertained.
Red spends 70% of his resting time upside down with legs flailing about and tongue derping out. He is a master roacher and is fond of a Freddie Mercury pose or two. He can get a little startled by loud noises out on his walks and will often look back to his favourite human for reassurance. He can be a little shy meeting a group of people and he finds noisy children a bit too overwhelming. Slow introductions are preferred. He enjoys meeting new dog friends but again will need slow polite introductions. He would be happy as a solo dog or with a suitable dog buddy. He has settled into home life beautifully and is sure to be a show stopper.
No cats or small dogs
No full time workers unless some working from home
No children under six
We only consider applicants who completed our own Gumtree Greys application:
https://www.gumtreegreys.com.au/adopt/
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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.