I love your content generally speaking, but wanted to take a moment to do a special shout out to how amazing the beginning sequence of this video is and how much I appreciate and enjoy that you introduce your dogs like they were characters in a 90's tv show like Nash Bridges! It's actually so great!!!
Thanks for your kind words. Thought the intro was the best way to give an insight to the pups different personalities in a short space of time. Thanks again for watching.
From Australia we particularly love your walking adventure videos as it's such nice scenery, those bridges look amazing and our greyhound Yankee loves to watch Magnus and Scout form the couch of an evening when we cast your videos to our tv, thank you for uploading them 👍
My husband and I adopted our greyhound boy Pippin 18 months ago and your videos were a massive part of our research. It's also been really nice to watch your pups walking around the Edinburgh area, I'm from Angus originally but live in Sussex and alot of your routes bring up childhood memories of trips to the area. ❤. Sending best wishes and snuffles from Beth, Max and Pippin the greyhound. Keep up the amazing work! They are such an unappreciated breed!
Hope it helps. Taking it easy for the first few days is wise. If you have to walk the same walks at first that is okay. It is a big transition for them.
Here is an article which explains a bit more. it is too big for one reply so I will post it in parts The Frozen Hound: A Common Post-Adoption Behaviour Although not unique to the breed, a common problem that quite routinely occurs in early greyhound ownership is what is referred to as the ‘frozen hound’, You may or may not have experienced this with your hound, but it is what it says on the tin. Your hound freezes, puts on the breaks, digs their heels in, refuses to budge, become unmoveable…you get the message! If it wasn’t for the sad, hard done by eyes that they give you, you would think you had tied your lead to a lamppost for all the response you get out of them. Unfortunately, this can be quite embarrassing. We had it once where one of our hounds froze on an evening walk in winter…we had head torches on, but that just made it worse because it looked like we were casing out this person’s house. We could see them looking out at us out their front window, no doubt wondering why we had been lingering outside their house for several minutes. It was absolutely mortifying to then have the homeowner open the window and stick her head out to shout at us to move on, as if we were thinking of robbing them, but they did thankfully let us explain that one of the dogs had gotten scared and refused to walk. Thankfully, that sudden interaction was enough to break her out of her frozen state and trot on. But it’s equally embarrassing in the day light being overtaken by various people as your hound stands stock still in the middle of the pavement and refuses to move.
Part 2 ut, why do they do it? You've heard of the ‘Fight or Flight’ response, right? But have you heard of ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze’? The ‘frozen hound’ is, in essence, a fear response and when put under stress, are overstimulated, or feeling anxious they get stuck between the ‘flight’ and the ‘fight’ and seize up in a ‘freeze’! They can’t help it, and really, all you can do is wait them out as the cogs in their brain eventually start going again and they come to a decision to continue walking. This can, however, be short lived as they get a few more feet up the road and freeze again… Greyhounds are very precious souls, and who can blame them? Before they’re adopted into homes, they spend their formative years in rural settings, with very little exposure to the outside world beyond their racing careers. When adopted, they find themselves in novel environments, with humans they don’t know, and have to take in a huge amount of stimulus and information which is ongoing for weeks, if not months, into their new home. They’ve not done ‘street’ walking before, they aren’t familiar with traffic, buses, and everything in between, groups of kids on scooters or people pushing prams. Motorbikes and cyclists. Other dog breeds, and off lead dogs running around the parks. Even just all the different buildings, movement in windows and all the noises that come with this new land they find themselves in. It can be very overwhelming for them, and it is scary, and while for some hounds their way of responding to this environment is to become reactive, for others, their way of coping is to freeze. While it is often misinterpreted as them being ‘stubborn’ or ‘naughty’, it is actually a clear sign that your hound is not handling things very well. Freezing is largely unavoidable, but it can come about through a few very common causes. The prime culprit is over-exercising in those initial days and weeks of settling your hound into their new life.
Part 3 That overstimulation, both physically, but more importantly, mentally, in those early days can have drastic behavioural consequences which we’ve discussed in previous posts. Thankfully freezing is a fairly innocuous response, when compared to reactivity, but it is still a clear sign that your hound is not coping and something needs to change! Even doing something as simple as regularly changing their daily walking route or taking them to lots of new places, can lead them to that freezing fear response. Greyhounds are creatures of routine, they thrive on it, and while it sometimes seems like a nice idea to take them somewhere new to give them some enrichment…in those early days, you need to keep things quite simple and let them learn their normal daily walking route until they are fully comfortable before broadening their horizons. Sometimes, it can seemingly come out of nowhere, and usually because of something triggering the fear response while on a walk, even if it isn’t apparent when it happened because your hound didn’t show any reaction or only a very minimal reaction at the time. For instance, we’ve had to coach numerous owners through the ‘frozen hound’ stage and have heard the story of countless hounds being absolutely fine on walks, showing no reaction to anything, trotting along seemingly happy for weeks…only to head out for a walk the next day and put the brakes halfway down the road. After much discussion, there is always a cause. One such example is a car backfired a couple streets over and their hound was then unable to walk down the street associated with that event. Another was a child on a scooter, also resulting in the hound no longer being able to go left when they left the driveway and had to establish a new walking route by going right instead. From their point of view, they’re trying to cope and come to understand this strange new land they’ve found themselves in, so freezing is bound to happen. Even though you follow all the guidance, take things slow and do everything right…freezing can still occur! It can be frustrating, especially if you’re in a hurry, but freezing on walks shouldn’t be treated as a bad behaviour as this compound the issue. Although it doesn’t help that greyhounds can be prone to giving mixed signals when it comes to walks!
Part 4 We’ve seen it happen so often when a hound appears to be all excited and happy to be going for a walk, doing the pre-walk zoomies when they see the lead come out, showing off their best happy tappy feet as you clip it on and then drag you out the door…only to put the brakes on the minute their feet touch the pavement. Unfortunately, you can’t use the pre-walk madness as an indicator that your hound ACTUALLY wants to go for a walk. Hounds will have had years od association with their lead and collar before you adopt them, and the premise of the lead come out does elicit excitement because they know they’re going for a walk. It’s a learnt behaviour. The only problem is you get them dressed, and they walk out your front door, and they immediately remember that they aren’t at their racing kennels anymore about to go for a lollop around the fields. They’re in this strange new land that causes them stress. So, they stop. They can also start to associate the lead with going for walks in this strange new land and their ‘excitement’ is a means to release of anxious energy, and they don’t want to go for a walk at all. As we said, mixed signals. We assure you, even the most canine body-language trained person in the world wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between genuine pre-walk excitement and the pre-walk oh s~~t, we’re going for a walk anxiety. The problem is, beyond having to try and interpret these mixed signals, is if they do put on the brakes, you will gain nothing from trying to pull them out and force them to go on a walk. The more tension you put on the lead, the more they will pull back. Yes, you may encourage them on another few meters, but they will only stop again, and again, and again. It’s counterproductive, they’re trying to communicate a fear and you’re ignoring them. For some, they will eventually give up fighting and be dragged along but this isn’t a very compassionate approach and can lead to further issues down the line. The only way to combat freezing is time, patience and understanding. Positive reinforcement and treat-based training can be very beneficial, however, when hounds are overwhelmed and stressed, they are unlikely to accept treats on walks. Sometimes they aren’t comfortable taking treats from the hand either.
And remember...they have a GREAT sense of smell. So when you are wondering what in the world they can be distracted by, it might be a smell that you can't smell. Sometimes Jojo likes to take slow, slow walks (usually when we are in some place new). We call these, "sniffaris." Just because you don't know what they are distracted by doesn't mean there is nothing there.
I thought for a second this was advice on warm coats, which seemed a bit poorly timed given the UK heatwave :) But locking up on walks it something I have to deal with every day with Alvin my greyhound, he just is a stubborn git and wants quiet scenic walks in the country, not noisy roads.
Do either of your dogs hoard food or treats? Butterscotch loves to hoard her treats. She puts them in her mouth but doesn't eat them. She hides them up for later. I think it is the weirdest thing. Didn't know if that is a greyhound thing in general or something that just my dog does.
Please can you help me? My Madge wakes up so early, and wants to go out, about 5.30am now, and it is exhausting me! I take her out last thing at night, but we have no garden, so I have to take her out for a walk when she asks, as she does not do her business in my front area. I feed her later when I can. But I am having to keep the window open at night, and the curtain drawn back to let some cool air in, as my house has no windows at the back, so no through breeze, and we have been suffering in this high heat. I have the fan going on, to cool us both off, at the start of the night, so she is sleeping ok all night on my bed. But the light is coming in from 4.00am, and it is so hard to try and get her to sleep later?! xxx
@@kevintunaley5079 Thank you keintunaley5079, I have now given her a tablet, which will last for 3 months, but I hated giving it to her, as I do not want it to upset her tummy. But I needed to do something, as she will not let me go near her to get the tick off her. Vets say the one on her will die now, and fall off. I did get it through the vet, and it cost me £50! But will last for 3 months, as I said. This is tick and flea time here in England, so I needed to protect her somehow. xxx
Our lurcher freezes at the gate if youve carefully put a coat on him to protect him from inclement weather. If he doesnt deem it bad enough he'll freeze until its removed, thank you very much, then he trots off happily.😄 Meanwhile youve got soaked wondering what's wrong until the penny drops!😂
Be really careful about over using treats for freezing! My Katie was clever enough that she realized that standing still = treat time. Very annoying. Katie did legitimately freeze early on when everything was new and scary, but now it really is because she’s incredibly stubborn and has Strong Opinions about where we should walk.
My dog is freezing because she wants to go a different way on the walk than I want to go. She is a good and mild mannered dog otherwise but this is driving me crazy.
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I love your content generally speaking, but wanted to take a moment to do a special shout out to how amazing the beginning sequence of this video is and how much I appreciate and enjoy that you introduce your dogs like they were characters in a 90's tv show like Nash Bridges! It's actually so great!!!
Thanks for your kind words. Thought the intro was the best way to give an insight to the pups different personalities in a short space of time. Thanks again for watching.
Another excellent video. I love seeing Magnus and Scout! The look on Magnus’ face when he was being brushed and getting scritches was pure bliss ❤
Agree
Thanks again for watching and for taking the time to comment. Magnus does love the shedding blade. If only he love toothbrushing this much.
Absulutely inspiring video. But were posting greyhounds freezing on the hottest day of the year😀 now ive realised your talking about them stopping.
haha! I thought the exact same thing
Caught a few people out with the title. The temperature one is easy, stick a coat on them.
From Australia we particularly love your walking adventure videos as it's such nice scenery, those bridges look amazing and our greyhound Yankee loves to watch Magnus and Scout form the couch of an evening when we cast your videos to our tv, thank you for uploading them 👍
Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. Love to hear of other Greyhounds watching the videos.
A great video as always! Thanks for sharing 🐾 😊
Thanks again for watching and for taking the time to comment.
My husband and I adopted our greyhound boy Pippin 18 months ago and your videos were a massive part of our research. It's also been really nice to watch your pups walking around the Edinburgh area, I'm from Angus originally but live in Sussex and alot of your routes bring up childhood memories of trips to the area. ❤. Sending best wishes and snuffles from Beth, Max and Pippin the greyhound. Keep up the amazing work! They are such an unappreciated breed!
Thanks for watching. Glad you like the videos and found them useful. The videos will continue. Always working on something
Always beautiful to see them thank you so much for the posts 🐾🐾🌟
Thanks
What a bueatyful walk. A couple of the tricks I didn't know but make sense. Thanks for sharing
Glad you found the videos useful
Loving the Bears cap!!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Lived in Chicago for 7 years. Thanks for watching
My Mabel freezes every so often. She is my first (out of six) who froze on walks. I enjoyed your suggested remedies.
Thanks for watching. Glad you found it useful.
Always happy watching your videos, i love Both ur dogs
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Thankyou .nice memories.
Thanks so much for your videos. I’ve learned so much. Love the pups!
Thanks for watching. Glad you like the videos.
OMG thank you for this video. We have adopted a greyhound a few days ago and are experiencing this 😮. We sooo appreciate this video!
Hope it helps. Taking it easy for the first few days is wise. If you have to walk the same walks at first that is okay. It is a big transition for them.
Here is an article which explains a bit more. it is too big for one reply so I will post it in parts The Frozen Hound: A Common Post-Adoption Behaviour
Although not unique to the breed, a common problem that quite routinely occurs in early greyhound ownership is what is referred to as the ‘frozen hound’,
You may or may not have experienced this with your hound, but it is what it says on the tin. Your hound freezes, puts on the breaks, digs their heels in, refuses to budge, become unmoveable…you get the message! If it wasn’t for the sad, hard done by eyes that they give you, you would think you had tied your lead to a lamppost for all the response you get out of them.
Unfortunately, this can be quite embarrassing. We had it once where one of our hounds froze on an evening walk in winter…we had head torches on, but that just made it worse because it looked like we were casing out this person’s house. We could see them looking out at us out their front window, no doubt wondering why we had been lingering outside their house for several minutes.
It was absolutely mortifying to then have the homeowner open the window and stick her head out to shout at us to move on, as if we were thinking of robbing them, but they did thankfully let us explain that one of the dogs had gotten scared and refused to walk. Thankfully, that sudden interaction was enough to break her out of her frozen state and trot on. But it’s equally embarrassing in the day light being overtaken by various people as your hound stands stock still in the middle of the pavement and refuses to move.
Part 2
ut, why do they do it?
You've heard of the ‘Fight or Flight’ response, right? But have you heard of ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze’?
The ‘frozen hound’ is, in essence, a fear response and when put under stress, are overstimulated, or feeling anxious they get stuck between the ‘flight’ and the ‘fight’ and seize up in a ‘freeze’! They can’t help it, and really, all you can do is wait them out as the cogs in their brain eventually start going again and they come to a decision to continue walking. This can, however, be short lived as they get a few more feet up the road and freeze again…
Greyhounds are very precious souls, and who can blame them? Before they’re adopted into homes, they spend their formative years in rural settings, with very little exposure to the outside world beyond their racing careers. When adopted, they find themselves in novel environments, with humans they don’t know, and have to take in a huge amount of stimulus and information which is ongoing for weeks, if not months, into their new home.
They’ve not done ‘street’ walking before, they aren’t familiar with traffic, buses, and everything in between, groups of kids on scooters or people pushing prams. Motorbikes and cyclists. Other dog breeds, and off lead dogs running around the parks. Even just all the different buildings, movement in windows and all the noises that come with this new land they find themselves in.
It can be very overwhelming for them, and it is scary, and while for some hounds their way of responding to this environment is to become reactive, for others, their way of coping is to freeze. While it is often misinterpreted as them being ‘stubborn’ or ‘naughty’, it is actually a clear sign that your hound is not handling things very well.
Freezing is largely unavoidable, but it can come about through a few very common causes. The prime culprit is over-exercising in those initial days and weeks of settling your hound into their new life.
Part 3
That overstimulation, both physically, but more importantly, mentally, in those early days can have drastic behavioural consequences which we’ve discussed in previous posts. Thankfully freezing is a fairly innocuous response, when compared to reactivity, but it is still a clear sign that your hound is not coping and something needs to change!
Even doing something as simple as regularly changing their daily walking route or taking them to lots of new places, can lead them to that freezing fear response. Greyhounds are creatures of routine, they thrive on it, and while it sometimes seems like a nice idea to take them somewhere new to give them some enrichment…in those early days, you need to keep things quite simple and let them learn their normal daily walking route until they are fully comfortable before broadening their horizons.
Sometimes, it can seemingly come out of nowhere, and usually because of something triggering the fear response while on a walk, even if it isn’t apparent when it happened because your hound didn’t show any reaction or only a very minimal reaction at the time.
For instance, we’ve had to coach numerous owners through the ‘frozen hound’ stage and have heard the story of countless hounds being absolutely fine on walks, showing no reaction to anything, trotting along seemingly happy for weeks…only to head out for a walk the next day and put the brakes halfway down the road.
After much discussion, there is always a cause. One such example is a car backfired a couple streets over and their hound was then unable to walk down the street associated with that event. Another was a child on a scooter, also resulting in the hound no longer being able to go left when they left the driveway and had to establish a new walking route by going right instead.
From their point of view, they’re trying to cope and come to understand this strange new land they’ve found themselves in, so freezing is bound to happen. Even though you follow all the guidance, take things slow and do everything right…freezing can still occur!
It can be frustrating, especially if you’re in a hurry, but freezing on walks shouldn’t be treated as a bad behaviour as this compound the issue.
Although it doesn’t help that greyhounds can be prone to giving mixed signals when it comes to walks!
Part 4
We’ve seen it happen so often when a hound appears to be all excited and happy to be going for a walk, doing the pre-walk zoomies when they see the lead come out, showing off their best happy tappy feet as you clip it on and then drag you out the door…only to put the brakes on the minute their feet touch the pavement.
Unfortunately, you can’t use the pre-walk madness as an indicator that your hound ACTUALLY wants to go for a walk. Hounds will have had years od association with their lead and collar before you adopt them, and the premise of the lead come out does elicit excitement because they know they’re going for a walk. It’s a learnt behaviour.
The only problem is you get them dressed, and they walk out your front door, and they immediately remember that they aren’t at their racing kennels anymore about to go for a lollop around the fields. They’re in this strange new land that causes them stress. So, they stop.
They can also start to associate the lead with going for walks in this strange new land and their ‘excitement’ is a means to release of anxious energy, and they don’t want to go for a walk at all. As we said, mixed signals.
We assure you, even the most canine body-language trained person in the world wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between genuine pre-walk excitement and the pre-walk oh s~~t, we’re going for a walk anxiety.
The problem is, beyond having to try and interpret these mixed signals, is if they do put on the brakes, you will gain nothing from trying to pull them out and force them to go on a walk. The more tension you put on the lead, the more they will pull back. Yes, you may encourage them on another few meters, but they will only stop again, and again, and again.
It’s counterproductive, they’re trying to communicate a fear and you’re ignoring them. For some, they will eventually give up fighting and be dragged along but this isn’t a very compassionate approach and can lead to further issues down the line.
The only way to combat freezing is time, patience and understanding. Positive reinforcement and treat-based training can be very beneficial, however, when hounds are overwhelmed and stressed, they are unlikely to accept treats on walks. Sometimes they aren’t comfortable taking treats from the hand either.
Max was the ultimate statue'er!
There are a few of them out there! Thanks for watching
Thank you for this video, it helps me a lot.
Glad you found it useful.
Lovely video as always. Funny, when I saw "freezing" I thought the video would be about dog jackets 😂 my long dog mostly freezes when sees rabbits 🙄
Thanks again for watching. Thought the title may cause a little confusion at first.
And remember...they have a GREAT sense of smell. So when you are wondering what in the world they can be distracted by, it might be a smell that you can't smell. Sometimes Jojo likes to take slow, slow walks (usually when we are in some place new). We call these, "sniffaris." Just because you don't know what they are distracted by doesn't mean there is nothing there.
Thanks for highlighting the importance of smell to a dog.
I thought for a second this was advice on warm coats, which seemed a bit poorly timed given the UK heatwave :) But locking up on walks it something I have to deal with every day with Alvin my greyhound, he just is a stubborn git and wants quiet scenic walks in the country, not noisy roads.
Scout and be fickle too. But I wanna go this way!
I thought this was about keeping yer dug warm in winter😂 but then I’m from Glasgow…. Sorry❤
Maybe a should have called it statueing but I thought freezing sounded better.
Heeheee so did I beautiful to see them no matter what 🐾🐾🤗
Hi, My 3 year old Alfie repeatedly freezes on the OUTWARD leg of his walk. But is perfect on the way home, Thoughts?
Do either of your dogs hoard food or treats? Butterscotch loves to hoard her treats. She puts them in her mouth but doesn't eat them. She hides them up for later. I think it is the weirdest thing. Didn't know if that is a greyhound thing in general or something that just my dog does.
Neither of our two hoard any food. They always eat it immediately.
@@magnusgreyhound Just shoes.🤣
C'mon Mommy, break down with the chicken stock. That was not even enough to fill a tailey.
They would happily drink up the stock in one sitting.
@@magnusgreyhound Wouldn't THAT make for an interesting afterward!💩😆
Please can you help me? My Madge wakes up so early, and wants to go out, about 5.30am now, and it is exhausting me! I take her out last thing at night, but we have no garden, so I have to take her out for a walk when she asks, as she does not do her business in my front area. I feed her later when I can. But I am having to keep the window open at night, and the curtain drawn back to let some cool air in, as my house has no windows at the back, so no through breeze, and we have been suffering in this high heat. I have the fan going on, to cool us both off, at the start of the night, so she is sleeping ok all night on my bed. But the light is coming in from 4.00am, and it is so hard to try and get her to sleep later?! xxx
How do I keep ticks off my greyhound please, she will not let me touch her to get them off once on?! xxx
We have a special tool for removing ticks. Look like a credit card with a slit in it. It works really well in removing the ticks.
@@magnusgreyhound I too, have little tick hooks, which work so well, but she will not let me anywhere near her to get the tick off! xxx
@@jillychandler talk to your vet. mine take a medicine every tick/flea season and it works well as my dogs don't get ticks anymore.
@@kevintunaley5079 Thank you keintunaley5079, I have now given her a tablet, which will last for 3 months, but I hated giving it to her, as I do not want it to upset her tummy. But I needed to do something, as she will not let me go near her to get the tick off her. Vets say the one on her will die now, and fall off. I did get it through the vet, and it cost me £50! But will last for 3 months, as I said. This is tick and flea time here in England, so I needed to protect her somehow. xxx
Our lurcher freezes at the gate if youve carefully put a coat on him to protect him from inclement weather. If he doesnt deem it bad enough he'll freeze until its removed, thank you very much, then he trots off happily.😄 Meanwhile youve got soaked wondering what's wrong until the penny drops!😂
Butterscotch only freezes occasionally and only for a few seconds.
That is kinda how Scout is these days.
Be really careful about over using treats for freezing! My Katie was clever enough that she realized that standing still = treat time. Very annoying.
Katie did legitimately freeze early on when everything was new and scary, but now it really is because she’s incredibly stubborn and has Strong Opinions about where we should walk.
That's a good point to make people aware off.
My dog is freezing because she wants to go a different way on the walk than I want to go. She is a good and mild mannered dog otherwise but this is driving me crazy.
Scout used to do that a lot. We had to bring treats to train her to go our way.