Top Tip – Buy, borrow or otherwise obtain the book ‘It’s me or the dog’
This was loaned to me when someone heard about Hippie and what a Godsend it was. The lady that wrote this book speaks sense and I have to say that her technique for getting an animal to sit works like a [...]
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Mornings were mayhem at the beginning, though they have calmed a little now. I have always been the first one up in our house – a nice cup of tea, sort out any pots from the night before, feed Max, have a shower and then take my daughter a cup of tea. [...]
Top tip – Watch what you are feeding your hound
Well think about it – greyhounds are not supposed to get chubby – they just wouldn’t look right. We decided to feed Hippie twice a day on a dried lamb and rice food but soaked for 10 minutes in warm water. She was having such an [...]
During this time I arranged for a new hall carpet to be fitted – I just couldn’t live with it in tatters, £180 later the men came to fit it. Hippie watched them from the cage and when they had gone I let her out, took her straight outside to relieve herself and then back [...]
Did I mention that my house is called Fairy Cottage – this is due to the large amount of fairies that are in the house and garden – I only mentioned the fact that I like them and I was given hundreds – so many that I had created a small curbed area on the [...]
Day by day she ripped up the newspaper less and became clean in the kennel so I racked my brains for something soft for her to lie down on. Then I remembered my son’s sleeping bag was rolled up in the bottom of my wardrobe. I laid it in the kennel one morning while Hippie [...]
Well – she had completely ripped up my hall carpet and underlay and rolled it back to the middle of the hall but before doing that she had dug holes in it. Other than that, nothing, except that all the doors were shut and she was nowhere to be seen. I looked in the kitchen [...]
We were right to panic – my daughter came home at lunchtime taking a friend for moral support. As she opened the door the smell hit her – Hippie had opened the door to the lounge and messed on the carpet. My daughter’s friend’s only comment was:
‘It looks and smells as if a shire horse [...]
Sunday morning and the day before we were both due to go back to work. I decided to make pastry and mince pies for the freezer. Of course Hippie jumped up but only twice and after two squirts from my water spray just lay on the floor and watched me cook, moving out of my [...]
We had read lots of articles on how to settle a new greyhound, what to expect and the dreaded ‘separation anxiety’ that some of them face.
Perhaps I should describe my home, it might make what follows a little easier to understand.
It is a two bed roomed bungalow, the front door opens into a narrow hall [...]