r/ItalianGreyhounds

Does anybody have experience with sedation drugs having the opposite effect? I need these for plane rides as if she gets scared she could easily start screaming. The vet swore this gabapentin/trazadone combination would practically knock her out. She is a little maniac on these pills, absolutely no sleeping. The opposite of sedation. It is 50 of trazadone and 50 of gabapentin.

My girlfriend and I are about to move into a new apartment together, and she has a five-year-old italian greyhound she's had since she was a puppy. Our iggy is trained on pee pads, and we've been trying to transition her into more regularly going potty outside, but it's been a bit of a tough road. She's gotten better—especially about signaling to us when she needs to go outside to poop—but she still routinely pees on the pee pads while we're home and about 30% of the time will pee on the rug/carpet instead of the pee pad if we go out for the day and leave her at home.

My question is, because we're moving into a new apartment, is this potentially an opportunity to do a reset of sorts? Part of me is inclined to think that if we just don't use pee pads in the new place and really reinforce that outside is the place for potty, that might make a difference, but another part of me worries that we're just setting ourselves up for failure by trying to make too big a change too quickly.

I know that italian greyhounds are notoriously difficult when it comes to housebreaking, and that there will always be accidents, but we'd love to try to get her over the hump of potty training as much as possible. Another thing that could make a difference is that I work from home while my girlfriend goes into the office, so I'll be around to take our iggy outside during the day.

The way I see it, we have three potential approaches:

1. No more pee pads, cold turkey. Outside only for bathrooms.
2. Keep the pee pads for now and just try as much as possible to reward going potty outside.
3. A sort of hybrid approach where we don't use pee pads while the humans are home, but then have them available over night or if we're going to be out of the house for more than a couple hours.

Any thoughts/experience with similar training would be appreciated!

Hi all! Our iggy just turned a year old and while his destructive behavior has gotten better he still finds our couch delicious? I’ve tried everything, he gets daily walks, he goes to daycare when we are working, I have puzzle toys, Kong toys, every sort of chew, he has dog door access etc but every so often we are out of the house for slightly too long and he has slowly destroyed our couch. Any other tips or tricks for avoiding this? We are obviously wanting to buy a new couch at this point but not if he’s going to continue to rip it apart.

I’m looking to become a first time dog owner and am seriously considering getting an iggy. But when I saw these 2 male iggys from the same litter I’m now thinking whether I should be getting both of them. I’m concerned that since I don’t have experience training or owning a dog, I won’t be able to effectively handle 2 iggy pups at the same time. Also I have cats in my household and I think getting both might be too much for my cats. Please help me figure out the pros and cons! The pups are around 5 months old. Thank you everyone!

Just brought home our second Iggy puppy a few days ago, ~10 weeks old. My 2.5 year old Iggy who has been living alone with me and my partner until now is struggling to cope with it. Seems constantly stressed out and doesn't want to be near him. Pains me to see him like this. I do still make sure to give him a lot of attention too, and we make sure he gets alone time with us.

I understand it's still very early and he just might need a bit more time, but has anyone dealt with this? If yes, did they bond eventually and how long did it take ? Any other tips? Thanks!

Is anyone iggy not scared of fireworks? My puppy and I were hanging outside last night and big bomb like fireworks were going off and he didn’t even flinch. He’s not scared of thunder either. This is his first Fourth of July so we will see tonight how he reacts to the constant sound but I think he won’t care tbh. My boxer on the other hand is terrified but he shakes when it rains so lol

UPDATE: he did not care about the fireworks and actually slept through them.