Tilly Has Been Homed

 

Tilly black female

Tilly has been homed.

Tilly is a small sized, confident and friendly, black, spayed female with some white markings. She is still a youngster, having been born only in March 2010.

Foster report on Tilly:

Tilly loves being around people and other canines, sometimes she forgets she is a greyhound and impersonates a lap dog!  She absolutely loves cuddles. Tilly would need to be in a family home with at least one other canine companion of any size.

She’s quite happy to snuggle up close to her companion for a cuddle if human contact is not available.

Tilly loves human company, she will follow you around, supervising whatever you are doing quite closely. She may be small but she’s extremely nosey!

She is quiet and very clean in the house being able to be left for several hours with her canine friends.  She can negotiate stairs with ease and is able to walk on laminate flooring without difficulty too.

Tilly black female

Being young Tilly is very active she loves to play with her friends; a good game of chase is her favorite.  She is also very good at retrieving a ball, mostly she brings it back to you, but sometimes the collecting instinct wins and it goes into her bed!  She also loves a good game of football but doesn’t always follow the rules, picking the ball up in her mouth and running of with it normally to her bed!

Tilly enjoys all kinds of toys including squeakers and is normally carrying one around the house with her, she is a bit of a collector and will normally take toys to her bed sometimes shoes (she doesn’t chew though, just collect!)  She can get a little excited when playing and will jump up in front of you but she doesn’t actually jump on you.  I feel she would make a really good fun family dog.  She plays nicely and doesn’t snatch so we feel she’d be fine around younger children provided that they were well behaved and knew not to tease her.  She is a really gentle dog who loves a fuss.

Tilly can be surprisingly strong on the lead, but her pulling is dependent on how firm the handler is. If you let her know that pulling is not allowed and remind her as required she walks along pretty nicely. If you let her get away with bad walking manners, she continues to pull.

This young lady just needs firm, fair and consistent rules to follow – she’s effectively a teenager, checking out the boundaries!  Tilly is beginning to learn more manners when out, she prefers to walk next to her canine companion which helps these manners to be learned quicker.  She is very excited when walking and everything she meets is new to her this can be felt through her strength where she can not control herself, she just loves being out watching the ducks on the river, seagulls in the park etc.  Tilly needs lots of exposures to new things and to be taught how to walk nicely which has begun to be seen.

She is a good natured girl, who has met other breeds of dog and given us no cause for concern around them. She’d love to go and play in the local park with some other dogs. Tilly’s recall is very good and with continued training in a known area to her she hopefully in time would be an off lead dog.  She loves being around other dogs and learns acceptable behavior from them.  She is very good at sharing food, toys, beds and attention with them and humans!  It is really important that Tilly finds a home that she can quickly settle into and learn the routines, she is a special girl that has learned so much in a short amount of time and will be sadly missed by her foster family.

Tilly has very strange eating habits that are not normally present in greyhounds, she can be very fussy with what she will and won’t eat.  She will need a family that are prepared to put in the time and have patience with her around meal times, as they can be very difficult to get to eat. One bonus is that she doesn’t like to be different to her foster brothers and sister and sometimes she will eat their left over’s even though if she was given their food as her meal she would turn her nose up at it!

She travels well in a car, she jumps in nicely and soon settles down next to her other canine friends.

No cats please.

One thought on “Tilly

  1. Has Tilly now been adopted? She’s just like our dog which we adopted from another Greyhound Rescue in 2007.

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