Obedience Prospect?

One of the obedience problems greyhounds have is their reluctance to sit or down on hard surfaces for any length of time.
Perhaps if they start young enough or they think it is their own idea it will make it easier. Jewels found her own sleeping area away from the pack. Maybe she won't mind the long sit or down on a less than ideal surface?

Broken Tail

Greyhound injuries seem to happen when you least expect it. Lyric is not a busy dog nor hard on her body. We all have been having alot of down time from dog shows and training since Whisper has had her puppies. Well I came home one night and noticed Lyric had broken her tail. How is a mystery since she had sleeping most of the day on the couch.




At least as far as injuries go it is relatively minor. Johnson and Johnson clear tape wrapped several times over the fracture and extending above and below the injury typically "sets" it in a normal position. The tape is replaced only if needed. After several weeks the tape is removed and the tail has healed in a normal position.

Pupdate Day 4

Pupdate Day 3

The pups are still doing well. Whisper is a great mom! She is quite busy trying to keep up with all nine of them but doing wonderfully.

Pupdate Day 1

Whisper is showing good mothering instincts. She is nursing and cleaning the pups and taking good care of them. Everyone seems to be settling in and doing well.

Here are a few first day photos of some of the puppies. The pink collars are the girls, the blue collars are the boys. Thank you Lisa for making it easy to ID puppies!


As of today we "puppy named" all the puppies. These are their call names until they go to their new home then their name changes to whatever the person wants. It prevents calling them "puppy 1" or Blue puppy etc. So when we upload pics they will be called by that name.

Puppy 1-Blue brindle boy=MJ(Merlin Junior)
Puppy 2-Black and White parti girl=Little Wisp
Puppy 3-Dark red brindle boy=Brodie
Puppy 4-Red Brindle parti girl(small color spot on rump)=Dove
Puppy 5-Red Brindle parti girl(no color spot on tail all white tail)=Jewel
Puppy 6-Dark red brindle boy=Bret
Puppy 7-Heavily marked Red brindle boy=Batman
Puppy 8-Black female=Midnight
Puppy 9-Blue brindle girl=Bluebell