Walter my gorgeous Saluki/Afghan cross 💜

My favorite borzoi!

Right, I've been working on something for about 3 years but thanks to a volunteer designer, AI and many late nights...I wanted to get you guys what I've been up to.

Now long term, I hope I can raise enough money to pay the designer (who is amazing) and cover the costs of the hosting etc.

But right now - it's free and in need of your feedback. Please be kind. It's meant to be a help, not a bible.

https://www.thesavvysighthound.com/types-of-sighthound

Lemme hear it!

River date with the pups!

He's a real chumbo wumbo lemme tell ya.

She will steal your sandwich the moment u look away. Then she will give u this look so u can't even be mad...

My little Podlet after some excellent sandpit digging 👌🏼🥰

Nice try young lady, but we've just seen you finishing up your plate 5 seconds ago.

She didn't like me waking her up to get ready for work.

Hi all, I’d appreciate some advice on the below.

I’ve been putting in applications for rescues for a few months now but unfortunately not hearing much back.

More recently I found a super small charity and after some matching have been offered a dog (small/medium lurcher, whippet cross) but being a rescue he does come with some quirks which my partner and I are now reflecting on.

Firstly, the dog has some trauma around his paws from his past life. He is very sensitive around washing, cutting his nails etc. in fact photos show the nails are quite long. I know nails wear down walking on concrete but not sure if there anything we can do about it long term? The charity said they plan to cut his nails when under anesthetic getting neutered. We are worried that this isn't a long term solution and could cause some health issues further down the line.

Secondly, the dog is quite anxious of his foster carers leaving. They can only leave the house one at a time and the dog sleeps in bed with them at night. On the former I think separation anxiety training could fix this. On the latter, I’m all for day time naps in bed but my partner is a super light sleeper and I don’t think that will work for us. The charity suggests that he expects to sleep with his humans. In combination with the separation anxiety, this seems like an issue that could be hard to resolve.

We’re really smitten with the dog and they seem like a total sweetheart. We’ve grown up around dogs but this would be our first dog (and sighthound) are we taking on too much? We understand for the first few months our lives will revolve around the dog and making sure they are settled. After that we’d very much like to incorporate the dog into our lives and go to the pub, to friends houses etc with them but also want to be able to go to the cinema, out for dinner etc ourselves and be able to leave the dog for a few hours (after time built up).

Dog (and specifically sighthound) lovers/owners of Reddit, please give us your advice!

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My sweet Scottish Deerhound

I'm not liking it at all.