10 things I wish I knew before adopting a greyhound 

John Bodoni Hahahah, we’ve definitely had a few like that. 😂

If any1 thinks it Doesn't take some smarts to be able to track & catch a fast-moving prey animal (or, better, a tossed toy), at Speed, I'd say: Try to Program a Robot do it. It's Not Easy. --- To all presenters / creators of RU-vid videos, here are a few TIPS on "How to the Get Best Audio for your video": 1. Get the Microphone as Near to each speaker's Mouth as Possible The Thorium Community has a Terrific documentary Filmmaker in Canada (YT channel: Gordon McDowell ), who travels the World capturing talks, panel discussions, debates, etc. on New Nuclear Reactors (eg, Safe, Small, Green, Liquid-Fuel, MSR = Molten Salt Reactors, due ~2030). He's perfected the art of capturing Great Audio, eg, by clipping a tiny MP3+Recorder to each speaker's lapel(s). He use 1 or 2 tiny (slightly-modified = a free firmware upgrade) devices. The result is: Even in a fairly Noisy place (eg, busy restaurant, etc. if Not an extremely noisy disco), a speaker's voice is heard Way Above the Noise. Even in a Home, Office or less noisy Auditorium, getting the mics near the mouth can keep room echos & other distractions out of the soundscape of your YT video. If you don't want to "scare" would-be viewers away before you win due credit for their having been attracted to your videos, keep the mic close to speakers' mouths, so it's easy to listen & hear them. Many TED talks show the presenter wearing a head-mounted "boom mic'" Their voices are crystal-clear, & I've only seen 1 case where it was at all problematic (Cf "Letting go of God" by Julia Sweeney; also on RU-vid; view it also for its Humor) 2. Better to Speak Slowly & Be Easily Understood Compare these 2 TED talks: (faster pace) RU-vid: "Thorium: Kirk Sorensen at TEDxYYC" Enjoy Kirk's Passion; miss a bit when he "speeds-up" (slower pace) RU-vid: "Pedersen TEDxCopenhagen" Subtle Danish hints of passion; you may take more info home --- I hope this helps... :~)

Have a look at some videos of Scurlogue Champ 's races. He specialised in last to first victories. Definitely knew where the winning post was. Great viewing!

Love this video Brittany. We’re about to receive our first ex race greyhound, we’ve been doing our research so your video confirmed much of what we thought rather than opened our eyes to new info. However your love and enthusiasm shines though and made us even more excited than we already were. Thanks! Do more!

@@britbroersma can you ride these adorable dogs??!!!

And???

don’t be shy, tell us more

Jaden exactly

I’m so thrilled for you. Patience, love and consistency,

P.s I wouldn’t recommend this unless you know your greyhound very well.

My greyhound also goes off the lead. I absolutely love them! 💖 🐕

The person in this video is ignorant and pretentious. Train your dog properly, form a relationship and feel free to take your greyhound off leash. I do it a lot. Never around other dogs or in dog parks or human parks. For obvious reasons those are bad places.

Michael McCabe lurchers are awesome, we too limit off lead to a enclosed field though he is getting better off lead in more quiet areas. Husband lets him off as i cant cope with it due to a incident when he was a young dog.

I hear a lot of greyhounds do well on that food. How old is your grey?

@@GreyhoundHomecare She's a little over four now.

Hi I had 3 greyhounds. None off them could walk off leash. Do you do any training? Because my dogs see the rabbits before I see them. They have a really high hunting drive and they smell them. They also look constantly for animals when we walk. For me it seems impossible to let them off the leash. Doesn't your hound run away when he sees them? I am very interested and would love to let them off leash because they need to run otherwise mine aren't fully occupied. And there are no dog areas around.

@@leonischmid1375 yeah I did a bit of training but nothing formal. We start off going to enclosed paddocks and every time we came back when I called him a gave him a small treat. Then once I was confident ish with that i took him to enclosed footpaths or parks and did the same. Then just kept getting bigger and bigger until he now walks entirely off the lead. It's hard to spot the rabbits first, but I suppose it depends where you walk, I find large open fields good, because i have a good line of sight and can recall him for corners ect. I've had limited success recalling him if he has spotted a rabbit before me but you have to be super quick and break the trance before they run off. It takes time, but it is possible!

Even now I still give him treats upon recall and we're 2 years in 😂

@@lachlanmorrison1199 that's exactly how I did it although being inner city swap enclosed paddocks for enclosed basketball courts, then enclosed dog parks (they are tiny in london), small parks then the big parks and canal paths. Ditto with breaking the prey drive trance, can snap her out of it and get recall but needs to be done fast..that said I'm not bothered about her getting rats and squirrels, just the risk of killing a cat or chasing one into the road. No cats in big parks, so that just leaves the risk of the odd encounter with a canal boat cat. Funny story I came across a group of boaters by the canal under a tree where one of their kittens had climbed up 20 feet and was stuck on a branch and couldn't get down. I tied up hound and climbed up and managed to get the kitten and was half way down when it ran down the rest of the tree and jumped straight towards the dog. Dog lunged at the kitten and missed it by about a foot thankfully. Could have been a very different story...Man throws kitten from tree to feed dog!

Cyndi D not everyone is that easy! I’ve had fosters that pooped in the house for weeks, even with frequent potty trips, I’ve had cat safe fosters take chunks out of my kitties nose, I’ve had separation anxiety with 2+ greys in the house at the same time. I’ve had the exact opposite of all of this too!! It all matters on the dog, each is their own special case. :)

in australia it's illegal

You also said you live in the city, so that's probably for the best. I've heard many stories of them getting spooked by something and getting hit in traffic.

I totally agree with you. I had 3 greyhounds. None of them could walk off leash. They like to hunt so badly. I let them run in my garden. With one of them it was possible to let him off leash for a bit in areas which are animal low but he had a very low hunting drive. Of course you can work with them but one time my dog jumped off my balcony which is 2m high just because he saw a cat. Luckily he had no injuries at all but it is very dangerous to let them off leach. Of course some might have no hunting drive. But I am really surprised when I see a greyhound off leash because I just can't imagine that with mine. If anybody has some recommendations I am very interested :)

What about dog parks? I live in an apartment with a dog park right next to it so I was just wondering. I am looking to adopt soon and this is one of my last things

James I am not hating but greyhounds from my experience greyhounds could get spooked but they are fast enough to fun out of the way No hate plz

Please don't do more videos. She is ignorant and brainwashed. Contracts? Are you kidding? That is insane.

I actually adopted a Greyhound sometime after I watched this video, and everything she says is legit and exactly what the greyhound adoption groups say. I also had to sign a contract with the adoption group saying I will follow certain rules such as no off leash, and that I will only return my dog to them if I ever had to re-home her for any reason.

Thank you for this information, that makes a lot of sense. My partner and I are adopting an ex racing hound in a few weeks, and my partner did think the bin might be an issue 😂

Again, just what I learned! :)

It's the law in lots of places, plus they have a strong prey drive and if a small animal they don't know runs away from them, there's a chance they will take off after it, so better safe than sorry. It's not to stop them biting people or anything like that, they're not aggressive at all.

In Australia, we have a program called Greenhounds. It retrains Greyhounds to limit their prey drive and legally allows them go roam around muzzle-free when in an off-leash area.

It must be fun to have three, like a mini-pack :)

Yeah it is

They do I used to let my dog of on the football pitch but then he had an injury and then had to stop running. Also I live in the UK so it's allowed

smelly flak _ that’s so wonderful to hear!!!! Keep me updated :)

Good Cheap Fun thin skin + big teeth + playing = accidents!

Brittany Broersma thank you!

I know more people with different sighthounds and all have dogs that come when they yell. They were not previous race dogs though. They had them since puppies and i think that could be a factor. But wow 5. Ur so lucky! 😍

@@Thatdesertwife all x racing dogs from 2 threw to 5 English ones and Irish along with My 2 lurchers and a terrier

@@davidwinter2959 thats just amazing 😍 i have a lurcher aswell whos very driven by hunting and he blocks out everything whenever he is running for whatever he wants, but i have both a cat and 8 chicks walking around with him with no issue.

@@Thatdesertwife I've got off grid and loving life no telly just a tablet and my partner and dogs once we are sorted we plan to rescue more

@@electricfishfan ide send a video but don't know how to them all running on the beach

Are they ex racing greyhounds

@@georgebozguinness One of them is.

It really does help we buy it at a store and we shrink wrap it and helps so much with there teeth

You should make your own videos then if you are so experienced

A cat must be a problem? Can you train it out?

Absolutely we have, but it’s not something that is insanely common here and very expensive. I don’t worry about leash walking because it’s not really that big of a continence. We simply muzzle them together when they are off leash in a large area to make sure to prevent injuries (nothing crazy, just scrapes and bumps they may get while playing. Expensive is a loose term, but it’s not like the food is cheap, and that’s something people to know!! I do know what they’re fed, trust me. I appreciate your input, and I fully understand having a ways to go; we all do in things we are interested and passionate about!! But I think that belittling someone who you don’t know on the internet because of a video they are equally passionate about is a little silly. You obviously are here because you were looking to learn more too. And I hope you got that :)

I keep mine muzzled in public in case a small dog that is not leashed comes up to him. My dog is friendly to humans but can't be trusted with a small dog.

So, did you end up getting a greyhound? :)

@@GreyhoundHomecare not yet I need to move out if my sharehouse and into my own house then it's at least the first thing I do as soon as I get the keys 😁😁😁🙏

please dont listen, this is not true at all

It was hilarious to read this without the punctuation mark on sons'.

My greys have always done beautifully on BilJac. For a cheaper food, but good quality, a lot of greys do well on Kirkland from Costco.

We love Costco food!! Since this video we have switched from grain free though :)

You’re a better person than I!! :) you have some lucky dogs!!

Cee-bee * I’m sorry i totally misspoke, we absolutely let them off in the dog park!! We also have a good backyard for them now too :) I just meant off leash while on a walk or in open space without fencing!

Brittany Broersma bless you darlin I totally knew if I just raised that you would want to immediately explain further on that matter and perhaps even mention it in a future vid, thank you for your lovely vids I truly enjoy them, x x

@@attheranch873 I live in the US and my Greyhound is off leash and not muzzled in enclosed dog parks, muzzle isn't required by law

In the UK we can have them off lead an no muzzle. But I would never trust my boy😂

Yes, off leash in a dog park. While the males can be large,, they are gentle. Might want to keep them away from the big, stupid and aggressive dogs and owners at the dog park.

They are masters of draping over furniture. Sometimes you think their positions must be uncomfortable, but they choose them

Plastic basket muzzle: it allows you to “mould” it and adapt it to their particular shaped “noses” avoiding friction injuries in the upper part and the lower part of their mouth because it doesn’t touch it at all. A soft muzzle goes around the mouth of the dog and that would easily burn the skin of a greyhound, that is particularly thin and sensitive. Summing it all up: my guess is that she meant that if you seem appropriate for your greyhound to wear a muzzle when being out for a walk, because of their soft skin the basket muzzle would allow them to move their mouth freely without harming themselves and, the one that shows made of plastic is even better to them and softer to their skin

I think it matters on the dog!! Lots of places will small animal train before you adopt, our boy is a little quick around small dogs but our girl could care less. We just feel more comfortable keeping a bucket muzzle since they still have that natural instinct!!

Tim Mooney completely agree!!

the number of greyhounds bred if racing them stops will depend on supply and demand. there will be some people who carry it on not as many as now. the italian greyhound is much smaller than these so it is likely those will continue the way they are now.

The breed existed long before they were raced and will live on long after racing is gone, Greyhounds are mentioned in the bible (Proverbs 30:29-31, King James Version) SO all this rubbish about without racing there would be no greys is just that rubbish.

They will be properly bred & shown like any AKC dog. Of course, breeders differ in quality.

They won't disappear but obviously there'll be a lot less of them. Dog racing in Australia is not going to close down any time soon.

Good question. They are breed to retain the healthy qualities both in nature and body. Racing industry demands it. Hence the greyhound is currently preserved. But there are many examples of breeding for show or pets that have lead to poor nature's, spread of genetic conditions (hip dysplasia for example,) brought on by unregulated breeding . German shepherds, border Collies, kelpies are just three examples. Racing has proved to be able to humanely be managed. Look at Sth Australia, Greyhound Racing for yourselves. It doesn't need to be destructive or inhumane. Perhaps knee jerk reactions should be reconsidered in a calmer light

Stacy Jason don't bet on it. We've had one since a puppy and guess what he's nine years old and he still a puppy. We call them land sharks when they're that young they'll chew every corner off of every table and chair. We have had eight over many years ,six are ashes on my mantle piece and I still have two with us.