Getting a good night's sleep with a new greyhound 

I found putting a few teddy bears next to Nina's bed helped her settle and gave her some comfort. She sleeps like a log now. 😊

Had a rescue greyhound since November 2023. Have not had one bad night because of her. She sleeps on her own bed in our bedroom and gets up when one of us does.

Your videos are the best part of Mondays.

My retired Greyhound Rocket has been with us 5 months now, but he will not come up the stairs. Not even on the lead. So, he has his bed below the stairs in the living room and he's very happy there, day and night. I did sleep downstairs for a week or so at first with him. We've had the patio doors in the living room open all summer, and he often Gets up for a wonder around. He's walked at 8am, and 7pm. He loves pasta, steak, sweetcorn, mince meat, and is also good with high protein biscuits, with a good dog meat. He's just turned 5. 😊

My lad sleeps downstairs - several reasons. He's got bad sleep startle and will always insist on trying to get on the bed with me - also, I live alone and as he (and I) grow older, there's no way I'd manage to carry him up and down stairs each day if he gets infirm. Lastly, I have blonde carpet thru the whole of the upstairs area and I'd like it to stay "blonde". :-) I slept on the sofa with him for the first couple of nights - as I was toilet-training him every couple of hours anyway - so was easier to be downstairs for this reason. I put a nightlight on in the room, and Radio4 on low all night. I left him with a few items of my clothing to smell. On night three, after settling him, I crept off upstairs - and he's been on his own downstairs ever since. He will only "do" stairs with a harness and lead on - as being practical, he had to learn for when we were staying in hotels etc. but he doesn't attempt them on his own. I've got two staircases in my house - and he's not tried either of them in 6+ years I've had him. Staying at other peoples' houses is also good - as most people really don't want your dog in their spare bedroom.

Great video...I have found over the past years that if you have a bed in the main living area AND a bed in your bedroom, that helps them know where to be at different times of the day. Let the dog know bedtime is with you and that bed in the bedroom. The other bed is for other times.

I much appreciate your kindness - even when faced with broken nights. Greys rock. I might get one when I will be ready for another dog (after a long period of recovery and learning to function on 2 legs again).

It all started so well with our whippet pup going in his crate having a routine, now our delightful dog has taken to sleeping under the duvet jammed between my knees, love him.

Hi Jill, I loved the funny captions from the dogs! 😂

so reassuring, kind and helpful, thank-you

Very nice tutorial videos. Thank you very much for putting these out there.

very helpfull jill,thanks

My lad would constantly whine, and I found for us, the solution is more to do with preperation and enviroment. A big free run once every three days, or a play for around 40 minutes with a friend at a safe location would make him feel very comfortable, and engaging his prey drive in these activities is very much part of the process. We also have a tent in our bedroom, which we have made his sanctuary. These to combined ensures he has a solid sleep and doesn't really disturb us throughout the night.

Nice explanation. Thank you

Great information about greyhounds. Thanks

I put my Greyhounds bed in my room with me, within a week he edged his bed closer until mine until he now shares the bed with me and keeps my legs warm 😂

Glad you said about a stair gate our 11 year old lurcher sleeps in our bedroom when we got our greyhound 6 months ago we put a stair gate at the door and her bed just outside the door this has worked wonderfully and now even sleeps downstairs sometimes.

Thank you our 2 are early risers at the moment. We've got a lot of noisy birds around us, I think they wake them up. Never mind because as it's so warm(no hot) at the moment we can all nap in the afternoon. Thank you for the ideas though. Very useful. 😊💐

Holy cow that face in the bushes got me 😂

And here I thought this was about how to get your greyhound to share space on the bed with you! (Penelope, our iggy mix, tends to sprawl across most of the bed and leave very little space for my wife and I)

Sage like recommendations matching our experiences. Yes 4 am is our summer wake up. Hard to keep them down to 6 am.

I will be getting a greyhound soon. I know other people that have beds downstairs and up in the bedroom. I'd want that for mine.

Also, I alarm-clock trained my boy - as he used to wake me up at 5.00-5.30am every day. I don't mind getting up early but that was too early!! I used my alarm on my mobile phone to train him. It took about 2 months to edge the alarm to 7.00-7.30am - where previously he was waking and whining for me from 5am onwards.. If you want to know how I achieved it then just ask!

I was told to put him in a crate. The first night was ok but the second night he wasn't having any of it!

Living in a sub-tropical climate, it is ok for a greyhound to sleep outside in the crate under a covered patio with access to water and the garden? He will be outdoors while I'm away at work but with me in the house when I come home. The idea is he then goes back out at night.

How have your greyhounds been sleeping in all this hot weather my boy Been struggling with the heat at night i got a fan on all night and window open.

I have an office in a seperate building to the house, I was expecting to have the Greyhound with me there during the day. There are couches and bean bags the dog could 'rest' on during the day but wouldn't be their bed. Is this likely to be a problem?

When I got my whippet pup, it took just 3 nights to realize... him sleeping anywhere but on top of me, was never going to happen. So that was that. lol

In the bed with me I am hanging on the edge lol the dog has the rest of the bed

So, how did they ever get to sleep before they entered your house?

My greyhound says baby gate what baby gate it’s just hop over for him his a tall lad lol. I keep my bedroom door shut. If he wants anything he just rattles the baby gate lol. But he sleeps til about 6:30

Do you find they have accidents in their crates in the beginning

Our dogs are required to sleep in the bedroom. It’s the pack den. We are the Alpha male and female and they have to stay with us, and their pack mates. That’s the natural condition, the pack structure. And very clearly exactly what they need and want.

I'm gonna get a greyhound soon. Good thing my sleep has been a mess for 5 years since I sleep randomly at night or during the day as my job allows me to sleep whenever I want as long as I finish my tasks. So none of these initial sleeping issues will affect me lol