Troy Boy
posted by Chris at 13:38
Following the announcement that White Lodge were to close the rescue, Gill and I decided that we would take on another Beast if needed. Well, guess what, the offer of a home for a hound was not refused. In fact Claire had one in mind - Troy.
So yesterday we all went up to White Lodge and met Troy. The short version is he came home with us.
Troy with Monty and Jack
As you will perhaps have seen on his CV, Troy has had four homes in three years, spending most of that time in kennels, for a variety of reasons:
He was returned from two for not responding to recall (greyhounds are renowned for selective deafness); another he was taken back from after the ladies abusive husband turned up again and started on him; and the other he came back from because (now read carefully 'coz this is unbelievable) he stood up in the back of the car and they couldn't see out the back window, and he wandered up the road when they left the door open when getting shopping from the car!!
Claire brought Troy out to meet us in the paddock, and left us to it as she had someone else looking at dogs the time. Troy was muzzled just to make sure, but as everyone seemed to be getting on OK it soon came off. A couple of minutes later he was off the lead, and everyone got on brilliantly; even Monty was fine with him (he was a bit wary when Jack arrived).
Claire told us that Troy isn't the most intelligent of hounds, but that he is a total softy and just wants affection from people. It seems that while at the kennels Troy has been a bit of a boring dog, which is perhaps why no-one has chosen him. In my experience a dog in rescue rarely shows its true personality, which only comes out when it feels relaxed in a home.
Because of the lack of stability in his life, Claire wanted him to go somewhere he stood a good chance of staying (I think there's a complement in there somewhere). She did ask us if we wanted to think about it, but what the hell, we were there, so was he, we were going, so he might as well too. However, he is currently on loan just in case (like he's going back!!).
When we left I got the feeling that Claire was a bit sad to see him go.
From White Lodge we went to Sywell Country Park. This is a really nice 2½ mile walk. Because it's totally enclosed the hope was we could let Troy off and see how he got on. But it was such a nice day and too many people were out, so it was just not the right time. But we did stop 'coz one youg lady (about 3 or 4 I would guess) wanted to stroke the dogs. We knew that Kai, Monty, and Jack were OK (albeit that Jack tries to kiss eveyone), and Troy proved himself as well.
When we got home Troy of course investigated the garden, the rooms, everything. I guess the good thing was that it all smelt of the people and dogs he had been with all day. And after some food all four just crashed.
Four Beasts Dead to the World
Today it's much the same; everyone's just chilled. It's almost as if he's always been here.
So yesterday we all went up to White Lodge and met Troy. The short version is he came home with us.
Troy with Monty and Jack
As you will perhaps have seen on his CV, Troy has had four homes in three years, spending most of that time in kennels, for a variety of reasons:
He was returned from two for not responding to recall (greyhounds are renowned for selective deafness); another he was taken back from after the ladies abusive husband turned up again and started on him; and the other he came back from because (now read carefully 'coz this is unbelievable) he stood up in the back of the car and they couldn't see out the back window, and he wandered up the road when they left the door open when getting shopping from the car!!
Claire brought Troy out to meet us in the paddock, and left us to it as she had someone else looking at dogs the time. Troy was muzzled just to make sure, but as everyone seemed to be getting on OK it soon came off. A couple of minutes later he was off the lead, and everyone got on brilliantly; even Monty was fine with him (he was a bit wary when Jack arrived).
Claire told us that Troy isn't the most intelligent of hounds, but that he is a total softy and just wants affection from people. It seems that while at the kennels Troy has been a bit of a boring dog, which is perhaps why no-one has chosen him. In my experience a dog in rescue rarely shows its true personality, which only comes out when it feels relaxed in a home.
Because of the lack of stability in his life, Claire wanted him to go somewhere he stood a good chance of staying (I think there's a complement in there somewhere). She did ask us if we wanted to think about it, but what the hell, we were there, so was he, we were going, so he might as well too. However, he is currently on loan just in case (like he's going back!!).
When we left I got the feeling that Claire was a bit sad to see him go.
From White Lodge we went to Sywell Country Park. This is a really nice 2½ mile walk. Because it's totally enclosed the hope was we could let Troy off and see how he got on. But it was such a nice day and too many people were out, so it was just not the right time. But we did stop 'coz one youg lady (about 3 or 4 I would guess) wanted to stroke the dogs. We knew that Kai, Monty, and Jack were OK (albeit that Jack tries to kiss eveyone), and Troy proved himself as well.
When we got home Troy of course investigated the garden, the rooms, everything. I guess the good thing was that it all smelt of the people and dogs he had been with all day. And after some food all four just crashed.
Four Beasts Dead to the World
Today it's much the same; everyone's just chilled. It's almost as if he's always been here.
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