Description
❤️🐶 SYLVIE – BEAUTIFUL LOVING NO FAULT GIRL 🐶❤️
📍 Currently located: Countesthorpe, Leicestershire (LE8)
🌟 RBU, post-adoption support & 4 weeks insurance provided upon adoption (on request) 🌟
🐾 Meet Sylvie
Sylvie is a beautiful 3–4-year-old Greyhound, around 29–30 kg, with the sweetest, gentlest nature.
There is the "40-MPH Couch Potato" Paradox well known for her breed.
Despite their fierce athletic history and prey drive outdoors, sighthounds are famous for being exceptionally calm, gentle, and quiet indoors. Same as many other of her breed, Sylvie requires only a couple of not too long daily walks and is highly content spending the rest of her day stretching out and sleeping on a plush sofa.
✨ Highlights ✨
• SIZE: Large (29–30 kg)
• SPAYED: Yes
• CHARACTER: Gentle • Affectionate • Sensitive • Calm • Loving
• DOGS: Friendly with medium and large dogs, could live with another calm dog or happily be an only dog
• CATS: Not suitable (high prey drive)
• SMALL DOGS: Not suitable due to chase instinct
• CHILDREN: Older, calm children or adult-only home preferred
💔 Why Does Sylvie Need Help?
Sylvie had only just started settling into what everyone hoped would be her forever home when life changed overnight. Her owner has sadly been diagnosed with a serious health condition and, with great sadness, knows she won't be able to care for Sylvie in the future.
Rather than waiting until it becomes a crisis, she has made the heartbreaking decision to ask for help now. The rescue's biggest fear isn't finding Sylvie another family... It's having to send her back into kennels, where she is not coping at all.
🐾 More About Sylvie
Sylvie is one of those dogs who quietly steals your heart.
She can be a little worried when meeting new people, often hanging back at first, but give her a few minutes, a gentle approach... and perhaps a little chicken... and she quickly decides you're a friend. Once she trusts you, she becomes wonderfully affectionate, leaning into strokes and nudging for more fuss.
She absolutely adores home comforts. The sofa is one of her favourite places in the world, and if she's comfortably settled you may even need to tempt her off it with treats before a walk!
She enjoys exploring at her own pace, loves sniffing, sunbathing and, when she feels safe, bursts into joyful greyhound zoomies that are guaranteed to make you smile.
Sylvie is wonderfully friendly with other dogs, greeting them calmly and politely, and previously lived happily alongside another Greyhound during her racing days. She could happily live with another sensible dog or equally enjoy being your one and only.
She isn't frightened by household noises and generally settles beautifully in a home environment.
One thing she does find difficult is busy kennel life. During her assessment she became very distressed whenever people constantly passed her kennel, barking and whining because the noisy environment overwhelmed her. Once away from that setting, she relaxes into the calm, gentle dog she truly is.
She also isn't a fan of getting into cars and currently needs help building confidence around travelling, although once she's inside she copes well.
🏡 Ideal Home
Sylvie would love a peaceful home where life moves at a gentler pace. A secure garden would be wonderful, along with people who understand that sensitive dogs sometimes need a little time before showing just how loving they really are.
She could happily live with another calm medium or large dog, or equally enjoy life as the only dog soaking up all the affection herself.
Most of all... She needs someone willing to stop her world becoming a kennel again.
💞 Sylvie has finally discovered what a home feels like. Please... let's not make her lose it all over again.
🩺 Health Information
Sylvie is healthy, spayed, fully vaccinated and microchipped. She has an old racing injury, so enjoys regular shorter walks rather than long, strenuous exercise. Veterinary and behavioural assessments are available.
💌 If you can offer forever or foster-to-adopt home, please fill out a form:
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