Aliyah Diamond has more than ten years of experience in animal hospitals - working with dozens of species from dogs and cats, to elephants and snow leopards. Her lifelong passion for helping animals currently has her earning her doctorate of veterinary medicine at Cornell University and helping Pawlicy Advisor educate pet parents. Skip to content. Key Takeaways An adult Greyhound weighs 60 to 70 pounds on average , and males are slightly heavier than females.
Greyhound puppies stop growing at around 13 to 14 months old with 27 to 30 inches in height, although it takes a little longer for their chests to finish filling out.
The Greyhound breed is prone to hereditary conditions such as arthritis and osteosarcoma. Preventive care helps ensure that your Greyhound puppy lives a happy, healthy life, and pet insurance plans can provide peace of mind with access to affordable health care.
About the author Aliyah Diamond DVM Candidate - Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Aliyah Diamond has more than ten years of experience in animal hospitals - working with dozens of species from dogs and cats, to elephants and snow leopards.
Back to Blog. Your vet may not mention your pet's weight problem until it approaches obesity and is causing health problems. Because Greyhounds are supposed to look a lot thinner than most other breeds, it is a bigger problem for them.
If your greyhound looks "healthy" to most people, it will be anything but. When you have a greyhound, you have to be prepared for strangers to tell you your dog is too thin and take it as a complement. Freshly retired large male at a healthy 80lbs Same greyhound at an obese 95lbs, notice some ribs still show. How can you tell if your greyhound is at the proper weight? Your greyhound should have just the tips of his hipbones barely visible and the outline of a couple of ribs.
If your greyhound is smooth across his hind end with no bones showing at all it may be too fat. If it has no ribs visible, it is probably overweight. A dog with a more rounded ribcage like the one above can have the outline of ribs showing even when obese.
If your dog doesn't have a pronounced tuck waist it is definitely too fat. If your greyhound has put on 10, 15 or even more pounds above its racing weight it is overweight. It is dangerous to race a fat greyhound. Making sure a greyhound is racing at the proper weight is something that trainers and track officials take seriously.
Greyhounds are weighed before every race and they must be within a pound and a half, either way, of their set racing weight, or they will be scratched from the race by racing officials. The Greyhound does not fare well outside in a kennel and must be an indoor dog, preferably with a nice warm bed! Fortunately they are very clean dogs and have no body odour.
Greyhounds love being with children and are easy to care for. On the whole, these gentle, sensitive dogs make wonderful family dogs. Just a thought Thousands of Greyhounds are abandoned each year in Britain and Ireland, ending up in pounds and rescue shelters. Estimates suggest that between 8, and 10, Greyhounds are discarded every year because they are not good enough to race.
Greyhounds do make wonderful pets and none more so than the gentle abandoned creatures which sit, waiting in rescue shelters for a kind family that they can love forever. Without caring second owners, there are hundreds of these not far from you who have no chance of a decent life.
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