Adoption information
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About Scratch
Scratch loves his walks. He gets a morning and evening walk and enjoys some play time with his toys. Otherwise he is happy to snooze the day away. He gets lots of attention on his walks, being a strikingly beautiful brindle with stripes like a tiger. His ears are very expressive, often making a love heart shape when alert.
Scratch is toilet trained and a fast learner. He can zoom up and down stairs and learned some simple commands. He is eager to please his humans. At home, he loves his family time, snuggling with you on the couch for some binge viewing.
On his walks Scratch loves to meet other dogs. His tail will wag in excited anticipation. He doesn’t care about the size or breed, it a new best friend to meet.
Scratch is an only dog in his foster home and has been OK home alone for a few hours. He has also spent a few days in a home with another dog and they got along very well.
Scratch is an easy affectionate boy who could snuggle into any loving home with ease.
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/
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.
