Rebanne

Cream is not listed as a colour option on the Greyhound database. I've seen some very, very pale fawns. As has been said before what colour a dog is registered as may be different to what they actually are.

Oh wow! I didn't know what country those dogs were in. Do you know if this colour is passed down through certain lines? Was it just one puppy in the litter or several with this colour? My understanding is it comes from Irish lines.

Oh wow! They look like little snowstorms! I love the snow flake colour

do judges mouth bulldogs? I'd wait until he is relaxed, maybe a bit sleepy and rub his ears gently. Then expand a bit further down his face. Use treats. Do you have to clean his face folds? That could make him a bit touchy. And ring your breeder and ask them what they recommend. :) I've got greyhounds so very easy to very quickly raise their lips, let go and treat.

Agree with this. First with the GSD's and now with the Greyhounds.

considering that there is usually only one bitch in a pack allowed to reproduce I guess without 24/7 supervision you wouldn't be able to use both for breeding, so this is IMO a very unique scenario. For sure you have a lot of experience with your dogs, nerveless I doubt that the dogs' knowledge about your expectations would prevent them from fighting to sort out the rank if left for some time without supervision. we are talking about dogs not wolves or other wild animals. And often in the wild the underlings do manage to breed; they might get killed for their efforts but they do breed. As for the rest well it's just dribble

I'd amputate as well. Happy tail can be very hard to fix

Thanks for showing this pic Maddy, because it saved me embarassing myself by saying I had never seen a dun in a showbred greyhound. eta and he threw several dun offspring.

Really? No comformation breeder I know breeds for colour. That's the last thing on their mind. *cough* Blue staffords, etc *cough* (Wasn't refering to show greyhound breeders there, if that's what you thought- just show breeders generally. And some do breed for colour) yes that is what I thought as it came straight after a sentence with racing greyhounds in it. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

Really? No comformation breeder I know breeds for colour. That's the last thing on their mind.

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Only issue I ever had was with one dog who I got when she was about 4. After the 3rd trip to the vet with one of my other girls the newest one was returned. The returned dog went on the have a great life as an only dog. Otherwise only minor scuffles and an Oi! stops them in their tracks

Just for interests sake I looked in the greyhound data base which has 2,088,136 greyhound pedigrees from all over the world, both race and show bred, and the colour fallow is not one of 60 colour combinations they have to choose from. Several types of dun as in dun, white and dun, etc. Then using sarsparilla's colour page found fallow, which actually looks quite like dun to me. http://colornames.facts.co/fallowcolorcode/fallowcolor.php

Fern is a red, same red as an Irish Setter. Kdf's dog I would have registered as a fawn which can also be called red. There are several different descriptions for fawn/red that are allowable, including a blue fawn. There are fawns, red fawns, reds, blue fawns, fallow ( I have never seen one registered as fallow ). Offically within the ANKC greyhounds colours are COLOUR - Black, white, red, blue, fawn, fallow, brindle or any of these colours broken with white. Lots of breeds call the same colour a different name.

Agree with this. The dictionary definition of dun is a greyish brown. That greyhound in the first photo is not greyish brown. Maybe greyhound people need to rethink their colour descriptors. :) Why? We are not talking about horses. Greyhounds have been around for thousands of years along with the colour dun.

We are not talking horses. In greyhounds this colour is called Dun. In labs it's called chocolate. In GSP's it's called liver.

I have a red greyhound. Totally different colour to dun.

Pretty sure I met this one a few years ago at a dog show. Either that or it was her twin

You really need to take the dog to the vet and tell them he is barely eating. The vet will examine the dog and take it from there and advise you.

Chamios cool coats are the only ones I use on my greyhounds

...Just wondering what the relevance of your neighbojr's choice of future dog breed my choice of school / pre-school / Kindergarten is to...well, anything really you were the one that said we all had to be careful what we wrote in case a child reads it, in fact you said what if the girl who was bitten ( a 5 yo ) was reading this.

One thing about lure coursing is that it is new in Australia and so we don't have an existing population of dogs that have been bred and raised and trained to lure course. That hit greyhounds particularly hard this year, as they are built for power and speed and are trained to run in ways that meant that lure coursing was a real shock to their system. Having observed the last year my advice to anyone wanting to course greyhounds would be to train the dog up from a puppy and not to use dogs previously trained to race - whether rescue or otherwise. Having said that, all the other sighthound breeds managed without any major drama. Showbred greys were coursed and injured as well. It's not for me or my dogs. Each to their own.

I thought it was very important and couldn't wait for lure coursing to start up. But with the number of injuries that have occurred, which included a broken leg, well I'm not prepared to risk my dogs for the sake of my ego. And these were very fit dogs. Fitter then I would be able to get mine.

so is your dog in an escape proof yard? Concrete flooring so it can't dig and a roof over head so it can't climb, with a padlock on the gate. Cause that's the only way to fully prevent things like this happening. I had to tell my neighbour not to let his grandkid feed my dogs goodoh's through the once inch gap in the fence. Cause if the kid got a fright and ripped her fingers back nothing surer my dogs would get the blame. GSD's at the time. I didn't fix the fence, my dogs couldn't get anything more then a whisker through. Kid stopped feeding the dogs

...in this source from another angle; I don't call this a sound fence to contain powerful dogs, however, I don't know how it looks from the inside. If there is nothing that would hinder the dogs from digging their way through it is definitely not suitable. so your dog is contained in an escape proof yard? Yes, please show us the fort knoxs you have created to keep your dog 100% safe from everything that could possibly happen. firstly: I don't own such powerful dogs! secondly: despite owning 'only' a BC, I took this tragic accident as a sad reminder to inspect my fence as one side is adjacent to a family with a toddler. This afternoon I will have a chat with the neighbour and we will inspect the fence from his site to discuss any potential safety issues. nothing stopping a BC from ripping off a kids arm.