Saw a post earlier about integrating Podencos and cats, so thought I should share our two. Although, the cat did grow up with our greyhound, so he's very much in charge.

Hello all, I recently adopted a two-year old large-sized (65ish pounds) Portuguese podengo/podenco that was rescued from Spain (had been fostered by another owner in the US for several months after arriving here). He is very sweet and is great with people, but I think the rescue oversold his compatibility/workability with cats. I realize "cat workable" and "cat friendly" are two different things, but I was told the latter. He also doesn't respond/know his name, so I'm working hard on name recognition in order to build up his recall (currently lacks much recall at all). He's also not really that food motivated, so I'm cycling through different treats/foods to see what gets his attention the most.

I have one cat that is mostly indifferent to dogs, but for the first two weeks I've kept my house split in two, swapping blankets back and forth to get them accustomed to each others scents and not attempting an introduction. The podengo has seen the cat on a few occasions via me going in and out of one of the rooms, and they'll sometimes sniff under the door when they realize the other is there. But I finally tried a brief introduction with a leash and soft muzzle on after two weeks and he jumped right at my cat, so I stopped that experiment. I can't tell if he wanted to play or wanted to bite at my cat.

On walks, he goes crazy for squirrels and does the stalking/jump sort of "attack" despite not being close to them. So it would seem he does indeed have a very high prey drive. But I also have a neighbor's cat that chills on my porch quite often, and the podengo seems either indifferent/afraid of the tiny cat after she bopped him on the nose once. That cat also just mostly sits there and doesn't run off, which seems to help limit the innate prey drive of the dog (based off what I've read elsewhere anyways).

The rescue was very insistent on not using crates with podengos, so I don't even own one currently. But does anyone know or have experience with using one for sighthounds strictly for trying to do cat introductions? I want to make things work, but I realize this is going against the ingrained nature of the dog itself.

I bought several of those 'door buddies' that will let a door be cracked open, so that if they ever get to the level of being comfortable-enough around each other, the cat still has her own spaces in the house. But for now, that just doesn't even seem like an option given his first reaction to the cat. Now, I might very well have erred in thinking a podengo and a cat could in fact work together, but I'm patient and figured this could be a months-long process if need be. I just worry that if I'm not really crate-training the dog, then using a crate simply for introductions might make things worse. My understanding is restraint just prior to certain events can get a dog more on-edge and possibly make things worse.

I walked him nearly two hours the day I did the intros. I had heard getting all the energy out of them can help with intros, but again, that didn't seem to help necessarily. Basically, looking for anyone that might have had success using a crate just for intros, and/or any advice that could be helpful in this process, even if it's a "you fucked up."

Hey everyone, first time poster here. I have a nearly 6 year old female whippet who for the last 4 years(thanks covid!) has been very nervous/anxious. She’s developed severe separation anxiety these last 6 months.

So just a little back ground info… We’ve been to the vet many times, blood work has been examined, she’s got a clean bill of health, just incredibly anxious. We just recently tried Prozac for her but it wasn’t a good mix for her. She wear an adaptil collar and we have adaptil plug ins.

About 4/5 weeks ago she started eating less and less at breakfast, first she’d eat her portion of tripe and leave everything else. Then she started not eating it at all, my husband would play ball for a bit and she’d eat around 1pm. She would still be eating dinner no problem though.

We then started Prozac, Prozac was a terrible time she went full anorexic, wouldn’t drink water, turned her into a zombie. We took her off and she just won’t eat much at all now.

She starts trembling, shaking, hiding and hanging her head after she licks her food a couple of times/has a couple of bites.

This kind of coincides with when we started leaving her with my in-laws for a couple of hours a handful of times. She loves them and we thought it would be fine, especially since it was necessary appointments we had to go to and didn’t have really any other choice.

I’m assuming she’s so stressed out about us leaving at all times, she just can’t eat? Out of fear or nerves, either way I’m nervous about it. We have our first training session with a new trainer this Friday but I thought it would be helpful to reach out to the wonderful dog community first! So if anyone has any tips/tricks/similar stories, I’d love to hear it!

Sorry for the long read and thanks in advance!

We have tried CBD, didn’t seem to do much for her.

Hi all

Myself and my partner have decided to get a saluki x greyhound puppy , we pick her up in 7 weeks time.

We plan to take her to puppy training and socialising groups. We also have 2 other dogs for her to play with. I’ll be on nights for the first 2 months of having her and my partner days so someone will always be at home however after this she will be left at home with the other dogs for 4 hours. I’ve read that quite a few suffer with separation anxiety is this something that we can work on early on to help ease the process? both my other dogs are very calm whilst home alone , we dim the room , provide plenty of licking/chewing toys and are able to walk 3-4 30 min walks a day. We have a sizeable garden (around 25ft long by 20ft wide) with 6ft fence all round .

Does anyone have any experience with this specific mix ? Any advice for cracking separation anxiety as a puppy? Any other tips and tricks ?

Thank you in advance for the advice it’s much appreciated 😊

Been trying to help my cousin do some reaserch on them but no breeder we have found has their prices in the website.

Doing my research! I was thinking of adding a silken windhound to my family! My husband has always loved sighthounds! And I was wondering if anyone could tell me what their level of prey drive is? I keep hens and currently have an elder golden retriever and she has absolutely no interest in running after chickens. She didn’t when she was young either Which is ideal! Do windhounds chase smaller critters? Thanks so much!

Thank you for your time to anyone who does give some info; I have divulged several hours into finally locating a silken windhound breeder. Through this I contacted numerous individuals listed on the ISWS website, located their Facebook pages/websites and it seems the majority if not all are currently not breeding and website/Facebook has not been used in a year plus. Does anyone have info on a breeder with a current waitlist, or a breeder who might even have puppies available upcoming? Once again, thank you for any input, would also love to hear the journey others had to finally get their fur baby!

Hey guys! I'm hoping for a little help. What materials do you think are best for house collars and what are the most important features?

My baby boy is just about to turn 10months now, and with the snow melting and his cotton fluff fur growing longer its becoming painfully obvious how much of a dirt magnet he is 🥲

combing seems to help with the most superficial leaves, but anything thats sitting IN the fur rather than on top of it is really stubborn to get out, even if i try to just pick and pull it with my fingers

so, afghan hound parents, how do you maintain your puppies fur after a good walk or run?

Hello! I have a 7 month old female afghan hound. She is my first one! I’ve been trying to decide if I should get her spayed or not. Could I please have your opinions based on experience?

My conflict is that I’m worried about false pregnancies and also cancer later in life, which makes me want to spay her. On the other hand, I’ve heard you should wait until after their first heat to spay due to growth issues, which could be 18-24 months.

I do not plan to breed her, obviously. She is my pet. She does come from a championship bloodline so showing is on the table if she is left intact.

Just looking for your thoughts! Thank you!

sometime back... an Indian sighthound in disguise

Onyx, 3 year old Saluki

hello all!

This weekend i’m going to be adopting an afghan hound. They are my dream breed and I have been reading about them for about a year now. The girl i’m adopting was owner surrendered and was matted heavily and is described as very shy. I’m assuming she’s gonna be pretty fearful at first, but she’s still a puppy so I hope working with her we can make progress. I just want to hear any and all experiences you guys have had with afghans in general, especially if you’ve adopted one from a similar situation.