| Hi folks ;-) I would like to share something of my life with my girl dog Minni - Racing name Minglers Heather. I have her from RGT via our local organisation GACR (Greyhound Adoption Czech Republic). Please, my English is not well, so be tolerant, please ;-) I've adopted her on 26.2.2011. She was very very shy and scared. She was scared of noises she maid in a sleep. She was scared of wind...leaves in the wind....of her own shadow on the ground...scared of some objects, scared of loud noises...scared of many many things. First days was very hard. More for me than for her, i think. Fast breathing, cruising around the flat.... She settled it within a week but still not eatin anything. Only a little bit and water. Ony in the night....never in daylight. She was like a horse...when scared :-D She is strong, but I was stronger. I decided that is necessary to give her a time and wait when she come to me. In the meantime I was teaching her how to handle with spiral stairs... She was like Pinochio, like puppet ;-) Took her leg on the first stair..second leg...first first leg on the second stair...third leg on the first stair...and so on....up..up.... And we maid it after two weeks EXTERNAL LINK ;-) The way down was more difficult for her. But we also made it. It seemed to me that she was happier that she can go up and down herself EXTERNAL LINK . But she was still...closed to me...any quick movement make her to go down....very scarry was raised hand. Not now anymore ;-) But she is still scared of men. Very helpful moments for her were meetings with other dogs. Grey-like or other breeds...even cats. We still meets other people with dogs. We do little dog parties, up to twenty dogs. They can run freely. She loves running. We have big space there with a lake and sandy shores....it belongs to Autocamping, fenced all around. It has about ten square kilometers. Then her soul started to bloom... It was hard to manage it, but I teached her basic obedience. It was hard because misbehaving dog could be corrected but the dog which is do nothing because of his fear... She do not trust men, but the oter things are completely different... I met Alexandra, my girlfriend and she had aleso retired greyhound Jack ;-) He is old, calm grandpa ;-) Also nervous sometimes ;-) Minni got more self confidence with Jack. This is the good thing. The bad one is that she started to scare of thunder as Jack. It was strange but she was not scared of thunder before Jack. Now we hawe a new member of our pack. It is racing line Whippet puppy named Muffin (Brown Sugar Aerodynamic) He is still bitting the old ones ;-) Minni has more patience than Jack ;-) Minni and Muffin will be very good companions. They runs together. Minni have "running" companion and Muffin have very good and fast chalenge to catch - for future races. I love her, Jack and Muffin very much, but Minni is my favourite one. There is a link to my FB album: EXTERNAL LINK
Some more videos... Sleepers EXTERNAL LINK
Pork leg contest EXTERNAL LINK
Yummy bone EXTERNAL LINK
Our new members (one of them) EXTERNAL LINK First day at home EXTERNAL LINK
Fight of the Titans :-D EXTERNAL LINK If possible I would like to contact previous owner - Mrs. Madge (Margaret?) Moore but I do not know how. Any help is welcome. Adam
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