Reddit reviews Retired Greyhounds: A Guide to Care and Understanding by Baby, Carol (2010) Paperback

Hey and well done for rescuing a hound! They're fabulous dogs!

I can't comment on the adoption process completely as we went to our local rehoming kennel and spoke with them a few times but ended up getting our then not-yet-3-year-old from a foster family who was friends with trainer who'd worked with him.

One thing I can tell you though is that you won't recognise your dog as being the same animal after 1/3/6/12/18/24 months - they change so much it's unbelievable! Our boy was a timid wreck when we got him - we had to teach him to walk on grass and he was frightened of EVERYTHING (and everyone). Now he's more like an extremely chill weed-smoking surfer dude that the cat bosses around. He's a dude. So your new one will definitely change even in the first few weeks and his confidence will grow exponentially.

On the spazzing, our guy will go batshit once a day when he goes out for a walk, then sleep 17 hours. We call it the Zoomies. Is that how your dog is? When we first got ours I was worried he wasn't getting enough "energy drainage" so had him go out on walks twice a week with a professional dog walker, added bonus he socialised with other dogs also. He was able to go offlead after a few weeks with them as they take the dogs to parks/commons that are enclosed - important to note my hound was retired due to absolutely zero chase instinct. Never let a new hound offlead. That said he was pretty exhausted after the on-lead walks as well.

I read a really helpful book when I first adopted ours, all about the different experiences you have with a rescue hound straight off track, I will try and find the link and post it for you.

In the meantime, you might have to post a photo of your lad up here. You know, for science...


Edit: this book Retired Greyhounds: A Guide to Care and Understanding