When Wilbur came to us from the allotment in August last year, he was well and truly lost. With strap marks around his nose and the look in his eyes, it was clear he hadn’t had a good time. They still use strap muzzles, although they aren’t supposed to. They stop the dogs barking as their mouths are strapped shut.
Fairly useless as racing too with only 8 races under his belt at Nottingham. He was racing at Askern for almost a year before it closed.
He has never barked here and he sits patiently in his kennel watching everything that is going on around him. I took him to the beach on Saturday to see where we are up to with this gorgeous boy. At first he was just staring at everything, the dogs in the distance, the sea, the birds.
A dog off the lead came up to him, he saw her off, much to the owners dismay. But if you are going to let your dog come up to a greyhound, on a lead, with a muzzle on what do you expect.
We only did a short walk and at the end of it he was a shaking wreck. He jumped back in the van and couldn’t wait to get back into the kennels.
Wilbur is a strong dog, a lost dog who doesn’t know what he is supposed to be doing. That is the sad thing of what they do to these beautiful creatures.
Wilbur needs a home with a greyhound girl to show him the ropes. No he isn’t perfect, no he wouldn’t pass an assessment test. But with the right people and a lot of tlc, he will make someone a cracking dog. If not, he will learn to love the beach…Deb
