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Greyhound attacks

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doingwhatican · 02/12/2020 14:08

At the risk of starting a Mumsnet war, have others had experiences of greyhounds attacking their dog? Our last dog, a poodle, was attacked 3 times over a few years, always by a greyhound. She was absolutely fine with other dogs and was very submissive. They’d come chasing across the park and just go for her. And yesterday I ran into a beagle pup owner whose dog had been attacked by a greyhound. Similar situation with the dog running at the puppy from afar. The puppy ended up with a puncture wound.
It’s d not something I have seen any articles about. Is it the chase instinct?

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vanillandhoney · 04/12/2020 15:18

My beagle loves bitey face too! He plays it with SIL's husky and a little cairn terrier I walk - the three of them together are a very odd group but they love it and nobody ever gets injured. Tires them all out nicely as well!

Stellaris22 · 04/12/2020 16:19

That's why I love the play too, it's very physical so means mine gets some very good exercise and tired out.

midnightstar66 · 05/12/2020 05:37

To be fair, as a basset owner you are never going to have to worry about a sight hound mistaking them for a small prey animal and shaking their 25 kilos of deadweight in their jaws. 😆My feisty little terrier will stand up to Rottweilers but has a cautious respect of our 14 year old family Basset.

FixItUpChappie · 05/12/2020 06:18

Our ex racer is always on a lead . She is sweet and loving with humans but I don't trust her at all around little dogs. She was born and bred to chase.

Stellaris22 · 05/12/2020 11:59

That's true! A basset is a chunky thing and not exactly small. Ours insists we n playing with every dog she meets so sight hounds are just extra fun in her opinion.

RuthW · 05/12/2020 12:04

I have three greyhound. All are gentle loving creatures with adults, children and big dogs.

Unfortunately they can not tell the difference between an electric hare, a small dog, rabbits, squirrels, cats etc as they were trained to chase small furry things.

That is why mine are muzzled in public as you never know where an off lead dog will be.

RuthW · 05/12/2020 12:08

Those asking about toilet training. I have had 4 greyhounds and I think all of them have had just one accident in the house and were all fully toilet trained when we got them.

Definitelyrandom · 05/12/2020 12:51

By all accounts they like to keep their kennels clean and get used to going out at regular times so it’s often very easy to toilet train them. Ours got it straight away.

GreyishDays · 05/12/2020 14:43

@Definitelyrandom

By all accounts they like to keep their kennels clean and get used to going out at regular times so it’s often very easy to toilet train them. Ours got it straight away.

Ours did too.

LJC1234 · 05/12/2020 20:59

Sorry to ask a question on this post but to all the Greyhound owners. Have any of you ever successfully had a small dog live with a greyhound

Our in laws have just rescued a large greyhound having had our very small terrier for doggy sleepovers throughout the summer. They have asked again if we would still let them have tiny terrier some weekends as they adore him but I'm wary of the greyhound! He's shown no issues so far on walks together but tiny terrier has small man syndrome so has made himself known to greyhound and when in the house tries to tell him off so just not sure having them in the same house is a good idea ..

cheesecrack · 05/12/2020 23:51

Yes we do! We have 2 greys with our rescue female beagle. Careful introductions and lots of respect and it works well.

Howdidthathappen1 · 08/12/2020 07:53

I'm just piping up after a horrible incident with my grey x this weekend. She has very strong prey drive - killed my neighbours cat and a fox in my garden so is always on lead and muzzled when out.
This weekend a very fiesty out of control jrt came haring up to us and was jumping all around. In the carnage that followed it got its claw ripped out on my dogs muzzle so blood everywhere!
The owners want me to pay the vets bill as obviously mines the vicious dangerous dog and I'm refusing. This was at 5.30am so no other witnesses. Word has spread in the dog field community and mine is now vilified whereas she usually ignores everyone (with the exception of a lunge at black labs)
This is just on a background of 2 greys who walk in the same field off lead who have been known to attack other dogs.
This to me was one of those things - both dogs are obviously idiots with their issues but at least I was trying to be responsible and take precautions

cheesecrack · 08/12/2020 08:35

Blimey @Howdidthathappen1 I can't totally imagine that happening. What a nightmare.

I think your dog was in control though? On lead and muzzled? JRT approached you and came into your space?

Stellaris22 · 08/12/2020 10:37

That's awful. On lead and muzzled dog v out of control and off lead dog, definitely not your fault.

If I see a muzzled dog my response is: that's a responsible owner.

Howdidthathappen1 · 08/12/2020 11:14

Yes it was horrific. My dog is the epitome of one only its owner could love but to be demonised for a fight she was never going to win as she was muzzled and on lead has been awful. This jrt looked as though it was charging up to play but then reacted at mine snarling at it by coming in for a fight and I could see its foot caught on the basket muzzle and it was being being dragged around. Cue lots of shouting and screaming from the jrt's owner when she caught up.

Not something I want to go through again but there was no way I can see i could have avoided it.

Hoppinggreen · 08/12/2020 11:24

Totally not your fault

Pugdogmom · 08/12/2020 13:16

I have had several lurchers as well as my pug. One of my lurchers could never have tolerated small dogs ( but she came from an abused background where dogs were set on her), so always leaded and muzzled.We didn't have the pug then.Lost one last week sadly, and still have another, but both of them were absolutely fine with small dogs. The pug is an honorary lurcher and plays " bitey face "
My dogs get a run off lead,but they ignore dogs but they have excellent recall and we only run them late at night or early morning. We put them on leads the minute another dog appears because its other people's perception rather than they would harm another dog. They were brought up with cats too so no issue there. It really depends on the dog, as no two dogs are the same.

PencilFace · 08/12/2020 16:35

I don't have a greyhound but I have a whippet with an exceptionally strong prey drive, he doesn't go off lead in public as I worry about small fluffy dogs. Around here about a year ago an off lead greyhound attacked and killed a little Jack Russel. I think people get too hung up on letting their dogs off the lead, of course it's nice for a dog to have a run but I don't believe its essential for their well being to be off lead every day. We use a secure paddock which you can rent to let my whippet have a run .

Pikachubaby · 08/12/2020 16:45

@Lurchermom yes, my lurcher plays like this. She runs after dogs (if they invite play, they do like a play bow thing, and then off they go!) especially spaniels, she runs after them and play-bites their bottoms, then the spaniel comes back for more.

It’s never random, there is always a lot of sniffing and bowing before it starts.

My girl is on the lead in busy parks, apart from some spaniel/golden owners who allow her to play with their dogs

Some people think my dog is scary though, so on the lead she goes...

Lurchermom · 08/12/2020 16:52

@LJC1234

Sorry to ask a question on this post but to all the Greyhound owners. Have any of you ever successfully had a small dog live with a greyhound

We don't live with a small dog but my IL have a small sheltie (so small, fluffy and runs fast) and my girl is fine with her. She played rough at the start so we had to be firm with her, introduced slowly and even now after 2 years I wouldn't leave them alone in the room together if we were out (happy to pop to the loo etc, but sheltie is food obsessed and would turn on our lurcher if she went near food and I don't know how lurcher would react to angry sheltie). They've just got a new sheltie puppy so got that to look forward to post covid (MIL is vulnerable).

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